As the first recipient of the Dr. Edward G. Gray Award for Undergraduate Exploratory in History, Jeff Lubinski used the award to undertake research in both the U.S. and the U.K. for his Honors in the Major project on Ottoman naval history.
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Meet the HGSA officers! Aidan is a second-year M.A. student whose major field is modern U.S. history. As secretary, he takes minutes at each HGSA meeting and helps the organization stay on schedule.
Meet the HGSA officers! Gabrielle is a second-year M.A. student who as communications officer is responsible for the HGSA's social media, website, and event flyers. Her own research is in modern U.S. history.
Find out more about the HGSA officers! Ph.D. candidate Baylee Staufenbiel is the treasurer who ensures that the HGSA has enough funds for its day-to-day activities as well as the annual conference it organizes. Staufenbiel's own research is on medieval conceptions of the body.
Find out more about the HGSA officers! Emily Lu as vice president is in charge of planning and running the annual graduate conference. In this article, she explains how she got interested in modern East Asian history.
Find out more about the HGSA officers! HGSA president Danielle Wirsansky discusses both her student career at FSU as well as the importance of the HGSA for graduate students in the FSU Department of History.
Aidan did two internships as an undergraduate student, one was archive-based, the other education-focused. These experiences helped him discover his passion for public history and his desire for working in the museum field.
Annalia joined the FSU History social media team as a sophomore — and continued for seven semesters! Find out how this experience helped her grow as a historian, student and communicator.
In this article, Noah discusses what drew him to his dissertation topic, an analysis of the sermons on factionalism by observant preachers, as well as his experience of conducting research in Italy.
Megan Groninger (FSU Ph.D. 2023) discusses how a study abroad stay in undergrad changed her professional life. Spending a semester in England turned her into a British historian; a visit to a historic site influenced her choice of M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation topic.