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Hawai’i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ’s History, Diplomacy and Military Studies, and Political Science students won prizes at the Annual Hawaii State Phi Alpha Theta Conference held via Zoom on April 9-10, 2021. HPU History faculty Dr. Jon Davidann chaired a panel at the conference and Dr. Bryan Gibson served as a judge. Congratulations to all the HPU students on their accomplishments!

Best Undergraduate Paper

Winner: History Major Daria Rae Baer (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper Utopian Escapism, Where No Woman Had Gone Before

The Idus Newby Prize in Historiography

Winner: DMS Graduate Student Andrew Merz (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper The British Middle East Campaign in World War I: A Brief Historiography of an Oil Origin Story

The Herbert Margulies Prize in American History

Honorable Mention:

Political Science Major Christopher Albritton (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper Megaregions and the New Sectionalism: Understanding Regional Division in the United States of America

The Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science, Technology, Exploration, and Medicine

Winner: DMS Graduate Student Geoff Ross (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper Arctic Oil Drilling in the Chukchi Sea

The Robert G. McGlone Prize in Biography or Oral History

Honorable Mention: History Major Noah Hull (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper A Modern Day Voltaire: Bernstein’s Candide

The Jerry H. Bentley Prize in Comparative, Cross-Cultural, or Transnational World History

Honorable Mention: DMS Graduate Student Troy Howell (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper Divergent Outcomes of Oil Nationalization: a Comparison of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela

The Marc Jason Gilbert Prize in the History of Global Conflicts and the Search for Peace

Winner: DMS Major Michael Collat (Hawai‘i Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ) for the paper Suez: The Middle East Crisis that Completely Transformed Western Alliances