In October of 1999, Dr. Howard Jones, University Research Professor and Chairperson of the History department, will receive the prestigious Blackmon-Moody Award for Outstanding Professor. In 1988, Dr. Jones was the recipient of the Burnum Award, the University's highest award for teaching and research. That award was made in part due to his innovative team teaching of a Vietnam history course with an Asian history professor in order to give his students a global view of history. Since that time Dr. Jones' work in American diplomatic policy has ranged from Civil War diplomacy to the Vietnam era. He is the author of six books, including a Pulitzer Price nomination. His book, Union in Peril, was a History Book Club selection and earned him a Phi Alpha Theta Award. Jones' book, Mutiny on the Amistad, recounts a famous slave ship rebellion and its impact on American law and diplomacy. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the movie, Amistad, on which Dr. Jones served as a special consultant, dramatized the historical event.