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Undergraduate Achievements Spring 2008 Tina Barvarian (history alumna) will enter USC Law School this fall. Elizabeth Cook (history honors, 2007; theatre 2008) has been selected as one of the University’s 10 Renaissance scholars. She will enter the doctoral program in early American history and archaeology at the College of William and Mary in the fall. Amara Edblad (history , 2008) has been acepted to law school at Arizona State University. Margaret Esser (history, 2008) will be attending the UC-Santa Barbara history program in early modern European intellectual and cultural history. Elizabeth Dahill (history, 2008) will be going to the University of Ghana to get a Masters in Political Science with a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. Emily Lerner (history, 2007) has been admitted to Boston University and to an interdisciplinary program at the University of Chicago . Nicholas Polk (history, 2008) will enter the doctoral program in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Archana Prakash (history honors, 2007) has been accepted to the doctoral program in middle-eastern history at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. Haley Ryan (history, 2008) will be attending the International Scholar Laureate program for Archaeology/Anthropology to China in May. Melissa Shimizu (history, 2008) will enter Cornell Law School in the fall. She recently received honorable mention in the humanities division of the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Symposium for a poster board on her forthcoming honors thesis, “The American Fertility Decline in the Nineteenth-Century: A New England Focus.” James Skee (history honors, 2007) has been accepted to the doctoral program in history at UC-Berkeley where he will pursue his interest in the history of technology. During his time at USC, James not only distinguished himself as a student but also as a very valuable assistant in the History Lab. Congratulations to graduating Phi Beta Kappa members Megan Baaske, Elizabeth Dahill, Katherine Gibelyou, Elisabeth Goodenough, Megan Ashley O’Dell, Nicholas Polk, Amy Rutherford, Angela Vimuttinan. New Phi Beta Kappa members of the junior class are Eric Ambler and Rory Gallagher. Rory Gallagher and Richard DeVoe have been selected to attend a one week history seminar in New York at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York. This fellowship is part of a nationwide competition in which over the past three years the History Department at USC has sent an outstanding student. Fall 2007 Shauna France, Katie Gibelyou, and Michael Wong have been selected to lead Phi Alpha Theta, the History honorary organization, during the academic year. Elizabeth Cook will be presenting a paper drawn from her honors thesis "We Theatric Merchants: Marketing Theater in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg" at a conference in Great Britain sponsored by the Society for Theatre Research. Spring 2007 The Honors Program recipients in History at May graduation are Alexandra Brazier, Hannah Buerano, Elizabeth Cook, Jennifer Jones, Lauren Nakamura, Archana Prakash, James Skee, Lesley Swanson, and Patrick Wyman. The first fellowships awarded to undergraduate history students from the Roberta Persinger Foulke Endowment went to Elizabeth Cook, Amara Edblad, Shauna France, Vanessa Hongsathavij, Barbara Swensied, and Daphne Wu. The first Roberta Persinger Foulke Fellowship awarded to an incoming freshman went to Presidential Scholar Megan Doherty Eric Ambler has won a fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute to do research on American History in New York City this summer. Phi Beta Kappa Initiates: Megan Baaske, Elizabeth Dahill, Katie Gibelyou,Nicholas Pope,and Brendan Mace. Congratulations! Fall 2006 Medieval Spain Bibliography Paul Kohlbry, a student in a course offered by Professor Ramzi Rouighi, has compiled a comprehensive bibliography on medieval Spain and has generously agreed to make it available online. Spring 2006 Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Phi Alpha Theta Research Poster Competition First Place: Katie Benton, Elizabeth Cook, Karina Godoy, Archana Prakash," Fire in the U.S. Built Environment, 1790 to the Present" The Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Award honoring creativity, scholarship, and leadership in faculty-student-community relations: Emily Fetting Phi Beta Kappa Initiates
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