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Award Recipients

Student Research
Award Recipients
This award, in modified form, became the H-31 Student Research Grant in 2008.
See AAHN Research Grants section for 2008 awardees.
~2007~
Jennifer Hobbs
Information practices, patients, and professional boundaries
Anne Cockerham
Sister-nurse-midwives caring for Spanish Americans at the Catholic
Maternity Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1944-1968
~2006~
Joanathon Gilbride
Nursing and the Politics of American Health Care Policy:
A Historical Analysis of Nursing's Participation in Health Care Reform
in the United States, 1985-1995
Sarah A Johnson
Healing in Silence:
The Evolution of Black Charlestonian Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina,
1896 to 1976
~2004~
Sharon Hadenfeldt
A History of Nurse Anesthesia Education in Nebraska
~2003~
Joy Buck
Rights of Passage, Reforming Care of the Dying 1965-86
Sonya Grypma
Canadian Missionary Nurses at the North Honan in China 1923-47
~2002~
Deborah Sampson
The History of Advance Practice Act Legislation;
New Hampshire as a case study
Mary Ann Cordeau
Acts of Caring, A History of the Lived Experience of
Nurse Caring of Northern Women during the American Civil War
Sherrill L. Leifer
Harriet Werley 1941-1964 A Study of Nursing Leadership
~2001~
Donald Smith
A Study of the Persian Gulf War as a Catalyst for Change
in Air Force Nurse Corps' Clinical and Deployment Readiness
~2000~
Marjorie Porter
A Case Study of the Life Cycle of the
DePauw University School of Nursing 1954-1994
~1999~
Mary Ann Krisman-Scott
The Room at the End of the Hall, Care of the Dying 1945-1975
~1998~
Kathleen G. Burke
The Factors that Influence the Diffusion of Health Care
Technology: A Case Study of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Julie Fairman, Chair
~1997~
Elizabeth Walsh
Premature Infant Care in the United States, 1900-1950
University of Pennsylvania, Joan Lynaugh, Chair
~1996~
Jacqueline Pflaum
A Biography of Miss Elinor Gregg
Dissertation, University of San Diego, Irene Palmer, Chair
~1995~
Ellen Ellis
The Evolution of Tuberculosis Nursing Practice at the Trudeau Sanitorium
Saranac Lake, New York 1884-1954 A Social History
Dissertation, Adelphi University
~1994~
Sylvia Rinker
Evolution of Obstetrical Nursing
Dissertation, University of Virginia, Barbara Brodie, Chair
Susan Cramer
The Life of Frances Payne Bolton
Dissertation, University of Virginia, Barbara Brodie, Chair

Teresa E. Christy
Award Recipients
~2009~
Jacqueline Margo Brooks Carthon, PhD, RN, APRN
No Place for the Dying: A Tale of Urban Health Work in Philadelphia's Black Belt
University of Pennsylvania
~2008~
Jennifer Lynn Hobbs, MSN, RN
Naming Power: A Historical Analysis of Clinical Information Systems, 1970-1990
University of Pennsylvania
~2007~
Deborah A Sampson
Determinants and determination
University of Pennsylvania
~2006~
Martha Anne Eastman
"All for Health for All":
The Local Dynamics of Rural Public Health in Maine, 1885-1950
University of Maine
~2005~
Sonja Joy Grypma
Healing Honan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
University of Alberta, Edmonton.
~2004~
Cynthia Toman
Officers and Ladies : Canadian Sisters, Women's Work and The Second
World War
Dissertation, University of Ottowa.
~2002~
Katherine Dawley
Leaving The Nest: Nurse Midwifery in the US 1940-1980
Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania
~2001~
Ellen Clarke
Professional Commitment and Activism in the Lives of Five African
American Women
Dissertation, Harvard University
~2000~
Cynthia Connolly
Prevention through Detention:
Pediatric TuberculosisPreventorium Movement in the US 1909-1951
1999 Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
~1998~
Susan Winters
Enlightened Citizen:
Frances Payne Bolton and the Nursing Profession
University of Virginia 1997. Dr. Barbara Brodie, Chair.
~1997~
Sylvia Rinker
To Spread the Gospel of Good Obstetrics:
The Evolution of Obstetric Nursing, 1890-1940
University of Virginia, Barbara Brodie, Chair
~1996~
Brigid Lusk
Professional Strategies and Attributes of Chicago Hospital Nurses
During the Great Depression
Dissertation, University of Illinois, Joyce Johnson, Chair.
~1994~
Victoria Grando
Nurses' Struggle for Economic Equity, 1945-1965
University of Kansas.
~1993~
Julie Fairman
New Hospitals, New Spaces:
The Development of Intensive Care Units, 1950-1965
University of Pennsylvania, Joan Lynaugh, Chair
~1992~
Phyllis Healy
Mary Eugenie Hibbard, Nurse, Gentlewoman, and Patriot
Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Eleanor Crowder, Chair
~1991~
Barbara Peterson
The Division of Nursing Education, Teachers College, Columbia University,
1947-1961, The McManus Years: Advances in the Professionalism of Nursing
~1990~
Meryn Stewart
Let Not My People Perish:
A History of A Public Health Nursing Experiment in Ontario, 1920-1965
Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Joan Lynaugh, Chair.
~1989~
Irene Poplin
A Study of Kaiserworth Deaconess Institute's Training School in 1850-1851:
Purposes and Curriculum.
Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

Lavinia L. Dock Award
Recipients
~2009~
Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN
Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
~2008~
Cynthia A. Connolly, PhD, RN
Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970
~2007~
Arlene W. Keeling
Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000
~2006~
Barbara Mann Wall
"Unlikely Entrepreneurs": Catholic Sisters and the Hospital
Marketplace, 1865-1925
~2005~
Cynthia Connolly
Beyond Social History:
New Approaches to Understanding the State and the State of Nursing History
Martha Libster
Herbal Diplomats
~2004~
Tom Olson and Eileen Walsh
Handling the Sick, The Women of St. Luke's and the Nature of Nursing,
1892-1937
Arlene Keeling
Blurring the Boundaties Between Medicine and Nursing: Coronary Care
Nursing, circa the 1960s
~2003~
Geertje Boschma
The Rise of Mental Health Nursing:
A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums 1890-1920
Carol Helmstadter
Early Nurse Reform in Nineteenth Century London:
A Doctor Driven Phenomenon
~2002~
Ellen Murphy and Laurie Glass
AORN Emergence and Growth
Elaine S. Marshall and Barbra Mann Wall
Religion Gender and Autonomy - A Comparison of Two Religious Women's
Groups in Nursing and Hospitals in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries
~2001~
Patricia D'Antonio
Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United
States
Johns Hopkins University Press
~2000~
Mary T. Sarnecky, RN, PhD
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
~1999~
Elizabeth M. Norman
We Band of Angels
New York: Random House.
~1998~
Julie Fairman and Joan Lynaugh
Critical Care Nursing: A History
Philadelphia, Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press.
~1997~
Susan Smith
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired:
Black Women's Health Activism on America, 1890-1950
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
~1996~
Michael Calabria & Janet Macrae (Eds.).
Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
~1995~
Sandra Lewenson
Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage and Feminism in America, 1873-1920
New York: National League for Nursing.
~1993~
Barbara Bates
Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938
Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania.
~1991~
Diane Hamilton
The Cost of Caring:
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Visiting Nurse Service,
1909-1953
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 63, 414-434.
~1990~
Darlene Clark Hines
Black Women in White:
Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1955
Indianapolis: University of Indiana.
~1989~
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Public Health Nursing: In sickness or in health?
American Journal of Public Health 75(10)1155-1161.
~1988~
Ellen Baer
"A Cooperative Venture" in Pursuit of Professional Status:
A Research Journal for Nursing
Nursing Research, 36 (10), 18-25.
~1987~
Susan Reverby
Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing
New York: Cambridge University.

M. Adelaide Nutting
Award
~2009~
Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN
Catholic Sister Nurses in Selma, Alabama, 1940-1972
~2008~
Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, FAAN, RN
Nurses--and Wives and Mothers: Women and the Latter-Day Saints Training School's Class of 1919
~2007~
Carrie Howse
The ultimate destination for all nursing
~2006~
Jean Whelan
A Necessity in the Nursing World: The Chicago Nurses Professional
Registry, 1913-1950

Post-Doctoral Research
Award to Honor The Cadet Nurse Corps
~2007~
Karen C. Flynn
"Crossing borders"
~2005~
Dr Carrie Howse BEd(Hons) MA PhD
Compare and Contrast the Instructive District Nursing Association
of Boston with the English System on which it is based

Society for Nursing
History Post-doctoral Research Award
~2003~
Patricia D'Antonio RN PhD
Who Is a Nurse?
The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Southern Experience
Donald Smith RN PhD
A Lived Study Of Military Nurses During the Persian Gulf War
Mary Tarbox RN EdD
Photographic Documentation Of Visiting Nurses
~2002~
Barbara Mann Wall
Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and The Hospital Marketplace
1865-1930
~2001~
Jean Whelan
The Eight Hour Day:
The Campaign to Reduce the Working Hours of registered nurses 1930-1950
~2000~
Tom Olson
Voices of Diversity, Healing and Care: Oral Histories of Hawaii Nurses
~1999~
Janet Colaizzi
The History of Psychiatric Nursing at
Eastern State Hospital, Williamsburg VA, 1900 to present

Cadet Nurse Corps Award
~2002~
Thelma Robinson
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