55 Historians, Students, and Organizations Recognized During 2015 Meeting

BLOOMINGTON, IN—The Organization of American Historians presented 27 awards, prizes, fellowships, grants, and honorable mentions to 55 historians, graduate students, and organizations Saturday, April 18 at the America's Center in St. Louis.

OAH recognizes outstanding professional achievements in the field of American history during its annual meetings. Awards were presented by Jon Butler, OAH's 2015-16 president. Butler's term took effect on April 18 immediately following OAH's annual business meeting.

NOTE: Where available, links to more information about winning books, book authors, and award recipients are embedded in the list below (mouse over the copy and clickable link titles appear).

• MARY JURICH NICKLISS PRIZE IN U.S. WOMEN’S AND/OR GENDER HISTORY
  Most original book. First year award was presented.
  *NOTE: The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting was the first time this prize has been awarded. Alexandra Nickliss, benefactor, presented the prize to the inaugural recipient.
  The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
  Lisa Marguerite Tetrault, associate professor of history, Carnegie Mellon University

• STANTON-HORTON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORY
  Promoting civic dialogue about and appreciation for American history
  *NOTE: The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting was the first time this award has been presented.
  National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, National Park Service
  Diane Miller, project director
  
  Honorable mention:
  Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park, Visitor Education Center
  Lynne Nakata, project director

• ROY ROSENZWEIG DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
  Contributions that enrich understanding of and appreciation for American history
  Thomas Bender, university professor of the humanities, New York University
  The late Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg professor of history, University of Pennsylvania

• FRIEND OF HISTORY AWARD
  Outstanding support of historical research, public presentations on American history, or the work of OAH
  Colin G. Campbell, chairman emeritus
  Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

• FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER AWARD
  Author of a first scholarly book on an aspect of American history
  A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
  Allyson Hobbs, assistant professor of American history, Stanford University

• Honorable mentions:
  The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature
  Jamie Cohen-Cole, assistant professor of American studies, George Washington University

  Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
  Katherine C. Mooney, assistant professor of history, Florida State University
  
  Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
  Kyle G. Volk, associate professor of American history and director of undergraduate studies,
  University of Montana

• LAWRENCE W. LEVINE AWARD
  Author of the best book on American cultural history
  A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
  Allyson Hobbs, assistant professor of American history, Stanford University

• MERLE CURTI AWARDS
  Best book published in American intellectual history
  Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
  Kyle G. Volk, associate professor of American history and director of undergraduate studies,
  University of Montana
  
  Best book published in American social history
  Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
  Cornelia H. Dayton, associate professor of history, University of Connecticut
  Sharon V. Salinger, dean and professor of history, University of California Irvine

• RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE
  Best book about American frontier history
  Trees in Paradise: A California History
  Jared Farmer, associate professor of history, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY)

• AVERY O. CRAVEN AWARD
  Most original book about the pre- and post-Civil War era
  The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
  Edward E. Baptist, associate professor of history, Cornell University

• JAMES A. RAWLEY PRIZE
  Best book about the history of U.S. race relations
  Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
  Daniel Berger, assistant professor, University of Washington, Bothell

• WILLI PAUL ADAMS AWARD
  Awarded every two years for best book on American history published in a foreign language
  Governing through the Family: Fatherhood and Families in American History since 1770
  Jürgen Martschukat, professor of history, Erfurt University

• ELLIS W. HAWLEY PRIZE
  Best book-length historical study of American politics, economics, or institutions from the
  Civil War to present
  The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
  Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma

• LIBERTY LEGACY FOUNDATION AWARD
  Best book on civil rights struggles from U.S. beginnings to present
  A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
  N. D. B. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University

• DARLENE CLARK HINE AWARD
  Best book on African American women's and gender history
  Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
  Karsonya Wise Whitehead, assistant professor of communication and African and African American studies, Loyola University Maryland

• DAVID MONTGOMERY AWARD
  Best book on American labor and working-class history in partnership with Labor and
  Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
  Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
  Chantal Norrgard, author and independent scholar

  Honorable mention:
  With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
  Brian Rouleau, assistant professor of history, Texas A&M University

• LERNER-SCOTT PRIZE
  Best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history
  "Where Movements Meet: From the War on Poverty to Grassroots Feminism in the Appalachian South"
  Jessica Wilkerson, assistant professor of history and Southern studies, University of Mississippi
  (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

  Honorable mention:
  "'For the Freedom of the Race': Black Women and the Practices of Nationalism, 1929-1945"
  Keisha N. Blain, Pennsylvania State University
  (Princeton University)

• LOUIS PELZER MEMORIAL AWARD
  Best essay on American history by a graduate student
  "From Poverty to Slavery: Abolitionists, Overseers, and the Global Struggle for Labor in India"
  Christopher M. Florio, graduate student in history, Princeton University

• BINKLEY-STEPHENSON AWARD
  Best article published in the Journal of American History during previous year
  "Bacon's Rebellion in Indian Country"
  James D. Rice, professor of history, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

• HUGGINS-QUARLES AWARD
  For graduate students of color to defray research travel expenses for Ph.D. dissertation
  "American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida"
  Nancy O. Gallman, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Davis

  "The Journey of Diné Students in Four Directions"
  Farina King, Ph.D. candidate, Arizona State University

• MARY K. BONSTEEL TACHAU TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
  Contributions by precollegiate teachers to improve American history education
  Frank M. Cafarella, Cosgrove Middle School (Spencerport, NY)

• ERIK BARNOUW AWARD
  Outstanding TV program or documentary film about American history and its study or promotion
  The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
  Director: Ken Burns | Producers: Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom, and Ken Burns
  A co-production of Florentine Films and WETA

  Honorable mention:
  1971
  Director & Producer: Johanna Hamilton | Producers: Marilyn Ness and Katy Chevigny |
  Associate Producer: Danielle Varga
  Maximum Pictures and Fork Films in a co-production with the Independent Television Service (ITVS),
  in association with Big Mouth Productions, Motto Pictures, Candescent Films, and the Ford Foundation JustFilms

• OAH/JAAS JAPAN RESIDENCIES PROGRAM
  Fellowships for two U.S. historians to spend two weeks at a Japanese university
  Kevin C. Murphy, chair of the Department of Humanities and professor of history,
  University of the Sciences [Kobe University]
  Greg Robinson, professor of history, Université du Québec À Montréal [Waseda University]

  Exchange program for Japanese students studying in U.S. to attend OAH annual meetings
  Satomi Minowa, University of Delaware
  Atsuko Shigesawa Oikawa, American University
  Yushi Yamazaki, University of Southern California

• GERMANY RESIDENCY PROGRAM
  Resident scholar in U.S. history at the University of Tübingen
  James D. Rice, professor of history, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

• CHINA RESIDENCY PROGRAM
  U.S. scholars teaching seminars in American history at Renmin University of China
  Thomas H. Cox, associate professor of history, Sam Houston State University
  Julia L. Foulkes, associate professor of history, The New School
  Raúl A. Ramos, associate professor of history and director of undergraduate studies,
  University of Houston

  Chinese scholars attending 2015 OAH meeting and being hosted at U.S. university
  Hu Xiaojin, China University of Political Science and Law [Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship,
  and the Constitution, University of Pennsylvania, and the National Constitution Center]
  Li Wenshuo, Shanghai Normal University, [Hunter College, City University of New York]
  Ouyang Zhencheng, Northeast Normal University [University of California, San Diego]

• OAH/IMMIGRATION & ETHNIC HISTORY SOCIETY JOHN HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANTS
  Grants to help defray costs of attending OAH/IEHS Annual Meeting
  Preston S. McBride, Ph.D. student, University of California Los Angeles
  Daniel Morales, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University
  Adrienne A. Winans, Ph.D. candidate, Ohio State University

• SAMUEL & MARION MERRILL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
  Grants to help defray costs of attending OAH annual meetings
  Gregory Ablavsky, Ph.D. student, University of Pennsylvania Law School
  Delia Fernández, Ph.D. student, Ohio State University
  Amanda Hughett, Ph.D. student, Duke University
  William S. Kiser, Ph.D. student, Arizona State University
  Claire H. Rydell, Ph.D. student, Stanford University

• OAH PRESIDENT'S TRAVEL FUND FOR EMERGING HISTORIANS
  Graduate student travel stipends of up to $750 for students selected to present at OAH
  annual meetings
  *NOTE: The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting was the first time these stipends have been presented.
  William Gow, Ph.D. student, University of California Berkeley
  Alyssa M. Ribeiro, research scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
  Heather Sinclair, Ph.D. student, University of Texas El Paso
  Tao Wei, Ph.D. student, Stony Brook University, SUNY
  Gene Zubovich, Ph.D. student, University of California Berkeley

For information about OAH awards, prizes, fellowships, and grants, visit oah.org or call 812.855.7311.

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Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the world's largest professional association dedicated to American history scholarship. With more than 7,800 members from the U.S. and abroad, OAH promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, encouraging wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of history practitioners. It publishes the quarterly Journal of American History, the leading scholarly publication and journal of record in the field of American history for more than nine decades. It also publishes
The American Historian magazine.