ALLEN G. NOBLE BOOK AWARD

The Pioneer America Society seeks to encourage and recognize books by authors regarding material culture in North America. Named for the renowned geographer, Allen G. Noble, the prize in his honor is granted annually for the best-edited book in the field published within two years of the award.

Selection

A three-member committee of the Pioneer America Society reviews candidate-books and recommends them to the full board of the Society. The board authorizes the prize and prizewinner each year. Prizewinners are invited to the annual meeting and receive:

1. A year's free membership to PAS:APAL
2. A free entry ticket to the awards banquet
3. A Book Award Certificate

The committee also recommends the Fred Kniffen Book Prize of the Pioneer America Society.

Contact

The committee is open to suggestions for the books to be considered. Contact the committee chair:

Jeffery C. Wanser, Chair – wanserjc@hiram.edu
Susan W. Trail – susan_trail@nps.gov
John B. Rehder – jrehder@utk.edu

Recipients of the Fred Kniffen and Allen Noble Book Awards

2008	No Award Given
2007	Claudette Stager (Tennessee Historical Commission) and Martha Carver (Tennessee Department of Transportation) - Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture
2006	Susan Tucker, Catherine Ott, and Patricia Buckler - The Scrapbook in American Life
2005	Steven Conn and Max Page - Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape
2004	No Award Given
2003	No Award Given
2002	No Award Given
2001	Jan Albers Hands on the Landscape: A History of the Vermont Landscape Arnold R. Alanen and Robert Z. Melnick - Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America
2000	Ethan Carr Wilderness by Design
1999	Gabrielle Lanier & Bernard Herman Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic
1998	Thomas Visser Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings Thomas Carter, ed. Images of the American Land: Vernacular Architecture in theWestern United States
1997	Terry Jordan, Jon Kilipinen, Fritz Gritzner The Mountain West Allen Noble & Hugh Wilhelm, eds. Barns of the Midwest
1996	Terry Jordan The New Mexico Cattle Frontier Marion Nelson, ed. Material Culture & People’s Art among the Norwegians in North America
1995	Bob Ensminger The Pennsylvania Barn Allen Noble To Build in a New Land
1994	No Award Given
1993	No Award Given
1992	Catherine Bishir North Carolina Architecture Thomas Carter & Bernard L. Herman eds. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IV
1991	No Award Given
1990	Catherine Bishir, Charlotte Brown, Carl Lounsbury, Ernest Wood, Terry G. Jordan, Matti Kaups, Rosemary Joyce, Henry Glassie, Roger Kennedy, Norman Pounds for best authored books Nezar Alsayyad and Jean-Paul Bourdier eds. – Dwellings, Settlements, and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspective
1989	Best edited book winners: Nezar Al-Sayyed and Jean-Paul Bourdier Carol F. Jopling Puerto Rican Houses in Sociohistorical Perspective Robert Blair St. George Material Life in America, 1600-1860

Awards

H.H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award

Fred B. Kniffen Book Award

Allen G. Noble Book Award

PAS: APAL Historic Preservation Award

Hubert G.H. Wilhelm Student Research Award

Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition