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  • Historical News and Notices

THE ASSOCIATION

The eighty-eighth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association is scheduled to take place at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 10–13, 2022, Thursday through Sunday.

At the close of the Association's eighty-seventh virtual meeting on November 6, 2021, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University, began her term as president. Given that there were no additional nominations, those proposed by the 2020 Nominating Committee and published in the May 2021 issue of the Journal were declared elected:

Vice President/President-Elect:

Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University

Executive Council:

Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College

John David Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky

The Executive Council also approved the nominations of Anya Jabour, University of Montana, and Tamika Y. Nunley, Cornell University, to four-year terms on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Southern History.

The following awards were presented at the 2021 meeting:

Owsley Award

The Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, recognizing a distinguished book in southern history published in an even-numbered year (2020), was presented to Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, for Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The selection committee consisted of Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University, chair; Jim Downs, Gettysburg College; and Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine.

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 2019 or 2020), was presented to Wendy Gonaver, Chapman University, for The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880, published by University of North Carolina Press in 2019. The selection committee consisted of Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University, chair; Catherine Clinton, University of Texas at San Antonio; and Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia. [End Page 211]

Rawley Award

The James A. Rawley Award, given for a distinguished book on secession or the sectional crisis (published in 2019 or 2020), was awarded to Michael A. Schoeppner, University of Maine, Farmington, for Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. The selection committee consisted of Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin–Madison, chair; Kate Masur, Northwestern University; and Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut.

Kirby Award

The Jack Temple Kirby Award, recognizing a distinguished journal article on southern environmental or agricultural history (published in 2019 or 2020), was awarded to Andrew C. Baker, Texas A&M University–Commerce, for "Risk, Doubt, and the Biological Control of Southern Waters," which appeared in the April 2019 issue of Environmental History. The selection committee consisted of Joan Cashin, Ohio State University, chair; Timothy Silver, Appalachian State University; and Albert Way, Kennesaw State University.

Woodward Dissertation Prize

The C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in southern history completed in 2020 was awarded to John Bardes, Louisiana State University, for his Tulane University dissertation, "Mass Incarceration in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation: Fugitive Slaves, Poor Whites, and Prison Development in Louisiana, 1805–1877." The selection committee consisted of Adam Ewing, Virginia Commonwealth University, chair; Robert Pratt, University of Georgia; and Emily Clark, Tulane University.

Submissions for this year's Woodward Prize are invited. Dissertations in southern history completed and defended in 2021 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/woodward). Application materials, sent by email to berrys@thesha.org, are due May 1, 2022.

Future SHA Meeting Sites And Dates

2022 November 10–13 Baltimore Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor
2023 November 9–12 Charlotte Westin Charlotte
2024 October 24–27 Kansas City Westin Kansas City at Crown Center
2025 November 5–8 St. Pete Beach TradeWinds Island Resort
2026 November 5–8 Atlanta Westin Peachtree Plaza

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OBITUARIES

Distinguished Tulane University history professor Sylvia R. Frey died June 23, 2021, leaving behind a...

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