Robert Blackey has been named Professor of the Year at California State College at San Bernardino. He is chair of the history department and edits the Advanced Placement Teaching column in Perspectives. . . . Susan Falb has been appointed historian of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the first person to occupy that position. . . . Paul F. Grendler of the University of Toronto became president of the American Catholic Historical Association at its sixty-fourth annual meeting in December. . . . Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States by Alice Kessler-Harris (Hofstra University) and The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s by Howell John Harris (University of Durham, England) have been selected as co-winners of the Philip Taft Labor Historian Award for the best labor history published in 1982. . . . Paul Kristeller, Renaissance historian at Columbia University, Andrew Lewis, medievalist at Southwest Missouri State University, and John Toews, associate professor of history at the University of Washington are all recipients of the MacArthur Foundation awards. . . . Thomas Kselman of the University of Notre Dame received the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize for his book, Miracles and Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century France. . . . Walter Licht has received a grant of $265,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to establish an institute at the University of Pennsylvania to assist high school teachers from Pennsylvania in creating local history projects with their students. . . . Chester J. Pach Jr. of Texas Tech University was awarded the 1983 Smart L. Bernath Memorial Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for his article “The Containment of US Military Aid to Latin America, 1944-49,” which appeared in the summer 1982 Diplomatic History. . . . The Francis Butler Simkins Award for a distinguished first book in Southern history, sponsored jointly by the Southern Historical Association and Longwood College, was awarded to Daniel J. Singal for his book, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945. . . . Randolph Starn of the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association for his book, Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. . . . Wayne A. Wiegand of the University of Kentucky has won one of two annual research awards presented by the Association of Library and Information Science Educators.
