Student Achievements

UWO history majors have had great success, both academically and professionally.  Here are a few recent examples:

In 2011, Kyle Moerchen helped organize an exhibit about George Bergstrom and the Architecture of the Pentagon at the Neenah Historical Society. He was featured on Fox 11 news for his work.

      In 2012, History Department alumna Sara Wilkomm will present a paper at the Phi Alpha Theta national conference in Orlando, Florida.  The paper is based on her research of American women's rights activism before the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

In 2004, History students Val Brandt and Amanda Boeker (below) discussed their research into the polio epidemic of the 1950s on Capitol Hill with Rep. Tom Petri.

In 2005, History major Cassandra Irwin, author of “The Kohler Strike of 1954: The Kohler Company’s Resistance to ‘Outside’ Union Representation," won the Wisconsin Labor History Society's Zeidler Award for best undergraduate paper in Wisconsin labor history.

In 2009, History student interns Tony Pietsch, Jamison Hein, Michael Morrissey, Teffanie Price and Michelle Merkes shared in the Honorable Mention bestowed upon the Black Thursday Oral History Project by the Oral History Association for its contributions to oral history in the United States (Non-Print Category).

Recent Student Publications

And a growing number of History students are publishing their articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as UW Oshkosh's Oshkosh Scholar. 

Recent publications include:

• Heather Freund, "A War for Freedom:  Slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation," Oshkosh Scholar I (2006)
• Lisa Holcomb, "Autonomy in Abuse:  Glimpses of Freedom in New Orleans,"  Oshkosh Scholar I  (2006)
• Jennifer Stoll, "The Cost of Freedom,"  Oshkosh Scholar I  (2006)
• Valerie Brandt and Amanda Boeker,"Living in Fear: Northeast Wisconsin's Polio Epidemics," Voyaguer: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review(Winter/Spring 2007).
• Douglas Kahl, "Robert Venturi and His Contributions to Postmodern Architecture," Oshkosh Scholar III (2008).
• Erik Marker, "The Labors of a Race: Labor and Leaders in the Twentieth Century," Oshkosh Scholar II (2007).
• Erica Filidoro, "Failed Sisterhood: Expectations and Betrayal Between the Women of the Antebellum South" Oshkosh Scholar III (2008)
• Scott Karel, "Prolonging the War for a Permanent Peace: Wisconsin Soldiers and the 1864 Election," Oshkosh Scholar III (2008).
• Craig Lakatos, "Confidence and Legitimization: The Role of the Protestant Church in Fostering Opposition in the GDR," Oshkosh Scholar IV (2009)
• Anthony Pietsch, "The Power Complex: The WSU System’s Response to Dissent in the Late 1960s," Oshkosh Scholar IV (2009).
• Amanda Hernandez, "The Early Black Press and Social Obligation to Abolish Slavery," Oshkosh Scholar IV (2009).
• Jared Stroik, "The Massacre at Acre -- the Work of a Bloodthirsty King?" in Oshkosh Scholar V (2010).
• Sara Wilkomm, "A Movement Without A Face: Anonymity and the Push for Women's Rights in 1800s America," in Oshkosh Scholar VI (2011)