The Kessler award is given to a scholar who has, over a number of years, produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of GLBTQ Studies. The awardee, who is chosen by the CLAGS Board of Directors, receives a monetary award and gives CLAGS' annual Kessler Lecture.
1992-1993
I Lift My Face to the Hill: The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman
Joan Nestle
1993-1994
The Personal is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism
Edmund White
1994-1995
African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration
Barbara Smith
1995-1996
Reading of Texts
Monique Wittig
1996-1997
A Butch Career: A Memoir
Esther Newton
1997-1998
3,2,1 Contact
Samuel R. Delany
1998-1999
A Dialogue on Love
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
1999-2000
Wrestling with Rustin, or The Left Will Rise Again, Maybe
John DíEmilio
2000-2001
A Tuna Bleeding in the Heat: A Chicana Codex of Changing Consciousness
Cherrie Moraga
2001-2002
Violence, Mourning, Politics
Judith Butler
2002-2003
Making Sexual History: Obsessions of a Quarter Century
Jonathan Ned Katz
2003-2004
Geologies of Queer Studies: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Gayle Rubin
2004-2005
Cinematic Re-Articulations
Isaac Julien
2005-2006
Travels With Sex
Carole S. Vance
2006-2007
Honoring Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
2007-2008
Action Around the Edges
Douglas Crimp
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