Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is proud to announce this year’s prize and award winners in special recognition of their significant accomplishments in 2023.
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!
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
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
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 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
Past Prize & Award Winners
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