NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award

Up to two $500 awards recognize outstanding work and contributions by consultants or contractors.

2026 group Winner

Community Planning Collaborative, Represented by Adrienne Burke and Ennis Davis

Honorable Mention

Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research, Represented by Caitlin DeAngelis and Carla Martin

2026 Individual Winner

Interpreting Slavery Through Place, Dialogue, and Descendant Engagement, Joe McGill Jr., The Slave Dwelling Project

Honorable Mention

White Hair Don’t Care: The Visibility Project, Keighley Ashlen Gentle

Submissions will reopen for 2027 Awards in summer 2026

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Past Consulting Award Winners

2025

Group Award Winner

Plays in Place LLC, represented by Patrick Gabridge

Individual Award Winner

Kabria Baumgartner, Northeastern University, Recovering Black History in Keene, New Hampshire

2024

Group Award Winner

AAHRC – African American Historical Research and Consulting, LLC, represented by Brandon A. Owens, Sr.

Individual Award Winner

Katherine Hobbs, Independent Contractor, Mina’s Place of Business
- Honorable Mention – Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, Independent Public Historian, California BIPOC Liberation Stories

2023

Group Award Winner

Ethos Preservation and Landmark Preservation, Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Preservation Plan
- Honorable Mention – Guy Hermann, Sara Zarrelli, and Jacques Brunswick, Museum Insights, Connecticut Landmarks Portfolio Assessment

Individual Award Winner

Delia Hagen, Hagen Historical Consulting, Black Montana’s Heritage Places

2022

Group Award Winner

Anne Mitchell Whisnant and David E. Whisnant, Primary Source History Services, Black Lives and Whitened Stories: From the Lowcountry to the Mountains (A Historic Resource Study of Black History at Rock Hill/Connemara, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, National Park Service)

Individual Award Winner

Joan M. Zenzen, Independent Historian, Using Oral History to Affect Community Change: Action in Montgomery at its 20th Anniversary
- Honorable Mention – Laura Miller, Independent Historical Consultant, with Angela Sirna, National Park Service, “An Island Apart”: The Job Corps at Acadia National Park, 1966-1969

2021

Individual Award Winner

Ian Smith, Historical Research Associates, Inc., Expert Witness Reports and Testimony re: Native American Land and Water Rights
- Honorable Mention – Sarah Marsom, Heritage Resource Consultant, Crafting Herstory and Dismantle Preservation

2020

Group Award Winner

Tom Van Dewark, Todd Brown, and Courtney Vaughan, Know History Inc., The Métis Nation of Ontario Historic Métis Communities Video Project

Individual Winner

Abby Schreiber, William & Mary, National Institute of American History & Democracy, Enslaved at Homewood
- Janie Campbell, Rogers Lewis Jackson Mann & Quinn LLC

2019

Group Award Winner

Jackie Gonzales, Emily Greenwald, Dawn Vogel, Jessi Frank, Kayla Blackman, and Nick Kryloff, Historical Research Associates, Inc., Commemoration and Collaboration: An Administrative History of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail

Individual Winner

Josh Howard, Passel Historical Consulting, “Our Only Alma Mater:” The Civilian Conservation Corps and the C&O Canal
- Honorable Mention – Paul Sadin, Historical Research Associates, Inc., A History of the Cushman Hydroelectric Project: Tacoma Power, the Skokomish Tribe, and the Skokomish River, 1910-2016

2018

Delia Hagen, Hagen Historical Consulting, African-American Heritage Resources in Helena, Montana
- Honorable Mention – Ryan Shackleton, Know History, Métis Nation of Ontario

2017

Jennifer Stevens, Stevens Historical Research Associates, “Idaho Power Centennial Project”
Alicia Barber, Stories in Place, LLC.

2016

Eric John Abrahamson and Lois Facer, Vantage Point Historical Services, Inc., Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Book Series
Morgen Young, Alder, LLC, “Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During WWII”

2015

The Excellence in Consulting Award was not awarded in 2015.

2014

Matthew Godfrey, Paul J. Sadin, et al., Historical Research Associates, Inc., Privatizing Military Family Housing: A History of the U.S. Army’s Residential Communities Initiative, 1995-2010

2013

Cathy Stanton, “Plant Yourself in My Neighborhood,” special ethnographic report for Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, National Park Service
Marla Miller, Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Gary Nash, and David Thelen, Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (Produced by the Organization of American Historians)
- Honorable Mention-Jennifer A. Stevens, Historical Research Associates, Voices of Courage, Champions of Excellence: The Story of the Idaho Educational Association Since 1892
- Honorable Mention-Virginia Adams, Kristen Heitert, Laura Kline, Stephen Olausen, Jenny Scofield, Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., National Historic Register Nominations

2012

Morgen Young, Alder, LLC and William Green, Heather Jones, and Kimberly Nagle, S&ME, Inc.
- Honorable Mention-John Durel and Anita Durel, Durel Consulting Partners

2011

Patrick O’Bannon, Gray & Pape, Inc. – “Working in the Dry: Cofferdams, In-River Construction, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers”
Carl A. Merry, Marlin R. Ingalls, and Maria F. Schroeder, Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa – “Iowa’s Historic Roads: A National Register Study of Pre-1948 Arterial Highways”