The Bela Kornitzer Award was established in 1992 by Alicia Karpati and her late husband, George Karpati, in honor of Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother. The Award recognizes the achievements in Hungary and in the United States of Hungarian-born journalist and author Bela Kornitzer (1910-1964). Recent non-fiction books published by Drew Faculty and Alumni are considered for the prize every two years. In 2003, the endowment was increased to provide for separate Faculty and Alumni awards. The award winners are traditionally announced at the biennial January Friends of the Library Gala.
Award Recipients
1995 Professor Karen McCarthy Brown | 2008 Associate Professor of Sociology Caitlin Killian Dr. Martin Foys, C’90 |
1997 Professor Janet Handler Burstein | |
2000 Professor Johannes Morsink | 2010 Associate Professor of History Sharon Sundue Dr. Robert McParland, CSGS ‘05 |
2002 Professor Jonathan Rose | |
2004 Professor Catherine Keller Dr. Brian Regal, GSGS Ph.D. ’01, MA ‘96 | 2012 Assistant Professor of Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History, Edward Baring Dr. Linda E. Connors (C ’64) |
2006 Assistant Professor of History C. Wyatt Evans The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy University of Kansas Press, 2004Dr. J. Storrs Hall, C’76 Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology? Prometheus Books, 2005 | 2016 Christopher Klein C’94 |
Bela Kornitzer’s papers, books, and other archival materials are housed among the Drew University Library’s Special Collections. See https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/Bela+Kornitzer+Papers for an overview. To view a past exhibit of the author’s work, see https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/Bela+Kornitzer%27s+Great+American+Heritage.