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2015 Awards

Date Posted: October 6, 2015       Categories: News

The Alaska Historical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2015 awards:

EVANGELINE ATWOOD AWARD

Lael Morgan

In recognition of over 50 years writing, editing, publishing, teaching, and promoting Alaska’s history

HISTORIAN OF THE YEAR

Charles Caldwell Hawley

A Kennecott Story: Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years-1897-1997

BARBARA S. SMITH PATHFINDER AWARD

Mary Ehrlander

For editing and translating Albin Johnson’s Seventeen Years in Alaska: A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat

ELVA R. SCOTT LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARD

Cook Inlet Historical Society

For leadership and programs to commemorate Anchorage’s centennial

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ALASKA HISTORY AWARD

49 Writers, Anchorage Remembers: A Century of Tales: An Anthology of Alaskan Writers, Anchorage Centennial Project

Katherine J. Ringsmuth, From Tents to Towers: A Century of Maps of Alaska’s Largest City

ESTHER BILLMAN CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE

Friends of Nike Site Summit, with special recognition of James F. Renkert

For dedicated work to preserve a significant Cold War property

PRESIDENT’S AWARD

Anjuli Grantham

For inspirational advocacy for history and promotion of Alaska’s historic canneries

STUDENT AND BEGINNING PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Charles Hilton, UAF grad student and Kathy Peavey, Prince of Wales Island

ALASKA HISTORY AWARD

Chris Allan, “Mighty Tall Hustling: The North Star Oil Syndicate and the Race to Claim Alaska’s Arctic Petroleum Seeps,” Alaska History, 2014