Equity Award Recipients
Equity Awards recognize and publicize individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession. Starting in 2023, the prize will be awarded on a two-year cycle rotation: in even-numbered years, to academic units; in odd-numbered years, to an individual. The award can be conferred for new initiatives or for sustained efforts. These equity awards are meant to recognize and publicize individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession. Winners receive a prize of $1,000 and a certificate of recognition that specially honors their efforts to secure and sustain diversity in the profession.
2023
Individual: Donald Fixico, Arizona State Univ.
2022
Individual: Tiya A. Miles, Harvard Univ.
Institutional: California State Univ., Los Angeles, Dept. of History
2021
Individual: Crystal Sanders, Penn State Univ.
Institutional: Northeastern State Univ., Dept. of History
2020
Institutional: Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Dept. of History
2019
Individual: Calvin White Jr., Univ. of Arkansas
Institutional: Howard Univ., Dept. of History
2018
Individual: Tiffany Packer, Florida A&M Univ.
2017
Individual: Lorena Oropeza, Univ. of California, Davis
2016
Individual: Albert Camarillo, Stanford Univ.
Institutional: Univ. of Texas, El Paso, Dept. of History
2015
Individual: Victor Macias-Gonzalez, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Institutional: Duke Univ., Graduate School (Jacqueline Looney, sr. assoc. dean for graduate programs and assoc. vice provost for academic diversity)
2014
Individual: Ernesto Chavez, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
Institutional: North Carolina Central Univ., Dept. of History (Jim C. Harper II, chair)
2013
Individual: David Jackson, Jr., Florida A&M Univ.
Institutional: Univ. of California, Irvine, ADVANCE Program for Equity and Diversity
2012
Individual: Herman Bennett, Graduate Center, CUNY
Institutional: Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of Afro-American Studies
2011
Individual: Andres Tijerina, Austin Comm. Coll.
Institutional: Univ. of Arizona, Dept. of History
2010
Individual: George Sanchez, Univ. of Southern California
Institutional: Baruch Coll., CUNY, Dept. of History
2023 Equity Award
Individual Award: Donald Fixico, Arizona State University
Donald Fixico is a prolific and respected scholar of Native American and Indigenous 20th-century history. He draws on his own experiences as a first-generation Native American student from rural Oklahoma to excel as a mentor to underrepresented students. He has recruited dozens of students from underrepresented groups, including Black and Indigenous individuals. Fixico supports a community of scholars that includes his doctoral advisees, undergraduate students, underrepresented scholars, and fellow colleagues.