Peace History Society

2017 PHS awards

Current PHS president Deborah Buffton presents previous president Kevin Callahan award for outstanding service.

• Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Harriet Hyman Alonso.
• Charles Debenedetti Memorial Prize for the best article published in Peace History in 2015-2016 awarded to Ryan J. Kirkby for “Dramatic Protests, Creative Communities: VVAW and the Expressive Politics of the Sixties Counterculture,” Peace & Change 40, no. 1 (January 2015): 33-62.
• Scott Bills Memorial Prize First Book / Dissertation in Peace History published in 2014-2015 awarded to Leilah Danielson, American Gandhi : A. J. Muste and the history of radicalism in the twentieth century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).
• Kevin Callahan, for outstanding service as PHS president, 2015-2016.
• Travel awards:
  • Chris Morris
  • Zacharie Leclair

Selected pictures from the awards ceremony and the conference Remembering Muted Voices and memorial service are available on the PHS facebook page, and more pictures from the conference are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8FAwdsg4x0ldHdtMmwwUXI2OEk?usp=sharing

C-Span broadcasts of some of the keynotes and the two plenary panels:

• Anti-War Movements From World War I to Present. Michael Kazin, author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918, talked about the legacy of anti-war activities during World War I and how they influenced peace movements from World War I through the Vietnam War to the present.
• Women and World War I Peace Movements. Author Erika Kuhlman talked about women and peace movements during World War I. She highlighted the activities of the Woman’s Peace Party in New York City and the anti-war reporting and editorials in their newsletter, “Four Lights.” She also discussed the conventional gender roles at the time and contrasted that with women serving in the military today.
• World War I and Religious Peace Groups. Members of Quaker, Mennonite, and Christian peace organizations talked about their institutions' responses to the U.S. and Britain’s entry into World War I.
• World War I and Peace Organizations. Members of peace organizations formed in the World War I era talked about the impact of the war on their groups and how their institutions have changed over the past 100 years.