Everett E. Edwards Award
Derek Oden, for "Selling Safety: The Farm Safety Movement's Emergence and Evolution from 1940-1975."
Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award
Angus McGillvery, for "Convict Settlers, Seamen's Greens, and Imperial Designs at Port Jackson: A Maritime Perspective on British Settler Agriculture."
Wayne D. Rasmussen Award
Geoff Cunfer, for "Manure Matters on the Great Plains Frontier," in Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award
Joel Orth, for "The Conservation Landscape: Trees and Nature in the Great Plains."
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
Brian Donahue, for The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale University Press).
Everett E. Edwards Award
Jenny Barker-Devine, for "'Mightier than Missiles': The Rhetoric of Civil Defense for Rural American Families, 1950-1970."
Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award
Andrew Graybill, for "Rural Police and the Defense of the Cattleman's Empire in Texas and Alberta, 1875-1900."
Wayne D. Rasmussen Award
Mark Fiege, for "The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape," in Western Historical Quarterly 36:1 (Spring 2005).
Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award
Shane Hamilton, for "Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America."
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
Geoff Cunfer, for On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (Texas A&M University Press).
Everett E. Edwards Award
Jason Ward, for "'Nazis Hoe Cotton': Planters, POWs, and the Future of Farm Labor in the Deep South." Ward is a graduate student
at Yale University.
Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award
Monica Gisolfi, for "From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939," in Agricultural History 80:2 (Spring 2006).
Wayne D. Rasmussen Award
Roxanne Willis, an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University, for "A New Game in the North: Alaska Native Reindeer Herding, 1890-1940," in Western Historical Quarterly 37:3 (Autumn 2006).
Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award
Cecilia Tsu, who completed her PhD at Stanford University, for "Grown in the 'Garden of the World': Race, Gender, and Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley, 1880-1940."
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
S. Max Edelson, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (Harvard University Press, 2006).
National History Day History of Agriculture and Rural Life Award
Sydney Taylor and Lindsey McKeefor for their junior group performance entitled "Triumph to Tragedy to Triumph: The Saga of the Dust Bowl.” The two were students at Bob Courtway Middle School in Conway, Arkansas, and were advised by teachers Joy Meriwether and Sherry Holder.
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