Notes and Queries
Recent promotions, appointments, and
awards within the professional
community of Ohio historians include: Edmund J.
Danziger of Bowling
Green State University has been promoted
to Chairman of the Department
of History; Gary R. Hess of Bowling Green State
University has been
appointed Acting Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences; a lieutenant
colonel in the Army Reserve, David C.
Skaggs of Bowling Green State
University will take a leave of absence
to attend the Army War College,
Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, during
the 1982-1983 academic year;
Daniel Beaver of the University of
Cincinnati received a Charles P. Taft
research grant to advance his research
on the War Department and the
American business community; Ronald
Pollitt of the University of Cincin-
nati received a Charles P. Taft research
grant to continue his research in
England on the Northern Rebellion of
1569; John N. Dickinson of Miami
University has been appointed editor of The
Old Northwest; Ronald E.
Shaw of Miami University will take
research leave in the Spring of 1983 to
complete his book, A History of the
Canal Era in the United States, 1790-
1860; Edward B. Parsons of Miami University-Hamilton Campus,
has been
promoted to Professor; Dr. John Saffell,
Chairman of the Department of
History and Political Science, has
retired after thirty-four years at Mount
Union College; Richard L. Coleman has
been appointed as Curator of the
Cornelius Ryan Memorial Collection World
War II Papers at the Ohio Uni-
versity Library, and will begin a
year-long project of organizing, describing,
and microfilming the collection;
Theodore Natsoulas, who recently accepted
a tenure-track position to teach African
and Middle Eastern history at the
University of Toledo, received a summer
fellowship to study the educational
and religious independence movement of
the Kikuyu people of Kenya dur-
ing the period 1929-1955; Bogdan C.
Novak of the University of Toledo has
been granted a summer fellowship to
examine "Political Attitudes of Amer-
ican Slovenes during World War II";
George Kulchcky of Youngstown State
University has been promoted to
Professor; and Lowell Satre of Youngs-
town State University has been promoted
to Professor.
The 1981 Kerr History Prize has been
awarded to Gordan S. Wood of
Brown University for his article,
"Evangelical American and Early Mor-
monism," which appeared in the
October 1980 issue of New York History.
The prize is awarded each year for the
best article appearing in New York
History, as judged by the New York State Historical
Association's trustee
publications committee.
The 1981 New York State Historical
Association Manuscript Award, pre-
sented annually to the author of the
best unpublished book-length manu-
script dealing with New York state
history, has been awarded to David
Narrett for his monograph,
"Patterns of Inheritance in Colonial New York
City, 1664-1775: A Study in the History
of the Family." Narrett used pro-
bate records and similar documents to
analyze family structure, the role of
women, patterns of inheritance, and
related social phenomena. His study
offers fresh insights into the legal
processes of colonial New York.