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Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, has awarded Benjamin Sperry the annual Frank R. Borchert Prize in History for "the best dissertation or thesis by a student in the history department."
Sperry is spending the current academic year at Delta State as a visiting assistant professor of history. He is scheduled to receive his Ph.D. in history from CWRU next month.
His dissertation is titled: "Caught ‘Between Their Moral and Material Selves’: Mississippi’s Elite White Moderates and Their Role in Changing Race Relations, 1945-1956."
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