May 4, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor and University Scholar James F. Tent, Ph.D., has received the 2009 Education Award from the Alabama-Germany Partnership (AGP). The award was presented April 23 at the AGP annual dinner.

Tent was honored for his work teaching German history and culture in Alabama. His research at UAB has focused on the evolution of German society and politics since 1945. He completed a major study on Germany's largest university, the Free University of Berlin, and presented the research to the university's president and the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany Richard von Weizcker in 1988.

Tent is author of several books, including "In the Shadow of the Holocaust," "E-Boat Alert: Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet" and "Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in American-Occupied Germany."

He also is co-founder of the Belton Y. Cooper Lecture Series at UAB. The series presents an annual lecture on military history and social conflict and is named after a Birmingham-area WWII veteran.

Tent is a member of the AGP and of the board of trustees for the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham. He teaches in the UAB Department of History and has been a member of the faculty since 1974.

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