Organization of American Historians Announces 1999 Prize Winners

The Organization of American Historians, based in Bloomington, Ind., has announced that it will honor 24 people at its annual meeting, in Toronto on April 23.

A list of the prize winners:

• Catherine Allgor, of Simmons College, in Boston, will receive the Lerner-Scott Prize for her doctoral dissertation, “Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832.”
• The Elliott Rudwick Prize, for books on the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, will be shared by Ira Berlin, of the University of Maryland at College Park, who wrote Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998); and Philip D. Morgan, of the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Va., who wrote Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (University of North Carolina Press, 1998). (See a story on Mr. Berlin from The Chronicle, August 14, 1998.)
• Charles Capper, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will receive the Binkley-Stephenson Award, for the best scholarly article, for “A Little Beyond: The Problem of the Transcendentalist Movement in American History,” which appeared in the September 1998 issue of The Journal of American History.
• Lizabeth Cohen, of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., will receive the ABC-CLIO Award, for her journal article “From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America,” which appeared in the October 1996 issue of the American Historical Review.
• Elizabeth Anne Fenn, of Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., will receive the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award, for the best essay in American history by a graduate student, for “Beyond Jeffery Amherst: Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America.” The essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of American History.
• Michele Vickers Forman, of Middlebury Union High School, in Middlebury, Vt., will receive the Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Pre-Collegiate Teaching Award.
• Gervasio Luis García, of the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, will receive the Foreign-Language Article Prize for “The Other Is Oneself: Puerto Rico in the Eyes of the North Americans in 1898,” published in the Revista de Indias.
• Horace Samuel & Marion Galbraith Merrill Travel Grants in Twentieth-Century American Political History will each be awarded to Liette P. Gidlow, of Bowling Green State University, in Ohio; Andrew L. Johns, of the University of California at Santa Barbara; Lisa G. Materson, of the University of California at Los Angeles; Paul C. Milazzo, of the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville; and R. Mark Phillips, of Bowling Green State University.
• Jong Won Lee, of Rikkyo University, in Japan, will receive the Foreign-Language Book Prize for U.S.-Korean Relations and Japan in East Asia’s Cold War (University of Tokyo Press, 1998).
• The Huggins-Quarles dissertation award will be presented to Charles L. Lumpkins, of the University Park campus of Pennsylvania State University, who wrote “Black East St. Louis: Politics and Economy in a Border City, 1900-1945"; and Theresa Napson-Williams, of Rutgers University at Newark, in New Jersey, who wrote “Violating the Black Body: Black Women, White Men and Sexual Violence, 1920-1950.”
• Daniel T. Rodgers, of Princeton University, in New Jersey, will receive the Ellis W. Hawley Prize for his book Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).
• The Ray Allen Billington Prize will be shared by Malcolm J. Rohrbough, of the University of Iowa, who wrote Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (University of California Press, 1997), and Elliott West, of the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, who wrote The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (University Press of Kansas, 1998).
• Nina Gilden Seavey, of George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and Paul Wagner, of Paul Wagner Productions Inc., will receive the Erik Barnouw Award for their film A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America.
• Rogers M. Smith, of Yale University, will receive the Merle Curti Award, which this year recognizes a book in intellectual history, for Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press, 1997).
• Amy Dru Stanley, of the University of Chicago, will receive both the Avery O. Craven Award, for the most original book on the Civil War or Reconstruction, and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, for a book on the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, for From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
• Brian Ward, of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, in Britain, will receive the James A. Rawley Prize, for a book on the history of race relations in the United States, for Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations (University of California Press, 1998).