Established in 2005 by James R. Rosowski, Ph.D. in commemoration of his late wife Susan J. Rosowski, Ph.D., the Adele Hall Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was general editor of Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, director of the Cather Project and the Cather International Seminar, and editor-in-chief of Cather Studies. She was instrumental in securing Cather’s place as a major twentieth-century author. She also won the University’s highest awards for both teaching and scholarship.