Seven history students have been inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society. The society’s mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. It seeks to bring students and faculty together both intellectually and socially for mutual understanding and encouragement in their common interest in the study of History.
The new Phi Alpha Theta members are Yousef Alhamoudi (PhD Literature), Jennifer Armstrong (PhD History of Ideas), Grant Bissell (BA History), Jennifer Cantrell-Sutor (PhD Humanities), Ralph Cousins (History MA), Brenda Lakhani (PhD History of Ideas), and Kehinde Tijani (PhD History of Ideas).
At the ceremony, we also had the pleasure of recognizing the 6 students from the School of Arts and Humanities who recently received the 2022 Frank R. Rossiter Book Awards.
The Rossiter Book Awards honor outstanding academic achievement and scholarly accomplishment by undergraduate and graduate students in the History and History of Ideas programs. This year’s recipients were Rick Townsend (Ph.D. in History of Ideas), Stevesha Evans (M.A. in History), Kati Johnson (B.A. in History), Elyse McCarty (B.A. in History), Rachel Goode (B.A. in History) and Seth Ritchie (B.A. in History).