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Each spring term, the History Faculty at Western Oregon University will award a $1,000 scholarship to a History major in their Sophomore or Junior year who will be returning in the following academic year as a History major. This scholarship is supported by a small endowment created in 1990 that grew through contributions from alumni and WOU faculty
The History Department at Western Oregon University is pleased to offer a History Research Grant to history majors in their senior year. This grant is designed to support student research or internship costs for the History 499 Senior Seminar course. The grant amount varies year to year but has historically been in the range of $200-350.
The History Department is pleased to announce the creation of a History Essay Prize. Each Spring term (as funds are available), the History Department will award a $50 prize for the best essay written in an upper-division History course offered at WOU.
2022-2023 Zane Hix2021-2022 Sam Speckman and honorable mention Audrey Manning,2020-2021 Martin Hainz2019-2020 Antonia Scholerman2018-2019 Hudson Kennedy2017-2018 Brant Cheeley2016-2017 Spencer Welter and honorable mention James Masnov
2020-2021Martin Hainz, “Nazi Propaganda & The Beer Hall Putsch: AnExamination of the Shift of Nazi Tactics for Political Propaganda from 1920-1933”Brandon Parsons, “Terror in Soviet Industry: Tensions betweenManagers, Workers, and the Secret Police, 1930s”2019-2020Gabriel Yanez, Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), A Unifier in the Late Sengoku Era2018-2019Hudson Kennedy, “Restraint and Patient Agency: Institutional Control at the Oregon State Hospital in the 1920s”2017-2018Jodi Harrison, “El Camino Real: Commercial Trade Route to Santa Fe”Martin Salinas, “The Bracero Program and the Migration from Michoacán to Oregon: 1942-1995”2016-2017James Masnov, “The Power of Nine: Federalists, Antifederalists, and Natural Law Synthesis in the Ninth Amendment”2015-2016Michelle Smail, “W. G. Sebald: Giving Voice to Silent Destruction”2014-2015Brian Reese, “Forgotten Bravery: The San Patricio Battalion and the Irish Experience”2013-2014Zachary Jones, “There is No Law Here: Vigilantism, Militarism and Metropolitanism in Coos Bay, Oregon 1912-1913″2012-2013Kate Claussen, “Rural America is ‘On the Front’: Rural Civil Defense in the Midwest and Northwest During the Cold War2011-2012Jennifer Ross, “Projections of Complicity: Narratives of Rape Survivors in Wartime Bosnia, 1992-1995”2010-2011Sarah Berry, “Pancho Villa and the Lord of the Skies: Narcocorridos in the Corrido Tradition”Jennifer Newby, “Jane Addams and Children: Educating the Future One Child at a Time”2009-2010Hannah Marshall, “Voluntary Food Conservation: The United States Home Front During the First World War”Sarah Hardy, “Temperance and Beyond: The Oregon Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Progressive Reform during the First World War”2008-2009Kristin Johnson, “Oversimplified Men: A Striking Comparison to Society in the 21st Century”Joshua Hall, “Erythrean Sea Trade: The Origin of Rome’s Contact with China”Mary Wright, “Marius’ Mules: Paving the Way to Power”Nolan Kinney, “Positivism in Poland”Richard Mansker, “Augustan Propaganda: An Examination of the Ara Pacis Augustae”2007-2008Matt Bond, “Ivan the Terrible”2006-2007Chris Breyer, “Culpability and Concealed Motives: An Analysis of the Parties Involved in the Diversion of the Fourth Crusade”Nolan Doyle, “Rome’s Bloody Nose: The Pannonian Revolt, Teutoburg Forest, and the Formation of Roman Frontiers”2005-2006Emily Holmes, “From Side Eddies to Man Stream: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 504 Sit-Ins”Kevin Jeffries, “The Propaganda of Augustus Caesar: How Peace, Power and Stability was Achieved During the Age of Augustus”Tara Jones, “Footbinding in China”2004-2005Ashley Bell, “Neolin and Tenskwatawa: A Comparison of Two Nativist Prophets”Daniel Van Winkle, “An Examination of the Use of History in the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism in the Former Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia”2003-2004Toni Kelly, “She Left an American: Hilda Satt Polacheck, Settlement Houses and Progressive Reform”Clinton Trimmer, “The Salvation Army: A Case Study of How Industrialism Affected Charities”2002-2003Kalah Paisley, “The First Amendment According to Everson”Kristin Williams, “The National Park Concessions System: A Case Study of Crater Lake National Park”2001-2002Christine Hull, “Belżec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Answer to the “Jewish Question”2000-2001Thomas Bahde, “The Trammels of Nationality: Re-examining the German-American Civil War Experience”Andrea Blake, “Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt: Transformation from Medieval to Modern Warfare”1999-2000Nicole R. Miller, “Heresy and the Dialectics of Toleration in Languedoc during the Cathar Wars”Isaac Stephens, “The English Reformation: A Historiographical Understanding”
2022-2023Drew FinleyAlex HuynhSarah Suit2021-2022Colyn HalbertAudrey Manning2020-2021 Cuauhtemoc Reilly2019-2020 Chloe Miller2018-2019Dayna RagasaAndy AlvarezCesar E. Tucux Lopez2017-2018Hudson KennedySara Madden2016-2017Alison Nelke2015-2016Spencer WelterJenn Hight