Dr. Kara Smith's dissertation awarded AAHN top prize

Colleagues,

Good News! We have just been informed by the author that Dr. Kara Smith's dissertation, "A Legacy of Care: Hesse and the Alice Frauenverein, 1867-1918," has been awarded the Teresa E. Christy Award (see http://www.aahn.org/awards.html#christy for the description) from the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). Kara says that this news is especially extraordinary since "half of the award's previous recipients were from either the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Virginia (where the two main nursing history centers in the country are located)." Smith clarified that her win was "a fairly big deal in my little neck of the discipline." Smith will be officially awarded at the AAHN's annual conference (September 8-11).

Congratulations Dr. Smith! That's a wonderful achievement--no wonder you were, as you said, "speechless" when you got the AAHN award letter.-WS