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History Grad Student Wins First CHASS Thesis Prize

Frank Blazich, who received his MA in history at the December 2008 commencement has won the inaugural College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS)Thesis Award for his thesis, "Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: The North Carolina Civil Defense Agency and Fallout Shelters, 1961-1963." CHASS has nominated it for the University Thesis Award. Mr. Blazich, who wrote his thesis under the direction of Professor Nancy Mitchell, has been accepted to the PhD program in American History at Ohio State.

NCSU History graduate student wins major fellowship

Stephanie Brown, a current History M.A. student has been awarded a fellowship worth $12,600 from CAORC(Council of American Overseas Research Centers) for a three month term at the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan. She will be conducting research for her M.A. thesis, which she is completing under the direction of Prof. Tom Parker.
Stephanie earned her B.A. with honors in history at NCSU in 2006. She was one of five graduate students, and the only M.A. student, to win this fellowship this year. The other four are doctoral students at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Michigan.

Dr. Jim Crisp featured in recent Dallas Morning News article

Dr. Crisp commented on the significance of recent archaeological discoveries at the San Jacinto battleground in a Dallas Morning News article (April 16, 2009) 'Archaeologists pinpoint location of San Jacinto surrender'.