LaFeber

Walter LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University History Professor Emeritus and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow, has been selected a winner of the American Historical Association’s 2013 Award for Scholarly Distinction. The annual awards honor senior historians in the United States for lifetime achievement in the discipline.

LaFeber received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1959 and taught at Cornell thereafter, becoming professor emeritus in 2006.

The American Historical Association writes, LaFeber “is one of the scholars who re-invented the study of American foreign relations in the 1960s: not only transforming many specific debates, but lastingly changing our sense of what this field could be. An exceptionally visible and valuable public intellectual, Professor LaFeber has managed to reach broad audiences without sacrificing academic rigor.”

The 14,000-member American Historical Association was founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies. The prize will be presented in Washington, D.C., Jan. 2-5, 2014.