Entries must be received by March 2, 2026

Named for Professor Clayton Drees, who has devoted his professional career to the service of Phi Alpha Theta, this $1000 scholarship is awarded each year to an undergraduate student who has shown exceptional proficiency in the field of European Renaissance and Reformation history. 

Undergraduate applicants for the Clayton Drees Undergraduate Student Scholarship for European History of Renaissance and Reformation award must demonstrate evidence of:

• Phi Alpha Theta membership in good standing

• At least two college-level courses (excluding HS AP) in early modern (or late medieval) European history

• A significant research project focused on some aspect of early modern European history

• A strong GPA

• Also to be submitted: a letter of intent with email and mailing addresses, list of service to and active participation in Phi Alpha Theta, an undergraduate transcript, and TWO letters of recommendation.

Applications may be sent electronically as a pdf file via email to info@phialphatheta.org.  Submit your completed Clayton Drees Undergraduate Scholarship Application as well as all supporting materials to:

The Clayton Drees Student Scholarship Committee

Phi Alpha Theta Historical Society

University of South Florida

4202 East Fowler Avenue, SOC 107

Tampa, FL 33620- 8100

Email: 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.