Congratulations to this year's wiinners

The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes (PAS: APAL) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2010 Awards. (Click any image below for an enlargement and/or more details.)

Photos from the 2010 awards ceremony The Friday evening awards banquet. Master of Ceremonies, Chris Mayda (left), presents outgoing Board member, Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, with a special certificate of appreciation for her dedicated service. Keith Sculle, chair of the Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award, announces the 2010 recipient, Philippe Oszuscik, an associate professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL Ralph Hartsock (left), a member of the Book Awards Committee, presents historian, Warren Hofstra of Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, with the Allen G. Noble Book Award for best-edited book, The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present. Scott Roper (left), Conference chair and a member of the Historic Preservation Awards Committee, presents Annette Lynch of the Mount Holly Barn Preservation Association, Mount Holly, VT, with the 2010 Historic Preservation Award for the association's outstanding contributions to the recognition and preservation of Vermont heritage and material culture. Scott Roper (left), Conference chair and a member of the Historic Preservation Awards Committee, presents Elsa Gilbertson of the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and Ron Morgan of the Mount Independence Coalition with Certificates of Merit for their outstanding efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell, VT. Philippe Oszuscik, associate professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, was the recipient of the 2010 Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award. The Friday evening awards banquet.

And the winners are...

Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award

The Award is named in honor of the founder of the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes, Mr. Henry H. Douglas, and is given to an individual who has made significant contributions over the years in furthering the Society’s goals through service, teaching, publications, and/or the promotion of historic preservation.

The recipient was Philippe Oszuscik, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.

William Faulkner and the Southern LandscapeThe Fred B. Kniffen Book Award

The Fred B. Kniffen Book Award, established in 1989 by PAS: APAL, honors the work of Fred Kniffen, a long-time scholar at Louisiana State University. The Kniffen Award recognizes the best-authored book in the field of North American material culture.

The recipient was Charles S. Aiken, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, for: William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2009.


William Faulkner and the Southern LandscapeAllen G. Noble Book Award

The Allen G. Noble Book Award is given in honor of the scholarship Allen G. Noble contributed to cultural geography. The award recognizes the best-edited book in the field of North American material culture.

The recipients were Warren R. Hofstra of Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia and Karl Raitz of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, eds., for: The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2010.


PAS:APAL Historic Preservation Award

The Historic Preservation Award, established in 2000, recognizes the preservation, interpretation, instruction, celebration, or exhibit of American material culture.

The Historic Preservation Award winner was the Mount Holly Barn Preservation Association for its outstanding contributions to the recognition and preservation of Vermont heritage and material culture. http://www.savevermontbarns.org/MHBPA.htm.

The Historic Preservation Certificate of Merit recipients were:

1) The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation in recognition of its outstanding efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret the Mount Independence State Historic Site of Orwell, Vermont, in conjunction with the Mount Independence Coalition. http://www.historicvermont.org/mountindependence/

2) The Mount Independence Coalition in recognition of its outstanding efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret the Mount Independence State Historic Site of Orwell, Vermont, in conjunction with the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. http://www.mountindependence.org/

Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award

The Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition, established in 2001 in memory of folklife scholar Warren E. Roberts, a longtime PAS: APAL member and former member of the Board of Directors, is an annual competitive award that recognizes excellence in original graduate student fieldwork, documentary research, and writing in the area of traditional North American material culture.

There was no award presented in 2010.

Hubert G. H. Wilhelm Student Research Award

The Hubert G.H. Wilhelm Student Research Award, established in 2006 in honor of long-time PAS: APAL member, Hubert Wilhelm, a cultural geographer, whose enthusiasm for teaching has had a global impact, is a annual competitive award in the field of American material culture which is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

The recipient was doctoral student Nina Vollenbroker of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London, England, UK, for her paper entitled, "Rootedness in Mobility — Identity, Space and Spatial Relationship in the Nineteen-Century American West.”

 

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The Friday evening awards banquet.
Master of Ceremonies, Chris Mayda (left), presents outgoing Board member, Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, with a special certificate of appreciation for her dedicated service.
Keith Sculle, chair of the Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award, announces the 2010 recipient, Philippe Oszuscik, an associate professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL.
Ralph Hartsock (left), a member of the Book Awards Committee, presents historian, Warren Hofstra of Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, with the Allen G. Noble Book Award for best-edited book, The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present.
Scott Roper (left), Conference chair and a member of the Historic Preservation Awards Committee, presents Annette Lynch of the Mount Holly Barn Preservation Association, Mount Holly, VT, with the 2010 Historic Preservation Award for the association's outstanding contributions to the recognition and preservation of Vermont heritage and material culture.
Scott Roper (left), Conference chair and a member of the Historic Preservation Awards Committee, presents Elsa Gilbertson of the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and Ron Morgan of the Mount Independence Coalition with Certificates of Merit for their outstanding efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell, VT.
Philippe Oszuscik, associate professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, was the recipient of the 2010 Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award.
The Friday evening awards banquet.