Historical News and Notices

THE ASSOCIATION

The eighty-sixth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will take place at the Sheraton Memphis Downtown in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 19–22, 2020, Thursday through Sunday.

At the close of the Association's eighty-fifth meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 10, 2019, Thavolia Glymph, Duke University, began her term as president. Given that there were no additional nominations, those proposed by the 2018 Nominating Committee and published in the May 2019 issue of the Journal were declared elected:

Vice President/President-Elect:

    Steven Hahn, New York University

Executive Council:

    Charles C. Bolton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University

    Rose C. Thevenin, Florida Memorial University

The Executive Council also approved the nominations of Jason Morgan Ward, Emory University, and Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University, to four-year terms on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Southern History.

The council elected the following to serve as the 2020 Nominating Committee: Adrienne Monteith Petty, College of William and Mary, chair; Caroline Janney, University of Virginia; Alecia P. Long, Louisiana State University; Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut.

The following awards were presented at the meeting in Louisville:

Owsley Award

The Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, recognizing a distinguished book in southern history published in an even-numbered year (2018), was presented to Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Western Carolina University, for her book, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, published by Oxford University Press. The selection committee consisted of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chair; Kenneth W. Goings, Ohio State University; and Sally G. McMillen, Davidson College.

Simkins Award

The Francis B. Simkins Award, given jointly with Longwood University in recognition of the best first book by an author in the field of southern history (published in 2017 or 2018), was presented to Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley, for her book, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management, published by Harvard University Press in 2018. The selection committee consisted of Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University, chair; Joseph Crespino, Emory University; and Lesley Gordon, University of Alabama.

Rawley Award

The James A. Rawley Award, given for a distinguished book on secession or the sectional crisis (published in 2017 or 2018), was awarded to R.J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University, for his book The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. The selection committee consisted of Nina Silber, Boston University, chair; Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College; and Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University.

Kirby Award

The Jack Temple Kirby Award, recognizing a distinguished journal article on southern environmental or agricultural history (published in 2017 or 2018), was awarded to Caroline Peyton, University of Memphis, for her article "Kentucky's 'Atomic Graveyard': Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America," published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (115 [Spring 2017], 223–63). The selection committee consisted of Christopher Morris, University of Texas at Arlington, chair; Kathryn Shively, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Mart Stewart, Western Washington University.

Woodward Dissertation Prize

The C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in southern history completed in 2018 was awarded to Owen James Hyman for his Mississippi State University dissertation, "The Cut and the Color Line: An Environmental History of Jim Crow in the Deep South's Forests." The selection committee consisted of Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College, chair; Bruce Baker, Newcastle University; and Sean Cunningham, Texas Tech University.

Submissions for this year's Woodward Prize are invited. Dissertations in southern history completed and defended in 2019 are eligible for the annual prize. Application requirements can be found in the advertisement in this issue of the Journal or on the SHA website (http://thesha.org/awards/woodward). Application materials, sent by email to manager@thesha.org, are due May 1, 2020.

Holmes Award

The William F. Holmes Award for the...