TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Thomas Fox, a professor in the department of modern languages and classics at The University of Alabama, recently received the Culture and Education Award from the AlabamaGermany Partnership.

The award is given to one individual for outstanding accomplishment and dedicated service in the field of education and culture in Alabama. The Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bruce Jones, presented the award and said that Fox received it for his five books dealing with topics ranging from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and for the more than 60 articles Fox published in the field of German studies.

Fox chaired the department of German and Russian, later the department of modern languages and classics, at the University from 1995 to 2000. He then served as director of graduate studies for the department until 2005.

He is currently the president of the Alabama chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German and is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, among them prestigious awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Fulbright Program at the Institute of International Education.

Fox received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and his doctorate from Yale University.

The department of modern languages and classics is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.