Historian/Scholar Honors
To persons who have published and are respected in the academic and professional historian community
The 2026 honorees
Jack Burkert, Author of Twentieth Century Baltimore; A Native Son’s Casual History of the City on the Patapsco and longtime Baltimore Museum of Industry educator
Mary Rizzo, PhD, Author of Come and Be Shocked; Baltimore Beyond John Waters and the Wire (2020), Baltimore’s Black Arts Then & Now (2026), and co-founder of the Chicory Revitalization Project
Linda Shopes, Nationally-renowned Oral Historian and Co-Editor of The Baltimore Book (1991) and Oral History and Public Memories (2008)
Past honorees, in alphabetical order
José F. Anderson (2023)
Jean H. Baker (2007)
Joseph Balkoski (2013)
Baltimore’s Historic Laurel Cemetery Project (2025)
Stanley F. Battle (2005)
Howell S. Baum (2013)
Randall Beirne (2006)
Jane Berger (2024)
David S. Bogen (2017)
Taylor Branch (2004)
James Bready (2012)
John R. Breihan (2010)
Christopher Brown (2017)
Lawrence T. Brown (2022)
Robert J. Brugger (2004)
Suzanne Ellery Chappelle (2003)
Ralph Clayton (2019)
Robert I. (Ric) Cottom (2009)
Matthew Crenson (2018)
Josh S. Cutler (2020)
Amy Davis (2022)
Jed Dietz (2014)
Louis S. Diggs (2009)
James Dilts (2007)
Elaine Eff (2014)
William V. Elder, III (2004)
Jessica Elfenbein (2008)
Charles Fecher (2012)
Elizabeth Fee (2016)
Jerome R. Garitee (2015)
Larry Gibson (2019)
Eric L. Goldstein (2019)
Dennis Patrick Halpin (2020)
Kara Mae Harris (2025)
Mary Ellen Hayward (2007)
Robert K. Headley (2023)
Antonia Hylton (2025)
Martha S. Jones (2020)
Robert C. Keith (2011)
Adam Malka (2023)
Roland McConnell (2004)
John McGrain (2012)
Philip J. Merrill (2021)
Charles Mitchell (2018)
Teresa Moyer (2024)
Francis P. O'Neill (2010)
Sherry Olson (2006)
Ed Orser (2007)
Edward C. Papenfuse (2011)
E. Evans Paull (2023)
Antero Pietila (2010)
Garrett Power (2014)
Deborah Rudacille (2015)
Mary P. Ryan (2016)
Gilbert Sandler (2004)
Hon. James F. Schneider (2006)
Scott Shane (2024)
Scott S. Sheads (2005)
Frank R. Shivers, Jr. (2003)
Colin Fraser Smith (2011)
David Taft Terry (2021)
Deborah R. Weiner (2019)
