People, February 1985

Robert H. Atwell, former college president and administrator, has been named presi­dent of the American Council on Education. His appointment by the ACE board of direc­tors was effective December 1. . . . The National Endowment for the Humanities has named Cleanth Brooks, Yale University, the Jeffer­son Lecturer in the Humanities for 1985. . . . Medievalist James A. Brundage,  University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, became presi­dent of the American Catholic Historical Association in December. . . . The Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic His­torical Association was conferred on John F, D’Amico, George Mason University, for his book, Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome: Humanists and Churchmen on the Eve of the Reformation. . . . Susan Grigg, University of Minnesota’s Walter Library, was appointed director of the Smith College Archives and the Sophia Smith Collection, starting Febru­ary 1985. . . . Philip T. Hoffman, California In­stitute of Technology, received the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gil­mary Shea Prize for his book, Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500–1789. . . . Edward Pessen, Baruch College and the City University of New York, has been appointed Fulbright lecturer in American history at Moscow State University, Spring 1985. He was also recently elected president of The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. . . . Daniel K. Richter, Fellow of the Institute of Early American History and Cul­ture, was named winner of the Harold L. Peterson Award for the best article dealing with American military history published in 1983. The article, “War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience,” appeared in the Octo­ber 1983 issue of the William and Mary Quar­terly. . . . Alfred B. Rollins, jr. will resign as president of Old Dominion University on June 30, 1985. After one year of academic leave for research and writing, he will return to the ODU campus as a professor of history. . . . The Harry S. Truman Award for outstand­ing contributions to the study and preserva­tion of Civil War history was presented by the Civil War Round Table to Jerry L. Russell, national chairman of Civil War Round Table Associates. . . . Barbara Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley, has received the award given annually by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association for the best book or monograph and also the annual British Council Prize for the best book in the humanities dealing with British studies for Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth Century England: The Relationships Between Natural Sci­ence, Religion, History, Law and Literature. . . . Princeton University Press will publish the winner of the New Jersey Historical Commis­sion’s 1983 Alfred E. Driscoll Publication Prize for the dissertation, “Conscience, Inter­est and Power: The Development of Quaker Opposition to Slavery in the Delaware Valley, 1688-1780,” by Jean Ruth Soderlund. . . . The University of Brussels honored Marc Szeftel, University of Washington, with a University Medal for his lifelong service to The Society Jean Bodin for the Comparative Study of the History of Institutions. . . . Richard F. Teich­graeber III, Tulane University, has been named director of Tulane’s Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Policy Analysis. . . . J. Jackson Walter, a real estate lawyer and an expert in public administration, was appoint­ed president of the National Trust for His­toric Preservation in October. . . . Wayne A. Wie­gand, University of Kentucky, was awarded a grant from Forest Press to cover the cost of writing a biography of Melvil Dewey (1851–1931). . . . Conrad E. Wright, assistant director of the New York Historical Society, was ap­pointed Editor of Publications of the Massa­chusetts Historical Society.