Professor wins award for essay about Sandoz book
A Chadron State College professor has won an award for an essay that explores a book by northwest Nebraska’s most prominent author.
The 2011 Frederick C. Luebke Award for outstanding regional scholarship was awarded to Dr. Kathy Bahr, CSC professor of English, for her essay, "Collateral Damage: Veterans and Domestic Violence in Mari Sandoz’s ‘The Tom-Walker.’”
The Luebke prize is awarded each year for the best article published in the Great Plains Quarterly.
Bahr’s essay, which appeared in the spring 2010 edition of the journal, explores incidents of domestic abuse of three war veterans featured in the book. The men served in conflicts ranging from the Civil War to World War II and faced many challenges after returning to the Great Plains, including hostility from U.S. civilians and bouts with what now would be diagnosed as post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Bahr wrote that Sandoz had varying degrees of success while trying to connect the veterans’ “dysfunctional and abusive family relationships with a growing national psychosis of domestic violence precipitated by war.”
The Frederick C. Luebke Award, named for the Great Plains Quarterly’s founder, includes a cash stipend of $250. The Quarterly is edited and published by faculty of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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