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ERSKINE COLLEGE HISTORY PROFESSOR WINS DISSERTATION PRIZE

Dr. Sandra Chaney, Assistant Professor of History at Erskine College, was recently selected as one of two joint winners of the 1997 dissertation prize awarded by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Her dissertation was entitled "Visions and Revisions of Nature: From the Protection of Nature to Invention of the Environment in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1975."

A total of 14 dissertations nominated by supervisors from all over the United States and Canada were evaluated by a committee consisting of Professors Vernon Lidtke (The Johns Hopkins University), Kathleen Conzen (University of Chicago) and Jonathan Petropoulos (Loyola College in Maryland). The committee came to their two top rankings independently and found that they were unanimous.

Chaney has been asked to make a presentation at the annual symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute this November in Washington, and she plans to accept the invitation.

Erskine was founded in 1839 by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and is the oldest four-year church-related college in South Carolina.

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