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- David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate
Scholarship
- The $500 David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship
in American Studies, which is based on scholastic achievement
and financial need, is awarded each semester. The scholarship
is named in honor of David Vaca, an outstanding American
Studies B.A. and graduate student who was killed in January
1985 when the car he was driving was hit while stopped at
a traffic light by a driver fleeing narcotics agents. Generous
donations from the Vaca family, American Studies alumni,
and faculty have supported this scholarship for many years.
- Who may apply: Any American Studies major who has
earned 60 units overall, including at least 9 units in American
Studies courses, and who has maintained at least a 3.5 GPA
in American Studies courses. Previous applicants are eligible
to reapply.
- Application procedures: The application deadlines
are usually in late September and late March. They will
be announced at this web site and in classes. In order
to apply you need to obtain an application form, which is
available in the department office (UH-313). In addition
to filling out the form, you are asked to submit a letter
explaining why and how you would benefit from the scholarship.
Letters should be addressed to the department chair, Jesse
Battan. It is perfectly appropriate to contact faculty members
for advice on composing your application letter. If you meet
the eligibility requirements, you should seriously consider
applying; this scholarship is a distinct honor. And $500
can always come in handy.
- Click here to see a list of Vaca
Scholarship recipients.
- Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate
Scholarship
- The Margarete Liebe
Sekhon Graduate Scholarship
in American Studies provides
an annual award of $1,000
to a student accepted
for fall semester admission to the Master’s Program
in American Studies at CSUF. Scholarly merit and financial
need are considered in determining the recipient of
the award. The cash award is issued directly to the
recipient to be
used at their own discretion. Recipients must be currently
enrolled for fall semester and carrying a minimum of
six units of credit toward their graduate study plan.
Eligibility for this scholarship requires an overall grade point average
of 3.2 for the last 48 units of undergraduate study AND a minimum grade
point average of 3.5 for all upper-division coursework in the field of
your declared undergraduate major as well as any upper-division American
Studies coursework for non-American Studies undergraduate majors.
Full instructions and an application
form are available at this link. Application deadline is February 1 for each year. If you have any questions, please
contact Pamela Steinle at (714) 278-3438 or at psteinle@fullerton.edu.
Profile of Donor/Honoree: Margarete
Liebe Sekhon, long time resident of Fullerton and former CSUF student,
was a model of a life lived well: she embraced life in her love of learning
and sense of community responsibility. Margarete spent most of
her time helping the less fortunate as a caregiver to both inbound developmentally
disabled children and the elderly throughout Orange County. An
avid student of languages, Margarete also was an accomplished artist,
having earned a Master's degree in Art with a style marked by bold colors
and landscapes, especially trees. Her wide ranging interests reflect
her verve and sense of humor; she was an ecologist, an amateur linguist,
a self-styled gourmet cook, a poetess, a mother, and a Boy Scout den
mother who made her troop learn how to bake for merit badges. Indeed,
the lessons she taught continue to instruct those who knew her long after
her premature death to cancer. This fellowship is intended both
as a respectful memorial to her life's many labors as well as a reminder
of the lasting strength of her spirit.
Click here to see a list of Margarete
Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship recipients
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-
 Earl
James Weaver Graduate Essay Prize
-
In the spring of 1993 the American Studies
Student Association established the Earl James Weaver Graduate
Paper Prize to
honor of the retirement of Earl James Weaver, Professor
of American Studies, past Department Chair, and a founder
of
the Department of American Studies at California State
University Fullerton. Jim, shown at right congratulating
Paul Stewart,
the first winner of the Weaver Prize, passed away in December
2000.
With an original endowment raised from the generous contributions
of American Studies students and alumni, the Weaver Prize
is an annual $250 cash award for the best paper written
by an American Studies graduate student during the preceding
year. Papers are judged by a three person panel of American
Studies faculty and the winning paper is guaranteed publication
in The American Papers.
- Application Procedures: Eigible submissions are papers written by an American Studies graduate student for any CSUF course in the spring, summer, or fall semesters of the preceding year. Both extended essays and research papers are welcome.
If you have a paper to submit, please attach a cover sheet to a clean copy of your paper, identifying your name, the course the paper was written for (and in which semester), and your contact information (phone and email)--then place it in an envelope clearly marked “Weaver Submission” and leave it in Pam Steinle's mailbox in UH-313. The deadline each year will be announced via e-mail, in classes, and on the department web site.
Click here to see a list of Weaver Prize winners.
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- Academic Achievement Award
- Awarded each year to the graduating senior majoring in
American Studies who is judged by the American Studies faculty
to show the greatest academic promise. The faculty considers
several factors in addition to grade point average; foremost
among these other factors are the quality of mind the student
has shown in his or her career as an American Studies major.
A permanent plaque with the names of all award winners is
on display on the 6th floor of the Education Classroom building.
- Click here to see a list of Academic Achievement Award recipients.
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Outstanding Reentry Student Award
- Begun in 2005 with a very generous donation from an American
Studies major who herself had been a reentry student, this
award will be given every year to a graduating senior
who either began or returned to college at least a decade
after high school graduation. Recipients are selected by
the department faculty.
- Click here to see a list of Outstanding
Reentry Student Award recipients.
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- Susan Flinkingshelt Student Association Service Award
- Awarded each year to the American Studies major or minor
judged by the American Studies faculty to have made the greatest
contribution during that year to the success of the American
Studies Student Association. A permanent plaque with the
names of all award winners is on display on the 6th floor
of the Education Classroom building.
- This award is named in memory of Susan Flinkingshelt, an American Studies major who was killed in a tragic accident
in November 1992. Susan, who graduated in 1989, was a very
active member of the Student Association during her undergraduate
years and in spring 1989 received the department's scholarship
award, the Vaca Scholarship.
- Click here to see a list of Flinkingshelt Service Award recipients.
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Scholarship and Award Winners
David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate
Scholarship
Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship
Earl James Weaver Graduate Essay Prize
Academic Achievement Award
Outstanding Reentry Student Award
Susan
Flinkingshelt Student Association
Service Award
          
Vaca Award winners (above): Roseanne Garcia; Jennifer Sasai; Melissa Chavez; Kristin Miyagishima;
Kim Martin.
Karen Alonzo; Adriana Ruvalcaba; Samuel Sousa; Maria Cortes; Kira Banos; Andy Diaz; Steven Ngo
David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship
| Fall 2007 |
Kira Banos, Andy Diaz, and Steven Ngo |
| Spring 2007 |
Maria Cortes |
| Fall 2006 |
Samuel Sousa |
| Spring 2006 |
Adriana Ruvalcaba |
| Fall 2005 |
Karen Alonzo |
| Spring 2005 |
Kim Martin |
| Fall 2004 |
Kristin Miyagishima |
| Spring 2004 |
Timothy Peter Schneider |
| Fall 2003 |
Susan Lee |
| Spring 2003 |
Melissa Leigh Chavez |
| Fall 2002 |
Jennifer Sasai |
| Fall 2001 |
Mary Jo Cooke |
| Spring 2001 |
Roseanne Garcia |
| Fall 2000 |
Dakota Cornell |
| Spring 2000 |
Laura Barrios |
| Fall 1999 |
John McCarthy |
| Spring 1999 |
Laurie Dieppa |
| Fall 1998 |
Jonathan Menjivar |
| Spring 1998 |
Monique Soltani |
| Fall 1997 |
Justine Pas |
| Spring 1997 |
Gregg Schlappy |
| Fall 1996 |
Jeff Savage |
| Spring 1996 |
Lisa D. McFarland |
| Fall 1995 |
Ann M. Campbell |
| Spring 1995 |
Heather Yarnell |
| Fall 1994 |
Wendy Barker |
| Spring 1994 |
Andrea L. Schwartz |
| Fall 1993 |
Carolyn Thomas and Melana Abramowicz |
| Fall 1992 |
Laura K. Vaughn |
| Spring 1992 |
Christopher Ramsey |
| Fall 1991 |
Julia M. Cheung |
| Spring 1991 |
Noelle Lee Dickenson |
| Fall 1990 |
Shannon Philipp |
| Spring 1990 |
Sandra V. Smith |
| Fall 1989 |
Lisa Cleveland |
| Spring 1989 |
Susan Flinkingshelt |
| Fall 1988 |
Tracy A. Smith |
| Spring 1988 |
Eric Taylor |
| Fall 1987 |
Sandi Patton |
| Spring 1987 |
David L. Crawford |
| Spring 1986 |
Kelly R. Jennings |
| Fall 1985 |
Shannon Pohlhammer |
| Spring 1985 |
Anne-Marie Scholz |
| Spring 1984 |
Enrico Gnaulati |
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Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship recipients: Melissa Anderson; Kimball Maw; Matt Nelson
Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship Recipients
| 2006-07 |
Matt Nelson |
| 2005-06 |
Kimball Maw |
| 2002-03 |
Carla Melissa Anderson |
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Weaver Prize recipients: Melissa Anderson; Kristiane R. Joy; Jill Somers
Earl James Weaver Graduate
Essay Prize Recipients
| 2007 |
Jill Somers |
"Practiced Place and Negotiated Race: The Co-Production of Race and Space in Pankey, Arkansas" |
| 2006 |
Kristiane R. Joy |
"Visualizing the 'Struggle for Fun:' ZZ Top's Eliminator Videos and the Narrative of Transformation |
| 2005 |
Stephanie Kolberg |
"Attacking the 'American Cinderella:'
Philip Wylie's 'Momism' and the Scapegoating of Women in
1940s-50s America" |
| 2004 |
Kristin Ann Hargrove |
"The Peel and What Lies Beneath It:
The Underside of Orange County's Public Memory" |
| 2003 |
Carla Melissa Anderson |
"Studying Visual Media: Putting Fish,
Baudrillard, and Geertz to the Test" |
| 2002 |
Nicole Elise Peeples |
"Life Outside the Borg Cube: American
Studies and the Collapse of the Culture Concept" |
| 2001 |
Justine Pas |
"Translating Identities: The Rhetoric
of Self in Multiple Cultural Contexts" |
| 2000 |
Trista O'Connell |
"White Slave or New Woman: Competing Images
of Prostitution and Womanhood in Reformist Tracts and The
Masses, 1910-1917" |
| 1998 |
Shauna Butler |
"From Public Whipping to Self Immolation:
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Construction of the Self" |
| 1997 |
Eric Olson |
"William Burroughs and Naked Lunch:
Running Down the United States Drag" |
| 1996 |
Timothy Yates |
"Misery & Restoration: A History of Antidepressant
Advertising" |
| 1995 |
Sharon Sekhon |
"Americans in Paris: Josephine Baker and
James Baldwin" |
| 1994 |
Paul Amiel Stewart |
"Welcome to America(nization)" |
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Academic Achievement Award winners: Jennifer Sasai;
Patti Thomas;
Brittany Franck;
Lori Burrows
Academic Achievement Award Recipients
| 2006-07 |
Lori Burrows |
| 2005-06 |
Brittany Franck |
| 2004-05 |
Patti Thomas |
| 2003-04 |
Karen Ann Amos |
| 2002-03 |
Jennifer Sasai |
| 2001-02 |
Laura Alexander |
| 2000-01 |
John McCarthy |
| 1999-00 |
Lori Ann Madsen |
| 1998-99 |
Laurie Dieppa |
| 1997-98 |
Justine Pas and Linda Vandenbroeke |
| 1996-97 |
Leigh Logan and Lisa Thompson |
| 1995-96 |
Shauna M. Butler |
| 1994-95 |
Wendy Barker |
| 1993-94 |
Denise Flynn |
| 1992-93 |
Robert Morey |
| 1991-92 |
Jason Lacomb |
| 1990-91 |
Noelle Dickenson |
| 1989-90 |
Yvette Lane |
| 1988-89 |
Tracy A. Smith |
| 1987-88 |
Helen Sims |
| 1986-87 |
Dorothy Thompson |
| 1985-86 |
Mary L. Williams |
| 1984-85 |
April Schwenneker |
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Outanding Reentry Student Award winners: Kim Martin;
Carin Arrigo-Zimmer;
Lori Burrows
Outstanding Reentry Student Award Recipients
| 2006-07 |
Lori Burrows |
| 2005-06 |
Carin Arrigo-Zimmer |
| 2004-05 |
Kim Martin |
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Flinkingshelt Award winners: Melissa Anderson; Kristiane R. Joy;
Megan Jensen; Melanie Pyles
Susan Flinkingshelt Student Association Service Award Recipients
| 2006-07 |
Megan Wagner |
| 2005-06 |
Megan Jensen and Melanie Pyles |
| 2004-05 |
Kristiane R. Joy and Megan Jensen |
| 2003-04 |
Carla Melissa Anderson |
| 2002-03 |
Matthew A. Knowlton and Traci Turner |
| 2001-02 |
Lily Estes-Eichert and Jeremy Hill |
| 2000-01 |
Chris Gunther and Jennifer Jefferson |
| 1999-00 |
Amy Lefkowitz and Jonathan Menjivar |
| 1998-99 |
Dana Maples and John McCarthy |
| 1997-98 |
Debbie Girkin |
| 1996-97 |
Barbara Campbell |
| 1995-96 |
Barbara Campbell |
| 1994-95 |
Barbara Campbell and Richard Dennison |
| 1993-94 |
Carolyn de la Pena and Debra DeRuyver |
| 1992-93 |
Barbara Sheahan |
| 1991-92 |
Ronald Dobley and Sandra Finestone |
| 1990-91 |
Dorothy Reina |
| 1989-90 |
Cynthia Adams and Laurel Carpenter |
| 1988-89 |
Cynthia Adams |
| 1987-88 |
Priscilla Mayfield |
| 1986-87 |
Ann Uyeda |
| 1985-86 |
Holly Carpenter |
| 1984-85 |
Beth Harnick |
| 1983-84 |
April Schwenneker |
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