George Boyd Martin-Vegue, a Latin American specialist and former faculty member at FSU, left a generous donation to the department that funds this graduate research fellowship. Professor Martin-Vegue received his PhD from UT Austin in 1951.
Past Recipients
| Year | Name | Research Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | Kiri Raber | “Sinews of Affect: Family and State Power in the Early Modern British Empire” |
| Fall 2023 | Rhiannon Turgel-Ethier | “Colonized in the East and Settler in the West: Cherokees in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes” |
| Spring 2023 | Kiri Raber | |
| Fall 2022 | Megan Groninger | "'She Hath Done What She Could': The Politics of Motherhood in Victorian England" |
| Spring 2022 | Justin Vos | |
| Fall 2021 | Erik Braeden Lewis | "The Émigré Homefront: Microhistories of Migration From the Franco-Spanish Borderlands During the Age of Revolution” |
| Spring 2021 | Ed Shockley | "Augusta’s Purgatory of Professionalism: Education at the Medical College of Georgia, 182-1960" |
| Fall 2020 | Ben Goff | "An Economy of Life: Military Medicine and the French State, 1747-1815” |
| Spring 2020 | Zachary Stoltzfus | “What is Hypotheque and What Can It Tell Us About The French Revolution?” |
| Fall 2019 | John Cable | "Decolonization and Southern Society: Land, Labour and Race in East-Central Mississippi" |
| Fall 2018 | Sarah Patterson | "The Few, The Proud: Gender and the Marine Corps Body” |
| Spring 2018 | Jan-Ruth Mills | “Messerschmitt Production and Slave Labor” |
| Fall 2017 | Richard Soash | "Tempered Inclusion: Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian Mobility in the Progressive Era" |
| Spring 2017 | Chris Osmar | “Now I am in Distant Germany, It Could be that I Will Die”: Colonial Precedent, Wartime Contingency, and Crisis Mentality in the Transition from Subjugation to Decimation of Foreign Workers in the Nazi Ruhr |
| Fall 2016 | Rebecca Shriver | "Beyond the Count, the Guru, and Radical Feminists: Women in Interwar Organizations that Supported European Integration" |
| Spring 2016 | Arad Gigi | "Fortifying Colonialism: Colonial State and Society in the French Caribbean, 1660-1789" |
| Fall 2015 | J. Hendry Miller | "Southern Intrusions: Native Assertions of Sovereignty in the Early Republic" |