The following is a list of the recipients of the various awards, prizes, and honors that will be presented during the 128th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association on Thursday, January 2, 2014, in the Palladian Ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The full citations of the prize and award committees will be printed in the booklet distributed during the awards ceremony, as well as in the February 2014 issue of Perspectives on History.
The Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award
David M. Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group
Awards for Scholarly Distinction
John Dower (Mass. Institute of Technology); Patricia Buckley Ebrey(Univ. of Washington); Walter LaFeber (Cornell Univ.)
The Troyer Steele Anderson Prize
Thomas F. Rugh (TIAA-CREF)
The Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award
Michael S. Green(Coll. of Southern Nevada/UNLV Honors Coll.)
The Beveridge Family Teaching Award
John Russell (Burlington City High School, Burlington, NJ)
The Raymond J. Cunningham Prize
David Wemer (Gettysburg Coll. BA 2014); Faculty Advisor: William Bowman, (Gettysburg Coll.) “Europe’s Little Tiger?: Reassessing Economic Transitions in Slovakia under the Mečiar Government, 1993–1998,” Gettysburg College Historical Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp 97–112, 2013
The Herbert Feis Award
Richard E. Turley, Jr. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
The William and Edwyna Gilbert Award
Tim Keirn (California State Univ. Long Beach), andEileen Luhr, (California State Univ. Long Beach) “Subject Matter Counts: The Pre-Service Teaching and Learning of Historical Thinking,” The History Teacher, Volume 45, Number 4, 2012, pp. 493–511
The Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award
Shari Hills Conditt (Woodland High School, Woodland, WA)
The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History
“Digital Archive: International History Declassified” (History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson Center)
Honorary Foreign Member
Patrick Karl O’Brien, FBA (London School of Economics)
Book Prizes:
The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Steven A. Barnes (George Mason Univ.)Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society (Princeton Univ. Press, 2011)
The George Louis Beer Prize
R. M. Douglas(Colgate Univ.) Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War(Yale Univ. Press, 2012)
The Albert J. Beveridge Award
W. Jeffrey Bolster (Univ. of New Hampshire)The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
The James Henry Breasted Prize
Patricia Crone (Institute for Advanced Study) The Nativist Profits of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)
The John H. Dunning Prize
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012)
The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg Univ.) A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture (Harvard Univ. Asia Center of Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
The Morris D. Forkosch Prize
Jordanna Bailkin (Univ. of Washington)The Afterlife of Empire(Univ. of California Press, 2012)
The Leo Gershoy Award
Daniela Bleichmar(Univ. of Southern California) Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012)
The J. Franklin Jameson Award in Editorial Achievement
Editors and Translators:John Taylor(Univ. of Leeds);Wendy R. Childs (Univ. of Leeds), and Leslie Watkiss(Society of Antiquaries of London) The St. Albans Chronicle: the Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham, Vol. II: 1394–1422(Clarendon Press and Oxford Univ. Press, 2011)
The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History
Carol Pal (Bennington College) Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)
The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
Derek R. Peterson(Univ. of Michigan) Ethnic Patriotism and the East Africa Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)
The Littleton-Griswold Prize
John Fabian Witt (Yale Univ. Law School) Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press, 2012)
The J. Russell Major Prize
Miranda Spieler(American Univ. of Paris) Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana(Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
The George L. Mosse Prize
Miranda Spieler (American Univ. of Paris) Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
The James Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
W. Jeffrey Bolster(Univ. of New Hampshire) The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail(Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
The John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History
A. Azfar Moin (Southern Methodist Univ.)The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (Columbia Univ. Press, 2012)
The Wesley-Logan Prize
Martha Biondi (Northwestern Univ.)Black Revolution on Campus(Univ. of California Press, 2012)
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