Larry Rowen Remele Award
Established by the Northern Great Plains History Conference to honor the memory of Larry Rowen Remele, this award is presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the betterment of the conference. Remele, a long-time editor of North Dakota History, worked energetically to promote and enhance the conference and was serving as council chair at the time of his premature death in 1988.
This year’s recipient of the Larry Rowen Remele Award is Barbara Handy-Marchello
Dr. Handy-Marchello served as the inaugural WHIG (Women’s History Interest Group) representative on the NPGHC Council. She presented her first paper at the NGPHC in the 1980s when a graduate student and since then, has presented, chaired, and commented on many panels. She earned her M.A. degree from North Dakota State University and a Ph.D. from University of Iowa, both in history. Handy-Marchello has published numerous articles and the landmark and prize-winning Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930 (Minnesota Historical Society Press). She retired from the University of North Dakota in 2006, after teaching the history of the American West and women’s history for 15 years. In “retirement,” she served on a committee that created a new digitally dependent and delivered North Dakota Studies curriculum for the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Handy-Marchello, along with several prominent women historians and editors of regional history journals, was a central figure in founding WHIG in 2001, and she played a leadership role in WHIG’s predecessor organization, WHOM (Women Historians of the Midwest). Both groups have sponsored panels on the histories of women, gender, and sexuality at the annual NGPHC.
Past Recipients of the Larry Rowen Remele award:
1989: D. Jerome Tweton
1990: Archer Jones
1991: Lawrence H. Larsen
1992: James M. Skinner
1993: William E. Lass
1994: William C. Pratt
1995: R. Alton Lee
1996: David B. Danbom
1997: Hans Burmeister
1998: Dana Miller
1999: Malcolm Muir, Jr.
2000: Nancy Tyson Koupal
2001: Harl A. Dalstrom
2002: J. Michael McCormack
2003: Charles M. Barber
2004: Janet Daley
2005: Edward Pluth
2006: Gerald Anderson
2007: Robert C. Hilderband
2008: Frank E. Vyzralek
2009: Joseph C. Fitzharris
2010: James Naylor
2011: Kathleen K. Davison
2012: Lori Ann Lahlum
2013: Anne Kaplan
2014: Kimberly K. Porter
2015: Gordon L. Iseminger
2016: Mark Harvey
2017: Perry Hornbacher
2018: Betsy Glade
2019: Terrence Lindell
2021: Robert J. Gough
2022: Steven J. Bucklin
2023: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton
2023: Oscar B. Chamberlain