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Jason Memmer Does it Again!
Jason Memmer, a graduate student in the Florida Studies program, has won the LeRoy Collins Graduate Essay Prize for a second time. The award is from the Florida Historical Society for his essay, "Torah! Torah! Torah!: Pearl Harbor and the Emergence of Florida's Modern Jewish Community." The Florida Historical Society inaugurated the Collins prize in 1991 in honor of the former governor. Collins met with the society's first director, Professor Gary Mormino, in 1989 and presented Dr. Mormino with a check to endow the award. "He explained that one of his great regrets was not having the opportunity to study history and politics as an undergraduate," Mormino said. "He asked that the gift endow an award honoring the best undergraduate and graduate student paper in the field of Florida History." The undergraduate prize has gone to six students from USF St. Petersburg. Memmer is the fifth graduate student from USFSP to win the award. Jason and our own Jim Schnur are the only students to win the award twice. Congratulations, Jason! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mormino Receives Hanna Award Gary Mormino, the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History, received the Alfred J. Hanna Award from Rollins College in recognition of his contributions to the study and understanding of Florida. Congratulations, Dr. Mormino! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ricciardi wins Leland M Hawes Prize St. Petersburg, FL - Lois Ricciardi, a graduate student in the Florida Studies program, is the third USFSP student in four years to win the Leland M. Hawes Prize from the Tampa Bay History Center. The award honors the outstanding graduate essay in the field of Florida history. Congrats, Lois! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Mormino wins Best of the Bay Award Best champion of Florida History - Gary Mormino, founder of Florida Studies Program, USF St. Pete Florida Humanities Council won Best Champion of Florida Culture as well. Check out the rest of the winners via the link below. Congratulations to all! http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/page?oid=1227211
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The Freedom Riders of 2010 Take to the Road - Would you get on the bus?
Dr. Arsenault's annual Civil Rights Bus Tour hit the highway this year on June 4, 2010. It actually hit the airways, as for the first time, the USF and Stetson Freedom Riders flew from Tampa and Orlando to the first stop of Nashville, Tennessee. The evening started with a short orientation and introduction of Ernest "Rip" Patton, a real Freedom Rider, who provided personal commentary and knowledge. A viewing of "Freedom Riders", the documentary made from Dr. Arsenault's book of the same name kicked off the freedom fest and got all the riders in the spirit. Nashville played a big part in the Civil Rights fight and Rip provided an insightful walking tour of the city. Other stops along the freedom trail included Memphis, TN, Oxford, MS, Birmingham, AL, Montgomery, AL, Selma, AL and Anniston, AL. Each city provided its own chapter to the Civil Rights story. The outcome of all this busing around? Some exhausted but enlightened students. This was a life-changing event for all. All of the people, places, dates and events that were presented combined to tell the whole frightening and maddening, yet hopeful, story that is the Civil Rights saga. Special thanks go out to Dr. Arsenault, Dr. Bickel, Dr. Sapp, Tammy Briant and Stan the Camera Man.
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A Current Florida Studies Student and a Florida Studies Grad in the Spotlight
Student Wins Florida History Award Jason Memmer, a graduate student in the Florida Studies program, won the LeRoy Collins Graduate Essay Prize from the Florida Historical Society for his essay, "From Conversos to Congress: A Political History of Florida's Jewish Community." The Florida Historical Society inaugurated the Collins prize in 1991 in honor of the former governor. Collins met with the society's first director, Professor Gary Mormino, in 1989 and presented Mormino with a check to endow the award. "He explained that one of his great regrets was not having the opportunity to study history and politics as an undergraduate," Mormino said. "He asked that the gift endow an award honoring the best undergraduate and graduate student paper in the field of Florida History." The undergraduate prize has gone to six students from USF St. Petersburg. Memmer is the fifth graduate student from USFSP to win the award.
Three Grads Start PhD Programs in Fall
(St. Petersburg, Fla.) May 18, 2010 - Three members of USF St. Petersburg's class of 2010 will start PhD programs in the fall; Ben Hardisty heads to the University of Utah, Peyton Jones will stay in the southeast and study at Tulane University and Alanna Lecher will go to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Their research topics range from mathematical biology to civil rights history.
Peyton Jones Jones earned a four-year fellowship for a PhD in history at Tulane University. He graduated this month with a master's degree in Florida Studies. At Tulane, Jones will study southern and civil rights history. His interests include social history and the theoretical foundations of history. As a graduate assistant and top student in the Florida studies program, Jones conducted research for Professor Ray Arsenault's recent book on the famous African-American opera singer Marian Anderson and assisted with other projects, including collaborations with the Florida Humanities Council. He was a recipient of the Pinellas County Historical Society Scholarship and participated in their annual conferences.
Congratulations to Jason and Peyton!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walking Tour of Ybor City with Dr. Gary Mormino The digital resources available for this collection are MPEG 4 streaming video clips. There are currently 14 clips available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "St. Petersburg's Unique Identity" Saint Petersburg Preservation will hold a Forum on "St. Petersburg's Unique Identity" on Monday, October 26, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, at the St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 Second Avenue, NE on the approach to the Pier. Speakers will include Dr. Ray Arsenault, author of St. Petersburg & the Florida Dream; Dr. Gary Mormino, author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams; and Dr. Will Michaels, President of St. Petersburg Preservation and lecturer on St. Petersburg History at St. Petersburg College. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 09, 2009 Ray Arsenault to moderate Sept. 23 candidate forum at Lakewood High Hosted by South Pinellas Area Neighborhoods (SPAN), a working collaboration between community groups that represent the interests of St Petersburg and Pinellas County’s southernmost neighborhoods. We represent nearly 10,000 households and are dedicated to improving and promoting neighborhood spirit, economic development and a positive image for the area south of Lake Maggiore by representing our neighborhoods through unified communications.The neighborhoods hosting are: Lakewood Estates Civic Association Greater Pinellas Point Civic Association Coquina Key Neighborhood Association Maximo Moorings Civic Association Broadwater Civic Association Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and Co-Director of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where he has taught since 1980. A specialist in the political, social, and environmental history of the American South, he is author of the well respected and authoritative book detailing the history of our community, St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GARY R. MORMINO Gary Mormino is the most prolific writer of Florida history who is still working as a full-time professor. He serves as the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of Florida History and co-director of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg where he has taught since 1977.
Mormino also is co-author of at least three books dealing with Florida's environment. Such works include The Everglades: An Environmental History (with Raymond Arsenault and David McCally (1999); Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism (with Arsenault and Stuart B. McIver) (2003); and Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast (with Arsenault and Doug Alderson) (2003). A graduate of Millikin University (B.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.), Mormino also has written extensively on immigration and urban America. In 1986, the University of Illinois published Immigrants on the Hill: Italian-Americans in St. Louis, 1882-1982. The following year the University of Illinois Press included in its inaugural Statue of Liberty Series, The immigrant world of Ybor City: Italians and their Latin neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985 (with George Pozzetta). Presently he is completing a history of World War II in Florida.
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Authors abound in Florida Studies (FSP), a graduate-level Program of Distinction at USF St. Petersburg. During 2005 - 2006 seven books were published by its faculty, students, and Fellows. Regarding this bonanza of books from FSP scholars, most striking is the breadth of the scholarship and writing that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Florida Studies,” says Gary Mormino. “This cross-fertilization is not an accident – it is what we hope for in the liberal arts. Disciplines and scholarship interact and influence each other,” he adds.