History Honors Students Who Won Departmental Scholarships for
Research in 2008:

• Flora Belle Houston Memorial Scholarship: Kathryn Gaskill
• William L. M. and William E. Burke Scholarship: Brian Kim
• William Eugene Wolters Scholarship: Melissa Hamilton
• Alan Spitzer Scholarship: Zeke McCartney
• Stow Persons Prize for Best Senior Thesis: Andrew Mathern

UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Awards:

Kay Keeshan Hamod Scholarship in History:

This award is named in memory of Kay Keeshan Hamod who received her doctorate in modern European intellectual history from the University of Iowa in 1976, annually to a liberal arts and sciences student who is majoring in history and is a member of the Honors Program. Recent recipients include:

2008 -- Zane Scott-Tunkin
2007 -- Shannon Wenck
2006 -- Megan Roy

J.A. Swisher Prize Award:

This new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences award, alternately granted to a History or Political Science undergraduate student, was presented to a History student in its first year. The award for 2008 was presented to Marisol Pulido.