Highlights from the 2015 Conference

Last year’s conference, “Rethinking Pennsylvania History in the Digital Age,” hosted by Lebanon Valley College was a resounding success. On Friday evening, PHA President Michael Birkner announced winners of the Philip S. Klein and Robert Grant Crist Pennsylvania History Prizes for 2013-2014.  The Klein Prize, awarded for best article in Pennsylvania History, was presented to Dr. Jim Higgins, a faculty member at the University of Houston at Victoria for: “B. Franklin Royer: A Half Century in Public Health,” in Volume 81, #2 (Spring 2014).  The Crist Prize, awarded for best article by a graduate student, was presented to Dr. Thomas Balcerski, now a faculty member at Eastern Connecticut State University for: “’Under These Classic Shades Together’: Intimate Male Relationships at the Antebellum College of New Jersey,” in Volume 80, #2 (Spring 2013).