2025 AwardsHistory and Art History

Graduate Awards

Evelyn Pugh Memorial Graduate Endowed Fellowship

To provide funding for a graduate fellowship in history.

  • Nicole Penn
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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
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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.”
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Kurt Andrew Dodd Endowed Scholarship in History

Awarded to an exceptional fulltime graduate student in History.

  • Rachel Bayler
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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
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Rudolph and Louise Fishel Endowed Scholarship

Supports work at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

  • Rachel Whyte
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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.”
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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
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Outstanding Art History Project

Presented to an outstanding graduate student nominated by the faculty.

  • Gloria Jiaying Dai
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Art History Graduate Student Leadership Award

Presented to an outstanding graduate student nominated by the faculty.

  • Alice Farinhas
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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
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Friends of Historic Huntley Award

Awarded for  the most outstanding research paper relating to the history of the Mason family. 

  • David Armstrong
  • Odessa Lamborn
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