2025 AwardsHistory and Art History
Graduate Awards
Evelyn Pugh Memorial Graduate Endowed Fellowship
To provide funding for a graduate fellowship in history.
- Nicole Penn
Joseph and Dorothy Censer Graduate Endowed Fellowship
Awarded to a graduate student doing digital scholarship with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
- Timmia King
Josephine Pacheco Award for Best History M.A. Research Paper
Presented to the graduate history student who submits the best paper during the previous calendar year.
- Katherine Kania, for “Provincial Publishing: The Bluestocking Society’s Literary Patronage Network in Eighteenth Century Britain.”
Kurt Andrew Dodd Endowed Scholarship in History
Awarded to an exceptional fulltime graduate student in History.
- Rachel Bayler
Randy Beth Clarke Endowed Fellowship in U.S. History
Awarded to a graduate student who has an excellent academic record and has an interest in the Civil war era and/or women's history.
- Odessa Lamborn
Rudolph and Louise Fishel Endowed Scholarship
Supports work at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
- Rachel Whyte
C. W. Bright Pixel Prize for Best History and New Media Project
- Alexandra Miller, for ““Dante’s Not Dead: New York Women’s Clubs and the Local, 1910-1922.”
Academic Excellence in Art History
Presented to the graduating MA Art History major with the highest cumulative and major G.P.A.
- Julie Goforth
- Nicola MacDonald
Outstanding Art History Project
Presented to an outstanding graduate student nominated by the faculty.
- Gloria Jiaying Dai
Art History Graduate Student Leadership Award
Presented to an outstanding graduate student nominated by the faculty.
- Alice Farinhas
Historic City of Fairfax Scholarship Fund
Awarded to an outstanding history student who is a resident of the City of Fairfax or Fairfax County.
- Rebecca West
Friends of Historic Huntley Award
Awarded for the most outstanding research paper relating to the history of the Mason family.
- David Armstrong
- Odessa Lamborn