Scholarships and Prizes

Meet the Winners!

The following are the History Major Achievement Scholarship recipients

2023-2024 Stephanie McKenzie
2022-2023 Zane Hix
2021-2022  Sam Speckman and honorable mention Audrey Manning,
2020-2021  Martin Hainz
2019-2020  Antonia Scholerman
2018-2019  Hudson Kennedy
2017-2018  Brant Cheeley
2016-2017  Spencer Welter and honorable mention James Masnov

The following are the History Research Grant recipients listed by year with titles of senior theses:

2020-2021
Martin Hainz, “Nazi Propaganda & The Beer Hall Putsch: An
Examination of the Shift of Nazi Tactics for Political Propaganda from 1920-1933”
Brandon Parsons, “Terror in Soviet Industry: Tensions between
Managers, Workers, and the Secret Police, 1930s”
2019-2020
Gabriel Yanez, Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), A Unifier in the Late Sengoku Era
2018-2019
Hudson Kennedy, “Restraint and Patient Agency: Institutional Control at the Oregon State Hospital in the 1920s”
2017-2018
Jodi Harrison, “El Camino Real: Commercial Trade Route to Santa Fe”
Martin Salinas, “The Bracero Program and the Migration from Michoacán to Oregon: 1942-1995”
2016-2017
James Masnov, “The Power of Nine: Federalists, Antifederalists, and Natural Law Synthesis in the Ninth Amendment”
2015-2016
Michelle Smail, “W. G. Sebald: Giving Voice to Silent Destruction”
2014-2015
Brian Reese, “Forgotten Bravery: The San Patricio Battalion and the Irish Experience”
2013-2014
Zachary Jones, “There is No Law Here: Vigilantism, Militarism and Metropolitanism in Coos Bay, Oregon 1912-1913″
2012-2013
Kate Claussen, “Rural America is ‘On the Front’: Rural Civil Defense in the Midwest and Northwest During the Cold War
2011-2012
Jennifer Ross, “Projections of Complicity: Narratives of Rape Survivors in Wartime Bosnia, 1992-1995”
2010-2011
Sarah 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”
2009-2010
Hannah 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”
2008-2009
Kristin 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”
2007-2008
Matt Bond, “Ivan the Terrible”
2006-2007
Chris 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”
2005-2006
Emily 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”
2004-2005
Ashley 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”
2003-2004
Toni 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”
2002-2003
Kalah Paisley, “The First Amendment According to Everson”
Kristin Williams, “The National Park Concessions System: A Case Study of Crater Lake National Park”
2001-2002
Christine Hull, “Belżec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Answer to the “Jewish Question”
2000-2001
Thomas 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”
1999-2000
Nicole R. Miller, “Heresy and the Dialectics of Toleration in Languedoc during the Cathar Wars”
Isaac Stephens, “The English Reformation: A Historiographical Understanding”

The following are the History Essay Prize recipients:

2023-2024
Jandika Borden
2022-2023
Drew Finley
Alex Huynh
Sarah Suit
2021-2022
Colyn Halbert
Audrey Manning
2020-2021 
Cuauhtemoc Reilly
2019-2020   
Chloe Miller
2018-2019
Dayna Ragasa
Andy Alvarez
Cesar E. Tucux Lopez
2017-2018
Hudson Kennedy
Sara Madden
2016-2017
Alison Nelke
2015-2016
Spencer Welter
Jenn Hight