Undergraduate Awards & Scholarships

Every year, the Department of History gathers to honor the hard work and achievements of our students.  The ceremony is usually held at the beautiful Morgan-Manning House in Brockport, and the evening is a favored event among faculty, students, and parents alike.  All awards and scholarships include a monetary award or a tuition credit, made possible by the generosity of alumni, faculty, students, and friends of the department.  We want to thank each of them for the support and encouragement they give our students.  

Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships

• Jack Crandall Award in History
  Recognizes an outstanding sophomore history major with a GPA of 3.5 or higher in the major.
• Milne Family Foundation Department of History Scholar Prize
  Recognizes a senior history major, usually with the highest GPA, all other things being equal.
• Robert R. Griswold Award in History
  Recognizes an outstanding junior or senior history major with a GPA of 3.5 or above in history.
• Kempes Schnell Award in History
  Recognizes the outstanding full-time history major, any class, with GPA of at least 3.25 in the major and with a "pressing financial need." Preference is given to a senior accepted to graduate study in history at SUNY Brockport or any other post-graduate professional program at Brockport.
• Melinda Kleehamer Senior Seminar Prize
  Recognizes outstanding performance by Seniors enrolled in a 400-level research intensive course.
• Arthur M. Lee Award in History
  Recognizes an outstanding senior with a GPA of 3.5 or above.
• George S. Queen Essay Award in History
  Recognizes the author of "the best undergraduate essay written during the current academic year."
• Terry Gore Prize for Military History

 Graduate Awards and Fellowships

• Full-tuition fellowship with stipend for a first-year graduate student.

• Robert & Sally Bermudes Travel Award
  This award was established to help support graduate students to perform original research.  If funds are available both undergraduate and graduate students may apply for funds to travel to conference and symposia.
• W. Wayne Dedman Award
  Recognizes an outstanding graduate student with a GPA of 3.5 or above and who must be matriculated and have completed at least 18 graduate credits at the end of the spring semester of the award.
• Flieger Family Graduate Fellowship
  Awarded competitively, bi-annually to a graduate student.  The fellowship comes with a tuition credit and stipend.  The awardee is expected to work 10 hours per week as a teaching assistant.
• George S. Queen Essay Award in History
  Recognizes the author of "the best graduate essay written during the current academic year."

Award amounts vary depending on endowment income for the previous year.