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Historical News and Notices Glenn T. Eskew THE ASSOCIATION The following appointees have been named to the SHA's Membership Committee for 2021: Kelly Kennington, Auburn University, chair; Erik B. Alexander, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University; Shannon Eaves, College of Charleston; Robert Elder, Baylor University; Kristen Epps, Kansas State University; Andrew Fialka, Middle Tennessee State University; Lisa Tendrich Frank, independent scholar; Timothy Fritz, Mount St. Mary's University; Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University; Darren E. Grem, University of Mississippi; Luke E. Harlow, University of Tennessee; Mark D. Hersey, Mississippi State University; Kelly Houston Jones, Arkansas Tech University; Andrew W. Kahrl, University of Virginia; Allison Madar, University of Oregon; Adam Malka, University of Oklahoma; Noeleen McIlvenna, Wright State University; Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara; Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., Augusta University; K. Stephen Prince, University of South Florida; Ryan A. Quintana, Wellesley College; Selena Sanderfer Doss, Western Kentucky University; Whitney N. Stewart, University of Texas at Dallas; Felicity Turner, Georgia Southern University; and Emily West, University of Reading. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) has announced that the 2020 Fishel-Calhoun Prize is awarded to Caroline Grego, for her article "Black Autonomy, Red Cross Recovery, and White Backlash after the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893," which appeared in the November 2019 issue of the Journal of Southern History. The Fishel-Calhoun Prize recognizes the best article written by an emerging scholar and published in the previous two years that deals with any aspect of United States history between 1865 and 1917. For information about SHGAPE, please visit https://www.shgape.org. The Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is now accepting applications for Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Research Fellowships. These fellowships are intended to assist scholars in conducting on-site research specifically in the GHS Research Center collections, including manuscripts, photographs, architectural drawings, and rare and non-rare books, as well as maps, portraits, and artifacts. Research Fellowships will support scholars from outside the Savannah area engaged in graduate-level, postdoctoral, or independent research. Up to $5,000 will be awarded each cycle, with one to five Research Fellows in each award cycle. The research is expected to lead to a major piece of scholarly work such as a dissertation, a book, an article in a refereed scholarly journal, a chapter in an edited collection, or an academic paper presented at a scholarly conference. For eligibility and application requirements, please visit https://georgiahistory.com/about-ghs/vincent-j-dooley-distinguished-fellows-program/research-fellows. The deadline for applications is January 8, 2021. [End Page 948] OBITUARY Georgia State University (GSU) professor emerita Jacqueline Anne Rouse died at the age of seventy on May 12, 2020, from complications of pneumonia after a battle with cancer. One of the nation's leading scholars of black women's history, Dr. Rouse published to great acclaim on the topic and received accolades for her groundbreaking work on such leading figures as Margaret Murray Washington, Lugenia Burns Hope, and Septima P. Clark. In recognition of her scholarship and service, Dr. Rouse received the Founding Mothers/ Presidential Award of the Southern Association for Women Historians in 2016, and she was an honoree at Cross-Generational Dialogues in Black Women's History, sponsored by the Michigan State University Comparative Black History Program in 2015. Born February 1, 1950, a native of Virginia with a proud family history of independent black landowners in the rural Piedmont, Dr. Rouse earned her bachelor's degree in Afro-American history from Howard University in 1972, where she joined the Black Panthers. She spent several years teaching in the Department of Social Sciences at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. Upon moving to Georgia, she completed a master's degree in African American history from Atlanta University, where, for much of the 1980s, she served as an assistant editor of the Journal of Negro History under editor Alton Hornsby Jr. She briefly returned to the Washington, D.C., area, where she held an internship at the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Rouse undertook doctoral training in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University, where she completed her...