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Christopher Grasso, Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly, is pleased to announce: The 2002 Douglass Adair Memorial Prize for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in the previous six years is awarded to Susan Juster, an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for "Mystical Pregnancy and Holy Bleeding: Visionary Experience in Early Modern Britain and America," published in the April 2000 issue (Vol. 57, No.2, pp. 249-88). The article was lauded for its "bold and penetrating examination not just of female mystics but of changing notions of human subjectivity, the body, and gender in the early modern world." The award is made by the Quarterly Editorial Board and the Trustees of Claremont Graduate University in honor of Professor Adair, a distinguished historian and editor (1946-1955) of the journal and member of the faculty at Claremont. The Best Article Published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2001 Prize goes to Michael P. Johnson, "Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators," published in October 2001 (Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 915-76). Prof. Johnson, a member of the faculty at The Johns Hopkins University, was honored for an essay that "raises large historical issues that transcend the immediate case of the Vesey conspiracy" and "provoke[s] wide-ranging discussion." The article has since been reprinted in pamphlet form, together with a collection of historians' responses that appeared in the January 2002 Quarterly. The Best Article prize is sponsored by the National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars; the Quarterly Editorial Board made the selection. The 2001 Richard L. Morton Award for the best article by an author in graduate studies at the time of submission is awarded to Sara Stidstone Gronim for "Geography and Persuasion: Maps in British Colonial New York," published in the April 2001 issue (Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 373-402). Ms. Gronim earned her Ph. D. at Rutgers University and will take up a position as assistant professor at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University in fall 2002. Her work was cited as a "rich cross- cultural analysis of the ways that maps were used as political weapons by the competing powers that struggled to claim territory and endow a landscape with meaning."The Morton Award honors the founding editor (1944-1946) of the William and Mary Quarterly's Third Series and who also taught at the College of William and Mary. * * * * * Two prize-winning articles recently published by the Quarterly are Peter Way, "Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-1764" (October 2000; Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 761-92), winner of the 2001 Harold Peterson Award given by Eastern National for the best article on any facet of military history, and Simon Middleton, "'How it came that the bakers bake no bread': A Struggle for Trade Privilege in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam" (April 2001; Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 347-72), given by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Program in Early American Economy and Society for an "outstanding journal article." * * * * * The William and Mary Quarterly is a publication of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History, which is jointly sponsored by the College of William and Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, both located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Institute was established to further scholarship and research on early America from the first contact of Europeans with the New World to approximately 1820 and publishes the Quarterly, books in its field of interest, and a newsletter, Uncommon Sense, holds conferences on a variety of subjects, and awards several postdoctoral fellowships funded by the sponsors, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The 2001-2002 Editorial Board is composed of John L. Brooke, Ohio State University; Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California at Santa Barbara; Cornelia H. Dayton, University of Connecticut; Robert A. Ferguson, Columbia University; D. Barry Gaspar, Duke University; and John B. Hench, American Antiquarian Society, and chaired by Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University. For further information: Ann Gross, Managing Editor, WMQ, 757-221-1122 or algros@wm.edu The William and Mary Quarterly, P. O. Box 8781, Williamsburg, Virginia, 23187-8781 Ann Gross "Be well. Do good work. Keep in touch."
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