The History Department offers our heartfelt congratulations to our graduating seniors. We have several important year-end announcements to share.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the 2020-21 History Award winners!<\/p>\n
1) The Freshman History Prize is awarded to Aeden Tharpe.<\/p>\n
2) The History Prize (for Sophomore\/Junior work) is awarded to two papers this year: Bella Hintzman for “Zhuangzi: Harmony through Liberation” for Hist 324C and Spencer Queen for “On the Outside Looking in: Civil Rights and Black Power at Ohio Wesleyan University” for Hist 250.<\/p>\n
3) The Anna H. Rusoff Memorial History Award this year goes to Grace Burich for her Hist 494 paper, “Doomed to Repeat History: Why John Collier’s Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 Failed.”<\/p>\n
4) Finally, the 2021 Hastings-Eells Prize, awarded to the graduating senior with the highest overall GPA and highest history GPA, goes to Emma Rose Neeper.<\/p>\n
We congratulate all of these students for their excellent work and their commitment to historical thinking and scholarship.<\/p>\n
We are also delighted to announce the 2020 and 2021 Inductees into OWU’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society.<\/p>\n
2020: Catie Babbs, Grace Burich, Jody Forman, Alexis Henson, Cyril Hicks, Aidan O’Rourke, Spencer Queen, Mark Romero, and Katherine Werner.
\n2021: Faith Brammer, Grant Cayton, Chase Dusek, Anna Franko, Andrew Gallogly, Anna McReynolds, Samuel Miller, Luke Newton, Drake Ogden, Cole Peterson, Joshua Pletcher, Julia Shorey, Henry Tikkanen, and James Welch.<\/p>\n
The final announcement is that of next year’s student board:
\nJacob Delight
\nDrake Ogden
\nCole Peterson
\nJacob Tscherton
\nSpencer Queen<\/p>\n
Congratulations again to all of you!<\/p>\n