Mary A. Jackson Award

 Kathryn Manning

Raymond C. Dingledine Scholarship

Corey LeCompte

Demetric Walker Memorial Scholarship

Theodore Dubinsky

Sidney R. Bland Scholarship

William Hayes

George C. Marshall Undergraduate Scholars

Stephen Powers
“The Air War Over the Northern Caucuses and Eastern Crimea: July 1942 through July 1943”
Director: Dr. Steven Guerrier

Samuel Riley
“The Partition of Palestine: An Issue in Dispute Resolution”
Director: Dr. Steven Guerrier

Carlton B. Smith Award

Amy Larrabee
“African American Female Shipyard Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area"
Thesis Director:  Dr. Steven Reich

Madison Achievement Scholarship

Patrick Folliard
Kate McFarland

Undergraduate Theses -- Graduating with Distinction in History

Amanda Bowman
Thesis:  “Historical House Tours: A Change in American Ideals”
Director:  Dr Gabrielle Lanier

  Kevin Elliker
  Thesis:  “A Decision Deferred: The Virginia State Convention of 1861”
  Director:  Dr P. David Dillard

 Kyle Hart  
  Thesis:  “Palestine and the Nak****: Migration as the  Essence of National  
  Identity” Director:  Dr Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

  Michael Kelly (grad Dec., 2007)
  Thesis:  “Thornton Stringfellow: Defender of Slavery”
  Director:  Dr Kevin Hardwick

  Kristie Kendall
  Thesis:  “The Stereotypes Do Not Apply”: Reconstructing the African-American  
   Community of Newtown in Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1945-1965”
  Director:  Dr Steven A. Reich
  (Best Honors Thesis in History 2007-08)

  Hilary Pauli  (grad Dec., 2007)
  Thesis:  “Medical Understandings, Responses to and Epidemiology of the 1665
  Great Plague of London”
  Director:  Dr Michael Galgano

  Stephen Powers  
  Thesis:  “Here Lies Suvorov: The Military Accomplishments of Alexander Suvorov”  
  Director:  Dr M. Louise Loe

   Andrew Waring
   Thesis:  “A Comparative Study of the Cross-cultural Interaction between the Jesuits
   and the Native Inhabitants in New France: 16th through the 18th century ”
   Director:  Dr Jennifer Connerley

W. Michael Yarborough
Thesis:  “Flung to the Four Corners of the Globe: British and American Expeditionary Logistics in World War I”
Director:  Dr Richard B. Meixsel

Colonial Academic Alliance Conference

 Amanda Bowman
“Historical Interpretation in the Old Dominion: Influential Virginians and their Homes”

  Anna Klemm
“Pulpits, Pews, and Patronage: The English Protestant Reformation's Effect on Architecture”

National Conference on Undergraduate Research

Kristie Kendall
“The Color of Urban Renewal: The Removal of Harrisonburg, Virginia’s African-American Community”

 Hilary Pauli  (grad Dec., 2007)
“The Great Plague of London, 1665: An Analysis of the Medical Understandings and  an Epidemiological Evaluation of the Disease”

 Phi Alpha Theta National Conference

Amanda Bowman
"The Appalachian Trail: The Inspiration and Design of MacKaye and Avery"

 John Hughes
“An Unparalleled Feat: Mosby’s Raid on Fairfax Court House, 1863”

Anna Klemm
“Pulpits, Pews, and Patronage: The English Protestant Reformation's Effect on Architecture”

Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference

Graduate Division

Emily Beeson
“‘To Take the Calculated Risk’: Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Independent Living Movement, 1962-1972”

 Michael Taylor
“The Two Faces of the Fight Over the Bill of Rights: James Wilson and James Madison”
2nd place, Graduate History 

Zachary Zuro
“Children of the Electric Church: Televangelism, Christian Nurture, and the Evolution of Christian Education”
2nd place, Graduate History

 Undergraduate Division

 Molly Campbell
“The Powhatan Indians and Jamestown Colonists: A Clash of Two Cultures”

Amy Cerminara
“Lincoln Cathedral: Defining what it Means to be English”

John Hughes
“An Unparalleled Feat: Mosby’s Raid on Fairfax Court House, 1863”
1st place, U.S. History Undergraduate Division

Stephen Powers
 “The Effects of the Allied Intervention in Russia” 

Anne Toms
 “Conservatively Radical: Abigail Adams and Women’s Education” 
2nd place, U.S. History Undergraduate Division

William Hayes
“The English Concertina: A Cultural Journey through Nineteenth Century England”
1st place, European History Undergraduate Division

W. Michael Yarborough
“Sustaining the Force: U.S. Army Civilians in Germany, 1954 to 2007”

Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship

Amanda Bowman
“Historical House Tours: A Change in American Ideals”

John Hughes
“An Unparalleled Feat: Mosby’s Raid on Fairfax Court House, 1863”

 Jeffrey Joyce
“How the Battle for Hetch Hetchy Affected American Environmentalism”

Anna Klemm
“Pulpits, Pews, and Patronage: The English Protestant Reformation's Effect on Architecture”

Laura Lloyd-Braff
“The People's Temple: From Paradise to Prison” 

Kathryn Manning
“Southerners at Heart: The Motives of Virginia Soldiers in the Civil War”

 Hilary Pauli (grad Dec., 2007)
“Medical Understandings, Responses to and Epidemiology of the 1665 Great Plague of London”

 William Poole
“The American Colonization Society during Reconstruction and its Implications on Modern Race Relations”

 Stephen Powers
“The Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War”

 Daniel Prendable
“Cautious Courage: President Kennedy's Decision Making During the Cuban Missile Crisis”

 Southern Regional Honors Conference

 Kristie Kendall
Thesis:  “Economic Development in Augusta County, Virginia: 1880-1920”

 Florida State University 2008 Graduate Student Religious Symposium

 J. Michael Jeffries
“History Proliferated by Theoretical Interpretation: A Brief Study of Karl Marx and Max Weber in the Interest of Historical Truth”

 Mercyhurst Colloquium on the Americas: Environmentalities

 John Erdos
“Call and Response: The History of the American Environmental Ethos in the Context of Global Warming Advocacy”

North Carolina State University 2008 Graduate Student History Conference

 J. Michael Jeffries
“Food, Fun, and Drink — Ordinaries on Colonial Virginia’s Frontier: A Brief Study of Ordinary ’Gentlemen,’ Thomas Jefferson,, John Madison, and William Russell”

 Zachary Zuro
“In the Arms of Satan: Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Stratified Response Within Islam to Blasphemy”

 University of Memphis — Graduate Studies in African American History

 Timothy Van Schaick
“Ribbon of Roadway or Racial Maginot Line?”

 Virginia Military Institute — VSSA 2008 Annual Meeting

 Emily Beeson
“To Take the Calculated Risk: Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Independent Living Movement” and

“Successes of the 504 Demonstrations: Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Public Birth of the Disability Rights Movement”

 Virginia Tech — 2008 Bertoti Graduate History Conference

 Emily Beeson
“‘To Take the Calculated Risk’: Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Independent Living Movement”

 Michael Taylor
“James Wilson’s Constitution”

 Timothy Van Schaick
“Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and Community Resistance in Richmond, Virginia”

 Master of Arts Degrees

 Emily Beeson
Thesis:  "Successes of the 504 Demonstrations: Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Public Birth of the Disability Rights Movement, April 1977"
Director:  Dr. Steven Guerrier

Matthew Cain
Thesis:  "The First Crisis in the Commonwealth: Virginia’s Salt Scarcity during the American Revolution"
Director:  Dr. Kevin Hardwick

 J. Michael Jeffries
Non Thesis Option

Craig Lawhorne
Non Thesis Option

Michael Lewis
Thesis:  "Power and Humility: the Interplay of  Violence and Restraint in the 4th Century Church"
Director:  Dr. L. Stephen Chappell

Shawn Skinner
Non Thesis Option

Paula Smith
Thesis:  “Transformative Technology in ‘The Joy of Cooking,’ 1931-1951”
Director:  Dr. Abigail Schweber

Michael Stanton
Non Thesis Option

Timothy Van Schaick
Thesis:  "Community Resistance to Urban Renewal in Richmond, Virginia: Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike" 
Director:  Dr. Kevin Borg

Brandon Williams
Thesis:  “The Pedagogical Inquisition: Purge of the Local 555 New York Teachers’ Union”
Director:  Dr. Steve Reich