DOVE AWARD: Popular Culture Society

Here's an award that's near and dear to my heart. I received the Dove Award from the Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association in 2016. The Dove Award recognizes the contributions to the serious study of mystery, detective, and crime fiction. 

This year's  (2026) recipient is Stewart King, associate professor of European Languages at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). King, a specialist in Spanish and Catalan crime fiction, has edited or coedited 6 books (e.g., the Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction, 2022), produced 35 book chapters and 28 articles, as well as coedits the journal Crime Fiction Studies. He previously served on the editorial board of Clues: A Journal of Detection. 

Previous Dove honorees include Martin Edwards, Barry Forshaw, David Geherin, Douglas G. Greene, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Margaret Kinsman, and Elizabeth Foxwell.

HT: Elizabeth Foxwell

2025 Dove Award: Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association

David Geherin has been awarded  the Dove Award by the Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. 

The Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Assocation announced its latest Dove Awardee: David Geherin, professor emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University, who is an Edgar nominee in the Best Critical/Biographical category this year for Organized Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows. He received earlier Edgar nominations for The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations (2022), Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction (2008; also nominated for a Macavity Award), and The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction (1985). His other books include Carl Hiaasen: Sunshine State Satirist (2019), Funny Thing About Murder: Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films(2017), Small Towns in Recent American Crime Fiction(2015), and Elmore Leonard (1989).   

The Dove Award, explains editor-blogger Elizabeth Foxwell, is named for mystery-fiction scholar George N. Dove and is given to “individuals who have contributed to the serious study of mystery, detective, and crime fiction.” Previous Dove honorees include Martin Edwards, Barry Forshaw, Douglas G. Greene, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Margaret Kinsman, Elizabeth Foxwell, and me (!). 

HT: The Rap Sheet & The Bunburyist