Equity Award Recipients
Equity Awards recognize and publicize individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession. Two equity awards are given annually: one for individuals and another for academic units. The award can be conferred for new initiatives or for sustained efforts. These equity awards are meant to recognize and publicize individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession. While the awards are honorary and have no monetary component, winners receive a certificate of recognition that specially honors their efforts to secure and sustain diversity in the profession.
2020
Institutional: Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Dept. of History
2019
Individual: Calvin White Jr., Univ. of Arkansas
Institutional: Howard Univ., Dept. of History
2018
Individual: Tiffany Packer, Florida A&M Univ.
2017
Individual: Lorena Oropeza, Univ. of California, Davis
2016
Individual: Albert Camarillo, Stanford Univ.
Institutional: Univ. of Texas, El Paso, Dept. of History
2015
Individual: Victor Macias-Gonzalez, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Institutional: Duke Univ., Graduate School (Jacqueline Looney, sr. assoc. dean for graduate programs and assoc. vice provost for academic diversity)
2014
Individual: Ernesto Chavez, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
Institutional: North Carolina Central Univ., Dept. of History (Jim C. Harper II, chair)
2013
Individual: David Jackson, Jr., Florida A&M Univ.
Institutional: Univ. of California, Irvine, ADVANCE Program for Equity and Diversity
2012
Individual: Herman Bennett, Graduate Center, CUNY
Institutional: Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of Afro-American Studies
2011
Individual: Andres Tijerina, Austin Comm. Coll.
Institutional: Univ. of Arizona, Dept. of History
2010
Individual: George Sanchez, Univ. of Southern California
Institutional: Baruch Coll., CUNY, Dept. of History
2020 Equity Award
Institutional Award: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of History
The AHA Committee on Minority Historians is pleased to grant the 2020 Institutional Equity Award to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of History. UNLV is a Minority Serving, Hispanic Serving, and Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution. The history department reflects this diverse student body: one-third of tenured and tenure-track faculty and one-third of graduate students come from communities of color and communities striving for more equitable access to the academy. This increasingly more diverse faculty has ensured student success and has placed students of color in the pipeline toward a more diverse professoriate and greater representation in cultural institutions.