Three receive national awards for works of historical scholarship

Published: 2005-01-19

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- History professors at three U.S. universities have been honored with national prizes for their recent works of historical scholarship. George M. Marsden, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, won the 2005 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for "Jonathan Edwards: A Life" (Yale University Press), Marsden's biography of the colonial preacher and theologian. Meanwhile, the American Catholic Historical Association honored books by Samantha Kelly, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Michael B. Gross, an associate professor of history at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. Kelly received the association's Howard R. Marraro prize for her book, "The New Solomon: Robert of Naples (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship" (Brill). Gross received the John Gilmary Shea prize for "The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany" (University of Michigan Press).

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