2023 Prize & Award Winners

DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Steven Casement – Pennsylvania State University

Stacie Beach – Oklahoma Christian University

Matthew Douthitt – Rowan University

Kevin Smith – Liberty University

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS

Darshai Hollie – Spelman College

John Quale – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rebby Onken – University of San Diego

Jillian Bergin – Millersville University

UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

Michael Olds – MSU-Texas

Robert Bentley – University of Richmond

Faculty Advisor Research Grant

Mark Lentz - Utah Valley University

UNDERGRADUATE PAPER PRIZE AWARDS

Lynn W. Turner Prize - Francesca Gibson, College of Charleston

"Inescapable Darkness: Hypnagogia and the Early Modern Experience of Bewitchment"

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize - Allie Tubbs, Simpson College

"Menaces to Society": Coercive Sterilizations in Iowa from 1948-1952”

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize - Janis Parker, University of Richmond

“Like Nazi Butchers”: Discourses on Black Genocide and the Limits of Civil Rights in 20th Century America”

GRADUATE PAPER PRIZE AWARDS

George P. Hammond Prize - Stephanie Wright, Liberty University

“An Increasingly Tangled Knot: Finland's Road to Co-Belligerency with Germany, March 1940- June 1941”

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize - Chiara Torrini, University of Massachusetts Boston

“The Case Lies with Her Legal Administrator:” Reconstructing the Icelandic Legal Administrator in a European Context

Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize - Renee Goerdt, St. Cloud State University

“Seasons of Subsistence: Ojibwe Women and the Great Lakes Fur Trade”

BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD

Evan C. Rothera: Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880

BEST SUBSEQUENT BOOK AWARD

John Cimprich: Navigating Liberty, Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South

NASH JOURNAL PRIZE

Graduate Print Journals

1st Place: East Bay Historia from Alpha Rho Theta at California State University, East Bay, advised by Anna Alexander

2nd place: History in the Making from the Alpha Delta Nu chapter at California State University, San Bernardino, advised by Tiffany F. Jones & Jeremy Murray

3rd place: Clio from the Rho Xi chapter at California State University, Sacramento, advised by Aaron Cohen

Honorable Mention: Chico Historian from the Alpha Delta Omicron chapter at California State University, Chico, advised by Alisa Wade & Gloria Lopez

Undergraduate Print Journals

1st place: Northwest Passages, from the Rho Phi chapter at the University of Portland, advised by Bradley Franco

 2nd place: Res Historica, from the Alpha Rho Epsilon chapter at Anderson University, advised by Lynneth Miller Renberg

3rd place: Rhodes Historical Review from the Alpha Epsilon Delta chapter at Rhodes College, advised by Samson K. Ndanyi

Graduate Electronic Journals

1st place: The Welebaethan: A Journal of History from the Theta Pi chapter at California State University, Fullerton, advised by Jochen Burgtorf

2nd place: Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry from the Eta Xi chapter at California State University, Los Angeles, advised by Birte Pfleger

3rd place: Ibid: A Student History Journal from the Eta Nu chapter at Texas Woman’s University, advised by Aubri Thurmond

Honorable Mention: Voces Novae from the Alpha Mu Gamma chapter at Chapman University, advised by Jeff Koerber

Undergraduate Electronic Journals

1st place: Tenor of Our Times,  from the Eta Phi chapter at Harding University, advised by Julie Harris

2nd place: Santa Clara University Historical Perspectives from Lambda Upsilon chapter at Santa Clara University, advised by Paul Marian

Division I Best Chapters

1st Place: Peru State College

2nd Place: University of Lynchburg

Division I Honorable Mentions

1. Thomas More University

2. Union University

3. Dickinson State University

Division II Best Chapters

Nels Cleven Winners

1st Place: Harding University

2nd Place: Midwestern State University

Division II Honorable Mentions

Francis Marion University

Division IV Best Chapters

Nels Cleven Winner

1st Place: Austin Peay State University

Division V Best Chapters

1st Place: University of Hawaii – Manoa

Division V Honorable Mentions

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Division VI Best Chapters

1st Place: Liberty University