Historian Michael Magliari Receives Award for Article
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Sept. 9, 2005
Kathleen McPartland
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Historian Michael Magliari Receives Award for Article
Michael Magliari, professor of history, California State University, Chico, has received the 2005 Ray Allen Billington Award from the Western History Association (WHA) for his article “Free Soil, Unfree Labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the Binding of Indian Workers in California, 1850-1867.”
Magliari’s essay was published in the August 2004 issue of the Pacific Historical Review. The Billington Prize is awarded each year by the WHA to honor the best article published in any journal other than the WHA’s own Western Historical Quarterly.
The award of $400 will be presented at the annual WHA conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. in October.
Magliari has been at CSU, Chico since 1990. He received his PhD in 1992 from the University of California at Davis. His areas of specialization are California history and the American West. In addition to his teaching and research, he is the director of the History Department’s Certificate in Public History Program. He created the program in 1993 and teaches its two core research seminars: the Archival Research Seminar and Introduction to Public History.
Magliari published “John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900″ (Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003) with co-author Michael J. Gillis. The book is now available in paperback.
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