People, December 1987

Kermit L. Hall (University of Florida­ Gainesville) and Harold Hyman (Rice) are planning to publish a Biographical Encyclope­dia of the American Judiciary. … Mildred Alpern, social studies teacher at Spring Val­ley Senior High, and co-editor of the “Teach­ing Innovations” column in Perspectives, has been named one of the top five teachers in New York State. … Librarian of Congress Emeritus Daniel J. Boorstin has joined Doubleday as editor-at-large. … Peter Duus (Stanford) has been named to the board of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. … Charles Joyner (University of Alabama) won the 1987 National University Press Book Award, presented by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund, for Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (University of Illinois Press). … The Newberry Library has announced 1987-88 fellowships to: Elaine Kruse (Nebraska Wesleyan); Matthew Dennis (University of California-Riverside); and Martin Wolfe (University of Pennsylvania). … The Huntington Library has announced 1987-88 fellowships to: James M. McPher­son (Princeton); Thomas Purvis (Auburn University); Cynthia Herrup (Duke Univer­sity); William F. Deverell (Princeton); Mi­chael Les Benedict (Ohio State University); E. Wayne Carp (Pacific Lutheran Universi­ty); Barbara J. Harris (Pace University); and F.J. Levy (University of Washington). … The Charles Babbage Institute announced that Sheldon Hochheiser is project historian for their new project on Documenting Indus­trial Activity for the History of Computing. … Frederic Wakeman, Jr., former AHA Council member, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (Univ. of California Press) by the Association for Asian Studies. … Randall M. Miller (Saint Joseph’s Uni­versity) has been appointed editor of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biogra­phy. … The Folger Institute has announced 1986-87 fellowships to: Norman Levine (University of Maryland-Baltimore Co.); Ralph S. Pollock (National Archives); and James Muldoon (Rutgers-Camden). … The American Council of Learned Societies has announced grants and fellowships to the following: Miriam Cohen (Vassar College); Barbara Diefendorf (Boston University); Charles W. Eagles (University of Mississip­pi); Richard Wightman Fox (Reed College); Patrick Geary (University of Florida); Paul F. Gehl (Newberry Library); Michael Gross­berg (Case Western Reserve); Steven Hahn (Univ. of California-San Diego); Deborah Hertz (SUNY-Binghamton); Robert Isher­wood (Vanderbilt); Peter Jelavich (Univ. of Texas-Austin); Richard J. Jensen (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago); Barry J. Levy (Case Western Reserve); David Nasaw (CUNY-College of Staten Island); Carroll Smith Rosenberg (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Richard F. Teich­graeber (Tulane); Daniel H. Usner (Cor­nell); Bernard Wasserstein (Brandeis); Pau­line Moffitt Watts (Sarah Lawrence College); Iver Bernstein (Washington University); Dina M. Copelman (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia); Suzanne Desan (Univ. of Wisconsin­ Madison); Tessie P. Liu (Univ. of Arizona); Cathy D. Matson (Univ, of Tennessee-Knox­ville); David M. Olster (Univ. of Kentucky); Abraham Ascher (CUNY-Graduate Center); Ivo Banac (Yale University); Eric Dorn Brose (Drexel Univ.); Thomas V. Cohen (York University); Blanche D. Coll (Washington, DC); James R. Farr (Univ. of Ten­nessee); Richard L. Greaves (Florida State); Craig E. Harline (Univ. of Idaho); Paul E. Hoffman (Louisiana State); Larry E. Jones (Canisius College); Emmet Larkin (Univ. of Chicago); Thomas F. Mayer (Augustana Col­lege); Kerby A. Miller (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia); Thomas L. Purvis (Auburn Uni­versity); James C. Turner (Univ. of Michi­gan); Leonard S. Wallock (CUNY-Hunter); Daniel E. Miller (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Ed­ward A. McCord (Univ. of Florida); Patrick Ebrey (Univ. of Illinois); and Linda Ann Walton (Portland State). … Getty scholars for 1987-88 are: Caroline Bynum (Univ. of Washington) and Carl Schorske (Princeton). … James H. Madison (Indiana Univ.) has been appointed Fischelis Scholar for 1987- 89 by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. … Larry E. Tise became the new director of the American Association for State and Local History on July 15. … The Hoover Presidential Library Association an­nounced the following fellows: Guy Alchon (University of Delaware); Brian R. Sullivan (Yale University); Rosemary Frances Carroll (Coe College); and Arline T. Golkin (Califor­ nia State University-Long Beach). … Win­ners of 1987 Charlotte W. Newcombe fellowships: John S. Cornell (Cornell); Peter Prin­gle Hinks (Yale University); Douglas R. Howland (University of Chicago); and Mark S. Schantz (Emory University). … Michael Kammen (Cornell) won the Henry Adams Prize for A Machine That Would Ga Of Itself and Jannelle Warren-Findley won the James Madison Prize for “Passports to Change: The Resettlement Administration’s Folk Song Sheet Program, 1936-37,” both prizes were given by The Society for History in the Federal Government. … Richard E. Beringer, co-author of Why The South Lost the Civil War, received a Confederate Memorial Literary Society’s 1986 Literary Award. … Marshall C. Eakin (Vanderbilt University) was awarded a Tinker Fellowship in the foundation’s twelfth and final competition. … The American Antiquarian Society awarded fellowships to Mary F. Rhinelander (Boston University); Julie Patricia Winch (University of Massachusetts); Menahem Blondheim (Harvard University); Mark S. Schantz (Emory); and Jackson T. Main (Uni­versity of Colorado). … The John Carter Brown Library has awarded fellowships for 1987-88 to Edwin S. Gaustad (University of California-Riverside) and Murdo J. Mac­Leod (University of Florida). … 1986 recipi­ents of Guggenheim fellowships are Laird W. Bergad (Herbert H. Lehman College); Judith C. Brown (Stanford University); John W. Cell (Duke University); John H. Coats­worth (University of Chicago); Paul A. Co­hen (Wellesley College); Jonathan Dewald (University of California); Drew Gilpin Faust (University of Pennsylvania); John Lewis Gaddis (Ohio University); David C. Hammack (Case Western Reserve); Thomas L. Haskell (Rice University); James Hoopes (Babson College); Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Cornell); David Levering Lewis (Rutgers); Janet Oppenheim (American University); James C. Riley (Indiana University-Bloom­ington); Timothy Tackett (Catholic Universi­ty); Charles T. Wood (Dartmouth College); and Olivier Zunz (University of Virginia). … The following were named to study at the National Humanities Center during 1987-88: Eugene Genovese (University of Roches­ter); Jack Greene (Johns Hopkins); Michael Grossberg (Case Western Reserve); John Higham (Johns Hopkins); Michael Holt (University of Virginia); Steven Lawson (University of South Florida); David Prochaska (University of Illinois); and Donald Reid (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). … Raymond G. Stokes (Ohio State) is a 1987 fellow of The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Social Scienc Research Council. … The New England Historical Association an­nounced its book award for 1986 to William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease (University of Maine-Orono) for The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Baston and Charleston, 1828-1843. … Vern L. Bullough (Buffalo State College) was named Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York. … Ford Fellowships in Foreign Policy were made to Alexandros Kitroeff (Queens College) and Brenda G. Plummer (University of Minnesota). … Visiting Members at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1987-88 are Barry J. Levy (Case Western Reserve); Joseph H. Lynch (Ohio State University); James V.H. Melton (Florida In­ternational University); E. William Monter (Northwestern); Morris Slavin (Youngstown State University); and William B. Taylor (University of Virginia). … Carl E. Schorske (Princeton) gave The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for the American Council of Learned Societies. … The Immigration His­tory Society awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize to Bernard Bailyn (Harvard) for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America an the Eve of the Revolution. … The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies announced the following visiting fellows: David D. Hall (Boston University) and David Prochaska (University of Illinois).