{"id":725,"date":"2018-11-21T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=725"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:18:44","slug":"award-winning-history-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/11\/21\/award-winning-history-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning History Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two members of the UTC Department of History recently received prestigious awards.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/history\/profiles\/faculty\/bzd613.php\">John Swanson<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/01\/27\/dr-john-swansons-fantastic-book\/\">recent book<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0822964295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), was the 2018 winner of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseees.org\/programs\/aseees-prizes\/barbara-jelavich-book-prize\">Barbara Jelavich Book Prize<\/a>, which &#8220;is awarded annually for\u00a0a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Scott, a graduate of and current instructor in the department, received\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chattanoogan.com\/2018\/10\/15\/378038\/James-Scott-Medal-Of-Honor-Heritage.aspx\">The National Medal of Honor Foundation&#8217;s Excellence in Character Education Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to them both!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-726\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-21-at-6.36.53-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-726\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-21-at-6.36.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-21-at-6.36.53-PM.png 199w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-21-at-6.36.53-PM-138x200.png 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-727\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/tangible-belonging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-727\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/tangible-belonging.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/tangible-belonging.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/tangible-belonging-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/tangible-belonging-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/11\/tangible-belonging-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Swanson&#8217;s Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the UTC Department of History recently received prestigious awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/11\/21\/award-winning-history-faculty\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[35426,35044,83410],"class_list":{"0":"post-725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-department-news","8":"category-faculty-news","9":"tag-department-news","10":"tag-faculty-news","11":"tag-john-swanson","12":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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