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Prizes and Awards
The History of Education Society sponsors an Outstanding Book Award. This award of $1,000 is made annually to the author of the best book published in the preceding year.
Nominations are now open and will remain open until May 15, 2008. Works are eligible which consider any aspect of the history of education, formal or informal, whether in the U.S. or abroad, provided they bear a 2007 copyright date. (In exceptional cases, books bearing a 2006 copyright may be considered, provided they were not nominated last year.)
Publishers who plan to submit a book (or books) in nomination should
inform the committee chair, Richard Angelo (angelo@coe.uky.edu) at their earliest convenience. In order to be considered, review copies must be received by all three members of the committee at the addresses listed below no later than May 15, 2008.
Outstanding Book Award Committee for 2008:
Chair, Richard Angelo, (2005-2008) Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation, College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506
-Bethany Rogers, (2006-2009) Assistant Professor, Education Department, 3S #208, College of Staten Island-CUNY, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314
-Amy McCandless, (2007-2010) Professor & Dean of the Graduate School, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424
2007 Committee members: Karen Graves (Chair), Richard Angelo, Bethany Rogers
2007 Winner: Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Cornell University Press, 2006).
2007 honorable mentions:
R. Scott Baker, Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 (University of South Carolina Press, 2006).
Mary S. Hoffschwelle, The Rosenwald Schools of the American South (University Press of Florida, 2006).
The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best article in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural issues inside and outside of the United States. This includes work on schools and universities, teachers, students, and families.
The next award will be presented at the fall 2008 meeting of the History of Education Society.
Articles published in journals during 2006 and 2007 (no book chapters) are eligible. Self nominations are welcome. The postmark date for entries is April 4, 2008. Entrants should send five copies of the article to:
Michael Fultz
Dept. of Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
221 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall. Madison, WI 53706
The History of Education Society awards the Henry Barnard Prize of $500 biennially (in alternating years with the Best Article Prize) for the best graduate student essay in the history of education. Nominations by faculty, graduate advisers, department chairs, and deans, as well as self-nominations by students, are welcome. HES also extends a $250 travel supplement to the Barnard Prize winner for his/her attendance at the annual meeting, and covers the costs of registration and the banquet.
2007 Committee Members: Peter Wallenstein (Chair), Michael Fultz, Chris Ogren, Adah Ward Randolph, Christine Woyshner.
2007 Winner: Paul J. Ramsey, Indiana University. “In the Region of Babel: Public Bilingual Schooling in the Midwest, 1840s-1880s.”
2007 Honorable Mention: Katherine Sedgwick, University of Pennsylvania. “From Hazing to Socialization: A History of Social Conformity and Freshman Orientation.”
Barnard Prize Committee for 2008 (alternating years with Best Article Award):
Chair, Michael Fultz, (2005-2008) University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chris Ogren, (2006-2009) University of Iowa
Adah Ward Randoph, (2006-2009) Ohio University
Christine Woyshner, (2006-2009) Temple University
Benita Blessing, (2007-2010) Ohio University
The History of Education Society is accepting submissions for the Claude A. Eggertsen Prize for the dissertation judged to be the most outstanding in the field of History of Education. This includes work on schooling and educational institutions more broadly, and the dissertation may have a domestic or international focus. The next award will be presented at the fall 2008 meeting of the History of Education Society.
The prize carries an award of $1,000 for the winner. Self nominations are welcome. Qualified applicants must have completed the dissertation and graduated during the calendar year 2007. The postmark date for entries has been extended to **April 18, 2008.**
Entrants should send three copies of the dissertation and a cover letter to:
Joy Williamson
Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
College of Education
University of Washington Box 353600 Seattle, WA 98195
2007 winner: Laura Kathryn Munoz, “Desert Dreams: Mexican American Education in Arizona, 1870-1930.” Arizona State University.
2007 honorable mentions:
Emily Straus, “The Making of the American School Crisis: Compton, California and the Death of the Suburban Dream,” Brandeis University.
Andrea Lawrence, “Unraveling the White Man’s Burden: A Critical Microhistory of Federal Indian Education Policy Implementation at Santa Clara Pueblo, 1902-1907,” Indiana University.
Eggertsen Dissertation Award Committee for 2008:
Chair, Joy Williamson, (2005-2008) University of Washington
Sevan Terzian, (2006-2009) University of Florida
Maggie Nash, (2007-2010) University of California, Riverside