The OAH sponsors and co-sponsors dozens of awards, grants, and fellowships annually. Here are the 2015 winners, announced at the Annual Meeting awards ceremony on April 18. For pictures and commentary from the ceremony, check out our Storify of tweets from the event.
Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History
Lisa Marguerite Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award
Thomas Bender, New York University
Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award
The Late Michael B. Katz, University of Pennsylvania
Friend of History Award
Colin G. Campbell, Chairman Emeritus, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Allyson Hobbs, Stanford University, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Lawrence W. Levine Award
Allyson Hobbs, Stanford University, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Merle Curti Award (Social History)
Cornelia H. Dayton, University of Connecticut, and Sharon V. Salinger, University of California, Irvine, Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
Merle Curti Award (Intellectual History)
Kyle G. Volk, University of Montana, Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Ray Allen Billington Prize
Jared Farmer, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Trees in Paradise: A California History
Avery O. Craven Award
Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
James A. Rawley Prize
Daniel Berger, University of Washington, Bothell, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Willi Paul Adams Award
Jürgen Martschukat, Erfurt University
Ellis W. Hawley Prize
Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma, The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
N. D. B. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Darlene Clark Hine Award
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland, Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
David Montgomery Award
Chantal Norrgard, Independent Scholar, Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
Lerner-Scott Prize
Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi, “Where Movements Meet: From the War on Poverty to Grassroots Feminism in the Appalachian South,” (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2014).
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award
Christopher M. Florio, Princeton University
Binkley-Stephenson Award
James D. Rice, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, “Bacon’s Rebellion in Indian Country,” Journal of American History 101 (Dec. 2014).
Huggins-Quarles Award
Nancy O. Gallman, University of California, Davis
Huggins-Quarles Award
Farina King, Arizona State University
Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year Award
Frank M. Cafarella, Cosgrove Middle School
Erik Barnouw Award
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington D.C.
Director: Ken Burns
Producers: Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom, and Ken Burns
Japan Residencies
Kevin C. Murphy, University of the Sciences [Kobe University]
Greg Robinson, Université du Québec À Montréal [Waseda University]
Japanese students coming to meeting as part of the Japan residencies program:
Satomi Minowa, University of Delaware
Atsuko Shigesawa Oikawa, American University
Yushi Yamazaki, University of Southern California
Germany Residency at the University of Tübingen
James D. Rice, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
China Residencies at Renmin University
Thomas H. Cox, Sam Houston State University
Julia L. Foulkes, The New School
Raúl A. Ramos, University of Houston
Chinese scholars coming to meeting and hosted at U.S. university after:
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-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants
Preston S. McBride, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Morales, Columbia University
Adrienne A. Winans, Ohio State University
Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants
Gregory Ablavsky, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Delia Fernández, Ohio State University
Amanda Hughett, Duke University
William S. Kiser, Arizona State University
Claire H. Rydell, Stanford University
President’s Travel Fund for Emerging Historians
William Gow, University of California, Berkeley
Alyssa M. Ribeiro, University of California, Los Angeles
Heather Sinclair, University of Texas, El Paso
Tao Wei, Stony Brook University, SUNY
Gene Zubovich, University of California, Berkeley
