Arthur W. Thompson Award
The Arthur W. Thompson Award, memorializing the long-time professor of history at the University of Florida, is presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society to the author of the most outstanding article published in the FHQ in the most recent volume. There are no formal nominations for this award. A special committee, selected by the editor of the FHQ, chooses the award recipient. The award carries a stipend of $250 and a plaque of recognition. Thomas Castillo is the newest winner of the Arthur W. Thompson Award.
Please join us in congratulating this year's recipient!
Winning articles:
- Eric Jarvis, "A Plague in Paradise: Public Health and Public Relations During the 1962 Encephalitis Epidemic in St. Petersburg" 85 (Spring 2007): 371-397.
- Elna C. Green, "Hidden in Plain View: Eugene Poulnot and the History of Southern Radicalism" 84 (Winter 2006): 349-382.
- Larry R. Youngs, "The Sporting Set Winters in Florida: Fertile Ground for the Leisure Revolution, 1870-1930" 84 (Summer 2005): 57-78.
- Stuart B. Schwartz, "Hurricanes and the Shaping of Circum-Caribbean Societies" 83 (Spring 2005): 381-409.
- Thomas A. Castillo, "Miami's Hidden Labor History" 82 (spring 2004): 438-467
- Stuart B. Schwartz, "Hurricanes and the Shaping of Circum-Caribbean Societies," 83 (spring: 2005): 381-409
- Daniel Murphree, "Constructing Indians in the Colonial Floridas: Origins of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573" 81 (fall 2002): 133-54.
- Randy Sanders, Jr., "Rassling a Governor: Defiance, Desegregation, Claude Kirk, and the Politics of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy" 80 (winter 2002): 332-59.
- Lee Irby, "Taking Out the Trailer Trash: The Battle Over Mobile Homes in St. Petersburg, Florida" 79 (fall 2000): 181-200.