Constance Clark, a University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral history student, received this year's national Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians.
Clark was honored with the award for her essay, "Evolution for John Doe: Pictures, the Public, and the Scopes Trial Debate," which will be published in the Journal of American History.
The Pelzer Memorial Award is given annually for the top essay by a graduate student on any period or topic of United States history. The award, first given in 1949, was named for Louis Pelzer, president in 1935-36 of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, now the OAH, and editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review in 1941-46.
Clark will receive $500, a medal and a certificate at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the OAH in St. Louis on March 31.