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May 1, 2006 Volume 30, Issue 32 |
Archivist named Dunbar Rowland winner
Mississippi State faculty member Michael Ballard is the winner of the 2006 Dunbar Rowland Award, presented annually by the Mississippi Historical Society.
The award recognizes major contributions to the study and interpretation of Mississippi history and memorializes Dunbar Rowland, first director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Ballard, university archivist, has published nine books, in addition to dozens of scholarly articles and book reviews. His books, A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy, Pemberton: A Biography, and Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, all were History Book Club selections. Pemberton was chosen by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters as the best non-fiction book by a Mississippi author in 1991.
Ballard has been serving successively as associate university archivist, university archivist, and university archivist and coordinator of the Congressional Collection in Mitchell Memorial Library.