Department News - 2005

Graduate Students Win Paper Awards at 2004 SSSA Meeting

Two Texas State history graduate students received recognition for best papers in the Ben H. Procter Research Paper competition at the 2004 meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. Jahue Anderson, who presented “An Environmental History of the Wichita Rivers: Agriculture and Irrigation on the Mesquite Plains,” and Hugh O’Donovan, who presented “The Unionization of Black Motion Picture Projectionists in Dallas and Houston, 1923-1949,” received their awards at the business meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association.

Three other Texas State graduate students also presented papers at the conference. Amy Canon presented, “Presidential Ranches: Political Tool or Get-A-Way Place,” Lance Couch, “A Comparison of French Revolutionary Newspapers and Their Treatment of the Crown During the French Revolution,” and Debra Law, “A Symbol of Affliction or Affection? Popular Perceptions of the King in American and Brazilian Independence.”


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