Report of the Honors Committee

Southeastern Geographer Vol. ??????, No. 1, May 1993, pp. 124-126 REPORT OF THE HONORS COMMITTEE Julian V. Minghi Criteria for the special awards presented by the Honors Committee can be found in the Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 28 (1988), pp. 51-52. OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD Stanley D. Brunn University of Kentucky The criteria set out in 1987 for this award highlighted exceptional professional commitment and leadership, and they seem designed to fit the record of Stanley D. Brunn to a tee. A native ofIllinois, Stan followed his undergraduate honors degree at Eastern Illinois with a Masters degree at Wisconsin, and went on to Ohio State for his doctorate. His service to our Association and to this Division has been consistent and of the highest quality. Starting with his election to the 1968 SEDAAG Honors Committee, Brunn has served in a variety of roles including membership on AAG committees (Nominating twice, once as chair; Status ofAfro-American Geography), co-organizer and co-chair of the Political Geography Specialty Group, and initiator of one of the better ideas of the 1980s—The Phoenix Group of Young Geographers. For the Division , he co-chaired Local Arrangements in 1986, served again on the Honors Committee in 1981, was on the Steering Committee (1982-84), and has served on the Committee on the Status ofWomen in Geography since 1983. In addition, Brunn also co-edited Growth and Change from 1985 to 1990 and served as State Geographer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1988-90. The above, impressive as it is, takes a back seat to Brunn's most generous contributions to our discipline over the past dozen years—as Dr. Minghi is Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 125 editor, first of The Professional Geographer from 1982-87 and since 1988 of the Annals, Association ofAmerican Geographers, and as Chair of the Department of Geography at Kentucky from 1980 to 1988. As a faculty member at Florida, Michigan State, and Kentucky, Brunn has, since 1966, supervised a total of 17 doctoral dissertations and has directed an equal number of Masters students. All who serve strive to make a difference for the better. Over the past decade in particular, few if any have been as able to make such a difference as Stan Brunn. He is a paragon of achievement by incredibly hard work and sensitive outreach, and by uncompromising dedication to integrity and excellence in Geography. The Division warmly appreciates and proudly recognizes this outstanding contribution. RESEARCH HONORS AWARD Clifton W. Pannell University of Georgia The Division's Research Honors Award is given to scholars with a significant record of quality research and of research leadership in the discipline. In Clifton W. Pannell we find a worthy recipient of this award. Through voluminous publication resulting from an extensive field research program, he has, over the past two decades, established himselfas a leading scholar on the geography ofChina and East Asia. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pannell went on to complete a Masters at Virginia and a doctorate at Chicago before joining the Georgia faculty in 1971. He has written an impressive number of works on various aspects of East Asia's changing geography, including a major book in 1983 on modernization and development in China. By his incisive analysis of the historical and urban geography of Taiwan and more recently ofthe linkages between the rapidly changing urban structure and the agricultural development of China, Pannell has contributed to our better understanding of East Asia. In addition, Pannell has been a tireless contributor ofreviews of new literature on China and has held a variety ofeditorial positions including that of editor of the China Geographer from 1979 to 1985. At Georgia, Pannell has played a research leadership role for geography, supervising several doctoral dissertations to completion and as Director ofthe Asian 126Southeastern Geographer Studies Center. He was recently elected to high office in the Association for Asian Studies and has chaired the AAG's Specialty Group on Asian Geography. Despite the history ofunderfunding and political barriers endemic to foreign area research, Pannell has aggressively pursued his study of China, thereby making...