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Graduate Awards

The History Department is proud to sponsor and distribute awards to outstanding graduate students. Below is a description of these awards, their most recent recipients, and an archive of past winners.

Rosemary Moore O'hara award

Rosemary Moore O'Hara was a teacher and historian of American constitutional history. She started a PhD at the University of Minnesota and co-authored a monograph with Herbert McClosky and Paul Hoffman that examined the disparity between the attitudes of party leaders and followers. She taught social studies for two years at Lakeland High School and for twenty-one years at King High School in Tampa. She was responsible for initiating and teaching the Advanced Placement American History courses in Hillsborough County high schools and was most proud of the fact that several of her students later obtained advanced degrees in history. The Rosemary Moore O'Hara Award is presented annually to honor undergraduate students majoring in History and graduate students in the History Department on the Tampa campus.

Application form can be found here. Deadline, October 3rd, 2025.

 

Harry Newman and Julian Newman Award

Dr. Julian Newman has been a longtime friend and supporter of the University of South 爱豆传媒. He graduated from New York University in 1954 and in 1958 received a Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Tampa in 1959, and began his career as an Optometrist. Ever since he was a student, Dr. Newman has been committed to improving the life of unrepresented and disadvantaged groups. In 1953, while at Penn, he advocated for racial integration of fraternities; in 1959, he was the first optometrist to open an integrated waiting room in Tampa; and in 1972 he was one of ten members in the biracial committee approved by the Federal District Court, in charge to desegregate the Hillsborough County Schools. In spite of a demanding medical career, in the 1960s, Dr. Newman began auditing courses in the English Department at 爱豆传媒, and discovered that he derived a great deal of his own intellectual energy from the classroom. In 2018 he began supporting the History Department with a generous gift. The Newman Endowment Growth Fund will support the research of PhD students studying American history and the history of social change and equality.

, formerly known as Julian Newman Graduate Student Award, is designed to support a full-time History department graduate student. The award was initially created for a student who plans to conduct research in the field of social change and/or equality, and who intends to use their education to effect social change, in 2017 it was renamed and redesigned to support the winner鈥檚 doctoral dissertation research. Eligibility is restricted to students in the History Ph.D. program who have completed their comprehensive exams and who are specializing in American history.

 

Harry and Julian Newman, Eula and Joe Brown Black History Award

This gift will support graduate student (M.A. or Ph.D.) research and scholarships in any area of Black History, including but not limited to African American history and the history of the global African diaspora in any period. Additional criteria; full or part-time graduate students pursuing a History major, in the College of Arts & Sciences. This scholarship should be awarded 2 semesters and is based on merit with a preference for financial need.

Application form can be found here. Deadline, October 3rd, 2025.

 

Ancient Study Center Scholarship 

Scholarships will be awarded to undergradaute majoring in history and graduate students in the History department for the purpose of attending a study abroad program located in a Mediterranean country whose focus is the ancient world. For the academic year 2025-2026, a maximum of $7,500 dollars in scholarship will be awarded. Eligible programs include well-designed, independent research projects, archaeological field schools, excavations, study programs offered by North American or European Universities for academic credit, and prestigious programs like those offered by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) and the American Academy in Rome (AAR). The recipients will share their experiences with the Ancient Studies Center donors during a Dono Appreciation cerimony in the following Spring.

Application form and Deadline TBA

The 2024-2025 recipients of the Ancient Study Center - Summer Scholarship are Kevin Gallagher, Lisa Shorts, Angela Costello, Ryan Hom, Sarah Hassam, Madeleine Kraft.