Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award
The Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award is given to members of the Society who have contributed especially valuable and distinguished service to SHGAPE. No more than two members may receive the award in a given year. The winners are chosen by the SHGAPE Executive Council and will be honored at the annual SHGAPE luncheon. The recipient(s) of the award shall receive a commemorative plaque or certificate.
PAST AWARDEES
2024 – Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University
2023 – Boyd Cothran, York University
2022 – Stacy A. Cordery, Iowa State University
2021 – Jeremy C. Young, PEN America
2020 – Elaine Frantz, Kent State University
2019 – Benjamin Johnson, Loyola University, and Robert D. Johnston, University of Illinois-Chicago
2018 – Jo Ann Argersinger, Southern Illinois University
2018 – Julia Irwin, University of South Florida
2016 – Wendy Gamber, Indiana University
2016 – Robert Cherny, San Francisco State University
2015 – Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University
2015 – Philip Vandermeer, Arizona State University
2013 – Alan Lessoff, Illinois State University
2010 – Thomas Culbertson, Rutherford B. Hayes Center
2009 – Charles Calhoun, East Carolina University
2008 – Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame
2007 – Roger D. Bridges, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
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Membership in SHGAPE affords you a place in the primary professional network of Gilded Age and Progressive Era scholars. Your membership gains you entry into a vibrant and growing community and helps to advance your understanding of a critical period in American history. As a self-supporting organization, SHGAPE depends on its members to continue its current activities and take on new initiatives
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