The recipient of the 2022 Marjorie Shorrock Graduate Award is Kendall Owens. Kendall came to CSU from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in History that she earned in 2020. She started her Master’s of Arts in History in the Spring of 2022 and has maintained a GPA of 4.00. Kendall currently is a graduate assistant for […]
2023 Marjorie Shorrock Graduate Award
Professor Leon Soulé Award Winner – 2022
Prof. Leon Soulé taught in the History Department for many years, starting in the 1960s and retiring in the late eighties. He was known as an outstanding teacher and scholar. Indeed, as a teacher he was inspiring, and a number of his students were motivated by his teaching to get their Ph.D. and become professors themselves. These scholarships commemorate Prof. Soulé and his contributions […]
History and Hikes: The 19th Amendment Centennial and Music in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
COVID-19 has changed the way we interact with the world around us. As an interpretive Park Ranger at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, my summer plans shifted completely. Guided hikes, fishing programs, and biking programs have been halted for the safety of everyone. However, much of the phenomena in the Cuyahoga Valley is comfortingly the same. The roar of the […]
The Charles Z. Adamson Memorial Scholarship 2021
Background Charles Z. Adamson served as an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Cleveland for 35 years. A lifelong learner, after his retirement he earned a master’s degree in history from Cleveland State University. The Charles Z. Adamson Memorial Scholarship in Modern European History is awarded annually to the graduate student who wrote the best graduate student research paper on […]
RASHAD Award 2021
The History Department is pleased to offer a scholarship provided by the Center for the Study of Religion and Spirituality in African and the African Diaspora, or RASHAD, which was founded by Dr. Regennia Williams in 2006 and funded generously in part by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Before becoming an assistant professor in the History Department at Cleveland […]
Professor Leon Soulé Award 2021
Prof. Leon Soulé taught in the History Department for many years, starting in the 1960s and retiring in the late eighties. He was known as an outstanding teacher and scholar. Indeed, as a teacher he was inspiring, and a number of his students were motivated by his teaching to get their Ph.D. and become professors themselves. These scholarships commemorate Prof. Soulé and his contributions […]
