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Scholarships and Awards
The History Department is endowed to award a number of scholarships and
prizes to outstanding History majors, from sophomores to graduating
seniors.
Our prize-winners for 2008-09:
Ron Catoni
received the Julian S. Rammelkamp Award in American History, in
recognition of his thesis on "The Sin of Denial: Abram Ryan and the Lost
Cause."
The Julian S. Rammelkamp Junior Scholarship in History was awarded to
juniors Kristin Butler, Jeffrey DeMoss, Mallory Fellows,
and Andrew Neagoe. Kristin and Mallory participated in the
Holocaust Studies Service Learning Program in Poland in May 2009.
Kristin will take part in the ACM Newberry Seminar in the Humanities in
Chicago in Fall 2009 where she will examine slave narratives. Jeff, a
future teacher, is teaching in the Albion public schools as part of the
Education program’s Maymester ; then he will direct a soccer program at
a New York summer camp. Andrew, a double major in Economics & Management
(with
a Gerstacker concentration) will intern this summer at the Northwestern
Mutual Financial Network.
Louis Kraus received the Phillip H. and
Shirley Kennedy Battershall Scholarship, in conjunction with the Ford
Institute.
An alum of the Border Studies
Program in Nogales and Tucson in 2008, Lou is initiating research for a
thesis on Mexican immigration.
The David Morris-Eldridge Pierce Sophomore Scholarship in History was
awarded to Kerri Marowske. Kerri took part in the Holocaust
Studies Service Learning Program in Poland in May 2009.
The History Department also congratulates . . .
Erin Powell, ’09, entering the School of Library and Information
Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Hannah Schweie, ’09, for completion of her thesis “Bombs Away:
The Military, Political, and Social History of the Airplane and the
British and American Airmen Who Fought the Strategic Bombing Campaign in
the Second World War.”
Bekah McCafferty,
`09, joins the Peace Corps for work in Togo.
Elizabeth Goetz,
’08, entering the graduate program in English at Wayne State University.
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