The following is a list of the recipients of the various awards, prizes, and honors that will be presented at the General Meeting of the American Historical Association on Friday, January 4, 2013, in La Galerie of the New Orleans Marriott. The full citations of the prize and award committees will be printed in the booklet distributed at the General Meeting, as well as in the February 2013 issue of Perspectives on History.
The Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award
Richard Gilder, New York, NY
Awards for Scholarly Distinction
Alfred Crosby (Univ. of Texas at Austin); Sheila Fitzpatrick (Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Sydney); Donald Worster (Univ. of Kansas)
Eugene Asher Award for Distinguished Post-Secondary Teaching
Nicholas J. Aieta (Westfield State University)
Beveridge Family Teaching Award for K-12 Teaching
Sol Joye and Malynda Wenzl (Neil Armstrong Middle School, Forest Grove, Oregon)
Raymond J. Cunningham Prize
T. Fielder Valone (currently doctoral student, Indiana Univ.; A.B. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 2011), “Destroying the Ties that Bind: Rituals of Humiliation and the Holocaust in Provincial Lithuania,” in traces: The UNC-Chapel Hill Journal of History, vol. 1 (spring 2012): 90ñ114. W. Miles Fletcher, faculty adviser (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Equity Awards
Individual: Herman Bennett, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York
Institutional: W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Herbert Feis Award
Richard Rabinowitz, founding president, American History Workshop
William Gilbert Award
Avishag Reisman, “The Document Based Lesson,” Journal of Curriculum Studies 44:2, (April 2012), 233-64
John E. O’Connor Film Award
The Loving Story, Nancy Buirski, director; Nancy Buirski and Elisabeth Haviland James, producers; Icarus Films
Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award
Peter S. Onuf (Univ. of Virginia)
Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History
The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection, University of Minnesota Law Library
Honorary Foreign Member
Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA/Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Book Prizes
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
E. Natalie Rothman (Univ. of Toronto, Scarborough), Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (Cornell Univ. Press)
George Louis Beer Prize
Tara Zahra (Univ. of Chicago), The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II (Harvard Univ. Press)
Albert J. Beveridge Award
Rebecca J. Scott (Univ. of Michigan) and Jean-Michel Hébrard (Univ. of Michigan), Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard Univ. Press)
Paul Birdsall Prize
Edith Sheffer (Stanford Univ.), Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain (Oxford Univ. Press)
James Henry Breasted Prize
Kyle Harper (Univ. of Oklahoma), Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
Jun Uchida (Stanford Univ.), Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 (Harvard Univ. Press)
Morris D. Forkosch Prize
Geoffrey G. Field (Purchase Coll., SUNY), Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945 (Oxford Univ. Press)
Leo Gershoy Award
Ethan H. Shagan (Univ. of California, Berkeley), The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History
Gail Hershatter (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), Gender of Memory: Rural Women in China’s Collective Past (Univ. of California Press) and Ruth Mazo Karras, Univ. of Minnesota, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)
Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
Bruce S. Hall (Duke Univ.), A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (Cambridge Univ. Press) and Gabrielle Hecht (Univ. of Michigan), Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press)
Littleton-Griswold Prize
Serena Mayeri (Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School), Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard Univ. Press)
J. Russell Major Prize
Malick W. Ghachem (Univ. of Maine School of Law), The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
E. Natalie Rothman (Univ. of Toronto, Scarborough),Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (Cornell Univ. Press)
George L. Mosse Prize
Sophus A. Reinert (Harvard Univ. Business School), Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Harvard Univ. Press)
Premio del Rey
Marie A. Kelleher (California State Univ., Long Beach), The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)
James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
Rebecca J. Scott (Univ. of Michigan), and Jean-Michel Hébrard (Univ. of Michigan), Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard Univ. Press)
John F. Richards Prize
Douglas E. Haynes (Dartmouth Coll.), Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870-1960 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
James Harvey Robinson Prize
Reading Like a Historian: Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms (Teachers College Press); authorsSam Wineburg (Stanford Univ.),Daisy Martin (Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity), and Chauncey Monte-Sano (Univ. of Michigan)
Wesley-Logan Prize
Erik S. McDuffie (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Duke Univ. Press)
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