Life Membership Award
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Alfred R. Roberts Memorial
Research Award -
Barbara D. Merino Award
for Excellence in Accounting History Publication - Best Paper Award
- Hourglass Award
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Innovation in Accounting
History Education Award - Life Membership Award
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Margit F. and Hanns Martin
Schoenfeld Scholarship -
Thomas J. Burns Biographical
Research Award - Vangermeersch Manuscript Award
The awarding of a Life Membership in the Academy of Accounting Historians will be based on the following criteria [1]. These criteria are not an exhaustive list but are intended to provide guidance to the Selection Committee in its deliberations and decisions:
- international profile and recognition – the individual should have a global profile and not one simply within his/her country;
- the quality, importance and originality of the individual’s research program;
- the scholar’s scope of work, publication record in various academic journals and edited volumes;
- his/her active participation in the academy (in the generic sense and not only the Academy of Accounting Historians), including contributions to the field as journal editor, editorial board member, conferences, etc.;
- the individual’s work and efforts to popularize history and accounting history, including editing and publication of works, and efforts to bring accounting history's past into the present through the publication of old documents or records or the re-publication of forgotten texts; and
- the individual’s participation in the training of doctoral students, support and mentorship of junior colleagues including those whose mother tongue is not English.
[1] Adopted unanimously at the Academy of Accounting Historians Annual General Meeting, August 2007.
Send nominations to: Academy Executive Committee at acchistory@case.edu.
Congratulations to the 2015 Recipient! Sarah A. Holmes
The Academy was honored to name Sarah A. Holmes a Life Member of the Academy for her extensive involvement with the Academy, her successful career and her support of accounting history research.
Academy Offices
2004 – 2006, Trustee
2003 – 2004, President
1994 – 2000, Treasurer
1995 – 1999, Editorial Board Member
Academy Presidency
Sarah served as president of The Academy during 2003—a year that focused on growing university archival collections and online access to the Accounting Historians Journal. In 2003, the theme of the Academy’s Research Conference was “Accountability – Pre-Post Enron: Alternative Global Views”. The conference was held on November 6-8, 2003 in Denton, Texas at the Radisson Hotel with The University of North Texas serving as host. Holmes served as an organizer of the conference along with Alan G. Mayper and Barbara D. Merino.
Academy Awards
2005 - Best Paper Award - “The Role of Accounting Practices in the Disempowerment of the Coahuiltecan Indians”, Volume 32, December issue, Sarah A. Holmes, Sandra T. Welch, Laura R. Knudson
1989 - Richard G. Vangermeersch Manuscript Award - "A Historical Analysis of Depreciation Accounting - The United States Steel Experience"
BA, Duke University, 1963
MBA, Texas A&M University, 1980
PhD, University of North Texas, 1984
East Central University - Professor and Crabtree Family Professorship in Business, and Chair, Accounting.
Texas A&M University - Professor of Accounting and Holder of the Andersen Professorship in Accounting
Past recipients of the Award:
2015 | Sarah A. Holmes |
2014 | Barbara Dubis Merino (Professor Emerita, University of North Texas) |
2013 | Edward N. Coffman (Virginia Commonwealth University) & Daniel L. Jensen (The Ohio State University) |
2012 | No Award Presented |
2011 | No Award Presented |
2010 | Thomas A. Lee (University of Alabama) |
2009 | Richard K. Fleischman (John Carroll University) & Richard Brief (New York University) |
2008 | No Award Presented |
2007 | No Award Presented |
2006 | |
2005 | Hanns Martin Schoenfeld (University of Illinois) |
2004 | Richard Vangermeersch (University of Rhode Island) |
2003 | James Don Edwards (University of Georgia) |
2002 | Esteban Hernandez-Esteve (Bank of Spain) & Maureen Berry (University of Illinois) |
2001 | Robert Gibson (Deakin University), Robert Parker (University of Exeter), David Forrester (Strathclyde University) |
2000 | |
1999 | No Award Presented |
1998 | Mervyn M. Wingfield (James Madison University) |
1997 | Doris M. Cook (University of Arkansas) |
1996 | |
1995 | Alfred R. Roberts (Georgia State University) |
1994 | Thomas J. Burns (The Ohio State University) & Eugene Flegm (General Motors Corporate HQ) |
1993 | |
1992 | Richard Matessich (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
1991 | Willard E. Stone (University of Florida) |
1990 | Andrew Barr (University of Illinois) |
1989 | Louis Goldberg (University of Melbourne) |
1988 | |
1987 | |
1986 | |
1985 | |
1984 | |
1983 | Basil S. Yamey (London School of Economics) |
1982 | |
1981 | S. Paul Garner (University of Alabama) & Ernst Stevelinck (Belgium) |
1981 | Osamu Kojima (Kwansei Gakuin University) & Kojiro Nishikawa (Nihon University) |
Accounting Historians Journal
First volume was published in 1974. We publish twice a year. Older volumes are available online at AAA Digital Library
Overview of acceptable submissions:
- History of profession
- Biography
- History of accounting change
- Entity case studies: industries, companies, governmental or NFP entities
- Development of accounting theory
- Critical examinations of new or old research
- Does not have to be old to be a part of our history
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