Dr. Walker Honored with the Gladys L. Baker Award
Dr. Melissa Walker, George Dean Johnson, Jr. Professor of History Emerita was awarded the prestigious Gladys L. Baker Award for lifetime achievement in the field of agricultural history from the Agricultural History Society.
This award is named for Gladys Baker, an expert in agricultural policy and history and head of the USDA’s War Records Department when it was created in 1942. The Agricultural History Society established the Gladys Baker Award in 2009 and presented the first award in 2010.
Dr. Walker is an award-winning teacher and scholar. She was the first faculty member at Converse to hold the George Dean Johnson, Jr. Chair in History. In recognition of her work at Converse, she received the O’Herron Award for Faculty Excellence in 2002 and the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for outstanding teaching at Converse in 2001 as well as the Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award in 2007. In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named her the South Carolina Professor of the Year. Dr. Walker retired from Converse in May 2017.
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