Departmental Awards for Graduate Students

Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award
Presented annually to a distinguished student of history with a special interest in the history of Georgia
2011: Tom Okie, sponsored by Drs. Shane Hamilton and Paul Sutter
2010: Hannah R. Waits, sponsored by Dr. Pamela Voekel
2009: Christopher Lawton, sponsored by Dr. Inscoe
2008: Keri Leigh Merritt, sponsored by Dr. Moreton
2007: Chris Manganiello, sponsored by Dr. Sutter
2006: Duncan Maysilles, sponsored by Drs. Hoffer and Inscoe
2005: Ichiro Miyata, sponsored by Dr. Bryant Simon

Warner-Fite Award
Presented annually to an outstanding student in American/U.S. history
2011: Kathi Nehls, sponsored by Drs. Hamilton and Paul Sutter
2009: Jim Gigantino, sponsored by Drs. Inscoe and Kulikoff
2008: Darren Grem, sponsored by Professors Bethany Moreton and Pamela Voekel
2007: Barton Myers, sponsored by Dr. Inscoe
2006: Albert Way, sponsored by Dr. Sutter
2005: Judkin Browning, sponsored by Dr. Inscoe

Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Awards
Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants
2011: Samuel McGuire, Tom Okie, and Hannah Waits
2010: Angela E. Elder, Kylie A. Horney, and Tyler E. Suggs
2009: Jen Malto, Cat Holmes, and Jennifer Schwartzberg
2008: Christopher Lawton, Christopher Manganiello, and Kathleen Nehls
2007: La Shonda Mims, Tore Olsson, and Lesley-Anne Reed
2006: Margaret Dykes, J. D. Jordan, and Drew Swanson
2005: Ken Shefsiek, Christopher Huff, and Michelle McLachlan

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards
Presented annually by the Graduate School to outstanding teaching assistants
2011: Kylie A. Horney, Laura J. Davis, Ashton G. Ellett
2010: Derek A. Bentley, Lesley-Anne S. Reed, and James H. Welborn III
2009: Joshua Haynes, Steven Nash, and Hannah Waits
2008: Christopher Lawton, Jennifer Malto, and Tore Olson
2007: Daleah Goodwin, Alejandro Gomez-del-Moral, and Drew Swanson
2006: James Gigantino, Robert Luckett, and Barton Myers
2005: Darren Grem

Encouragement to Teach Award
Presented annually to a history graduate student or undergraduate history major who will teach history at a state college, junior college, or high school
2010: Margaret Brearley, sponsored by Drs. Kathleen Clark and Montgomery Wolf
2009: Elizabeth Summerlin, sponsored by Professor Clark
2008: Daleah Goodwin, sponsored by Professors Bethany Moreton and Pamela Voekel
2007: Robert Luckett
2006: Ivy Holliman

Linda Piper Award
Presented for study abroad
2010: Jennifer Wunn Malto, sponsored by Drs. Laura Mason and Jake Short
2006: Christina Davis, sponsored by Dr. Friday

William Jennings Bryan Award
Presented to a graduate student for the best history paper of the year
2011: Kevin W. Young, sponsored by Dr. James C. Cobb
2010: Kevin M. Krause, sponsored by Dr. Peter Hoffer
2009: Tore Olsson, sponsored by Professors Sutter and Hamilton
2008: Mao Lin and Drew Swanson, sponsored by Professors Paul Sutter and Bill Stueck

History Department Award
Presented to an outstanding graduate student in a field other than American history
2011: Erika Mosteller, sponsored by Dr. Laura Mason
2010: Derek A. Bentley, sponsored by Dr. Pamela Voekel
2009: Jessica Fowler, sponsored by Professors Ehlers and Voekel
2008: Blake Scott, sponsored by Professors Bethany Moreton, Reinaldo Román, and Pamela Voekel

Recent Non-Departmental Awards Won by UGA Graduate Students

Keri Leigh Merritt, Dean's Award, UGA Graduate School (2012)

Hannah Waits, Dean's Award for Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School (2012)

Angela Alexander, Presidential Graduate Fellowship, UGA (2011-2017)

Sean Vanatta, Dean's Award in Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Tom Okie, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2011)

Kevin Young, William Jennings Award, UGA History Department, Best Graduate Student Paper (2011)

Christopher Manganiello, Excellence in Graduate Research Award, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Tom Okie, Dean's Award, UGA Graduate School, Travel grant to support research (2011)

Tore Olsson, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (2011)

Hannah Waits, Graduate Research Travel Grant, UGA History Department (2011)

Tore Olsson, Graduate Field Research Award, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, UGA (2011)

Tom Okie, Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. History Scholarship, UGA History Department, Presented to a distinguished graduate student with interest in Georgia History (2011)

Tore Olsson, Grant-in-Aid, Rockefeller Archive Center (2011)

Darren Grem, Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award, UGA Graduate School, For outstanding dissertation in the Humanities (2011)

Kathi Nehls, Dean's Award in Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Tore Olsson, Dean's Award in Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Hannah Waits, Janelle Padgett Knight Research Award, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2011)

Hannah Waits, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2011)

Matthew Hulbert, Presentation Travel Grant, Young Harris College (2011)

Angela Elder, Master's Thesis Fellowship, Filson Historical Society (2011)

Michael Carson, Graduate School Assistantship, UGA (2011)

LaShonda Mims, Prelinger Scholarship, Coordinating Council for Women in History (2011)

Tore Olsson, Research Fellowship for the Study of the Global South, New Orleans Gulf South Center at Tulane University (2011)

Zachary Smith, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Angela Elder, Best Conference Paper, 2nd Prize, Young Harris College (2011)

Samuel McGuire, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2011)

Angela Elder, George M. Nethken Memorial Fellowship, George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War (2011)

Kylie A. Horney, Future Faculty Program, UGA Center for Teaching and Learning (2011)

Kylie A. Horney, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Hannah Waits, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2011)

Erika Mosteller, History Department Award, UGA History Dept., For the outstanding graduate student in a field other than U.S. history (2011)

Kathi Nehls, Warner-Fite Scholarship in History, UGA History Department, Presented to an outstanding graduate student in U.S. history (2011)

Ashton Ellett, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Laura J. Davis, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School (2011)

Kathi Nehls, Travel Grant, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library (2010-2011)

Darren Grem, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University Center for Faith and Culture (2010-2011)

Christina L. Davis, Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship, University of Georgia (2010-11)

Hannah Waits, Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. History Scholarship, UGA History Department, For distinguished graduate student with interest in Georgia history (2010)

Lesley-Anne Reed, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department (2010)

Derek Bentley, History Department Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in a Field Other than American History, UGA History Department (2010)

Margaret Brearley, Encouragement to Teach Award, UGA History Department (2010)

Angela Elder, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2010)

Jennifer Malto, Linda J. Piper Award for Study Abroad, UGA History Department (2010)

Derek Bentley, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department (2010)

James (Trae) Welborn, Future Faculty Program, UGA Center for Teaching and Learning, Career Development Program for award-winning teaching assistants accepted into program (2010)

James (Trae) Welborn, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department, Recognition of outstanding performance of Teaching Assistant Responsibilities (2010)

Michael Howell, German Archival Summer Seminar, German Historical Institute (2010)

Jennifer Malto, Dean's Award for Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School (2010)

Kylie A. Horney, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2010)

Thomas Chase Hagood, Dean's Award for Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School (2010)

Jason Manthorne, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2010)

Angela Elder, Gregory Graduate Research Award, University of Georgia (2010)

Matthew Hulbert, Gregory Graduate Research Award, University of Georgia, History Department (2010)

Christopher Manganiello, Rachel Carson Prize, American Society for Environmental History, Best Dissertation in Environmental History (2010)

Michael Carson, Albert E. and Wilbert E. Van Dusen Scholarship, University of Connecticut (2010)

Kevin Krause, William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department, for best graduate student paper of the year (2010)

James Gigantino, Alfred E. Driscoll Dissertation Prize, New Jersey Historical Commission, Best Doctoral Dissertation in New Jersey History (2010)

Jennifer Malto, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts (2010)

Daleah Goodwin, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2010)

Kathi Nehls, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2010)

Timothy Johnson, Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Secretary of State / Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (2010)

Kyle Osborn, Gregory Fellowship, UGA History Department (2010)

Laura J. Davis, Gregory Graduate Research Award, UGA History Department (2010)

Katherine E. Rohrer, Gregory Research Award, UGA History Department (2010)

Drew Swanson, 2009 Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society, Awarded for the best article on environmental or conservation history (2010)

Thomas Chase Hagood, Alabama Department of Archives and History Research Grant, Friends of the Alabama Archives (2010)

Alisha Cromwell, New Professional Award, National Council on Public History (2010)

Keri Leigh Merritt, Gregory Fellowship, UGA History Department (2010)

Tom Okie, Everett E. Edwards Award, Agricultural History Society, Best article submitted to Agricultural History by a student (2010)

Christopher Manganiello, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Georgia Graduate School, One of twenty awarded University-wide (2009-2010)

James Gigantino, Samuel Smith Fellowship, New Jersey Historical Commission (2009-2010)

James Gigantino, Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship, University of Georgia (2009-2010)

Jennifer Malto, Archival Summer Seminar, German Historical Institute (2009)

Jessica Fowler, History Department Award, UGA History Department, Presented to an outstanding graduate student in a field other than American history (2009)

Jennifer Schwartzberg, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2009)

Jason Manthorne, Edward Everetts Award for Best Graduate Essay, Agricultural History Society (2009)

Michael Carson, Graduate Presidential Merit Scholarship, University of Connecticut (2009)

Tore Olsson, William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department, Best History Paper of the Year (2009)

Elizabeth Summerlin, Encouragement to Teach Award, UGA History Department (2009)

Jennifer Schwartzberg, Graduate Research Assistantship, United States Holocaust Museum (2009)

Catherine Holmes, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2009)

Jennifer Malto, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA History Department (2009)

James Gigantino, Warner-Fite Award, UGA History Department, outstanding student in American/U.S. history (2009)

Michael Carson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Fellows Fund Scholarship, University of Connecticut (2009)

John Paul Hill, American History District Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (2009)

Catherine Holmes, American History Regional Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (2009)

Christina L. Davis, Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education, Spencer Foundation (2009)

Barton Myers, Jules and Frances Landry Award, LSU Press, Best book on a southern topic (2009)

Drew Swanson, Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2009)

Tom Okie, Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies, Social Science Research Council (2009)

Christina L. Davis, 2nd Annual Scholars Day Award, Institute for African American Studies (2009)

Drew Swanson, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2009)

Keri Leigh Merritt, James C. Bonner Master's Thesis Award, Georgia Historical Society (2009)

Daleah Goodwin, Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Georgia Graduate School (2009)

Drew Swanson, Graduate School Dean's Award, UGA Graduate School (2009)

Drew Swanson, J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library (2009)

Drew Swanson, Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society (2009)

Stephen Huggins, Recognition Award, Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society (2009)

Derek Bentley, Dean's Award, UGA Graduate School, Research support (2009)

Drew Swanson, Wormsloe Scholar in Environmental History, Wormsloe Institute of Environmental History (2008-2010)

Steve Nash, Archie K. Davis Fellowship, The North Caroliniana Society, Research Fellowship (2008-2009)

Christopher Manganiello, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History (2008-2009)

Kathi Nehls, Grant-In-Aid, Rockefeller Archives Center (2008-2009)

Min Song, Dissertation Improvement Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2008)

Daleah Goodwin, Encouragement to Teach Award, UGA Department of History (2008)

Tore Olsson, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia (2008)

Jason Kirby, Ellison Durant Smith Research Award, South Caroliniana Library, Supported research in the General William C. Westmoreland Papers (2008)

Robert Luckett, William F. Holmes Award, Southern Historical Association, Best Graduate Student/Junior Faculty Paper (2008)

Yu Dong, Wan Xin-hui Prize, American Historical Association in China, Best M.A. Thesis in American History (2008)

Derek Bentley, Tinker Summer Travel Award, LACSI, Franklin College, Tinker Foundation, Research support (2008)

Derek Bentley, Fellowship, Oaxaca Cultural Institute, Oaxaca Summer Institute, Summer seminar (2008)

Darren Grem, Warner-Fite Award, UGA History Department, Presented annually to an outstanding student in American/U.S. history (2008)

Blake Scott, Outstanding Graduate Student in a Field other than American History, UGA History Department (2008)

Drew Swanson, William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department, Presented to a graduate student for the best history paper of the year (2008)

Mao Lin, William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department, Presented to a graduate student for the best history paper of the year (2008)

Kathi Nehls, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants (2008)

John Hayes, Excellence in Research by Graduate Student, University of Georgia (2008)

Christopher Manganiello, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of History, University of Georgia (2008)

Drew Swanson, William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department (2008)

Edward A. Hatfield, James C. Bonner Prize, Georgia Historical Society, for the best MA thesis on Georgia history produced in 2006 or 2007 (2008)

John Hayes, Runner-Up, C.Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association, for the best dissertation on a southern history topic completed in 2007 (2008)

John Paul Hill, Student Life Faculty Member of the Year, Andrew College, Awarded annually to the faculty member who most encourages student involvement in campus organizations and other extracurricluar activities (2008)

Keri Leigh Merritt, Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award, Department of History, University of Georgia, to a distinguished student with interest in Georgia history (2008)

Jason Manthorne, 'Memphis State Eight' First Place Paper Prize, Graduate Association of African American History (2008)

Min Song, Dissertation Travel Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2008)

Darren Grem, Numan V. Bartley Dissertation Research Award, UGA History Department, Granted annually to fund dissertation research for graduate students of American/U.S. history (2008)

Tom Okie, Presidential Graduate Fellows Award, UGA Graduate School, Given annually to 12-14 graduate students university wide (2007-2012)

Christopher Manganiello, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia (2007-2008)

Keri Leigh Merritt, Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Graduate Level, The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (GHRAB), for MA thesis (2007)

Barton Myers, Warner-Fite Award, UGA History Department, Presented annually to an outstanding student in American/U.S. history (2007)

Drew Swanson, Graduate School Outstanding Teaching Award, UGA Graduate School (2007)

Tore Olsson, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department (2007)

LaShonda Mims, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants (2007)

Robert Luckett, Encouragement to Teach Award, UGA History Department, Presented annually to a history graduate student or undergraduate history major who will teach history at a state college, junior college, or high school (2007)

Christopher Manganiello, Thomas Pleasant Vincent, Sr. Scholarship Award, Department of History, University of Georgia (2007)

Darren Grem, American History Dissertation Research Award, Colonial Dames of America, Granted annually to fund dissertation research for students of American/U.S. history (2007)

Daleah Goodwin, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School and Department of History (2007)

Robert Luckett, Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (2006)

Drew Swanson, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department (2006)

Christina L. Davis, Award for Study Abroad in Ghana, UGA Franklin College (2006)

Bruce E. Stewart, Dean's Award for Research, UGA Graduate School (2006)

Tore Olsson, Best Paper at the History and Power Across American Borders Conference, Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2006)

Michele Lansdown, Atherton Prize, State Historical Society of Missouri, For her master's thesis, "The Defeat of the 1914 Missouri Woman Suffrage Initiative." (2006)

Christina L. Davis, Linda Piper Award, UGA History Department, Presented for study abroad in Ghana (2006)

Bruce E. Stewart, American History Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia (2006)

Irene V. Holliman Way, Encouragement to Teach Award, UGA History Department, Presented annually to a history graduate student or undergraduate history major who will teach history at a state college, junior college, or high school (2006)

Robert Luckett, Dean's Award for Research, UGA Graduate School (2006)

Robert Luckett, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School, Presented annually by the Graduate School to outstanding teaching assistants (2006)

James Gigantino, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School, Presented annually by the Graduate School to outstanding teaching assistants (2006)

Albert Way, Dissertation Grant, Joseph W. Jones Center for Ecological Research (2005-2006)

John Hayes, Fellow, Baylor University's Institute of Oral History (2005-2006)

Mary Ella Engel, American History Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia (2005-2006)

Irene V. Holliman Way, Memphis Eight Award for Best Conference Paper, Association of African and African American Historians (2005)

Jason Kirby, Ellison Durant Smith Research Award, South Caroliniana Library, Supported research in the General William C. Westmoreland Papers (2005)

Darren Grem, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School, Presented annually by the Graduate School to outstanding teaching assistants (2005)

Christopher Huff, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants (2005)

Kenneth Shefsiek, Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants (2005)

Christopher Manganiello, Thomas Pleasant Vincent, Jr. Fellowship, Department of History, University of Georgia (2004-2006)

Judkin Browning, J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2004-2005)

Jason Kirby, Ellison Durant Smith Research Award, South Caroliniana Library, Supported research in the General William C. Westmoreland Papers (2004)

Steve Nash, Carl V. Vipperman Prize, UGA History Dept., Departmental award given to outstanding teaching assistants (2003, 2006)