2018 History awards announced

Undergraduate award winners

Mark and Linee Diem Endowed Scholarship

William Weis

Professor Effie K. Ambler Memorial Endowed Scholarship in History

Megan Eisenstein

Adeline Walsh

Baiardi Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship

Aya Beydoun

Kenneth Alyass

Sterne-Lion Research Scholarship in History

Kenneth Alyass, "Detroit's Ivory Tower: A Historical Study of Development Around Wayne State University and the Influence of the Public Research University in Detroit"

F. Richard Place Endowed Memorial Award

Ryan Stevenson, "Solitudes into Cities: A 19th Century Nationalist's Conception of Nature"

Benjamin Thomason, "The Funhouse: The Life of The Freezer Theater and the Rise and Fall of Early Hardcore Punk in Detroit"

Place Gateway Award

Dwjuan Frazier, "Gold Coinage and Social Mobility in the late Roman Empire"

David Webb, "'The things you National Guardsmen do now will live in people's memory forever': Reexamining the Michigan National Guard in the 1967 Detroit Uprising"

Rolf and Jennie Johannesen Endowed Memorial Award

William Weis, "Factional Politics in the Late Roman Empire: A Case Study of Aetius' Court"

Dr. Gerald R. Dreslinski Award

Matthew Ashford, "A Tale of Two Thinkers: A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of the Political Thought of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson"

Mayer-Oakes Memorial Award in Japanese Studies

Undergraduate

Mary Krusz

Graduate

Sean O'Brien, "Comics and Manga: Transforming Gender Identity"

Phi Alpha Theta Inductees

Megan Eisenstein

Kyra Goeller

Ibrahim Hassan

Ardian Ivezaj

Jacob Jones

Abigail Leedom

Andrea Ozanich

Diane Roy

Aimee Shulman

Daniel Smith

Adam Steffes

Daniel Weed William Weis

Graduate award winners

Merit awards

Dr. Gerald Dreslinski Award

Erik Noren, "Anglo Masculine Identity in the British Caribbean: Planters and Writers"

Rolf and Jennie Johannesen Endowed Memorial Award

Jim Dwyer, "Principate of Augustus: Legitimization and Memory"

Joe L Norris Endowed Award

Branden McEuen, "Can We Control Our Lakes? Eurasian Watermilfoil, Invasive Alien Species, and the Politics Behind Lake Management Projects"

Richard D. Miles Endowed Award

Matt Hoerauf, "Challenging Alternatives Across Borders: Comparative Analysis of White Earth and Pic River Ojibway Alternative Energy Implementation"

Department of History Faculty Award in Gender Studies

Aimee Shulman

Research Awards

Dr. Gerald Dreslinski Research Award

Kevin Nichols, for research at Western Michigan University

Michael D. Patterson Memorial Award

Sean O'Brien, for research at Gardner Fox Archives

Charles F. Otis and Dr. Jeffrey L. Reider Scholarship in the History of Gender and Sexuality

Alexandra Penn, for research at university archives in Georgia, North Carolina, and Maryland

Kruman-Lion Endowed History Graduate Student Award

Miriam Mora, for research at American Jewish Archives

Alfred H. Kelly Memorial Research Award

Christine Cook, for research at Army Heritage Education Center and the Women's Memorial and Museum

Thomas H. Bonner Graduate Research Grants

Rochelle Danquah, for research at Duke University

Matt Hoerauf, for research at Indiana University at Bloomington

Katie Parks, for research in Munich

Service awards

Joseph Gelinas Drouillard and Elizabeth Lesperance History Award

Christine Cook

Louis Jones History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) Award

Amanda Walter