For years, Dr. Bodo Nischan (Professor of History, East Carolina University) served the Society as secretary. Following his untimely death due to cancer, the Society decided to honor his service to SRR and the scholarly community at large through the creation of the Bodo Nischan Award for Scholarship, Civility, and Service. The award is offered every other year on even numbered years. To learn more about Dr. Nischan you may read a eulogy given at the 2002 Plenary Session of the Society at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in San Antonio, Texas by then SRR President Dr. Robin Barnes.
Previous Nischan Award winners:
2002 -- Dr. Charles Nauert, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri -- Columbia.
2004 -- Dr. Miriam Usher Chrisman, Professor Emerita of History, University of Massachusetts -- Amherst.
2006 -- Dr. Helen Nader, Professor Emerita of History, University of Arizona.