Mosse Receives AHA Award

Joining the circle of distinguished senior historians honored with an American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction is George Mosse, emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

At a ceremony last month, AHA president-elect Joyce Appleby noted that although Mosse has been retired for almost a decade, he continues to teach at such respected institutions as Cornell and Cambridge universities.

Specializing in European intellectual and cultural history, Mosse began his career at the University of Iowa in 1945. He took a position at Wisconsin 10 years later and retired in 1988. He has served as a scholar in residence at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983. A distinguished teacher as well as scholar, Mosse received the E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching in 1970.