UCA professor wins national prize for dissertation

Dr. Michael Rosenow, assistant professor of history at UCA, is the winner of the 2009 Herbert G. Gutman Prize for the outstanding dissertation in U.S. labor and working-class history. The annual award is given by the Labor and Working Class History Association, and it includes a cash prize and a publishing contract for the dissertation manuscript with the University of Illinois Press.

Rosenow joined the UCA history faculty in August 2008, replacing Dr. Harry Readnour, as a professor of nineteenth-century American history. His prize-winning dissertation was entitled, “Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among United States Workers, 1877-1910,” which he completed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.