Pictured (front row, left to right): David Arteaga DeSantiago, Thabiso Motumhe, Sophia Garrido; (back row) Jon Davidann.
On April 1, the annual Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society Hawaii State Student Conference was held at Aloha Tower Marketplace. Three ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú students gave papers at the Conference, and all three won prizes.
Master of Arts in Diplomacy and Military Studies student Sophia Garrido (ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú) won the MARC JASON GILBERT PRIZE (global conflicts/search for peace) for her paper, The Power of Priorities, a study of the failed Triple Alliance between Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in 1939.
David Arteaga DeSantiago (ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú) won the GFWC WOMEN'S HISTORY PRIZE for Pecan Striking, a paper about the Pecan industry in San Antonio, Texas before World War II.
Thabiso Mutumhe (ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú) won Honorable Mention for the JERRY H. BENTLEY WORLD HISTORY PRIZE for Diversity Gone Wrong: Analyzing how the Removal of Cultural and Linguistic Barriers Feeds into the Globalization of Transnational Crime.
Professor of History Jon Davidann, Ph.D., the ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»ú Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor, served as host and gave the keynote speech.
