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—Emerson, “Friendship” (1841)

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Recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award and Barbara Packer Award

 

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Branka Arsić, Columbia University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2024
David LaRocca, Independent Scholar
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2022
Herwig Friedl, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2021
Susan Dunston, New Mexico Tech
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2020
Saundra Morris, Bucknell University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2019
Shoji Goto, Rikkyo University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2018
Russell B. Goodman, University of New Mexico
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2017
George Kateb, Princeton University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2016
Sarah Ann Wider, Colgate University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2015
Robert D. Habich, Ball State University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2014
Dieter Schultz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2013
Laura Dassow Walls, University of Notre Dame
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2012
Phyllis Cole, Penn State, Brandywine
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2011
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2010
Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2009
Len Gougeon, the University of Scranton
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2008
Barbara Packer, University of California Los Angeles
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2007
Joel Porte, Cornell University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2006
David M. Robinson, Oregon State University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2005
Albert J. von Frank, Washington State University
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2004
Concord Free Public Library Houghton Library, Harvard University Massachusetts Historical Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2003
Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany, SUNY
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2002
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2001
Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD2000
Wesley T. Mott, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD1999
Douglas Emory Wilson
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD1997
Ralph Orth Joseph Slater
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD1996
Merton M. Sealts, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD1995
Kenneth Walter Cameron, Trinity College Eleanor M. Tilton, Barnard College
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD1993
Ittai Orr, Yale University
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2019
Mark Gallagher, UCLA
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2018
Molly Reed, Cornell University
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2017
Reed Gochberg, Boston University
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2016
Gillian Osborne, University of California, Berkeley
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2015
Peter Wirzbicki, University of Chicago
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2014
Derek Pacheco, Purdue University
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2013
James S. Finley, New Mexico State
BARBARA PACKER AWARD2012
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“What we are? and Whither we tend?”: The Emerson Society at 20Wesley T. MottWorcester Polytechnic Institute(Reprinted from Emerson Society Papers 23 [Spring 2011]: 1, 13-15.)

In 1841, Emerson stated that the “main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is . . . the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What we are? and Whither we tend?” (CW l:182) The “main interest” of this paper is to assess What—as an Emerson Society—we are, and Whither—as a community of Emerson scholars—we tend. First, a backward glance at how the Emerson Society came to be and what we’ve accomplished in twenty years.

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