DEPARTMENT
OF HISTORY
Awards
The Department of History offers a number of scholarships for undergraduate and graduate history majors.
A. The George B. Lake Memorial Prize
This award shall be based
upon, first, A or A+ grades earned in HIST 1110 and 1120 (reverse order
is acceptable) during the academic year ending the previous spring
(including the summer sessions prior to that academic year), and
second, overall GPA. It shall be restricted to students still enrolled
at UNO when the award is made. The first, or highest, award shall go to
the student who is, or is closest to being, a freshman or sophomore in
terms of credit hours earned. The Department of History will select the
recipients. Awards in the amount of $150.00 and $125.00 shall be made.
B. The Frederick Adrian Award
This award shall go to
the student who presents the best paper in History 3930 during the
previous academic year. The Department of History, at a regularly
scheduled meeting, will select the recipient. The award is $50.00. If
no suitable candidate is found, no award need be made.
C. The A. V. Sorensen Award
This award shall go to
the student (there may be more than one) who has written the best paper
or completed thesis on an urban topic (one involving the history of
cities and towns at any stage of development) during the academic year
ending the previous spring (including the summer session prior to that
academic year). The Department of History will select the recipient.
The amount of the award will depend upon the number of recipients and
the income available. If no suitable candidate is found, no award need
be made.
D. The Missouri Valley History Conference Award
This award (there may be more than one) is made available to the Department by the MVHC. In recent years, this award has been made to the Department's outstanding graduate student.
The outstanding graduate student must be nominated by a certain date in the fall semester. On the other hand, the MVHC board normally does not meet until the following March. Accordingly, there is no assurance of funding for this award until the spring semester. As a result, MVHC award cannot be made until that time. Previously, the Awards Committee recommended that the Graduate Program
Committee is responsible
for nominations for any award specifically intended for graduate
students.
E. The Virginia Dare Shuflata Award
This award is "for
excellence in history. It is to go to "one (or occasionally two
students." If no suitable candidate is found, no award needs to be
made. "The primary basis for selection will be performance in history
as measured by grades and other indicators such as awards for papers
presented at student history conferences or other prizes. Excellence in
overall GPA may also be considered." "The selection will be made during
final semester of a student's undergraduate program or during the final
semester of a student's graduate program." The person selected as the
Department's choice as the outstanding undergraduate student at the
Honors Convocation normally shall be the recipient of the Shuflata
Award. That person shall be chosen from students who graduated at the
end of the fall semester, or who are expected to graduate at the end of
the spring semester, or at the end of the summer. The Awards Committee
will provide a list of students who graduated at the Fall Commencement
and who have filed for graduation at the Spring Commencement. From this
list, any faculty member may nominate one student for consideration by
the Department for the award. The nominator must include with the
nomination a statement detailing the student's accomplishments. These
statements will be made available the faculty who will then vote for
the student who will be recognized at the Honors Convocation.
F. Shuflata Master's Thesis Fellowship
The Graduate Committee
requests that all History faculty who are currently teaching graduate
students make the following announcement in their classes (especially
Graduate Seminars.
1) Name of the award.
"The George and
Virginia Dare Shuflata Master's Thesis Fellowship."
2) Amount and duration of the award. The award will be equivalent to a T.A. stipend (approximately $10,000 for the year) and will last for two semesters beginning in the fall.
3) Eligibility. All master's students taking the thesis option are eligible to apply. This includes first year students who would be writing their thesis in their second year.
4) Application
requirements. Students will submit to the awards committee (Professors
Simmons and Arbeláez) plus the graduate chair (Professor Tate) a
thesis prospectus (approximately 8-12 pages in length with
bibliography), two letters of recommendation, graduate transcripts, and
a writing sample of the
candidate's choice. The student must also have an approved thesis
committee and an approved thesis
topic.
5) Completion Expectation. Students receiving the award are expected to complete their thesis by May of the award year.
6) Time of the award. The award will be made in the spring of each year. The deadline for submission in the Spring 200$ semester is April 22.
7) Students receiving the award cannot hold employment at the University of Nebraska at Omaha during the time of the award. They are also discouraged from holding any outside employment.
8) Funding for this Fellowship has been generously provided by endowed funds from the Estate of George and Virginia Dare Shuflata. Recipients of the Fellowship are encouraged to send a letter of thanks to George Shuflata's sister (and Virginia Dare Shuflata's sister-in-law): Mrs. Frances Barbari,
4 Albers Road, Danbury, CT 06811.
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