Posted on March 2, 2004 at 10:04 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) history professor Harriet E. Amos Doss, Ph.D., has received the John F. Ramsey Award of Merit from the Alabama Association of Historians.

The award was established to recognize singular instances of superior, significant and sustained contributions to the teaching and study of history, the historian profession, or superior accomplishments in teaching, research and in other activities that strengthen the profession or the public’s understanding and appreciation of history. Doss received the award during the Alabama Association of Historians’ annual meeting in Enterprise on February 6.

Doss specializes in United States history, 1815-1877 and Southern history. She is a former president of the Alabama Association of Historians and of the Alabama Historical Association. She is a member of the Southern Historical Association’s executive council.

Doss is a native of Mobile. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Agnes Scott College in 1972 and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Emory University in 1975 and 1976 respectively. She has been a member of the UAB Department of History since 1978.