News (Awards)

  • Distinguished Achievement Award, 2015

    Dr. Sarah Wider is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Achievement Award for her outstanding scholarly work and leadership in Emerson studies. Sarah is a professor at Colgate University and a past president of RWES. She also served as RWES Program chair, the book review editor for the Emerson Society…

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  • Distinguished Achievement Award, 2014

    Dr. Robert Habich is the recipient of this year’s RWES Distinguished Achievement Award. Each year the Society presents the award to an outstanding scholar and leader in Emerson studies. Bob is a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He is a past president of the RWE Society, as…

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  • Distinguished Achievement Award, 2015

    Dr. Sarah Wider is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Achievement Award for her outstanding scholarly work and leadership in Emerson studies. Sarah is a professor at Colgate University and a past president of RWES. She also served as RWES Program chair, the book review editor for the Emerson Society…

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  • Congratulations to 2014 Award Recipients

    The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society proudly announces our 2014 special award winners. Congratulations! Graduate Student Paper Award: Robert Rabiee, Ph.D. candidate, USC University of Southern California. Subvention Award: Dominic Mastroianni, Assistant Professor of English, Clemson University, for his book Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press,…

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