For outstanding students, the Department of History offers several undergraduate scholarships carrying cash stipends. To be eligible students must be currently enrolled and nominated by a member of the history faculty. The deadline for nominations each year is March 1st.
A.K. Christian Award: presented annually to an outstanding graduate student in History. Christian taught at OU for 33 years and specialized in constitutional history, both American and English.
Horace C. Peterson Award: presented annually to an outstanding History undergraduate. Peterson came to OU in 1936 and remained on the faculty until his death in 1952. His scholarship focused on America's homefront during World War I.
Alfred B. Sears Award: presented annually to an outstanding student in British History. Sears taught at OU from 1932 until his retirement in 1965. He served as Chair of the Department from 1947-1955 and taught British history.
Donnel M. Owings Award: presented annually to an outstanding student in American History. Owings taught at OU from 1946 until his death in 1966. He specialized in American colonial history and was a researcher at Colonial Williamsburg before coming to OU.
Edward E. Dale-A.M. Gibson Award in Western History: presented annually to an outstanding doctoral student in Western History. Dale chaired the department from 1924 to 1942 and wrote more than 20 books and numerous articles about the American West. Arrell M. Gibson came to OU in 1957 and authored numerous books and articles on the American West and Native American History. At the time of his death, he was a George Lynn Cross Research Professor.
William H. Maehl, Jr. Fellowship: presented annually to the undergraduate student who writes the outstanding senior thesis. Maehl came to OU in 1957 and taught British history until his retirement in 1987. His speciality was nineteenth-century British labor history.
Bea Mantooth Estep Scholarship in Oklahoma or Latin American History: presented annually to an outstanding graduate student engaged in research and writing on Oklahoma or Latin American History.
Support for Graduate Students:
Anne Hodges Morgan and H. Wayne Morgan Dissertation Fellowship:
This annually awarded fellowship provides substantial monetary support for one graduate student to travel to archives for extended dissertation research.Hudson Family Fellowships:
The Department awards two Hudson Fellowships each year to two outstanding entering doctoral students. These fellowships last four years and provide considerable additional funding beyond the regular Graduate Assistant stipend. These fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis and normally go to doctoral students specializing in Western, Native American, or Environmental History.Bea Mantooth Estep Graduate Travel Fellowships:
These fellowships help underwrite the costs for graduate students seeking to travel to professional conferences in order to present their research.
Doctoral Fellowships
American West, Environmental, and Native American History
The University of Oklahoma will provide two prestigious alumni fellowships for doctoral students working in the fields of the American West, Environmental, and/or Native American history. Alumni fellows will receive a regular graduate assistantship ($9,700 per year), fee waivers, plus $5,000 for four years. These fellowships will provide an exceptional opportunity for well-qualified students to pursue their doctoral studies with nationally recognized specialists in the West, Environmental, and American Indian history: Gary Anderson, Albert L. Hurtado, Clara Sue Kidwell, Warren Metcalf, Joshua Piker, Donald Pisani, Linda Reese, Lindsay Robertson, and William Savage. In addition, there are distinguished faculty in this and other departments, such as anthropology, law, geography, art, and art history who work with graduate students in history. The Western History Collections have outstanding archival holdings to support doctoral study. The Oklahoma Historical Society is nearby and other significant libraries and archives are within easy reach. Travel funds are available for conference presentations, and scholarships for travel for dissertation research are available on a competitive basis.The department will fly top applicants to Oklahoma to tour the campus and meet the faculty. Interested applicants should apply as soon as possible in order to be eligible for a funded campus visit and the fellowship. For more information contact Professor Terry Rugeley, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0535, trugeley@ou.edu or call (405) 325-6002.
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