G.J. Barker-Benfield, SUNY-Albany, won the William L. Langer Award for best article published in 1986 in The Psychohistory Review, called “Mary Wollstonecraft’s Depression and Diagnosis: The Relation between Sensibility and Women’s Susceptibility to Nervous Disorders.” … Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress, was awarded the Watson Davis Book Prize by the History of Science Society for The Discoverers. ... The Woodrow Wilson Center awarded a fellowship to Carole Fink, University of North Carolina-Wilmington. … Fellowships were awarded in 1985–86 by the Folger Institute to the following AHA members: Robin Bruce Barnes, Davidson College; Michael Heyd, Johns Hopkins University; and Norman Levine, University of Maryland-Baltimore County. … John Hope Franklin, Duke University, won the Clarence Holte Literary Prize, administered by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for George Washington Williams: A Biography. … The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation named Robert P. Geraci, Swarthmore College, as a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. … Thomas R.H. Havens, Connecticut College, has been appointed editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. ... Harold M. Hyman, Rice University, received the Nevins-Freeman award from the Civil War Round Table. … Richard Immerman, University of Hawaii received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award to study the national security policy of the Eisenhower administration. … Other members to receive awards from the MacArthur Foundation are Caroline W. Bynum, University of Washington; and David N. Keightley, University of California Berkeley. … The Japan Foundation granted professional fellowships to Peter Duus, Stanford University; Miriam Silverberg, Cornell University; and Eiji Yutani, University of California-Berkeley; and a dissertation fellowship to David Howell, Princeton University. … Michael McGiffert, formerly editor of the William & Mary Quarterly, has succeeded Robert I. Rotberg as President of the Conference on Historical Journals. … The Newberry Library announced the following fellowship recipients: Hal S. Barron, Harvey Mudd College; Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois-Chicago; Stephen Foster, Northern Illinois University; Carole Levin, SUNY New Paltz; and Elliott West, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. … Joseph C. Porter, was awarded The David Woolley Evans and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography Award, Brigham Young University, for Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West. … Wayne D. Rasmussen retired after over forty-nine years in the Department of Agriculture and was honored in the fall of 1986 by the Society for History in the Federal Government. … A. William Salomone, University of Rochester, was the recipient of Festschrift entitled Studies in Modern Italian History; From the Risorgimento to the Republic. … Nancy J. Weiss, Princeton University, has been named dean of the college effective July 1, 1987. She succeeds Joan Girgus.
