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NJCH ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | TEACHER
OF THE YEAR | LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION
 Each
year NJCH recognizes individuals whose exemplary
work in the public humanities has made a significant and lasting difference in the lives of New Jerseyans. The Council recognizes
and lauds their signal contributions.
Special Recognition
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Jane Brailove Rutkoff, for exceptional contributions to the public humanities in New Jersey. |
2011 Award Winners
NJCH Book Award
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The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anhony Appiah is
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. In The Honor Code, Appiah examines "moral revolutions" or moments when a society decides that a longstanding practice is no longer reputable. By using four case studies from divergent cultures and time periods, Appiah makes a compelling case that honor is a critical, though ignored, engine for social change, and has been at the heart of reforms as sweeping as the abolishment of the British slave trade and the end of Chinese footbinding. Appiah has taught and published widely in African-American studies and philosophy and currently serves as the President of the PEN American Center. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of its top global thinkers in 2010.
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Thomas Belton, Protecting New Jersey’s Environment: From Cancer Alley to the New Garden State (Rutgers University Press)
Ann Fabian, The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead (University of Chicago Press)
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Michael Perino, The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance (Penguin Press).
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Teacher of the Year
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Ellen Cahill
Ellen Cahill is a kindergarten teacher at Bradford School in Montclair. She has been named Teacher of the Year for her ability to bring an interdisciplinary study of the humanities to some of New Jersey’s youngest students. By focusing the curriculum on her students’ interests, history, language, geography and the sciences are woven into their lives, creating a highly engaged learning environment. In particular, Cahill fosters her students’ love of learning through a Philosophy for Children program, encouraging democracy in her classroom and makes students owners of their own knowledge from an early age. Her unique teaching of the humanities makes her a model of effective early childhood education, and NJCH is delighted to celebrate her as an outstanding humanities educator. |
PAST WINNERS
2010
National Leadership in the Public Humanities
James Leach
NJCH Book Award
The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War, by John V. Fleming
Teacher of the Year
Jeanne DelColle
Burlington County Institute of Technology
2009
Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities
James M. McPherson
NJCH Book Award
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
Teacher of the Year
Gregory Woodruff
Montclair High School, Montclair
2008
Public Humanities Award
Bruce Cole
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
NJCH Book Award
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by Michael B. Oren
Teacher of the Year
Scott C. Sax
Cherokee High School, Marlton
2007
Civic Leadership Award
Representative Rush D. Holt
Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities
Robert Fagles
NJCH Book Award
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the
Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter
Teacher of the Year
Patricia Hans
Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood
2006
Public Humanities Award
Deborah T. Poritz
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of
New Jersey
NJCH Book Award
The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile
of Napoleon's Brother Joseph, by Patricia Tyson Stroud
Teacher of the Year
Bruce Paul Grefe
Creative Arts High School, Camden
2005
Public Humanities Award
Charles F. Cummings and John T. Cunningham
NJCH Book Award
Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
Teacher of the Year
Tara Pignoli,
Westfield High School, Westfield
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