The Humanities Council of South Carolina will honor College of Charleston Professor Ted Rosengarten by awarding him the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities. The annual award will be presented on September 30, 2010 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
Rosengarten is one of three people receiving this honor.
Ted Rosengarten was selected for his professional career of highly acclaimed research and publications devoted to race relations, Holocaust studies, and environmental history. With degrees from Amherst and Harvard, Rosengarten has garnered numerous awards during his 40-year career—two National Book Awards, the Lyndhurst Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Ford Foundation grant, and the Order of the Palmetto. Among his publications are: All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, and A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life, edited with his wife, Dale Rosengarten.
Rosengarten has consulted with numerous museums, colleges, and municipalities on various projects including Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Presidio in San Francisco. He has served as a lecturer or adjunct professor at the College of Charleston, Harvard, and the University of South Carolina. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and for three years served as Assistant to the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The two other recipients of the award will be Benjamin “Bernie” Dunlap, President of Wofford College and Lynn Robertson, Executive Director of McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina.
