Three Hollins University students were among the top prize winners for papers presented at the 2024 Virginia Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Regional Conference, held April 13 at Virginia Military Institute’s Center for Leadership and Ethics.
Natté Fortier ’24 won first prize in U.S. history for “Framing Femininity: Opportunities for Gender Non-Conformity at U.S. Women’s Colleges at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.”
First prize in European history was awarded to Marie Gruver ’24 for “Permeable and Impermeable Boundaries: Inter-Deme Relationships and Borders of Ancient Attic Anagyrous from the Late Archaic Period.”
Sophia Ciatti ’24 was honored with second prize in U.S. history for “‘Nothing in America Would Outrival Such a Spectacle’”: The Intertwined Histories of Mount Rushmore, Western Tourism, and American Empire.”
Co-hosted by the history departments at Virginia Military Institute and Southern Virginia University, this year’s regional conference welcomed student presenters from James Madison University, Liberty University, Ohio Northern University, the University of Lynchburg, the University of Richmond, and Virginia Wesleyan University as well as from Hollins and the two host schools.
Phi Alpha Theta is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. The society has over 400,000 members, with some 9,000 new members joining each year through 970 chapters nationwide.
Photo (from left to right): Marie Gruver ’24, Natté Fortier ’24, and Sophia Ciatti ’24 were recognized for their paper presentations at the 2024 Virginia Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Regional Conference.
