2022 Award Winners

Recognizing Excellence in Historical Scholarship

Phi Alpha Theta is proud to announce this year's prize and award winners in special recognition of their significant accomplishments. We sincerely thank you for your hard work and dedication to upholding PAT's mission statement: "to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians."

These winners represent this year's undergraduate and graduate students who went above and beyond that call to action. Congratulations winners!

Student Scholarships & Awards

Graduate Scholarships

Dustin Frye

Western Illinois University

Alton Walpole

Baylor University

Casey Abrams

University of Louisville

Abigail Wheatley

Baylor University

Undergraduate Paper Prize Awards

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder's Prize

Braden Grisham, Mississippi State University

"A Unique Answer to a Universal Problem: The Unique Conditions and Extreme Response to Overpopulation in Modern China"

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder's Prize

Elianna Renner, Wheaton College

"The 'Dangerous Seaports' of Sin and Segregation: Josephine Baker, St. Louis, and Post-World War II America"

Graduate Paper Prize Awards

George P. Hammond Prize

Mitchell Kehe, Arizona State University

"Connecting the Gila: Cultural Exchange at Phoenix Indian School"

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder's Prize

Sophie Durbin, Marquette University

"Performing Community: 'the People's Theatre' in Santiago, Chile (1973-1990)"

Book Awards

Best First Book Award

Evan C. Rothera

Slavery and Citizenship in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions

Best Subsequent Book Award

J. Michael Martinez

Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction

Nash Journal Prize

Graduate Print Journals

1st Place: The Welebaethan: A Journal of History

Theta Pi chapter at California State University Fullerton

2nd Place: 'ÅŒiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal

Alpha Phi Omega chapter at Chaminade University

3rd Place: East Bay Historia

Alpha Phi Theta chapter at California State University East Bay

Honorable Mention: Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry

Eta Nu chapter at California State University Los Angeles

Honorable Mention: The Chico Historian

Alpha Chula Omicron chapter at California State University Chico

Undergraduate Print Journals

1st Place: The Alexandrian

Eta Theta chapter at Berry College

2nd Place: The Historian

Alpha Rho Epsilon chapter at Anderson University

3rd Place: Zenith

Theta Delta chapter at Austin Peay State University

Graduate Electronic Journals

1st Place: Arete: A Journal of Historical Inquiry

Eta Nu chapter at California State University Los Angeles

2nd Place: Slate Writer

Alpha Mu Gamma chapter at Chapman University

3rd Place: Arid: A Student History Journal

Eta Nu chapter at Texas Woman's University

Honorable Mention: Historia

Epsilon Mu chapter at Eastern Illinois University

Undergraduate Electronic Journals

1st Place: Tower of Our Times

Eta Phi chapter at Harding University

2nd Place: Xavier University Historical Perspectives

Gamma Epsilon chapter at Xavier University

Best Chapter Awards

Division I Best Chapters

Division I

1st Place: Rhodes College

2nd Place: University of Lynchburg

3rd Place: Berry College

Division II Best Chapters

Division II

1st Place: Anderson University

2nd Place: Harding University

3rd Place: Midwestern State University

Division III Best Chapters

Division III

1st Place: Radford University

2nd Place: Longwood University

3rd Place: Xavier University

Division IV Best Chapters

Division IV

1st Place: Austin Peay State University

2nd Place: Slippery Rock University

3rd Place: Illinois State University

Division V Best Chapters

Division V

1st Place: University of Louisiana at Lafayette

2nd Place: Middle Tennessee State University

3rd Place: Eastern Illinois University

Division VI Best Chapters

Division VI

1st Place: Chapman University

2nd Place: California State University Fullerton

3rd Place: California State University Chico

Faculty Advisor Research Grant

Marc Malandra

California State University Chico

Past Prize & Award Winners

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