Student News

Join the Undergraduate History Club for an Exciting Semester of Activities!

This fall, History Club has an exciting line-up of events! We launched the semester with a campus-wide historical scavenger hunt that featured places and monuments across campus. The winning team won a $75 Amazon gift card. We’ll be featuring two “History of the Present” lectures that look at some contemporary issue through a historical lens—Dr. Holly Karibo on the long War on Drugs (September 6) and Dr. Laura Belmonte on the election season (November 1). History Club will also be taking a field trip (September 10) to the Crystal Bridges Museum and Frank Lloyd Wright House in Bentonville, AR; having a book sale on September 22 (great books across all genres for $1 or less!); learning about how to apply to graduate school (October 5); throwing a historical dress-up party for Halloween (October 21); hosting movie nights; and sharing lunch socials! See our calendar for full details, and email zeide@okstate.edu to get on the mailing list for announcements.


Students participating in the History Club Scavenger Hunt		Dr. Belmonte, Department Head, at the Scavenger Hunt

New History Practicum Course Offers Amazing Hands-On Experience for Undergraduate Students!

With the launch of a new History practicum course, undergraduate history majors now have the opportunity to develop hands-on internship-like experience at a range of institutions. This semester, 6 students are learning and working at the OSU Museum of Art, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, and the Special Collections and University Archives. They are also learning about how to identify career paths, build connections with a wider network, and developing a portfolio of material to showcase their knowledge as they enter the job market in years to come.

New Ph.D. Enhanced Stipend Award Announced

Teaching Associate Enhanced Stipend Award

The History Department is pleased to announce the creation of a new $7,500 Teaching Associate Enhanced Stipend Award to be given to an outstanding applicant to the Ph.D. program in 2017-2018. Given satisfactory progress toward the Ph.D. degree, this award is renewable for up to four years. Added to the regular Teaching Associate stipend of $13,311, this award will bring the annual compensation for the individual selected to $20,811 for the academic year.

OSU Graduate Students Honored With Awards

12028697 1222641811098279 4058486413190379289 o Graduate students Sarah Barton, Cara Menasco, and Jared Eberle won awards for the papers they presented at the Phi Alpha Theta State Conference at Oklahoma Baptist University on February 27, 2016. Sarah Barton won 1st place in Graduate U.S. (The Crack Epidemic: An American Myth), Jared Eberle won 2nd place in Non-U.S. (Uniting the Red People of the Western Hemisphere: Native Activists in Nicaragua), and Cara Menasco won 3rd place in Non-U.S. (Unveiling Women's Religious Activities in Ancient Rome).

Jared Eberle also won the Summer Dissertation Fellowship from Oklahoma State University's Graduate College, the third year in a row a History PhD student has been selected for this prestigious campus-wide honor.

Emily Allen, a sophomore History major, won the Women’s Faculty Council Research Award. Keith Harris, our 2016 Outstanding Senior, won a graduate fellowship to continue his studies at Purdue University. Andrew Knepfler won OSU’s Best Freshman Research Presentation award.