The following is a list of the recipients of the various awards, prizes, and honors that will be presented at the General Meeting of the American Historical Association on Friday, January 8, 2010, in the Elizabeth Ballroom F of the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel. The full citations of the prize and award committees will be printed in the General Meeting booklet distributed at the meeting, as well as in a spring issue of Perspectives on History.
Awards for Scholarly Distinction
Saul Friedlander (UCLA) and Leon Litwack (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
Honorary Foreign Member
Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.)
The Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award
Brad D. Lookingbill (Columbia College of Missouri)
The Beveridge Family Teaching Award
Oral History Project, D.C. Everest High School, Weston, Wisconsin
The Extraordinary Service Award
Elise Lipkowitz (Univ. of Michigan)
The Herbert Feis Award
Noel J. Stowe (Arizona State Univ.)
The William Gilbert Award for the Best Article on Teaching History
Julia Clancy-Smith (Univ. of Arizona), for “An Undergraduate and Graduate Colloquium in Social History and Biography in the Modern Middle East and North Africa,” in Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howe (eds.),Teaching Life Writing Texts (Modern Language Association)
The John E. O’Connor Film Award
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, a co-production of Vital Pictures and the Independent Television Service. Producers: Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Brown, and Christine Herbes-Sommers, and Sally Jo Fifer (executive producer for ITVS)
The Nancy Lyman Roelker Award
Lynn Hunt (UCLA)
The Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History
Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930, Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, and Graham White (Univ. of Sydney)
Book Prizes
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Priya Satia (Stanford Univ.), for Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (Oxford Univ. Press)
George Louis Beer Prize
William I. Hitchcock (Temple Univ.), forThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press)
Albert J. Beveridge Award
Karl Jacoby (Brown Univ.), for Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin Press)
James Henry Breasted Prize
Zainab Bahrani (Columbia Univ.), forRituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia (Zone Books/MIT Press)
William H. Dunning Prize
Peggy Pascoe (Univ. of Oregon), for What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford Univ. Press)
John E. Fagg Prize
Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale Univ.), for All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale Univ. Press)
John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
Klaus Mühlhahn (Indiana Univ.), for Criminal Justice in China: A History (Harvard Univ. Press)
Morris D. Forkosch Prize
Christopher Otter (Ohio State Univ.), forThe Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910 (Univ. of Chicago Press)
Leo Gershoy Award
Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale Univ.), forAll Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale Univ. Press)
J. Franklin Jameson Award
Jean Fagan Yellin (Pace Univ.), for The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History
Peggy Pascoe (Univ. of Oregon), for What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford Univ. Press)
Littleton-Griswold Prize
Laura F. Edwards (Duke Univ.), forThe People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
J. Russell Major Prize
Rachel G. Fuchs (Arizona State Univ.), forContested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press)
Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Thomas J. Kuehn (Clemson Univ.), for Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge Univ. Press)
George L. Mosse Prize
Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale Univ.), forAll Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale Univ. Press)
James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
Maria-Elena Martinez (Univ. of Southern California), for Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Stanford Univ. Press)
Wesley-Logan Prize
Alexander X. Byrd (Rice Univ.), forCaptives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (Louisiana State Univ. Press)
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