Awards for Undergraduates

Each year the faculty recognize outstanding history majors for their achievements in historical scholarship. The Department maintains a list of past winners here. Undergraduate student awards range from $100 to $500 depending on available funds.

2024 Annual Undergraduate Awards program

Awards by student application with faculty recommendation

Study Abroad Scholarships

Any undergraduate history major can fill out an Application for the Study Abroad Scholarship to participate in an official UGA study abroad program. Applications due October 28 for spring study away and February 28 for summer programs and April 17 for fall programs.

• Adam Cramond Martin Travel Award
  • 2024: Sahra Elizabeth King (UGA at Oxford)
• Drew and Dorianne Norwood Award
  • 2024: Riley Fenneran (GLOBIS Ireland)
• Heggoy Travel Scholarship
  • 2024: Samuel Guimond (UGA Classics in Rome), and Zain Ali (UGA Franklin College Study Away, Tropical Diseases: Diagnosis, Surveillance, and Prevention in India)
• Thomas Pleasant Vincent Travel Scholarship
  • 2023: Girard Boudreau, Sam Tripp, Elizabeth Van Der Blom, and Shelby McWhirter
• Linda Piper Award for Study Abroad
  • 2022 (awarded in even years): Margaret Bethel

Summer Program in Public History Scholarship 

The Summer Program in Public History scholarship is dedicated to helping defray the costs of students enrolled in the Department's Summer Program in Public History in Washington, D.C. Any history major can fill out an application for this scholarship as part of their application to the program. Application deadline: 1 February.

• 2019: Griffin Bates, Haley Higingbotham, Andrew Smallwood

History Undergraduate Research Award 

Any undergraduate history major can fill out an Application for the Undergraduate Research Award to help fund research for a HIST 4990 senior seminar research paper, or for travel to present a history paper at a professional conference. Applications due October 1 for fall 4990s and conferences, and February 28 for spring 4990s and conferences or summer conference travel.

Awards by faculty nomination

Alf Andrew Heggoy Award
Presented annually to an undergraduate for the best senior paper

• 2024: Elizabeth Van der Blom

History Department Award (Undergraduate)
Presented to an outstanding undergraduate in a field other than American history

• 2024: Mattie Pickard

Hostilo Family Scholarship in History
Presented to an outstanding undergraduate from a population that has been historically disadvantaged within the academic field of history

• 2024: Maristella Tuazon

Joe Brown Connally Award
Presented to an outstanding junior who has demonstrated excellence in history and whose interests include Georgia history

• 2024: Rhett Floyd

Kay Parker Digital Humanities Award 
Presented annually for an outstanding undergraduate project in the digital humanities

• 2024: Aubrey Rigdon

Outstanding History Major Award 
Presented to an outstanding senior history major for excellence in academics and classroom engagement.

• 2024: Jacob Cato, Larissa Hawker, Neha M. Rao, Nicholas Dietz

Peggy Galis Graduation Award 
Presented to a graduating senior in history for outstanding academic achievement

• 2024: Casen Joyner

Phyllis Jenkins Barrow Scholarship
Presented to an outstanding junior history major

• 2024: Gretchen Collier

Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award
Presented to a distinguished undergraduate or graduate student of history with a special interest in the history of Georgia

• 2024: Meghan Mundy

Warner-Fite Award
Presented to an outstanding graduate or undergraduate student in American/U.S. history

• 2024: Samuel Guimond