Publication Date

November 1, 2005

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the following awards, honors, and prizes, which will be presented at the General Meeting to be held on Friday, January 6, 2006, during the 120th Annual Meeting

Awards for Scholarly Distinction

Lawrence W. Levine, University of California at Berkeley
Nancy G. Siraisi, Hunter College, CUNY
David Underdown, Yale University

Troyer Steele Anderson Prize

Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University

Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award

Eileen Scully, Bennington College

The Beveridge Family Teaching Prize (K–12)

The American History Team (Laurie Fischer, Ronald C. Maggiano, Margaret Mey, Tamara Ogden, and James Percoco ) of West Springfield High School, Springfield, Virginia

The William Gilbert Award for the Best Article on Teaching History

Mark C. Carnes, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, for his article, “Inciting Speech,” in Change, March/April 2005

The Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award

John F. Howes, University of British Columbia, emeritus
Mary Logan Rothschild, Arizona State University

Honorary Foreign Member

Nikolai Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Third Annual Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award

Steven Spielberg, founding chairman, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Note: The 18 book prizes and one film prize will be announced in the December issue of Perspectives.