Annual Report 2002
Awards, Prizes, Fellowships and Grants
2002 Awards for Scholarly Distinction
Elizabeth Eisenstein (Univ. of Michigan), John
Higham (Johns Hopkins Univ.), and Richard P. McCormick
(Rutgers Univ.)
Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award
Evelyn Edson (Piedmont Virginia Community Coll.)
Beveridge Family Teaching Award
Kevin O’Reilly (Hamilton-Wenham High School in South Hamilton, Massachusetts)
Gutenberg-e Prizes
John Rogers Haddad (Univ. of Central Oklahoma) for “‘The
American Marco Polo’: Excursions to a Virtual China in U.S.
Popular Culture, 1784–1912,” University of Texas at
Austin, 2002
Willeen Keough (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland)
for “The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon,
1750–1860,” Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001
Dorothea McCullough (Archeological Survey, Indiana
Univ.–Purdue Univ.) for “‘By Cash and Eggs’:
Gender in Washington County during Indiana’s Pioneer Period,”
Indiana University, 2001
John E. O’Connor Film Award
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, produced and directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Tejada-Flores. (The film was produced by Paradigm Productions Inc. in association with the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.)
Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award
Steven Volk (Oberlin Coll.)
Honorary Foreign Members
Boris Fausto (Brazil), Peter J. Marshall (Great Britain), and Jack
R. Pole (Great Britain)
Book Awards
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Florin Curta (Univ. of Florida) for The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)
Prize in Atlantic History
Patricia Seed (Rice Univ.) for American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001)
George Louis Beer Prize
Matthew Connelly (Columbia Univ.) for A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
Albert J. Beveridge Award
Mary A. Renda (Mount Holyoke Coll.) for Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Paul Birdsall Prize
Matthew Connelly (Columbia Univ.) for A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
James Henry Breasted Prize
William V. Harris (Columbia Univ.) for Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Harvard Univ. Press, 2001)
Albert Corey Prize
Francis M. Carroll (Univ. of Manitoba) for A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783–1842 (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2001)
John Edwin Fagg Prize
Daryle Williams (Univ. of Maryland at College Park) for Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945 (Duke Univ. Press, 2001)
John K. Fairbank Prize
Julia Adeney Thomas (Univ. of Notre Dame) for Reconfiguring Modernity:
Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Univ. of California
Press, 2001)
Herbert Feis Award
Pamela C. Grundy (Independent Scholar) for Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Morris D. Forkosch Prize
Catherine Hall (Univ. Coll. London) for Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002)
Leo Gershoy Award
David A. Bell (Johns Hopkins Univ.) for The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2001)
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia Univ.) for In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001)
Littleton-Griswold Prize
Barbara Young Welke (Univ. of Minnesota) for Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)
J. Russell Major Prize
Robert Harms (Yale Univ.) for The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (Basic Books, 2001)
Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Paul F. Grendler (emeritus, Univ. of Toronto) for The Universities of the Italian Renaissance (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2002)
George L. Mosse Prize
Anthony J. La Vopa (North Carolina State Univ.) for Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762–1799 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)
Premio del Rey Prize
Adam J. Kosto (Columbia Univ.) for Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)
James Harvey Robinson Prize
Edward L. Ayers (Univ. of Virginia), Anne S. Rubin (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), and William G. Thomas III (Univ. of Virginia) for The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War—The Eve of War (CD-ROM: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000 and web site: Virginia Center for Digital History, Univ. of Virginia)
Wesley-Logan Prize
Julie Winch (Univ. of Massachusetts at Boston) for A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship (2001–02)
Jason Loviglio (Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County), “Network Radio and Mass-Mediated Democracy, 1932–1947”
AHA-NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History (2002–03)
Yasushi Sato (Univ. of Pennsylvania), “Nature and Structure of Engineering Communities and Practices”
Albert J. Beveridge Grants for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere
William J. Bauer (Univ. of Oklahoma) “Native American Labor
on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, 1880–1945”
Denise Bossy (Yale Univ.) “‘There is also another sort
of People we buy for Slaves’: Indian Slavery in Colonial South
Carolina, 1660–1732”
J. Michael Francis (Univ. of North Florida) “The Spiritual
Conquest of Colonial Colombia, 1555–1636”
Andrea Franzius (Duke Univ.) “Jazz and the Cold War: U.S.
Foreign Policy, Civil Rights, and American Culture, 1950–1970”
Travis Glasson (Columbia Univ.) “The Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel and the Creation of Race in the British Atlantic”
Karen B. Graubart (Cornell Univ.) “‘With Our Labor and
Sweat’: Indigenous Women and the Construction of Colonial
Society in Peru”
Michael McCoyer (Northwestern Univ.) “Mestizaje Meets the
Color Line: Mexicans and Racial Formation in the Chicago-Calumet
Region, 1917–1960”
Craig T. Marin (Univ. of Pittsburgh) “Coercion, Cooperation,
and Conflict along Charleston’s Waterfront, 1741–1822”
Thomas Rogers (Duke Univ.) “Environment, Race, and Politics
in Pernambuco’s Zona de Mata”
Ana Maria Varela-Lago (Univ. of California at San Diego) “From
Emigrants to Exiles: The Spanish Civil War and the Spanish Immigrant
Communities in the United States”
FlorenceMae Waldron (Univ. of Minnesota) “Gender and the Quebecois
Migration to New England, 1870–1930: A Comparative Case Study”
Victoria Wolcott (St. Bonaventure Univ.) “Integrated Amusements
and Racial Strife: Buffalo’s 1956 Canadiana Riot”
Chiou-ling Yeh (Univ. of California at Irvine) “Taking It
to the Streets: Representations of Ethnicity and Gender in San Francisco’s
Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953–2001.”
2002 Michael Kraus Research Grants
Gabriele Gottlieb (Univ. of Pittsburgh) “A Solemn Warning
and Caution to Every One: Capital Punishment in Early America”
Christopher Hodson (Northwestern Univ.) “From Exile to Ethnic:
The Acadian Diaspora and the Imagining of Identity in the Early
Modern Atlantic World”
2002 Littleton-Griswold Research Grants
Margot Canaday (Univ. of Minnesota) “The Straight State: Sexuality
and American Citizenship before Stonewall”
Martha S. Jones (Univ. of Michigan) “Constructing ‘Rights’
and ‘Respect’: African Americans in the Legal Culture
of Baltimore’s Middle Ground, 1820–1860”
Jason D. Martinek (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) “Mightier than the
Sword: Working-Class Reading, Educational Politics, and Socialists’
Printed Culture of Dissent, 1884–1917”
Ajay K. Mehrotra (Univ. of Chicago) “The Emergence of the
Modern American Fiscal State: The Political Economy of U.S Tax Policy,
1880–1930”
William Nancarrow (Boston Coll.) “Vox Populi: Democracy and
the Progressive Era Judiciary”
Jeanne Petit (Hope Coll.) “The Men and Women We Want: Gender,
Citizenship, and Immigration Restriction Debates, 1896–1929”
Michael A. Ross (Loyola Univ.) “The Legal Obstruction of Reconstruction
in the Deep South”
Christopher Schmidt (Harvard Univ.) “Postwar Liberalism and
the Origins of Brown v. Board of Education”
Diana Williams (Harvard Univ.) “‘They Call it Marriage’:
Interracial Families in Post-Emancipation Louisiana”
Ann Marie Woodward (Univ. of Kansas) “Between Growth and Entitlement:
Fiscal Conservatism, Postwar Tax Policy, and the Politics of ‘Pay-as-you-Go’”
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants for Research in the History of Europe, Africa, and Asia
Edmund Abaka (Univ. of Miami), “Traders, Soldiers, Carriers,
and Educators: The Hausa Diaspora in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante
c.1820–1950)”
Jana Byars (Penn State Univ.), “Concubinage in Early Modern
Venice”
Darius Furmonavicius (Univ. of Bradford), “Lithuania Rejoins
Europe”
Andrea S. Goldman (Univ. of California at Berkeley), “Opera
in the City: Theatrical Performances and Urbanite Aesthetics in
Beijing, 1770–1870”
Christine S. Haynes (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Lost
Illusions: The Rise of the Book Publisher and the Construction of
a Literary Marketplace in Nineteenth-Century France”
Brian Andrew Hodson (Purdue Univ.), “Frontiers of Absolutism:
Political Culture and Systems of Authority in Hungary and Transylvania,
1683–1723”
Elizabeth Horodowich (New Mexico State Univ.), “The Un-Mannered
Tongue: Blasphemy, Insults, and Gossip in Renaissance Venice”
Tong Lam (Univ. of Richmond), “Seeking Truth from Facts: Investigation
and Representing Chinese ‘Society,’ 1890s–1940s”
Douglas F. Mann (Univ. of Georgia), “Becoming Creole: Material
Life and Society in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica”
Anna Maslakovic (SUNY New Paltz), “Space and the Politics
of Common Good in Renaissance Lyon”
John McCannon (Univ. of Saskatchewan), “Painting the Infinite:
The Life and Art of Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947)”
Derek Peterson (The Coll. of New Jersey), “Economic Change,
Gender Crisis, and the Social History of the East African Revival”
Sara B. Pritchard (Univ. of Pennsylvania), “Recreating the
Rhône: Nature, Technology, and the State in France since 1945”
Paul Steege (Villanova Univ.), “Between War and Peace: The
Battle for Berlin, 1946–1949”
Elisabeth Wengler (Coll. of Saint Benedict), “Women’s
Religious Activism in Sixteenth-Century Geneva”
Leila R. Wice (Columbia Univ.), “Dress Codes: Breaking Rules
and Making Meanings in Nineteenth-Century Japan”
Gregory Witkowski (Briar Cliff Univ.), “Factory to Farm, Farmers
to Factory: A Communist Campaign to Mobilize East German Workers
to Modernize Agriculture, 1953–1963”
