Larry Rowen Remele Award

Larry Rowen Remele

Larry Rowen Remele

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

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