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PAST RECIPIENTS:
WHA-HUNTINGTON LIBRARY MARTIN RIDGE FELLOWSHIP
2024 | Jamey Jesperson, “Re-Storying Trans Indigenous Contact in the Pacific Northwest, 1774-1880”
2023 | Kai Werner, “A Thousand Approaches to the Kingdom of New Mexico: Contesting Geographies in the Greater Southwest”
2022 | Brian Wright, Princeton University, "Conquest on Paper: Archives and the American West"
2021 | Nicole Rae Batten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Beyond Monuments: The Built Environment of Las Vegas and Los Angeles in the Twentieth Century"
2020 | Naomi Sussman, Yale University, "Between the River and the Sea: Cahuilla and Cupeño History in California's Long Nineteenth Century"
2019 | Yvette Saavedra, University of Oregon, "Living La Mala Vida: Transgressive Femininities, Morality, and Nationalism in Mexican California, 1810-1850"
2018 | William J. Cowan, University of Southern California, "The Pacific Slope Superstorms of 1861-1862"
2017 | Mette Flynt, University of Oklahoma, "Reborn on Skis: Winter Recreation and the Transformation of the Wasatch Front, 1915-2002"
2016 | Justin Gage, University of Arkansas
2015 | Jeannette Alden Estruth, New York University
2014 | Lawrence H. Kessler, Temple University
2013 | Daniel Lynch, University of California, Los Angeles
2012 | Sarah Seekatz, University of California, Riverside, "Blind Date: The Cultivation of an Arabian Fantasy in the Deserts of Southern California"
2011 | Amy Jin Johnson, Brown University
2010 | Juliette Maiorana, University of California, San Diego, "Mixed American Families: Mining Monopolies, U.S. Engineers, y Mexicanas en la Frontera, 1890-1965"
2009 | Elaine Marie Nelson, University of New Mexico
2008 | Brian Frehner, Oklahoma State University
2007 | Benjamin L. Madley, Yale University, "American Genocide: The Northern California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873"
2006 | Kevin Leonard, Western Washington University, "African Americans and the Transformation of the Urban Environment in Los Angeles, 1946-1965"
2005 | Lissa Wadewitz, Stanford University, "The Nature of Borders: Salmon and Boundaries in the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin"
2004 | Lawrence Culver, Utah State University, "The Island, the Oasis, and the City: Santa Catalina, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Southern California's Shaping of American Life and Leisure"
2003 | Stacy Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2002 | Robin S. Conner, Emory University
2001 | Omar Valerio-Jimenez, University of California, Los Angeles
2000 | Cathleen D. Cahill, University of Chicago
1999 | Richard Stillson, Johns Hopkins University
BACKGROUND:
MARTIN RIDGE
Martin Ridge (1923-2003) was born in Chicago on May 7, 1923. He served two years in the U.S. Merchant Marines after he received his bachelor’s degree at the Chicago Teachers College in 1943. Dr. Ridge pursued his Ph.D. at Northwestern University where he studied immigration and frontier history with Franklin D. Scott and Ray Allen Billington. Choosing to focus on western history, he graduated with his doctorate in 1951. The University of Chicago Press published Dr. Ridge’s first book, Ignatius Donnelly: Portrait of a Politician, in 1962. He received best book awards from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) and Phi Alpha Theta for his meticulous work on Donnelly.
Dr. Ridge’s teaching career included positions at Westminster College, San Diego State College, Indiana University, and California Institute of Technology. In addition to eleven years of teaching in Indiana, Dr. Ridge served as the editor of the Journal of American History. In 1977 he moved to California to become the director of research at The Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino. Dr. Ridge retired from the director’s position in 1993 but continued to serve the library as a senior research associate. In 1995 he retired from his teaching position at Cal Tech.
Dr. Ridge wrote or edited eighteen books and several essays. He received Guggenheim, Huntington Library, Newberry Library, and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships in addition to article awards. Dr. Ridge was active in many academic organizations including the Organization of American Historians and the Western Association of Women’s Historians. He was the president of the Historical Society of Southern California (1994-1999) and president of the PCB-AHA 1995).
Dr. Ridge was a founder of the Western History Association and remained an active member for over forty years. He was on the council, nominating committee, award committees, and served the WHA as the 26th President in 1986-1987.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Ridge was deeply committed to the historical profession, especially in his work with students and younger historians who researched the frontier and western history. In addition to directing numerous doctoral dissertations, Dr. Ridge emphasized the importance of being involved in a community of scholars. Martin Ridge died on September 22, 2003, in Pasadena, California.
Authored by Elaine Marie Nelson, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Sources: Susan Wladaver-Morgan, “In Memoriam: Martin Ridge,” Perspectives, published by the American Historical Association, March 2004; Walter Nugent and Suellen Hoye, “Martin Ridge, 1923-2003: In Memoriam,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, February 2004; Annette Atkins, “A Curious Westerner: Martin Ridge, 1923-2003," Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 35, No., Spring 2004.
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