NJCH ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | TEACHER OF THE YEAR

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.


2007 Winners

Civic Leadership Award
Representitive 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

PAST WINNERS

2006

Public Humanities Award
Winner: Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of
New Jersey

NJCH Book Award
Winner: The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile
of Napoleon's Brother Joseph, by Patricia Tyson Stroud

Teacher of the Year
Winner: Bruce Paul Grefe, Creative Arts High School,
Camden

2005

Public Humanities Award
Winners: Charles F. Cummings and John T. Cunningham

NJCH Book Award
Winner: Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer

Teacher of the Year
Winner: Tara Pignoli, Westfield High School, Westfield, NJ