2004 Joel Palmer Award

“ 'Does Portland Need a Homophile Society?' Gay Culture and Activism in the Rose City between World War II and Stonewall”
by Peter Boag
OHQ 105:1, Spring 2004
   Peter Boag, a native of Portland, is Professor of History and Senior Scholar in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his B.A. at the University of Portland in 1983 and his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon in 1988. He is the author of Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (University of California Press, 2003) and Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (University of California Press, 1992).

“ 'As Truly American as Your Son': Voicing Opposition to Internment in Three West Coast Cities"
by Ellen Eisenberg
OHQ 104:4, Winter 2003
   Ellen Eisenberg has taught at Willamette University since 1990 and was recently named the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History. She is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882–1920 (Syracuse University Press, 1995), and her articles on western Jewish communities have appeared in American Jewish History and Journal of American Ethnic History. She recently published an essay on the responses of Jewish communities in California to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans in California Jews (Brandeis University Press, 2003).

“Master of the Seas? Herbert Hoover and the Western Fisheries”
by Joseph E. Taylor III
OHQ 105:1, Spring 2004
    Joseph E. Taylor III is a Canada Research Chair in History and Geography at Simon Fraser University. His first book, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (University of Washington Press, 1999), won the George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in environmental history. He is currently writing a history of Yosemite rock climbing and conducting research for a series of studies on the fisheries of the northeast Pacific.

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