Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) 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!

Prize & Award Winners

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS

Kent Ninomiya - Columbia University

Adaline Nolley - Liberty University

Rebecca Faulkner - Kent State University

GORDON MORRIS BAKKEN SCHOLARSHIP IN WESTERN HISTORY

Sarah Barton - University of Illinois at Chicago

UNDERGRADUATE PAPER PRIZE AWARDS

Gabriel Moore, California State University Bakersfield - Lost to Local History: The Overlooked Contributions of Chinese Agriculturalists in Kern County, California, 1857-1920

Melissa Story, University of North Carolina Wilmington - UNCW(hite): The Kenan Family, White Supremacy, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Fiona Serrano, University of Buffalo - Stalin's War on Women: Gendered Violence in the Gulag

GRADUATE PAPER PRIZE AWARDS

Katherine Coble, Franklin & Marshall College - No Woman in the Usual Sense: Female Holocaust Perpetrators and Gender Performance

Katlyn Rozovics, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville - Material Culture in France during the Dark Years

Caroline Dugan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Dr. Jean “Shewolf” Boudreaux: Re-Archiving Second-wave Feminism in Lafayette, Louisiana

BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD

BEST SUBSEQUENT BOOK AWARD

NASH JOURNAL PRIZE

Undergraduate Print Journals

1st Prize: Historical Perspectives - Lambda Upsilon at Santa Clara University

2nd Prize: Northwest Passages - Rho Phi at the University of Portland

3rd Prize: Res Historica - Alpha Rho Epsilon at Anderson University

Honorable Mention: Journal of Historical Studies - Tau Sigma at Oklahoma Christian University

Honorable Mention: Rhodes Historical Review - Alpha Epsilon Delta at Rhodes College

Graduate Print Journals

1st Prize: Clio - Rho Xi at California State University, Sacramento

2nd Prize: History in the Making - Alpha Delta Nu at California State University, San Bernardino

3rd Prize: East Bay Historia - Alpha Rho Theta at California State University, East Bay

Honorable Mention: The Chico Historian - Alpha Delta Omicron at California State University, Chico

Undergraduate Electronic Journals

1st Prize: Tenor of Our Times - Eta Phi at Harding University

Graduate Electronic Journals

1st Prize: Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry - Eta Xi at California State University, Los Angeles

2nd Prize: The Welebaethan: A Journal of History - Theta Pi at California State University, Fullerton

3rd Prize: Historia - Epsilon Mu at Eastern Illinois University

Honorable Mention: Voces Novae - Alpha Mu Gamma at Chapman University

Honorable Mention: Ibid: A Student History Journal - Eta Nu at Texas Woman’s University

Division I Best Chapters

Dickinson State University

Oklahoma Christian University*

University of Lynchburg

Honorable Mention

University of Arkansas at Monticello

Division II Best Chapters

Anderson University

Francis Marion University*

University of Richmond

Division III Best Chapters

University of La Verne

Division IV Best Chapters

California State University, East Bay

Division V Best Chapters

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

University of the Cumberlands

Honorable Mention

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Division VI Best Chapters

Liberty University*

University of Florida

Honorable Mention

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Utah State University

Past Prize & Award Winners