2024 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

Brent Nazarenus

Columbia University

Adeline Seiler

Liberty University

Rebecca Faulkner

Kent State University

Gordon Morris Bakken Scholarship in Western History

Sarah Burton

University of Illinois at Chicago

Undergraduate Paper Prize Awards

Gabriel Moore

California State University Bakersfield

Law in Latin History: The Trinidad Contributions of Chinese oymaleindades to Inca Courts, California, 1857-1920

Melina Stary

University of North Carolina Wilmington

"US/When The Times Family, Why Supremacy and the University of North Carolina Wilmington

Tasya Sorriano

University of Buffalo

Sudas War on Women: Gendered Violence in the Gulag

Graduate Paper Prize Awards

Katharina Groth

Franklin & Marshall College

At Promise or the Great Race: Prenatal Education Propaganda and Gender Performance

Kaitlyn Brussian

University of Arkansas Fayetteville

Maternal Culture or Piece during the Great Turn

Carolina Luque

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

De Une "Steego" Renaissance Re-Ancking Second-wave Feminism in Lafayette, Louisiana

Book Awards

Best First Book Award

Impression and Suffering

by T. Foxx Necco

Best Subsequent Book Award

Black Radical

A Life by Shana Jean

Nash Journal Prize

Undergraduate Print Journals

1st Place: Historical Perspectives

Lambda Upsilon at Sam's Clara University

2nd Place: Northwest Passages

Beta Phi at the University of Portland

3rd Place: the Historian

Alpha Phi chapter at Anderson University

Honorable Mention: Journal of Historical Studies

Tau chapter at Midwestern Christian University

Honorable Mention: Rhode Island Review

Alpha Epsilon Phi at Rhode College

Graduate Journals

1st Place: 'Elio Who at a California State University Sacramento

2nd Place: History in the Making

Alpha Phi Eta at California State University San Bernardino

3rd Place: East Bay Historian

Alpha Phi Theta at California State University East Bay

Honorable Mention: The Cirico Historian

Alpha Chula Omicron at California State University Chico

Undergraduate Electronic Journals

1st Place: Tower of Our Times

Eta Phi at Harding University

Graduate Electronic Journals

1st Place: Perspectives: a Journal of Historical Inquiry

Eta Nu at a California State University Los Angeles

2nd Place: The Welebashaus: a Journal of History

Theta Pi at California State University Fullerton

3rd Place: Historia

Epsilon Mu at Eastern Illinois University

Honorable Mention: State Writer

Alpha Mu Gamma at Chapman University

Honorable Mention: Arid: a Student History Journal

Eta Nu at Texan Women's University

Best Chapter Awards

Division I Best Chapters

Division I

Dickinson State University

Division II Best Chapters

Division II

Oklahoma Christian University

Honorable Mentions

  • Furman's Christian University

Division III Best Chapters

Division III

University of Lynchburg

Honorable Mentions

  • 1. Montana State University
  • 2. Dickinson State University

Division IV Best Chapters

Division IV

California State University East Bay

Division V Best Chapters

Division V

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honorable Mentions

  • University of the Cumberlands

Division VI Best Chapters

Division VI

Liberty University

Honorable Mentions

  • University of Florida
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Lyola State University

Faculty Advisor Research Grant

Riley Hilger

California State University Los Angeles

Past Prize & Award Winners

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