Gordon Bakken Award of Merit
The Gordon Bakken Award of Merit is given for outstanding service to the field of western history and to the Western History Association. To nominate a WHA member, send a letter to the Award of Merit Committee members explaining why the individual deserves to be recognized.
-2020 Awards Cycle opens January 25, 2020
-2020 Award Nomination Deadline: June 15, 2020
The WHA office sends award notifications in August. View a list of past recipients.
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Gordon Bakken
"History can teach society to make more rational decisions about actions to be taken or policies to be pursued. History helps us to find patterns and repetitions, but also to protect cultural values against the materialism of an acquisitive society. History displays patterns of beliefs, ideals, loyalties and aspirations capable of transforming a random aggregation of human beings into a coherent society. History is part of objective reality and the human mind has an innate desire to explore and understand that reality. History is a part of cultural heritage and teaches wisdom and fosters virtue to make us better human beings. For each of us, history helps us to understand change and determine self-identity. In studying history, we attempt to realize our human potential, to break out of the constricting circle of the present. We affirm our humanity as well as our nationality. We ask age-old questions about our duty to country, others and self." --Gordon Bakken (Courtesy of California State University Fullerton Making History, Inside online publication October 2009).
Past RecipientsJo Tice Bloom John Heaton 2018 Peter Blodgett Katherine Morrissey Gregory Thompson 2017 Charles E. Rankin 2016 David Rich Lewis Sandra K. Schackel Ron Tyler 2015 Paula Petrik Brian Collier Linda Sargent Wood Roger Nichols 2013 Kathleen A. Brosnan 2012 Clyde Milner Anne M. Butler Tom Noel 2011 Darlis Miller 2010 Joan Jensen 2009 Gordon Bakken 2008 Paul Andrew Hutton 2007 L. George Moses 2006 Julidta Tarver Melody Webb 2005 Robert A. Trennert 2004 Marvin Kaiser 2003 Margot Liberty 2002 John Drayton 2001 Iris H. Wilson Engstrand Frederick Luebke Ben Proctor Malcolm Rohrbough 2000 William D. Rowley 1999 Thomas G. Alexander Judith Austin 1998 Harwood P. Hinton Ken Owens 1997 Wilbur Jacobs
1996 Robert Hine
1995 Claus-M. Naske
1994 S. George Ellsworth 1993 Floyd A. O‘Neil Dwight Smith 1992 Robert Burke Richard Lowitt 1991 Charles S. Peterson 1990 W. Turrentine Jackson Duane A. Smith 1989 Samuel P. Arnold 1988 John Alexander Carroll 1987 William S. Greever Merle Wells 1986 Jack D. Haley 1985 Sara Dunlap Jackson 1984 Wayne Gard Chester B. Kerr 1983 C. Gregory Crampton Russell R. Elliott 1982 Lucile M. Kane A. Russell Mortensen 1981 Lewis E. Atherton Angie Debo Grace Lee Nute 1980 Oliver W. Holmes Bruce H. Nicolle 1979 Donald Jackson Alice E. Smith 1978 W. H. Hutchison Walker Wyman, Sr. 1977 Archibald Hanna Myra Ellen Jenkins 1976 Vernon Carstensen Earl H. Ellis Michael Harrison John Francis McDermott Abraham P. Nasatir Rupert N. Richardson A. Bower Sageser C. L. Sonnichsen
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