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2015 Awards
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