Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
- Maite Urcaregui, “”Political Geographies of Race in James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s Little Man, Little Man”
- Honorable Mention—Clémence Sfadj, “Windows on Everyday Harlem: The Cartoons of Ollie Harrington”
Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship
- Zachary J.A. Rondinelli, “#WelcomeToSlumberland Social Media Research Project”
- Honorable Mention—Anna F. Peppard, “(Behold?) The Vision’s Penis: The Presence of Absence in Mutant Romance Tales”
CSS Article Prize
- Sydney Phillips Heifler, “Romance Comics, Dangerous Girls, and the Importance of Fathers”
- Honorable Mention—Maite Urcaregui, “(Un)documenting Single-Panel Methdologies and Epistemologies in the Non-fictional Cartoons of Eric J. García and Alberto Ledesma”
Charles Hatfield Book Prize
- Rebecca Wanzo, The Content of our Caricature
- Honorable Mention—Jean Lee Cole, How the Other Half Laughs
CSS Prize for Edited Book Collections
- Anna F. Peppard, editor. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
- Honorable Mentions:
- Frederick Luis Aldama, editor. Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia
- Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, editors. Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
- Martha Kuhlman and José Alaniz, editors. Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections