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Mike Dicianna was named a CLA Outstanding Senior for 2012. Nominated by Professors Stacey Smith and Ben Mutschler, Dicianna is one of fewer than a dozen CLA students so recognized. In her letter of nomination, Smith wrote: “As an incredibly and talented ‘older than average’ student who gives so fully and freely of his time to the department, the university, and to the community, Mike is a great candidate for this prestigious award.” Mike will be continuing his education at the Portland State University Public History Program.

Mike Dicianna with Stacey Smith

History of Science Masters student Ingrid Ockert has been accepted into the Princeton PhD program!

2012 Gravatt Awards for outstanding seminar papers were presented to Samantha Beattie and Aimee Hisey. Beattie, who was honored in 2011 with a Meehan Award, wrote “The Triumphant Minority: Soviet Film in the Silent Era” in Bill Husband’s Stalinism and Soviet Society seminar. Professor Nicole von Germeten nominated Aimee Hisey for “Isabel: Her Legitimacy, Her Sexuality, Her Legacy,” written in her Witchcraft and Sexuality in Early Modern Latin America and Europe seminar.

Ayla Rogers won her THIRD consecutive Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay Award!

Victor Mondragon was awarded the 2012 Manuel Pacheco Award for Excellence in the Study of Diversity and Social Justice.

Natalie Rich won her second Peter C. List Award for Excellence in the Study of Philosophy.

Thomas and Margaret Meehan Awards are given annually to history non-graduating students of high academic achievement. This year, award winners were Jandee Todd and Emily Schwab.

Steven McLain received the prestigious Barabara Bennett Peterson Award, given for scholarship and character. McLain, who was nominated by Professors Paul Kopperman and Jon Katz was recognized both for his superb academic work and his dedicated work as a student representative on the Holocaust Memorial Committee.

Steven McLain with Dr. Paul Kopperman

Robert Wayne Smith Book Awards were given to Travis Cook, Samantha Lyn-Metz, and Christopher Robinson.

Andy Hahn received the Mary Jo and Robert Nye Award for best graduate student paper. Nominated by Professor Anita Guerrini, Hahn’s paper— “The Nature Institute: Goethe’s Presentation of Science in a public Setting”— was informed by his MA thesis on the biological and optical science of the Enlightenment and Romantic era poet, novelist and savant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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