People, October 1986

The 1985 “Spain and America in the Quin­centennial of the Discovery” Prize was won by Light T. Cummins, Austin College, Sher­man, Texas, for “Spanish Intelligence and the American Revolution: The Foundations for Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Spain, 1775-1783.” . . . AHA members to receive Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities, sponsored by the Ford Foun­dation and administered by the National Research Council, are: Thomas Cooper Cox, UCLA; Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University, and Gwendolyn Robinson, Pur­due University. . . . The Social Science Re­search Council announced a fellowship to Brian K. Ladd, Yale University, in its Berlin Program for 1986. . . . An American Anti­quarian Society Fellowship was awarded to member Paula E. Petrik, Montana State Uni­versity. . . . Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress, was named a charter member of Colonial Williamsburg’s Council of Distin­guished Research Associates. . . . American Council of Learned Societies fellowships were awarded to David E, Hamilton, University of Kentucky; James M. Murray, Univer­sity of Cincinnati; Laurie Nussdorfer, Wes­leyan University; Janet A, Riesman, Barnard College; Barbara Clark Smith, Smithsonian Institution; James L. Axtell, College of Wil­liam and Mary; Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University; Mark C. Carnes, Barnard College; Esther S. Cope, University of Ne­braska; Margaret DeLacy; Faye E. Dudden, Union College; Drew Gilpin Faust, Universi­ty of Pennsylvania; Darlene Clark Hine, Pur­due University; Joseph Klaits, Oakland Uni­versity; Linda Martz; Marta Petrusewicz, Princeton University; Donald J. Pisani, Tex­as A & M; Alfred J. Rieber, University of Pennsylvania; Sean Wilentz, Princeton Uni­versity; Nan E. Woodruff, College of Charleston; grants-in-aid to Dauril Alden, University of Washington; Roy A. Austen­sen, Illinois State University; Marcus F. Cun­liffe, George Washington University; Martin W. Daly, Arkansas State University; Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago; Ronald K. Huch, University of Minnesota; Steve Mark Lowenstein, University of Judaism; Edmund N. Todd, University of New Haven; Cynthia M. Truant, University of California; Ru­dolph J. Vecoli, University of Minnesota; Winifred Wandersee, Hartwick College; John Kulczycki, University of Illinois, and fellowships to doctoral candidates Piotr Gor­ecki, University of Chicago and Sarah Kent, Indiana University. . . . The Hoover Library Association of West Branch has awarded fellowships and grants to Elliot A. Rosen, Rutgers University and Jordan A. Schwarz, Northern Illinois University. . . . During the 1986-87 academic year, Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University; Darlene Clark Hine, Purdue University; Franklin W. Knight, Johns  Hopkins  University; Barbara N. Ramusack, University of Cincinnati; Ber­nard Semmel, SUNY Stony Brook (member of the Professional Division); Richard Soloway, University of North Carolina; John L. Thomas, Brown University, and Hugh Allen West, University of Richmond are fel­lows of the National Humanities Center. . . . Newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are Erich S. Gruen, University of California, Berkeley; Peter Paret, Stanford University; Lacey Baldwin Smith, Northwestern University, and Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr., now Pres­ident, Social Science Research Council. . . . Laird W. Bergad, CUNY; Judith C. Brown, Stanford University; John W. Cell, Duke University; Paul A. Cohen, Wellesley Col­lege; Drew G. 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 University; Karl F. Morrison, Uni­versity of Kansas; Janet Oppenheim, Ameri­can University; James G. Riley, Indiana University; Nancy Leys Stepan, Columbia Uni­versity; Timothy Tackett, Catholic University; Charles T. Wood, Dartmouth, and Olivier Zunz, University of Virginia were awarded Guggenheim fellowships. . . . Visiting fellows at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies are Susanna I. Barrows, University of California, Berkeley, and Victoria de Grazia, Rutgers. . . . Martin W. Daly, Arkansas State; Barbara J. Fields, University of Michigan; Sally Kohlstedt, Syracuse Uni­versity, and Olivier Zunz, University of Vir­ginia were awarded Wilson Center fellowships. . . . C. Vann Woodward, Yale University, won the Bruce Catton Prize from the Society of American Historians for lifetime achievement in the writing of American history.