Richard Aquila (Buffalo, NY) is professor emeritus of history and American Studies at Penn State University and the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America. He is the author of The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America and Let's Rock! How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze.
Sponsoring Organization: South Carolina Historical SocietyAward Level: Finalist| Award Year: 2024Winner(s): Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina, by D. Andrew Johnson
Sponsoring Organization: American Historical AssociationAward Level: Winner | Award Year: 2024Winner(s): The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undiscipling of Knowledge, by Vera Keller
Sponsoring Organization: The American Association of Colleges and UniversitiesAward Level: Winner | Award Year: 2024Winner(s): Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis, by Bryan Alexander