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Marcus B. Christian Memorial Prize

 

Marcus Christian Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

Marcus B. Christian, the renaissance man, climaxed the last seven years of his life as a very popular lecturer in English and History at UNO. A self-taught, printer, itinerant historian and poet, Christian's lack of formal letters limited his brilliant career to self published historical pieces and poems and a massive unpublished History of the Negro in Louisiana. While his earlier contributions to The Jounal of Negro History and Opportunity attested to his scholarly ability, his late “discovery” resulted from a guest appearance at UNO's black history celebration in 1968. Students and faculty alike urged the university to add him to its faculty. He was hired on a part-time basis for one year, but his highly popular courses on African Americans in Louisiana and the Harlem Renaissance continued until 1976, when his teaching career literally ended when he collapsed in his classroom, followed a few days later by his death.

The history department faculty select the award-winning paper each spring semester.

 

Year
Past Recipients
2007 Rachel Wolfe
2006 Christina Patricia Horn
2005 Wallis Olivia Windsor
2004 Henry Louis Conravey III
2003 Henry Louis Conravey III
2002 Melissa Lynn Comardelle
2001 David Gerard Ebert
2000 Leigh Anne Plasse
1999 Cornelia M. O’Sullivan
1998 Timothy Edward Hollis
1997 Wayne A. Jones
1996 Jake Andrew Palumbo
1995 Laura Lillian Sanford
1994 Deborah M. Willoughby
1993 Kellie Claire Reilly
1991 Prakash Balan
1990 Deleen June Davidson
1989 George O’Neil Lawrence
1987 Joseph Ponseti Jr.
1986 Michele Annette Horn
1984 Markus George Klein, Jr.
1983 Emily H. Hohenschutz
1982 Jennifer L. Pendleton
1980 Deborah Lou Faust
1979 Claudia Ann Barker
1978 Gerald Joseph Lawrence
1978 Katherine Ann Martensen
1977 Reid Hardeman Mitchell
1977 Mary Elaine Wagner

 

 

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