Curators’ Award for Scholarly Excellence
For Books Published by the University of Missouri Press
Purpose
The Board of Curators for the University of Missouri System recognizes scholarly excellence among Missouri faculty for a book published by the University of Missouri Press.
2009 Recipient (presented in 2011)
2009 Larry Gragg, Curators’ Teaching Professor of History & Political Science, Missouri S&T, “The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class”
Prior to the Quakers large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. Gragg shows how the community dealt with contradictions of participating in a slave-owning society as it struggled to change the culture of the richest of England’s seventeenth-century colonies. ISBN 978-008262-1847-6.
Previous Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | ISBN Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Steve Weinberg | "A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School" | 978-0-8262-1796-7 |
| 2007 | Tom Quirk | "Mark Twain and Human Nature" | 978-0-8261-1758-5 |
| 2006 | Wilma King | The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era | 978-0-8262-1660-1 |
| 2005 | Lloyd M. Wells | From Anzio to the Alps: An American Soldier’s Story | 0-8262-1537-8 |
| 2004 | Walter A. Schroeder | Opening the Ozarks: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830 | 0-8262-1398-7 |
| 2003 | John T. Graham | A Three-Volume Comprehensive Study on the Thought of Ortega y Gasset | 0-8262-1353-7 0-8262-1084-8 0-8262-0938-6 |
| 2002 | Elaine Lawless | Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative | 0-8262-1314-6 |
| 2001 | Christensen, Lawrence O. | Dictionary of Missouri Biography | 0-8262-1222-0 |
| 2000 | Lambeth, Edmund B. and Thorson, Esther | Assessing Public Journalism | 0-8262-1158-5 |
| 1999 | Hattaway, Herman | Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War | 0-8262-1107-0 |
| 1998 | Farnsworth, Robert M. | From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941 | 0-8262-1107-0 |
| 1997 | Lago, Mary | Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene | 0-8262-1024-4 |
| 1996 | Carroll, Joseph | Evolution and Literary Theory | 0-8262-0979-3 |
| 1995 | None Awarded | ||
| 1994 | None Awarded | ||
| 1993 | Holtz, William | The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane | 0-8262-0887-8 |
| 1992 | Weinberg, Steve | Telling the Untold Story: How Investigative Reporters are Changing the Craft of Biography | 0-8262-0873-8 |
| 1991 | Cunningham, Noble E. | Popular Images of the Presidency: From Washington to Lincoln | 0-8262-0782-0 |
| 1990 | None Awarded | ||
| 1989 | Ritter, Naomi | Art as Spectacle: Images of the Entertainer Since Romanticism | 0-8262-0719-7 |
| 1988 | Barth, J. Robert | Coleridge and the Power of Love | 0-8262-0694out of print |
| 1987 | Jorgenson, Lloyd P. | The State and the Non-Public School 1825-1925 | 0-8262-0633-6 |
| 1986 | None Awarded | ||
| 1985 | Monti, Daniel J. | A Semblance of Justice: St. Louis School Desegregation and Order in Urban America | 0-8262-0476-7 |
| 1984 | Farnsworth, Robert M. | Melvin B. Tolson, 1898-1966: Plain Talk and Poetic Prophecy | 0-8262-0433-3 |
| 1983 | Bullion, John L. | A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763-65 | 0-8262-0375-2 |
| 1982 | Ugarte, Michael | Trilogy of Treason: An Intertextual Study of Juan Goytisolo | 0-8262-0353-1 |
| 1981 | None Awarded | ||
| 1980 | None Awarded | ||
| 1979 | Nauss, Robert M. | Parametric Integer Programming | 0-8262-0250-0 |
| 1978 | None Awarded | ||
| 1977 | Behnken, Eloise M. | Thomas Carlyle: "Calvinist Without the Theology" | 0-8262-0234-9 |
| 1976 | None Awarded | ||
| 1975 | Moore, Maxine S. | That Lonely Game: Melville, "Mardi", and the Almanac | 0-8262-0175-X |
| 1974 | Flader, Susan L. | Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests | 0-8262-0167-9 out of print |
| 1973 | Graham, John T. | Donoso Cortes: Utopian Romanticist and Political Realist | 0-8262-0155-5 |
| 1972 | Burggraaff, Winfield J. | The Venezuelan Armed Forces in Politics, 1935-1959 | 0-8262-0121-0 |
| 1971 | Hartmann, Susan M. | Truman and the 80th Congress | 0-8262-0105-9 |
| 1970 | Torgerson, Randell E. | Producer Power at the Bargaining Table: A Case Study of the Legislative Life of S. 109 | 0-8262-0091-5 (cloth) out of print 0-8262-0185-7 (paper) out of print |
Reviewed 2012-10-16.