The Bela Kornitzer Award was established in 1992 by Alicia Karpati and her late husband, George Karpati, in honor of Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother. The Award recognizes the achievements in Hungary and in the United States of Hungarian-born journalist and author Bela Kornitzer (1910-1964). Recent non-fiction books published by Drew Faculty and Alumni are considered for the prize every two years. In 2003, the endowment was increased to provide for separate Faculty and Alumni awards. The award winners are traditionally announced at the biennial January Friends of the Library Gala.
Award Recipients
| 1995 Professor Karen McCarthy Brown Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn University of California Press, 19911997 Professor Janet Handler Burstein Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women University of Illinois Press, 19962000 Professor Johannes Morsink The University Declaration of Human Rights, Drafting and Intent University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 2002
2004 Dr. Brian Regal, GSGS Ph.D. ’01, MA ‘96
2006 Dr. J. Storrs Hall, C’76 |
2008 Associate Professor of Sociology Caitlin Killian North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity Stanford University Press, 2006Dr. Martin Foys, C’90 Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print University Press of Florida, 2007 2010 Dr. Robert McParland, CSGS ‘05
2012 Dr. Linda E. Connors (C ’64)
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Bela Kornitzer’s papers, books, and other archival materials are housed among the Drew University Library’s Special Collections. See https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/Bela+Kornitzer+Papers for an overview. To view a past exhibit of the author’s work, see https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/Bela+Kornitzer%27s+Great+American+Heritage.