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