2015 Student Award Winners

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2015 Student Award Winners

On Saturday, October 3, 2015, at the 40th KATH Annual Meeting we celebrated Kentucky’s young scholars with the KATH Writing Awards. Each of the winners received a monetary prize and certificate. These four juried KATH student writing awards are named after some of Kentucky’s great historians and history educators.

With the students’ permission, we proudly publish their photos and winning essays below (download their essays in .pdf files by clicking on the titles). This year’s prize winners are:

Anita Sanford Tolson High School Writing Award Amir Abou-Jaoude “Richard Wagner and the Legacy of the Leitmotif” Henry Clay High School, Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington Jonathan McClintock, teacher sponsor	Amir Abou-Jaoude, Henry Clay High School
Thomas D. Clark Undergraduate Student Writing Award (U.S. topic) Mattie Bruton “Sallie Southall Cotten: Womanhood, Racial Purity, and Definingh ‘Progress’ in the New South” Transylvania University, Lexington Dr. Melissa McEuen, faculty sponsor	Mattie Bruton, Transylvania University
Raymond F. Betts Undergraduate Writing Award (non-Western topic) Sarah Fox “Soviet Influence on the Music of Socialist Republics” Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green Dr. Marc Eagle, faculty sponsor	Sarah Fox, Western Kentucky University
George C. Herring Graduate Student Writing Award Mel Kapitan “Rebellion in Speech and Monks in Seclusion: Hildemar of Corbie’s Expositio regulam Sancti Benedicti and the Community of Monks in Ninth-Century Civate” University of Kentucky, Lexington Dr. Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, faculty sponsor	Mel Kapitan, University of Kentucky