The Kelley Award memorializes Ken Kelley, a 1963 honors graduate in history who died in Vietnam. This year there are 2 winners: First, in her deeply researched and endlessly entertaining work, "From Intellectual Swine to Purring Lions: Confronting Nature in Menageries in the Early Republic," Sara Dec shows how the display of animals in early traveling menageries not only entertained, it challenged audiences to wrestle with what it meant to be fully human in light of intelligent pigs, anthropomorphic elephants, and lions that could be controlled but might also rip their tamers to shreds.  Second, in his thoughtful and often lyrical thesis, "Apostle to the Americans: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Uses of the Apostle Paul During the Civil Rights Movement," Chad Harper reveals how Paul - as a leader, writer, and theologian-provided King with guidance and sometimes comfort as he struggled during the 1950s and 1960s not just to end inequality in America, but to advance a spirit of reconciliation.  In recognition of your thorough and imaginative works and in deep appreciation for all you have done for the Kelley Program and the study of history at Davidson College, the Department of History names you, Sarah Jane Dec and Chad James Harper, winners of the 2013 Kelley Award.