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Fred Allen Womack and Frances Sue Zimmerman Womack Book Award

Description of Award: Each year, Penn State Altoona seeks to recognize and honor the distinguished contributions of the faculty through the presentation of the Fred Allen Womack and Frances Sue Zimmerman Womack Book Award. The awardees receive a plaque and a $500 cash prize. Applications are due March 1 and should be addressed to the Associate Dean for Research.

Purpose of Award: This award honors and recognizes a faculty member at Penn State Altoona for the best work of scholarship or creative writing published during the previous calendar year.

Eligibility: Consideration for this award shall be given to all faculty members at Penn State Altoona who have had a work of scholarship or creative writing published during the previous calendar year. The award may not be given to the same faculty member a second time.

Number of recipients: The number of awards made shall be determined by the selection committee.

Selection Procedure: Recipients of this award shall be selected by a committee appointed by the Associate Dean for Research at Penn State Altoona.

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When completing this nomination form, please keep in mind that members of the selection committee will be scholars in a wide variety of disciplines and likely outside the nominee’s area of specialization.  Please submit your nomination to Associate Dean for Research by March 1. 
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Award Recipients

The following faculty members have received the Fred Allen Womack and Frances Sue Zimmerman Womack Book Award:

  • 2015—Erin Murphy
    Ancilla
  • 2016—Steven Sherrill
    Joy, PA
  • 2017—Todd Davis
    Winterkill
  • 2018—Pamela Blackmon
    The Political Economy of Trade Finance
  • 2019—Ian Marshall
    Reading Shaver’s Creek: Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest
  • 2020—Brian Black
    Gettysburg Contested: 150 Years of Preserving America's Cherished Landscapes
  • 2021—John Eicher
    Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age
  • 2023—Lee Peterson
    In the Hall of North American Mammals
  • 2024—Brian Onishi
    Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology and New Materialism

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