Awards and Achievements, THS Members

Awards/ftmchievements. ibers Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge of American Intervention, 1939-1941 by Justus D. Doeneke, Professor of History, New College, University of South Florida, has been selected as the winner of the Eighth Annual Herbert Hoover Book Award by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association . The prize for this award is an honorarium of $2,500 and a bronze medal struck by the U.S. Treasury. This award is presented to the best book submitted by a publisher on any topic ofAmerican history focusing on the years from 1914 to 1964, the years of Mr. Hoover's public lili.-. Professor Reggie Blaszczyk of Boston University received the 2001 Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History from the Business History Conference for her work, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovationfrom Wedgwood to Corning (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2000). Christopher Jespersen has become chair of the History Department at North Georgia College and State University. Evan B. Bukey, University ofArkansas, has been awarded the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for his work, Hitler's Austria: Popufar Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. (University of North Carolina Press, 2000). The German language version, Hitlers Oesterreich. Eine Bewegung und Ein Volk (Hamburg: Europa Verlag, 2001 ) has appeared on the non-fiction best-seller list in Austria. Glenn W. Olsen of the History Department ofthe University ofUtah, Salt Lake City, is the 2001 recipient of the Ramona Cannon Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at the University of Utah. Marsha Frey, Kansas State University, received a grant from the Earhart Foundation to complete a manuscript on the culture of French Revolutionary Diplomacy, a joint project with her twin and alter ego, Linda Frey, University of Montana. The Freys are currently serving as visiting professor of history and McDermott chair at the United States Military Academy, respectively. The first Susan and Peter Rollins Award was presented to the best paper on Latin American culture at the national Popular Culture/American Culture meeting in April 2001 . The award was created to honor the work of the Rollins couple for the progress of the biennial conferences in Mexico. The next conference is in the fall of 2001 . For further information, visit www.udlap.mxlcongress. Chris Curtis, doctoral candidate at Emory University, received a Dean's leaching Fellowship as well as the Brown Southern Studies Dissertation Award in 2001-2002. Jane Flaherty, Department of History, Texas A&M University, was awarded a graduate fellowship from the Center for Humanities Research. Jon L. Brudvig received the Regent's Award for Teaching Faculty at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, and was also promoted to the rank ofAssociate Professor of History. On April 27, 2001, the President of Kenyon College announced the establishment of an endowed chair in History in honor of Roy Wortman. Kenyon colleagues, former students, graduate school mentors, family and friends were present for the happy occasion . Professor Wortman, who last year was honored as the first recipient ofthe Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, received his PhD from The Ohio State University and has been a member of the Kenyon faculty since 1971. Allen P. Speers book, Sisters of Providence: The Searchfor God in the Frontier South, 1843-1858 (The Overmountain Press, 2000) has won four awards: the Trio Award, the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, the Robert Bruce Cooke Family History Book Award, and the Ethel W Triford Religious History Book Award. Arnold Beichman's edited work, CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy (Hoover Institution Press, 2000) has been nominated for the 2001 Cable Center Book Award. The award honors books that make a significant contribution to the knowledge base of the cable telecommunications industry. David Stone, Assistant Professor of History at Kansas State University, won the 200 1 Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching. John C. Willis was awarded the Mississippi Historical Society's 2001 McLemore Prize for his book, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War (University Press of Virginia, 2000). Pete Daniel, a curator in the Division of the History ofTechnology at the National Museum ofAmerican History, has won the 2001 Elliott Rudwick Prize from the Organization of American Historians for his book Lost...