UCO history professor honored with awards of excellence

April 7, 2006

University of Central Oklahoma history professor Dr. Patricia Loughlin was recently awarded the Bass-McCasland Award for Excellence in Teaching Oklahoma History at the college/university level by the Oklahoma Heritage Association.

Loughlin’s book Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo and Alice Marriott also earned her special recognition with a Director’s Award from the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

“She was honored because of her encouragement to preserve the literary heritage of women writers in Oklahoma,” said Dr. Kenny Brown, chair of UCO’s Department of History and Geography.

“Her book brought national and regional attention to authors from our state who made prominent literary contributions to Oklahoma’s historiography.”

Hidden Treasures of the American West was also nominated as a finalist in the nonfiction category for the Oklahoma Center for the Book Award.

Loughlin is a professor of American Western History, Women’s History and Modern U.S. History at the University of Central Oklahoma.

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