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Vanderbilt University.
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Amy Sturgis
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Sturgis is author of four books on United States. presidential history and Native American studies (Presidents from Washington through Monroe, Presidents from Hayes through McKinley, The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal and Tecumseh: A Biography), five edited works on science fiction and fantasy (The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America: From Himachal Pradesh Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko, The Magic Ring, Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of CS Lewis, The Magic Goblet, and The Magic Ring: Deluxe Illustrated Edition), and dozens of other scholarly and mainstream book chapters, articles and presentations. She also contributes regular "Looking Back on Genre History" features to and narrates contemporary science fiction stories for the United Kingdom-based podcast StarShipSofa. In 2012, Sturgis was featured in a series of documentary short films produced by Ozymandius Media for the Institute for Humane Studies.
Also in 2012, Sturgis was named a Great Graduate by the Alumni Association of Broken Arrow Senior High School.
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She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in intellectual history from Vanderbilt University, serves on the advisory board of Mythopoeic Press, and contributes to the Hugo Award winning StarShipSofa podcast and the Liberty and Power group weblog. In 2006, she was awarded the Imperishable Flame Award for Achievement in Tolkien/Inklings Scholarship. In both 2009 and 2011, she received the Sofanaut Award in Podcasting for Best Fact Article Contributor. In 2010, it became the first podcast to win a Hugo Award.
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Hugo Award; the Sofanaut Award; Imperishable Flame Award
The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.