Past Recipients

Donald Pitzer Distinguished Service Award

2020s

  • 2024 – Randall Ericson, Hamilton College’s Couper Press. Please note: because Randall Ericson could not attend the 2024 CSA Conference in person, we are temporarily posting an acceptance video here.

  • 2023 – Richard and Sandra Walston
  • 2022 – Deborah Altus, CSA President and Board Member
  • 2021 – No Award Given
  • 2020 – No Award Given

2010s

  • 2019 – Peter Hoehnle, Service as CSA President & Journal Editor
  • 2018 – Denise A. Seachrist, Service as President and Board Member
  • 2017 – Jim Arnold & Lorna Davidson, New Lanark World Heritage Site
  • 2016 – Tim Miller, Adding to our understanding of contemporary communities
  • 2015 – Larrie Curry, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
  • 2014 – Kathleen Fernandez, CSA Executive Director
  • 2013 – No Award Given
  • 2012 – No Award Given
  • 2011 – Communities Magazine
  • 2010 – No Award Given

2000s

  • 2009 – No Award Given
  • 2008 – Don Janzen, CSA Pioneer, Community Photographic Collection and Site Mapping
  • 2006 – Susan Jackson Keig, CSA logo designer and Shaker Design Studies
  • 2005 – Gina Walker, Treasurer and Website Editor
  • 2004 – Yaacov Oved, Yad Tabenkin Institute
  • 2003 – Harvey Baker, Dunmire Hollow, TN
  • 2002 – Lanny Haldy, Amana Heritage Society
  • 2001 – The Center for Communal Studies, University of Southern Ind.
  • 2000 – Gus Nelson, Berkshire Shaker Seminar

1990s

  • 1999 – Washington State Historical Society, exhibit “Living the Perfect Life: Utopias and Communes in Washington.”
  • 1998 – Robert Sutton, Past newsletter editor
  • 1997 – Fellowship for Intentional Communities
  • 1996 – Lillian Snyder, Icarian Heritage
  • 1995 – Mario DePillis & Michael Barkun, Past eds. of Communal Studies
  • 1994 – Donald E. Pitzer