The Julian Pleasants Visiting Scholar Award
About the Award
The Julian Pleasants Travel Award is a bi-yearly award, created in honor of Dr. Julian Pleasants, Director Emeritus of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and longtime Professor of History at the University of Florida.
The Pleasants Travel Award promotes cutting edge oral history research at UF, and includes a stipend of $1000. Competition is open to graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars at UF and throughout the United States.
The deadline for interested applicants is February 15, 2014.
For more information, please contact Paul Ortiz at portiz@ufl.edu
Past Winners
2012
Sarah McNamara
- Sarah is a former SPOHP intern and UF Class of 2009 Honors graduate. Her Pleasants Award research was on Latina women's history in Florida.
- Read her profile at http://history.unc.edu/people/graduate-students/sarah-mcnamara
- Congratulations Sarah!!!
2010
Raymond A. Eberling
- Mr. Eberling utilized the SPOHP collection to garner research for his current project, entitled “Come on Down! The Selling of the Florida Dream 1945-1965."
- Eberling’s larger work examines the intersection of politics, growth, race and media in postwar Florida.
2008
Derrick White
- Dr. White, a professor of history at FAU, used the SPOHP collection to examine the integration of sports in the SEC, and at the University of Florida.
- That research is part of his newest article, “From Desegregation to Integration: Race, Football, and ‘Dixie’ at the University of Florida,” published in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Spring 2010 issue
- For more information, see Dr. White’s website.
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