Awards and Memberships
Nelson's book, Workers on the Waterfront, received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1989.
Nelson has been named a fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Dartmouth College bestowed its Distinguished Teaching Award on him in 1988, and he won the Dartmouth Class of 1962 Faculty Fellowship for excellence in scholarship and teaching.
Nelson is a member of the United Association for Labor Education and the Organization of American Historians, and the editorial board of Labor History.
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