Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ history student earns national research award
April 30, 2012
Jake McAdams, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ senior history student, was the recent recipient of the Ben H. Proctor Research Paper Award from the Phil Alpha Theta national historh honor socety.
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Jake McAdams, a senior majoring in history at Stephen F. Austin State University, recently was awarded the Ben H. Procter Research Paper Award from the Phi Alpha Theta national history honor society.
The award recognized McAdams' paper titled "The Devil's Wire: The Texas Fence Cutter's War of 1883" and was presented during the Southwestern Social Science Association's annual conference in San Diego, Calif.
McAdams has conducted other independent research as an Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ undergraduate, including projects on the romanticization of the American mountain man and the history of Long Branch, Texas. He has collaborated on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's Charlie Wilson Oral History Project, presented papers at professional conferences and published two articles in "Clio's Eye," Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's online historical magazine.
A native of Red Oak, McAdams will graduate with his Bachelor of Arts in history in May. He is concurrently working on a Master of Arts with an emphasis in public history at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and hopes to pursue a career in the field of historic preservation or cultural resources management.
McAdams is a past recipient of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's Mary Devine Writing Award and Presidential Volunteer Service Award and has been included on both the President's Honor Roll and Dean's List. He is a member of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.