Pulitzer-winning historian gets NEH award for book on Sacagawea
CU Boulder’s Elizabeth ‘Lil’ Fenn is one of 15 intellectuals nationwide to receive a Public Scholar Award
Elizabeth “Lil” Fenn wants to frame the story of Sacagawea as a window on the American West, and the National Endowment for the Humanities wants to help her.
Fenn, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won a prestigious NEH Public Scholar Award, the endowment announced this month.
The Public Scholar program aims to support popular nonfiction books in the humanities, and Fenn is one of only 15 scholars nationwide to win that support this year. The $60,000 grant from the Public Scholar Program will help Fenn complete a book titled Sacagawea’s World.