Pulitzer-winning historian Alan Taylor '77 ("The Pulitzer Guy," winter '02) has copped another prize. Taylor, professor of history at University of California-Davis, was awarded the UC-Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.

The prize carries a $30,000 award.

Taylor was praised for his riveting classroom lectures and his demanding standards for students' writing and research. "Often students in their first history class are surprised to find that the subject is fascinating and relevant," he said. "They also find that writing history is hard work."

Taylor won both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft Prize for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. He is now writing a comparative study of the social and cultural impact of the Canadian-U.S. borderland from the American Revolution through the War of 1812.