Jane Johansson, Pryor, Okla. :: was awarded the Founders Award by The American Civil War Museum for "excellence in the editing of primary source materials” for her book Albert C. Ellithorpe, the First Indian Home Guards, and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier. The book covers the writings of a Civil War Union army officer who served in a unique tri-racial military. She is a professor at Rogers State University and has taught at UNT, Tarrant County Community College and Northeastern Oklahoma State University. While at UNT, she was a member of Phi Alpha Theta.