The Carson Grant
Carson Grants offer Willamette undergraduates the opportunity to undertake a scholarly, creative, or professional research project during the summer. Approximately 10 grants of up to $3,000 are available each year. Students may apply for these competitive grants either as sophomores or juniors. Projects may be creative and artistic, literary, investigative, interdisciplinary, and performative.
History Department Recipients:
2016
Charlotte Lerner-Wright
Letters, Illuminated: Exploring the Life and Love of a Medieval Nun
Zoe Gantner
And Still the Metropolis Prevails: The Consequences of Hydraulic Culture on the West
Salome Paul
The Politics of Community: Oral Histories of Acholi South Sudanese Refugees in Yumbe District, Uganda
2015
Margaret Woodcock and Evann Zuckerman
Alternative Modes of History: Non-traditional Monographs and Creative Responses
George Zenker
From Patrols to Police Brutality: An Analysis of the Legacy of American Slavery
2013
Jordis Miller
Looking from the Outside In: An Evaluation of the Roles in the Art Brut Movement
2011
Jennifer Ristau
The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights: A Global Movement's Claims Explored on a Local Scale
2008
Holy Janka
Medieval Pilgrimage: Art as a Manifestation of Christian Spirituality
2006
Ivo Dimitrov
Rediscovering the Role of King Boris III in the Bulgarian Rescue
2005
Katherine Ervine
A Walking Tour of Everett, Washington
2003
Benjamin Peterson
The IWW Experience in Washington Sate 1905-1920
2000
Johnny Lake
Voice of the Elders
1999
Lyn Delmastro
The Palace of Versailles: A Place of Memory in the French National Consciousness
1997
Angela Ridinger
Marginalization and Misogyny: A Historical Analysis of African-American Women in the American Film Canon
1991
Anne Phoenix
Historical Trends in American Deaf Education
LARC Grant Recipients
2015
Madison Rotter
Diesel in Oregon: Collaboration and Activism in Environmental Health
George Zenker
Scandalous Satire: Gender, Race, and Religion in Political Cartoons of the Obamas During the 2008 Presidential Campaign
2014
Montana Miller
Freedom of the Press: The Use of Religion in Abolitionist Newspapers in the Anti-Slavery Movement
Philip Daniel Mehler
Simplexity: A Historical Survey of the Relationship between Societies and Technologies.
Christina Luedtke
Colleen Smyth
Mind of Mann: How Phrenology Shaped the Massachusetts Common School Movement
Mele Ana Kastner
2011
Kimberly Hursh
History, Memory, and Identity with a Focus on on Colegio Cesar Chavez (Mt. Angel, Oregon)
Haley Williamson
A Loud Silence: Abolition and Anti-Removal Efforts in Early 19th Century America
Presidential Scholars
2004
Lilia Putintsev
2000
Lyn Delmastro
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