News Release
October 2005
Bethlehem, Pa., October 4, 2005—Allison McBride (Forest City, Pa.),
a member of the Class of 2005 who graduated with Honors in history, has won the annual
Harold K. Schneider Prize for best undergraduate paper from the Society for Economic
Anthropology. McBride will receive a cash award, publication of her monograph, and an
invitation to present her paper at the society’s 2006 meeting at the University
of California at Berkeley.
Slightly abridged but essentially unchanged from her Honors project, her
paper is called “Women Industrial Workers and Community Development Organizations
in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Region: A Study of the Centro de Orientación
de la Mujer Obrera and La Mujer Obrera.” Her advisor was Dr. Karen
Y. Morrison, assistant professor of history (Caribbean and Latin American history).
McBride is currently working in Philadelphia for the Benjamin Franklin
Tercentenary, a private, non-profit alliance created in 2000 to mark the 300th anniversary
of Franklin’s birth in 2006. Its five member organizations are the American Philosophical
Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, the Franklin
Institute, and the Art Museum of Philadelphia. Rosalind Remer, former associate professor
of history at Moravian, is executive director of the Tercentenary, overseeing local,
federal, and international initiatives.
McBride is a writer and translator for the Tercentenary project. The centerpiece
of the event is Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, a traveling
exhibit that opens December 15 at the National Constitution Center and then goes to St.
Louis, Denver, Houston, Atlanta, and finally Paris in 2008. McBride helped translate
major parts of the exhibit texts into Spanish for Latino visitors. She also is one of
three authors of a teachers’ guide to the exhibit
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts college
located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its foundations to 1742, it is recognized
as America’s sixth oldest college. Visit the website at www.moravian.edu.
