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Kenneth Orosz, assistant professor, History and Social Studies Education, was recently awarded the 2009 Alf Heggoy Prize for his book Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885–1939 (New York: Peter Lang/American University Studies, 2008). The Heggoy Prize is awarded annually by the French Colonial Historical Society for the best work in French colonial history published in the preceding year. The prize committee described Orosz’s book as a “path-breaking reassessment of the cultural impact of language policy on colonial society” that “compels us to think differently about the dynamics of missionary-state relations, inter-confessional rivalries, and the ethno-centric ‘nationalism’ of certain missionary organizations.”