AHA member Meg Foster is the recipient of the 2015 Deen De Bortoli Award in Applied History for her essay ‘Online and Plugged In?: Public History and Historians in the Digital Age’. The judges said that this essay ‘provides important insights into how digital technologies are democratising not only access to research materials but also the dissemination of history. It reflects on what this means for history professionals who can no longer dominate discussion of the past and suggests that ways forward lie in more collaborative approaches’.