Robert Morrissey (History) won the 2013 Lester J. Cappon Award for Best Article in the William and Mary Quarterly for "Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in a French-Illinois Borderland” published in The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Serial, 70, number 1, January 2013 (Source). Morrissey also received a 2012-13 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities award for the same article.