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The department of history is proud to announce that it has awarded the Spring 2012 Walbolt Dissertation Fellowship to Kevin Kokomoor. His dissertation, "Africans, Indians, and the Spanish Frontier: 1784-1821," explores the contested terrain of northern Florida and southern Georgia at the turn of the nineteenth century. Kokomoor, who has already published part of his research in an award-winning article, will use the Walbolt Fellowship to continue his examination of the hundreds of escaped African slaves and various Native American peoples who made their homes in this volatile region. Kokomoor will use the Walbolt Fellowship to finish his research at the Newberry Library, the Georgia State Archives, and several other archives. Kokomoor is a student of Dr. Andrew Frank.
The jury of the 2011 Tallahassee/Leon County Historic Preservation Awards recognizes “In FSU’s Shadow,” which was an HAPH graduate student project to build awareness of endangered historic sites in the region neighboring Florida State University, as an outstanding achievement in the Preservation Education/Media Category.
Graduate student Kevin Kokomoor won the 2010 Arthur W. Thompson Award for the most outstanding article in the Florida Historical Quarterly in 2009. “A Re-assessment of Seminoles, Africans, and Slavery on the Florida Frontier,” appeared in the Fall of 2009, Volume 88, no.2.