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History Department Research Grant

The History Department at Western Oregon University is pleased to offer a History Research Grant to history majors in their senior year. This grant is designed to support student research and the costs associated with that research for the History 499 Senior Seminar course. The grant amount varies year to year but has historically been in the range of $200-$350.

Students who have completed all of the fall and winter Senior Seminar requirements are eligible for the research grant.

To apply, History majors entering the History 499 Senior Seminar in the spring 2008 term should submit:

• A 1-2 page cover letter with the name of applicant and working title of the senior thesis. The cover letter should include a discussion of the specific tasks that remain to complete the research for the senior thesis and an explanation of how the research grant might be used to support the completion of that research.
• A brief budget itemizing how the applicant would use the research grant funds (such as photocopying, purchase of books or other materials acquisition, travel to Portland or Eugene for archival or library research, etc.)
• A copy of the applicant's most recent unofficial transcripts.

The application materials should be submitted to the HST 499 Instructor by 4:00 PM on March 12.

The research grant will be awarded by the history faculty in a competitive process. In addition to the application materials described above, the history faculty will also consider the completion of fall/winter assignments, such as the annotated bibliography and 499 contract.

The recipient(s) of this grant will be recognized at an awards celebration sponsored by the WOU foundation.

Research Grant Recipients for 1999-2000

Nicole R. Miller for "Heresy and the Dialectics of Toleration in Languedoc during the Cathar Wars"
Isaac Stephens for "The English Reformation: A Historiographical Understanding"

Research Grant Recipients for 2000-2001

Thomas Bahde for "The Trammels of Nationality: Re-examining the German-American Civil War Experience"
Andrea Blake for "Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt: Transformation from Medieval to Modern Warfare" 

Research Grant Recipient for 2001-2002

Christine Hull, “Belżec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Answer to the “Jewish Question”

Research Grant Recipients for 2002-2003

Kalah Paisley, “The First Amendment According to Everson”
Kristin Williams, “The National Park Concessions System: A Case Study of Crater Lake National Park”

Research Grant Recipients for 2003-2004

Toni Kelly, "She Left an American: Hilda Satt Polacheck, Settlement Houses and Progressive Reform"
Clinton Trimmer, "The Salvation Army: A Case Study of How Industrialism Affected Charities"

Research Grant Recipients for 2004-2005

Ashley Bell, “Neolin and Tenskwatawa: A Comparison of Two Nativist Prophets”

Daniel Van Winkle, “An Examination of the Use of History in the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism in the Former Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia”

Research Grant Recipients for 2005-2006

Emily Holmes, “From Side Eddies to Man Stream: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 504 Sit-Ins”

Kevin Jeffries, “The Propaganda of Augustus Caesar: How Peace, Power and Stability was Achieved During the Age of Augustus”

Tara Jones, “Footbinding in China”

Research Grant Recipients for 2006-2007

Chris Breyer, “Culpability and Concealed Motives: An Analysis of the Parties Involved in the Diversion of the Fourth Crusade”

Nolan Doyle, “Rome’s Bloody Nose: The Pannonian Revolt, Teutoburg Forest, and the Formation of Roman Frontiers”

Research Grant Recipients for 2007-2008

Matt Bond, "Ivan the Terrible"

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