Recipients of Special Awards Given at the Forty-Fourth Meeting, November 1989

Southeastern Geographer Vol. 30, No. 1, May 90, pp. 76-77 RECIPIENTS OF SPECIAL AWARDS GIVEN AT THE FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, NOVEMBER 1989 Criteria for the special awards presented by the Honors Committee can be found in the Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 28 (1988), pp. 51-52. OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD Edward J. Malecki University of Florida The truly amazing pace of technological change is an aspect of our lives that is impossible to ignore. The impact of this change on regional economic development, on geographic patterns of research and development , and on public and corporate locational policy are among the most significant research issues to be addressed. The work of Edward J. Malecki is recognized widely as at the forefront, even as definitive, in these very important research areas. Although still relatively early in his professional life, he has authored more than six dozen published works that have earned him international recognition and scholarly respect outside of geography as well as within our discipline. Currently the chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Florida, he has been described as a premier synthesizer of ideas related to technology and development and as a scholar who can pull apart complex issues and reconstitute them with a clear focus in a manner that is more effective than that of anyone else concerned with these issues. While he is a relative newcomer to the region, having joined the department at Gainesville in 1983, the volume and significance of Ed Malecki's cumulative scholarship is sufficient that the Honors Committee wishes to recognize his contribution through the awarding of the Southeastern Division 's Research Honors Award. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Sam B. Hilliard Louisiana State University It could be argued that the most significant aspects of our lives are those that we take for granted because they are the ones that guide us Vol. XXX, No. 1 77 even without our awareness of them. Throughout his professional life, Sam Hilliard has brought the keen perspective of an historical geographer to bear on several of these basic elements in human activity. Would it be too spare a description of his professional interests to say that they deal with the control of land, Southern culture, and old food? Perhaps, but this description might also provide a hint of the plain-spoken clarity with which he has written and spoken about these and related topics during his several decades of scholarly activity in the South. A Georgian by birth, rearing, and early education, he returned to the region following a brief stay in the North during which he earned his Master's and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin. During the past 20 years, Sam Hilliard has produced numerous studies of the intersection of Southern regional culture and the production and consumption of foodstuffs , among which was his well-known book Hog Meat and Hoe Cake: Foodstuff Self-Sufficiency in the Antebellum South. At times, his focus has led him to look at changing patterns of land control—as with his studies of Indian Land Cessions and the headright system of land assignment in Georgia—and at other times to study various plantation landscapes. More recently, he helped formulate and then guide the execution of the impressive Historical Atlas of the United States. During this period of scholarly productivity, he chaired the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University on two separate occasions, which may say something about his dedication or his memory. Although Baton Rouge is located outside the territorial bounds of the Southeastern Division, he has been a member and welcome participant in division activities for many years. For the quality of his many contributions to the understanding of the region in which we live and work, the Honors Committee has recommended that Sam B. Hilliard be awarded the Southeastern Division's Lifetime Achievement Award. ...