Awards Propel Carolina Students Abroad
Two students in the History Honors Thesis program—a demanding year-long course that requires students to produce a 70 to 100-page work of original research—have won prizes to support their dives into the archives. Katherine Frances Cayton ’18 received a Gillian T. Cell Senior Thesis Research Award to conduct research in the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America archive in New York for her thesis, “Radio Free Europe, Poland, and 1956: Impact and Incoherencies in American Psychological Warfare Intervention Efforts.”
Rebekah Cockram was awarded a Tom and Elizabeth Long Research Award to research in the British National Archives for her thesis, “The Role of the British Government in Sealing the Future of Hong Kong, 1982-1984.” Both students conducted their research over fall break.
The History department, working in conjunction with the Study Abroad office, has awarded Michael L. and Matthew L. Boyatt Awards to Maximilian Conley, who will be studying abroad spring semester 2018 at Keio University, Japan; and to Jordan Jenkins, who be attending the University of Edinburgh.
UNC History journal Traces Wins National Recognition
Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honors Society, has once again awarded the Nash History Journal Prize for 2017 to Traces, the UNC-Chapel Hill journal of history. Our student editors and contributors continue to demonstrate their commitment to excellence in historical research and writing. This is the second time that Traces has received first place in the competition (it has also won second-place recognition three times).
Congratulations to Sarah Miles, Garrett Wright, Max Conley, and Lacey Hunter especially for last year’s efforts and all the student editors, writers, and organizers who contributed to its success last year and are hard at it again this year. Special thanks to founding editor, PhD candidate Mark Hornburg, whose vision brought Traces into being and who continues to support its efforts. Thanks also to Max Owre, who has served as faculty adviser to the journal and is a lecturer in the History department and executive director of Carolina Public Humanities. William Sturkey will take over the role of faculty adviser in 2018.