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From the Supplement to the 123rd Annual Meeting |
The 123rd General Meeting
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The General Meeting of the AHA will take place on Saturday, January 3, 2009, at 8:30 p.m. in the East Ballroom of the Hilton New York.
President-elect Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Harvard Univ.) will announce the recipients of the AHA’s 2008 prizes and awards.
Award for Scholarly Distinction
Joseph Harris (Howard Univ.); Michael Kammen (Cornell Univ.); Joan Wallach Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Honorary Foreign Member
Jacques Revel (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Troyer Steele Anderson Prize
Anna Kasten Nelson (American Univ.)
The Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award
Michael D’Innocenzo (Hofstra Univ.)
Beveridge Family Teaching Prize
Daniel D. Tolly (Ann Arbor Public Schools, Michigan)
The Herbert Feis Award
Richard Kohn (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The John E. O’Connor Film Award
Revolution ’67, co-produced by Bongiorno Productions Inc., the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., in association with WSKG; Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, producer and director; Jerome Bongiorno, photographer, editor, and animator.
James Harvey Robinson Prize
History Education Group (Stanford Univ.) and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason Univ.), for the web site Historical Thinking Matters.Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award
Warren Roberts (SUNY Albany)
Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award
Adam Hochschild (author)
Book Prizes
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Carol Symes (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Cornell Univ. Press, 2007)
James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
Marcus Rediker (Univ. of Pittsburgh), The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking Press, 2007)
George Louis Beer Prize
Melvyn P. Leffler (Univ. of Virginia), For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Hill and Wang, 2007)
Albert J. Beveridge Award
Scott Kurashige (Univ. of Michigan), The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008)
The Paul Birdsall Prize
Jeffrey A. Engel (Texas A&M Univ.), Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Harvard Univ. Press, 2007)
James Henry Breasted Prize
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (Princeton Univ.), Artisans in Early Imperial China (Univ. of Washington Press, 2007)
John E. Fagg Prize
Laura Gotkowitz (Univ. of Iowa), A Revolution for Our Rights (Duke Univ. Press, 2008)
John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
Susan Mann (Univ. of California at Davis), The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Univ. of California Press, 2007)Morris D. Forkosch Prize
Barbara Donagan (Huntington Library), War in England 1642–49 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
Leo Gershoy Prize
Anne Goldgar (Kings Coll., London), Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007)Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History
Kathy Davis (San José State Univ.), The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders (Duke Univ. Press, October 2007)
Littleton-Griswold Prize
Rebecca M. McLennan (Univ. of California at Berkeley)*, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008)
J. Russell Major Prize
Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford Law School), A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Yale Univ. Press, 2007)
Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Margaret Meserve (Univ. of Notre Dame), Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought (Harvard Univ. Press, 2008)
George L. Mosse Prize
Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union), Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (Princeton Univ. Press, 2007)
Premio del Rey
Katrin Kogman-Appel (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva), Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain (Penn State Univ. Press, 2006)
Wesley-Logan Prize
Paul Christopher Johnson (Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor), Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (Univ. of California Press, 2007)
Presidential Address
After the presentation of awards and honors at the General Meeting held on Saturday, January 3, 2009, AHA President Gabrielle M. Spiegel (Johns Hopkins Univ.) will deliver her presidential address. In the address, entitled “The Task of the Historian,” Spiegel will open with a review of the rise and apparent decline of the “linguistic turn” in historical writing. Offering an analysis of the psychological roots of poststructuralism as a response to the Holocaust and its aftermath, she will consider what this can tell us about what might remain valuable in linguistic-turn historiography, even as a new, rising generation of historians turns its attention to such questions as transnationalism, diaspora studies, postcolonialism, migration, and immigration. Spiegel will argue that to the extent that these emerging fields of contemporary historiography share with poststructuralism a concern with absent memory and the problematics of displacement, they can profit from some of the fundamental insights of poststructuralist historiography.
Immediately following the Presidential Address, AHA members are invited to the West Ballroom of the Hilton New York for the presidential reception.
*This affiliation was incorrectly listed in the print version.
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