{"59040":{"#nid":"59040","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HTS PhD Zander Wins  20th Century British History Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPatrick Zander, who earned his PhD in 2009 from the School of History, Technology, and Society, has been awarded the 20th Century British History Prize for his paper about the first air flights over Mt. Everest.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe prize is awarded annually by the leading British journal Twentieth Century British History (Oxford University Press).  It is intended to encourage a high standard of scholarship by postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EZander\u0027s paper entitled \u003Cem\u003E(Right) Wings Over Everest:  High Adventure, High Technology, and High Nationalism on the Roof of the World, 1932-34\u003C\/em\u003E, will be published in the Twentieth Century British History Journal. This paper investigates the first air flights over Mount Everest in 1933, conducted by a British expedition.  Beyond the contributions to science and aviation technology, the flights were also rich with political and imperial significance.  In particular, the paper discusses the expedition\u0027s close connection to Britain\u0027s extreme right wing community and that group\u0027s wish to use the Everest flights as a sensational display which would discourage the Indian independence movement.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EZander earned his PhD in History and Sociology of Technology and Science in 2009 under Professor Jonathan Schneer in the School of History, Technology, and Society.   He is currently teaching at Kennesaw State University and at Reinhardt College.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Patrick Zander, who earned his PhD in 2009 from the School of History, Technology, and Society, has been awarded the 20th Century British History Prize for his paper about the first air flights over Mt. Everest.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Paper Researches First Flights Over Mt. Everest"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-02-12 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59041":{"id":"59041","type":"image","title":"tci92842.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176211","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:51","changed":"1475894515","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:55","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190822","name":"tci92842.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tci92842_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tci92842_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28591,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tci92842_0.jpg?itok=RmtivZAa"}}},"media_ids":["59041"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/graduate\/","title":"HTS PhD Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9998","name":"British"},{"id":"9997","name":"Everest"},{"id":"9996","name":"HTS PhD"},{"id":"2897","name":"Zander"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}