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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.
2010 Award Winners
National Leadership in the Public Humanities
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James Leach
James Leach is the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The National Leadership in the Public Humanities Award is bestowed on him for his record of public service, which includes thirty years representing southeastern Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives and founding and co-chairing the Congressional Humanities Caucus. In 2007, Leach joined the faculty at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he was the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs until his confirmation as NEH chairman. He has also served as interim director of the Institute of Politics and lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
More information about James Leach can be found at:http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/LeachBio.html
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NJCH Book Award
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The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War by John V. Fleming
John V. Fleming is Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University. In The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War Fleming examines the writing and reception of four books which fundamentally contributed to the shift in American perception of the U.S.S.R. as ally in WWII to ideological enemy following the war. Fleming has published extensively in the fields of medieval English and European literature, medieval art history and the history of Christian thought and spirituality. |
| Honor Books |
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (HarperCollins)
Beryl Satter, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers: American Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Knopf)
John B. Wefing, The Life and Times of Richard J. Hughes: The Politics of Civility (Rutgers University Press)
Robert Wright, The Evolution of God (Little, Brown and Co.) |
Teacher of the Year
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Jeanne DelColle
Jeanne DelColle is a U.S. history and honors world history teacher at Burlington County Institute of Technology. She has been chosen as the NJCH Teacher of the Year due to her commitment to using the humanities to bridge the boundaries between disciplines and encourage her students to explore concepts in multifaceted ways. An inveterate world traveler with a deep interest in archaeology, DelColle has been an invited guest lecturer on ancient Middle Eastern history at an NEH Institute, has published a book review in an academic journal and has supervised an archaeological dig in Jordan. |
PAST WINNERS
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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