Graduate Scholarship and Award Recipents
Dr. Peggy Jemison Bodine Dissertation Fellowship
|
2023-24 |
Katie Fincher |
|
2022-23 |
Hagar Abdelrahman |
|
2021-22 |
Hagar Abdelrahman |
|
2020-21 |
M. Taylor Deane |
|
2019-20 |
Matthew Isaacs |
|
2018-19 |
Cristina Rose |
|
2017-18 |
Andrea L. Ringer |
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2016-17 |
Rosa Erika Feleg |
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2015-16 |
Maria R. Carlenius |
|
2014-15 |
James David Conway, Jr. |
|
2013-14 |
Katarzyna Scherr |
|
2012-13 |
Not awarded |
|
2011-12 |
Michael Lejman |
|
2010-11 |
Sheena Harris |
|
2009-10 |
Jared Krebsbach |
Dr. Dalvan M. Coger and Dr. Greta M. Coger Fellowship in History
|
2023-24 |
Daniel Warne |
|
2022-23 |
Not awarded |
|
2021-22 |
Hagar Abdelrahman |
|
2020-21 |
Emily Coate |
|
2019-20 |
Katie Fincher |
|
2018-19 |
Rosa Erika Feleg |
|
2017-18 |
Dustin Peasley |
|
2016-17 |
Elizabeth Rose Warkentin |
|
2015-16 |
Rosa Erika Feleg |
|
2014-15 |
Elizabeth Rose Warkentin |
|
2013-14 |
Kaylin Ewing |
|
2012-13 |
Not awarded |
Dr. William R. and Helen Lucille Gillaspie Scholarship
|
2023-24 |
Christina Rose |
|
2022-23 |
Brittany Lyles |
|
2021-22 |
Chelsea Buggs |
|
2020-21 |
Kyra Sanchez-Clapper, |
|
2019-20 |
Kyra Sanchez-Clapper, |
|
2018-19 |
Ashley Dabbraccio, |
|
2017-18 |
Isabel Machado |
|
2016-17 |
Evelyn Jackson |
|
2015-16 |
Isabel Machado |
|
2014-15 |
Isabel Machado |
|
2013-14 |
Not awarded |
|
2012-13 |
Not awarded |
|
2011-12 |
Hafife Montgomery |
|
2010-11 |
Frances W. Breland |
Major L. Wilson Graduate Paper Prize
|
2023 |
Tiarra Hill |
|
2022 |
Paola Cavallari |
|
2021 |
Matthew Grady |
|
2020 |
Katie Fincher, |
|
2019 |
Jackson Rauch |
|
2018 |
Thomas Maher |
|
2017 |
Nicolas Foster |
|
2016 |
Nathan Ball |
|
2015 |
Scott Roth |
|
2014 |
Troy Hallsell |
|
2013 |
Hafife Montgomery |
|
2012 |
Amber A. Colvin |
|
2011 |
Kaylin T. Ewing |
|
2010 |
Mark Janzen |
|
2009 |
John E. Marquart |
|
2008 |
Shawn Fisher |
|
2007 |
Keith Hall |
|
2006 |
Frances Wright |
|
2005 |
Richard A. Chandonnet |
|
2004 |
Horace K. Houston, Jr. |
|
2003 |
Carol P. Ciscel |
|
2002 |
Alyson A. Gill |
|
2001 |
Steven Patterson |
|
2000 |
Horace K. Houston |
|
1999 |
Caroline M. Getaz |
|
1998 |
Ann L. Greene |
|
1997 |
Ronald Buck |
|
1996 |
Susan Wise |
The Ruth and Harry Woodbury Graduate Fellowship for the Study of Southern History
|
2023-24 |
Chelsea Buggs |
|
2022-23 |
Not awarded |
|
2021-22 |
Brianna Harrison |
|
2020-21 |
Matt Isaacs |
|
2019-20 |
Heather McNamee |
|
2018-19 |
Rebekkah Mulholland |
|
2017-18 |
Isabel Machado |
|
2016-17 |
Andrea Ringer |
|
2015-16 |
Troy Hallsell |
|
2014-15 |
Wendy Clark |
|
2013-14 |
Michael Blum |
|
2012-13 |
Not awarded |
|
2011-12 |
Rita M. Hall |
|
2010-11 |
Jenny Demilio |
|
2009-10 |
Laura A. Perry |
|
2008-09 |
Shawn Fisher |
|
2007-08 |
Carl E. Brown |
|
2006-07 |
Laura M. Cunningham |
|
2005-06 |
Vickie H. Peters |
|
2004-05 |
Leigh Ann Wilson |
|
2003-04 |
John L. Bass |
|
2002-03 |
Charles W. Buckner |
|
2001-02 |
Gary T. Edwards |
|
2000-01 |
Kimberly E. Nichols, |
|
1999-00 |
Judy C. LeForge |
|
1998-99 |
Brian C. Page |
|
1997-98 |
Janette C. Russell |
Paul R. Coppock Scholarship
Note: This scholarship alternated with the Journalism Department until award year 2022. Starting with 2022 funds are split between the Journalism and History Departments every year.
|
2023-24 |
Brianna Harrison |
|
2022-23 |
Hagar Abdelrahman |
|
2021-22 |
Tiarra M. Hill |
|
2019-20 |
Hagar Abdelrahman |
|
2017-18 |
Troy Hallsell |
|
2015-16 |
Jeremy Stitts |
|
2013-14 |
Richard D. Martin, IV |
|
2009-10 |
Carl Brown |
Outstanding Prospectus Award
|
2022 |
Not awarded |
|
2021 |
Not awarded |
|
2020 |
Heather McNamee |
|
2019 |
Matthew Isaacs |
|
2018 |
James Barney |
|
2017 |
Keith Brian Wood |
|
2016 |
Kayla Reno |
|
2015 |
Not awarded |
|
2014 |
Amber Colvin |
|
2013 |
Michael Blum |
|
2012 |
Katarzyna Scherr |
|
2011 |
Mark Janzen, |
|
2010 |
Darin Stephanov, |
Most Outstanding Thesis Award
| 2020-2022 |
No theses submitted. |
| 2018-2020 |
Amanda Castellano-Clark, Re-gendering Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century London” (Dr. Susan O’Donovan, Chair) |
| 2016-2018 |
No theses submitted |
| 2014-2016 |
Steven Knowlton. “Memphis Public Library Service to African Americans, 1903-1961L A History of Its Inauguration, Progress, and Desegregation” (Dr. Aram Goudsouzian, Chair) |
| 2012-2014 |
Steven C. Buckingham. “Smallpox: Epidemic Disease and the Colonization of New England” (Dr. Scott Marler, Chair) |
| 2009-2012 |
Natalie Koho. Devastated Utopias: Communist Art in Twentieth Century Russia, China, and Cambodia” (Dr. Catherine Phipps, Chair) |
| 2005-2009 |
Chrystal Goudsouzian. “The Prophet of the God was Absent, His Wife was hsmn-ing: Illuminating Reproductive Terminology at Deir el Medina” (Dr. Suzanne Onstine, Chair) |
| 2005-2009 |
William C. Love. “Reason, Affection, and Religion: The Religious Thought of John Locke and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury” (Dr. Walter R. Brown, Chair) |
| 2001-2005 |
Michael A. Negron. “Irving Kristol and the Neoconservatives: Bolsheviks of the Right” (Dr. Jonathan Judaken, Chair) |
Most Outstanding Dissertation Award
| 2020-2022 |
Dr. Rosa Erika Feleg, “The Forecourt of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple: Cultic Features of the Interior Wall Reliefs” (Dr. Peter Brand, Chair) |
| 2020-2022 |
Dr. Letoshia Foster, “Beyond What We Knew: Health and Disease among Blacks, with an Emphasis on Women in Memphis, from Slavery to Early Twentieth Century” (Dr. Beverly Bond, Chair) |
| 2018-2020 |
Dr. Isabel Machado-Wildberger, “Naked Bodies and the Invention of Tradition in Mobile, Alabama’s Mardi Gras” (Dr. Aram Goudsouzian, Chair) |
| 2016-2018 |
Dr. Scott Frizzell: “The Impossible, Only Solution: School Busing and Racial Integration in Memphis, Tennessee, 1972-1975” (Dr. Aram Goudsouzian, Chair) |
| 2014-2016 |
Dr. Kaylin Ewing. “Her Own Kind of Woman: The Life of Alberta Hunter” (Dr. Beverly Bond, Chair) |
| 2012-2014 |
Dr. Chrystal Goudsouzian, “Becoming Isis: Myth, Magic, Medicine, and Reproduction in Ancient Egypt” (Dr. Suzanne Onstine, Chair) |
| 2009-2012 |
Dr. Robert C. Griffin, “The Worship of Syro-Canaanite Deities in Egypt: Iconographic, Epigraphic, and Historical Analyses of the New Kingdom Evidence” (Dr. Peter Brand, Chair) |
| 2009-2012 |
Dr. Shirletta J. Kinchen, “’We want what people generally refer to as Black Power’: Youth and Student Activism and the Impact of the Black Power Movement in Memphis, Tennessee, 1965—1975” (Dr. Aram Goudsouzian, Chair) |
| 2005-2009 |
Dr. Edward Hamelrath, “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Reform of the German Volkspolizei in the State of Saxony after the Fall of the DDR, 1989-1994” (Dr. Daniel Unowsky, Chair) |
| 2005-2009 |
Dr. Elton H. Weaver, III, “’Mark The Perfect Man’: The Rise of Bishop C.H. Mason and the Church of God and Christ” (Dr. Beverly Bond, Chair) |
| 2001-2005 |
Dr. Steven H. Patterson, “Tin Gods on Wheels: Gentlemanly Honor and the Imperial Ideal in India” (Dr. Abraham Kriegel, Chair) |
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
|
2023 |
Daniel Warne |
|
2022 |
Evelyn Jackson |
|
2021 |
Kelsie Carper |
|
2020 |
Greg Viessman |
|
2019 |
Rebekkah Mulholland |
|
2018 |
Andrea Ringer |
|
2017 |
Rosa Erika Feleg |
|
2016 |
Dustin Peasley |
|
2015 |
Dustin Peasley |
|
2014 |
Kayla Reno |
|
2013 |
Kaylin Turner Ewing |
|
2012 |
Michael Blum |
|
2011 |
Kenneth E. Baroff |
|
2010 |
Katarzyna Scherr |
|
2009 |
Laura A. Perry |
|
2008 |
Reginald K. Ellis |
|
2007 |
Ann Mulhearn |
|
2006 |
Carol P. Ciscel |
|
2005 |
Whitney E. Huey |
|
2004 |
Horace K. Houston, Jr. |
|
2003 |
Julie Harper Elb |
Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award
|
2023 |
Dr. Molly Giblin |
|
2022 |
Dr. Robert Griffin |
|
2021 |
Dr. Jeff Jones and |
|
2020 |
Micki Y. Kaleta |
|
2019 |
Dr. Michael Lejman |
|
2018 |
Micki Y. Kaleta |
|
2017 |
Dr. Paul W. White |
|
2016 |
Dr. Kimberly Nichols |
|
2015 |
Dr. Rachel Mittelman |
|
2014 |
Dr. Mantri Sivananda |
|
2013 |
Amanda Lee Savage |
|
2012 |
Vincent Clark |
|
2011 |
Dr. Louise Cooper and |
|
2010 |
Dr. Peter A. Cash |
|
2009 |
Dr. Elton H. Weaver, III |
|
2008 |
Dr. James Johnson |
|
2007 |
Don Wilson |
|
2006 |
Vincent L. Clark |
|
2005 |
Jesse E. Lipford |
|
2004 |
Dr. Eda C. Fain |