{"id":2818,"date":"2018-07-09T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2018-07-09T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:49:48","slug":"dawn-peterson-receives-georgia-author-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/07\/09\/dawn-peterson-receives-georgia-author-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Peterson Receives Georgia Author of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Assistant Professor of History <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/peterson-dawn.html\">Dawn Peterson<\/a> for being named the 54th Annual Georgia Author of the Year in the category of History\/Biography. Peterson received the prize for her monograph\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737556\">Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2017). The award committee offered the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authoroftheyear.org\/news\/2018-gaya-judge-remarks\/\">appraisal<\/a> of Peterson&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Indians in the Family<\/em>\u00a0is an important and compelling history that explores the adoption of Native American youth by whites during the period of antebellum expansion, unveiling how Natives, and the whites who ultimately sought to displace them, used adoption to achieve divergent agendas. Peterson\u2019s eloquent account draws upon archival records to piece together the various motives that inspired this phenomenon.\u00a0<em>Indians in the Family\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0readers will find stories about whites who adopted Native children, and Native families and communities\u2014stories that uniquely illuminate how \u201cfamily,\u201d nation-building, race-making, slavery, resistance, and expansion, factor in this this little-known chapter in America\u2019s history. In the end, Peterson concludes, \u201cFor U.S. whites, the politics of adoption in post-Revolutionary North America was a family story that sought to mask the violence of U.S. territorial expansion, Indian dispossession, and African American servitude\u201d while \u201cFor Native people, the placement of children within white homes was a way to support indigenous families and maintain indigenous sovereignty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read about other Georgia Author of the Year award winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authoroftheyear.org\/news\/54th-annual-georgia-author-of-the-year-awards-2018-winners-finalists-and-honorable-mention\/\">here<\/a>. Also check out a <a href=\"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/22\/new-books-series-q-a-with-dawn-peterson-about-indians-in-the-family\/\">recent interview<\/a> Peterson gave for the History Department website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Assistant Professor of History Dawn Peterson for being named the 54th Annual Georgia Author of the Year in the category of History\/Biography. Peterson received the prize for her monograph\u00a0Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2017). The award committee offered the following appraisal of Peterson&#8217;s work: Indians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,18,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty","category-publications","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}