Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is proud to announce this year’s prize and award winners in special recognition of their significant accomplishments in 2022.
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 that went above and beyond that call to action. Congrats!
CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS
DOCTORAL
Katherine Fapp– University of Arizona
Sofia Paschero– University of South Florida
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
Inbar Michael– University of California-Irvine
Alyssa M. Moore– St. Olaf College
Renee Thiele– Liberty University
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Wendi Zhou– University of Washington-Seattle
PAPER PRIZE AWARDS
Undergraduate
Lynn W. Turner Prize
Nihal Manjila, Case Western Reserve University
“Substance of Joy: Serotonin Research at Cleveland Clinic, 1948-1968”
Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize
James Lingman, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
“Death-Omens in Roman Historiography”
Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize
Wendi Zhou, University of Washington
“Translating Guilt to Commitment”: Racial and Queer Intersections in Afro-German Berlin, 1981-1992”
Graduate
George P. Hammond Prize
Marie Sarnacki, Eastern Michigan University
“The Highest Work of Civilization”: Social Reform Movements in Nineteenth-Century Michigan”
Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize
Ariel Norris, Liberty University
“The Myth of the Crocodile Dundee: The “White Australian” and the Racialization of Australian Citizenship from 1901-1958”
Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize
Fiona Stockdale, State University of New York at Brockport
“Organized White Terror Groups: The KKK, Others, and their Effectiveness”
BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD
Dr. Sabrina Thomas’s Scars of War: The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam
BEST SUBSEQUENT BOOK AWARD
Dr. Carolina López-Ruiz’s Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
Nash Journal Prize
Print Journals (Graduate)
1- California State University, Sacramento: Clio advised by Aaron Cohen
2- California State University, San Bernardino: History in the Making: A Journal of History advised by Jeremy Murray and Tiffany Jones
3- California State University, Los Angeles: Perspectives advised by Birte Pfleger
Print Journals (Undergraduate)
1- Santa Clara University: Historical Perspectives advised by Paul Mariani
2- Oklahoma Christian University: Journal of Historical Studies advised by Matt McCook
Electronic Journals (Graduate)
1- California State University, Fullerton: Welebaethan advised by Jochen Burgtorf
2- Texas Woman’s University: Ibid: A Student History Journal advised by Aubri Thurmond
3- Chapman University: Voces Novae advised by Shira Klein
Honorable Mention- Eastern Illinois University: Historia advised by Edmund Wehrle
Electronic Journals (Undergraduate)
1- Harding University: Tenor of Our Times advised by Julie E. Harris
2- California Lutheran University: The Scribe of the Ages: Ruminations on History advised by David Nelson
