The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes (PAS: APAL) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2013 Awards:
Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award
The Award is named in memory 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.
There was no award presented in 2013.
Fred B. Kniffen Book Award
The Fred B. Kniffen Book Award, established in 1989, honors the work of Fred B. 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 James R. Shortridge of the University of Kansas, for: Kansas City & How It Grew: 1822-2011. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Allen 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 recipient was Karen L. Cox of the University of North Carolina – Charlottesville, editor, for: Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2012.
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 Oneida Community Mansion House group for:
1) its preservation of the 93,000 square foot mansion, adjacent buildings, and a significant portion of the landscape surrounding the mansion home of the 19th century utopian, religious Oneida Community;
2) its curatorial work to protect and research the Oneida Community records and artifacts;
3) its publication of the Oneida Community Journal; and
4) its efforts to interpret an often-overlooked but very important facet of 19th-century reform efforts and religion.
http://www.oneidacommunity.org/
Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida, New York
The Historic Preservation Certificate of Merit recipient was The Board of Directors of the Fort Herkimer Church (built between 1753-1767) in German Flatts, New York, for its restoration of the congregation's eighteenth-century sanctuary.
http://fortherkimerchurch.org/
Fort Herkimer Church, German Flatts, New York
Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award
The Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition, established in 2004 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 2013.
Wilhelm-Keiffer Student Research Award
The Wilhelm-Keiffer Student Research Award, established in 2012, is in honor of long-time PAS: APAL member, Hubert Wilhelm, a cultural geographer, whose enthusiasm for teaching has had a global impact, and is in memory of the Society’s Executive Director, Artimus Keiffer, an architectural geographer and student of Hubert Wilhelm. The award is an annual competitive prize in the field of American material culture which is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
The recipient of the award was Sarah Jones Weicksel, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, for her paper, “From Home Front to Battlefield: Clothing and Technology in the American Civil War Era.”