Entries must be received by March 3, 2025

The Gordon Morris Bakken Scholarship in Western History in the amount of $500 will be awarded to a graduate student in history researching the Trans-Mississippi West.  Applications must detail the research questions, the agenda including travel to archives, and probable date of completion.

Applications must include:

1). A Resume which includes the school's name and the year the applicant was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta

2).  Two (2) letters of recommendation

Applicants must be verified members of Phi Alpha Theta to be eligible. Previous winners are not eligible to apply.

Applications must be sent to:

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, SOC107
Tampa, Florida 33620-8100

Fax: (813) 974-8215
E-Mail: info@phialphatheta.org

The applicant is responsible for ensuring that all required documentation is received by the competition deadline. Incomplete applications or those submitted after the deadline or by individuals whose membership in Phi Alpha Theta cannot be verified will not be considered for the competition.

NOTE: In all academic work, the ideas and contributions of others must be appropriately acknowledged, and work that is presented as original must in fact BE original. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT will likely create significant breakthroughs in a wide range of fields, using an AI-content generator to produce scholarly work without proper attribution or authorization is a form of academic dishonesty. In accepting scholarly work for conference presentation, prize/award consideration or publication in the PAT newsletter or The Historian, Phi Alpha Theta expects its members to uphold the honorable standards of our Society by researching, composing and submitting their own original work. In this way, faculty and student members of Phi Alpha Theta can all share in nurturing and protecting the integrity and fairness of our Society’s intellectual enterprise. Submitting content to Phi Alpha Theta that has been generated by someone else, or was created or assisted by a computer application such as ChatGPT, will result in immediate disqualification from conference, award or publication consideration.