2009 Faculty Awards Announced
The Ellen L. Evans History Faculty Enrichment Endowment
Marni Davis
Ellen Evans was a Georgia State University history professor for over 35 years. Following her retirement, she established this fund to advance the professional development and recognition of faculty. The endowment will provide funds for Davis to go to the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where she is researching communications between American Jewish communal organizations and the federal government during the prohibition era. This generous grant will facilitate the completion of her book, Jews and Booze: Ethnicity, Commerce, and the Politics of Prohibition.
The Dale Somers Memorial Award
Timothy Crimmins, Anne H. Farrisee, and Denise Davidson
Following the tragic death of their colleague, Dale Somers, the History Department established The Dale Somers Memorial Award to honor this intellectual pioneer. The award recognizes significant contributions of scholarship by History Department faculty members. Crimmins and Farrisee were honored for their book Democracy Restored: A History of the Georgia State Capitol and Davidson for her book France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order.
The Copen Faculty Grant Fund
Jacob Selwood
In 1999, The Copen Family established the Copen Faculty Grant Fund to support research projects. This year, Jacob Selwood was the recipient of this award, which will provide funding for his forthcoming book Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London (Ashgate). This work examines Londoners' reactions to a diverse range of immigrants and their English-born children between 1580 and 1700, investigating the implications of these responses for our understanding of English national identity. Selwood argues that the presence of French and Dutch Protestants, Iberian Jews and travelers from the Islamic world all shaped developing notions of what it meant to be a Londoner and what it meant to be English during the early modern period. The book is in its final stages of revision and is due to appear in the summer of 2010.