History Students Sweep 2023 Undergraduate Research Awards

History Undergraduates Stars on Undergraduate Research Day, April 26

Four Library Awards were presented at Undergraduate Research Day on April 26, and all four went to history students! Here is the line-up of award-winners.

Elizabeth Early won the library's new IDEA Award, which goes to a research essay that explores issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
  Honors Advisor:  Dr. Richard Bell
  Honors Thesis:  "'A Quest for the Truth':  An Analysis of the Background and Context of the Southern University Slave Narrative Project and the WPA Slave Narrative Project"
  DRUM: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29751

Emily Fox--Library Award for a Research Essay
 
    Departmental Advisor:  Dr. Kate Keane
    Librarian:  Benjamin Blake
    Research Essay:  "Toward a People's History of the University of Maryland:  AFSCME Local 1072"
    DRUM: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29752

Cecelia Hough--Library Award for Research Essay
 
   Departmental Advisor:  Dr Colleen Wods
    Librarian:  Judy Markowitz
    Research Essay:  "Homosexual Investigations:  The CIA's Contribution to the Lavender Scare from the 1950s to the 1980s"
    DRUM: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29755

Evan Richardson--Library Research Award

   Departmental Advisor:  Dr. Katarina Keane
   Archival Assistant:  Michael Henry
   Research Essay:  "Getting From Sesame Street to Sesamstrasse:  The Development of Sesame Street's International Adaptations, 1970-1978"
   DRUM: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29756

Congratulations to all the students and their advisors!!