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Mary Renda Wins Book Award
May 2002 This month, Mary Renda, associate professor of American Studies and History, was awarded the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940 (2001).
The prestigious prize, given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for a first book, recognizes distinguished research and writing by scholars of American foreign relations. In Taking Haiti, Renda draws on letters, diaries, songs, and memoirs to show how American thinking and writing about the island republic during the United States's nineteen-year occupation contributed to an emerging culture of American imperialism. Not only is the book garnering scholarly attention, but, in at least five colleges and universities around the country, Taking Haiti is now required reading. |
