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2009 DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS
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Clio Award (to a graduating senior with an exceptional GPA): A history major and a religious studies minor, Johnathan Jensen earned a 3.664 cumulative GPA, graduating cum laude in August 2008.
James H. George Scholarship Award (to a junior with an outstanding academic record and excellent promise in our program): Alyson Moss, a transfer from Fresno City College and a student athlete, has earned a cumulative GPA of 3.97 to date.
 Outstanding Graduating Senior (to the graduating senior with an exceptional level of overall achievement at CSUB):
Daniel Sexton is the 2009 outstanding graduating senior in History. Daniel was the first place winner of this year’s Wonderly awards, which recognize outstanding research and writing, for his paper “Mexico for the Mexicans: The 1938 Oil Appropriation.” Daniel has served as a Title V intern in the Stiern Library, where he helped archive the George Berry Davis Civil War Letters collection. Using his research, he wrote a biography of Davis, a Civil War soldier, and prepared an annotated bibliography for the library (click here to view). As a junior he volunteered to abstract Dust Bowl documents for the library and recently played a key role in the development of its “Research Corner.” In his spare time he works as a docent at the Tehachapi Museum to promote local history. Daniel has been accepted by Teach for America and will serve in Tulsa, OK before attending graduate school.
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2008-2009 GRADUATING HISTORY MAJORS
(*Denotes Phi Alpha Theta members)
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| Robert Asaro |
José Ayala |
Jacob Barksdale |
| Julian Barton |
Nicholas Brisky |
Hector Cabrera |
| Nicole Carrasco |
Dustin Combs |
Chris Cordova |
| *Jodie Hare (MA) |
Joel Greenshaw |
Jason Friedly |
| *Deanna Heikkinen (MA) |
Ryan Hollman |
Jessica Hoyt |
| *Erik Hubble (MA) |
Daniel Ingle |
Paul Irving |
| Phillip Jenkins |
David Korsak |
Jeremy Kujala |
| Mark Monroe |
Teresa Nieto |
Victor Parra |
| *Justin Roberts |
Phyllis Rodriguez |
*Daniel Sexton |
| Heather Shaffstall |
Andrew Shearon |
Joseph Williams |
| *Celeste Sharpe |
*Stacy Teeters |
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On April 24, Dr. Lia Schraeder hosted our spring history forum. Her presentation was based on a portion of her dissertation and manuscript on the religious movement of spiritism in Mexico. Scholars of Mexican history generally represent spiritism as a "dissident" social movement and associate it with the first president of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero. Dr. Schraeder’s presentation made extensive use of images as she re-examined such scholarship, while exploring the latent radicalism within spiritist rituals and on the margins of the movement.
On May 22, the History Forum presented an exciting panel of graduate students whose papers reflect the best in regional research. Becky Orfila, the Assistant Director of the Center for Archaeological Research at CSUB, received a Masters in Anthropology in 2005, when she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Thesis for her work on the San Emigdio Adobe Complex in Kern County. Her presentation for the History Forum, however, included excerpts from the thesis she is writing for her second Masters in History. Using local newspapers, census data, and historical maps, Orfila surprised the audience with some of the seamier details of our fair city’s criminal past in her work, “Dirt Streets and Demimondes: The Tenderloin of Bakersfield, California from 1870-1920.” (For more, click here).
To conserve resources, beginning with this Spring 2009 number of the History Newsletter, issues will be available primarily through our website. At this link, you will also find an archive of many past newsletters. If you wish to continue receiving a paper copy of the newsletter, please contact our production editor, Jean Stenehjem, at (661) 654-3079 or email here at: jstenehjem@csub.edu.
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