Miles Orvell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS), will receive the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies on Nov. 6 at the American Studies Association (ASA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Leslie Killgore, currently teaching at the Community College of Rhode Island, investigated the admissions policies at 17 elite private colleges, those which typically admit less than one-third of all applicants. Killgore’s research was published this summer in The Review of Higher Education (Volume 32, Issue 4). The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sharon K. Epps, Head of Access Services at the University of Maryland Libraries, is the winner of the 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for the best article in the most recent volume of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy.
Reviews in American History, a comprehensive journal designed to keep academics abreast of new literature in the field, has big plans for the future. Thomas P. Slaughter, the Arthur R. Miller Professor of History at the University of Rochester, took over as editor in 2009.
