East Texas A&M Graduate Student Receives Awards for History Research

On April 5, Hannah Shepherd, an East Texas A&M graduate student and member of Phi Alpha Theta, received the Runner-Up Graduate Student Paper Award at the East Texas Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, hosted at East Texas Baptist University. Her paper is titled, “‘I had no children, so I adopted the world.' Juanita Craft and the Dallas NAACP Youth Council: Preparing Youth for Civil Rights Activism 1940-1960s.”  A recent article from ETBU Now shared details of the event. Phi Alpha Theta, an honor society for students and professors of history, awarded the honor to Shepherd for her outstanding research.

The conference enabled students to engage in academic conversations and build connections with other scholars. The conference covered various historical topics, including civil rights activism, political movements, wartime history, and cultural analysis. Scholars from several Texas universities were in attendance. 

Shepherd was also recently the recipient of the Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship in Texas History by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), which is awarded to one person each year to support research on 20^th-century Texas history. Shepherd received this honor on January 31 for her publication “Crossing Borders, Facing Barriers: Immigration Policy and Societal Perceptions of British Indian Immigrants in Early 20th-Century El Paso, Texas.” Read more about her award on the ETAMU news page.