Bert Way won the Mississippi Historical Society’s Glover Moore Prize for the best master’s thesis in Mississippi history for 1999. The title of the thesis is “Converting Nature: People, Environment, and Production in the Antebellum Mississippi Delta.” After receiving his M.A. degree in May 1999, Way went to the Dominican Republic with the Peace Corps.

Southern Studies undergraduate student Emily Atkinson is the recipient of the Gray Award for her paper “A Present Tailoring of Southern Personality,” written for Ted Ownby’s Southern Studies 401 class. The Gray award, established by Colonel and Mrs. Homer Gray of Oxford, includes a $100 prize and is designated for a paper that analyzes aspects of the Southern experience.

Sarah Alford won the Coterie Award for her outstanding research paper on Southern culture, “A Rochdale Story: The Delta Cooperative Farm Seen through the Photographs of Dorothea Lange and the Memories of E. L.Wilkinson.” Alford, an undergraduate majoring in English and Southern Studies, also received a $100 prize with her award. Her paper was prepared for Southern Studies 334, Introduction to Field Works Techniques, taught by David Wharton, and Southern Studies 402, taught by Kathryn McKee.

The Glover Moore Prize was awarded this spring during the annual meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society. The Gray Award and Coterie Award were presented during the University‘s Honors Day ceremonies in April 2000.