{"id":1105,"date":"2016-04-15T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2016-04-15T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:14:11","slug":"three-history-majors-recognized-in-woodruff-library-undergraduate-research-award-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2016\/04\/15\/three-history-majors-recognized-in-woodruff-library-undergraduate-research-award-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Three History Majors Recognized in Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The panel of judges for the 2016 Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award recognized the outstanding scholarship of three History Department\u00a0majors. Samantha Keng and Zixuan (Armstrong) Li\u00a0each received $500 prizes for\u00a0undergraduate research papers. Keng&#8217;s paper, sponsored by Professor Carol Anderson, is titled &#8220;Model Minority Awakenings: Vincent Chin, Asian America\u2019s Emmett Till.&#8221; Li&#8217;s work, titled &#8220;Doner Kebab: Symbol of German Multiculturalism in the Turkish Immigration Question,&#8221; was supported by Dr. Astrid Eckert. A third History\u00a0Department major, Emily Moore received an Honorable Mention. Titled &#8220;&#8216;A Casket Full of Precious Memoirs&#8217;: The Town of Washington\u2019s Conception of Its Own History,&#8221; Moore was sponsored by Dr. Leslie Harris. Congratulations to these students and their advisers on outstanding work. Descriptions of each piece can be found in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/emoryundergraduateresearchjournal\/docs\/eurj_spring_2016\">Emory Undergraduate Research Journal (EURJ)<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from pages 66-69. Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/fyi\/woodruff-library-undergraduate-research-award-winners-2016\">the news release<\/a> on the\u00a0Woodruff library&#8217;s\u00a0Scholar Blog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/files\/2016\/04\/WoodruffLibraryURAWinners_2016.jpg\" alt=\"From left to right: Emily Moore, Zixuan (Armstrong) Li, Samantha Keng, &amp; Hannah Conway\" \/><em>From left to right: Emily Moore, Zixuan (Armstrong) Li, Samantha Keng, &amp; Hannah Conway<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel of judges for the 2016 Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award recognized the outstanding scholarship of three History Department\u00a0majors. Samantha Keng and Zixuan (Armstrong) Li\u00a0each received $500 prizes for\u00a0undergraduate research papers. Keng&#8217;s paper, sponsored by Professor Carol Anderson, is titled &#8220;Model Minority Awakenings: Vincent Chin, Asian America\u2019s Emmett Till.&#8221; Li&#8217;s work, titled &#8220;Doner Kebab: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-publications","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}