At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) April 3-6, 2025, two UCR History graduate students were recognized for their important work.  The OAH, which met in Chicago this year, is the largest professional society dedicated to United States history, guided by the principles of advocacy, professional integrity, and the advancement of scholarship.

Analeise Delgado, who is a distinguished UC Riverside History alum (2018) and a current PhD student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (working with UC Riverside faculty Dr. William Bauer) won the Huggins-Quarles Award for her dissertation “Fortifying Kinship: Northern Paiute Children’s Kinship and Community Building in Boarding Schools, 1884–1928”! The Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually to graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation. The committee reported that “Delgado’s dissertation explores how California Native children— girls and young women—developed kinship ties in boarding schools that attempted to annihilate their cultural and kinship bonds. Her work infuses historical accounts with emotional depth, recording communal loss, desires for escape, and camaraderie between Indigenous girl children.”  

Marissa Hull, a current PhD candidate in the history department working with Dr. Molly McGarry received a Presidents’ Travel Fund for Emerging Historians from the OAH. The grant provides travel stipends whose papers or panels/sessions have been accepted by the OAH Program Committee for inclusion on the annual meeting program. Hull is conducting a fascinating project on the intersections of gender and disability in the 19th century United States. She works to center d/Deaf women, highlighting their contributions to the creation of American Sign Language and the advent of deaf education in the United States.

Congratulations to Analeise and Marissa!