Student Awards and Recognition

The Department of History is proud to congratulate Brendan Lang, who recently completed his M.A. in History, on his acceptance into the Ph.D. program in History at the University at Albany, SUNY. As part of his doctoral studies, Lang will work with Gabriel Hetland, a noted scholar of Latin American politics and social movements. He […]

Please join us in congratulating Kurt Garfield on being selected as the recipient of the Graduate School’s 2027 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category. This prestigious recognition highlights Kurt’s exceptional scholarship, dedication, and the outstanding quality of his master’s thesis. In addition to receiving a plaque commemorating this achievement, his […]

Alyssa Martin ’23, a graduate of UNC Charlotte’s M.A. in History program, has been awarded the 2025 Master’s Thesis Award in the Fine Arts and Humanities thesis category from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) for her study, “The ‘Disposable Others’: Settler Colonial Processes of Industrial Pollution in Cancer Alley, Louisiana, 1964-2023.” article

Graduate student and History Department Graduate Teaching Assistant S.L. Ivey is Charlotte’s 2024 Golden Niner. He was selected from the prestigious Niner 9 and is the fourth student to be named in this young annual tradition.  S.L. Ivey credits the second Charlotte Golden Niner, Raquan Leary ‘22 for sparking his interests to apply to Niner […]

Public History student Amy Zytka and Scott Warren, site manager at James K Polk, have won a Digital Humanities award from the Southeastern Museum Conference for their website’s Digital Resources, featuring the Polk Family Cemetery website–a project that Amy originated during her internship at the James K Polk historic site last summer. She will also […]