Best Public Outreach

In 2025, the title and scope of this award changed from Best Public Intellectual Special Issue to Best Public Outreach, as a way to highlight the ways journals create content for readers outside of academia.

  • 2024: No awardee

  • 2023: North Carolina Literary Review 32, “Native American Literature of North Carolina” (Ed. Margaret Bauer)

  • 2022: The Hedgehog Review (Spring 2022), "Political Mythologies"

  • 2021: Journal of Asian American Studies (24.1), #Wetoo: a Reader, guest edited by erin Khuê Ninh and Shireen Roshanravan

  • 2020: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 63, no. 1, special issue on CRISPR, guest edited by Neal Baer

  • 2019: Aztlan for “Gringo Injustice”

  • 2018: The Hedgehog Review for the special issue on "The End of the End of History?"

  • 2014: SAQ

  • 2013: Community Literacy Journal Special Issue for the special issue on “Writing Democracy"

    • Runners-up: Signs for “Women, Gender and Prisons" and Journal of Women’s History for “Human Rights, Global Conferences, and the Making of Postwar Transnational Feminisms”

  • 2012: The Hedgehog Review for the special section on “Arab Spring”