Dr. Joe P. Dunn Receives the Daniel Hollis Award
At the South Carolina History Conference, held March 1, 2025, at Francis Marion University, Joe Dunn was awarded the prestigious Daniel Hollis Prize (named for the preeminent scholar of South Carolina history) for the best article published in the last two years in the Journal of the South Carolina Historical Association. The citation about his article, “History Must be Kept Alive…Lest We Forget”: The 1969 and 1970 Voorhees College Student Protests, stated: “Your research into a little-known series of events at Voorhees College in 1969 and 1970 offers a new and important insight into the history of South Carolina education during this tumultuous period. In addition, we find your nuanced examination of the various perspectives and motivations in the student protests adds a new chapter into our understanding of race and class.”
At the conference this year, Joe presented his paper “Two Palmetto Persians: When H.R.H. Princess Fatemeh, Sister of the Shah of Iran, and the Future Pioneer Woman in the Shah’s Administration Attended Converse College,” and he was chair and discussant for another session. He and Dr. Edward Woodfin took six Converse students to the conference where they did poster presentations on their Senior Seminar projects.
After a four-week series of presentations on Middle East Crises at the Wofford Continuing Education Program in January, Joe’s immediate scholarly activity includes a paper, “Kok Ksor: Montagnard Warrior to International Peace Activist” at Texas Tech’s Vietnam War Center Conference: “The End of the Vietnam War, 1975.” Also in remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, he will speak on the topic at the South Carolina History Museum’s Vietnam War exhibit in Columbia.
His article on “Administrators Who Fail” will appear in the next two months in Inside Higher Education, and his article “Protest in the Heartland: The Spring 1968 Incident at Southeast Missouri State College,” will appear in Missouri Historical Review in June
As Dr. Dunn explained, “this is what we do as teachers and scholars. It is what keeps me intellectually alive.”