John Coleman Award
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The John Coleman Award goes to the graduate student who wrote the best paper in Cold War history, international history or military history, the three fields that defined John Coleman's career interests. John served in the military in Vietnam. He was a former journalist who traveled widely and returned to school to pursue a degree in international relations. The Hawaiian shirt was his trademark. (This photo was taken on an "Aloha Day" he organized in 2000, for which he was forced to wear a suit and tie.) After his premature death in 2003, John's fellow graduate students urged the History Associates to establish this award in his honor.
Present and previous recipients:
2009 Roger Eardley-Pryor: "The Fruits of Science for Death and Destruction"
2008 Dimitri Akulov: “Soviet Bid for the Second Front and Territorial Security, 1941-1942”
2007 No award given
2006 Toshihiko Aono, "Guiding America: Anglo-American Relations and the Negotiations over Berlin in 1961," and "The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Long Shadow of Berlin"