CSUSB History Student Journal, "History in the Making," Again Wins National Recognition
As reported by the CSUSB Campus News, the students of the eighteenth annual issue of History in the Making again won national honors as recognized by the national history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta. Each year, faculty judges award the Gerald D. Nash honors to student journals of history in several categories. In eighteen years of publishing annual issues, the students of the CSUSB history department have won recognition in first, second, or third place a remarkable thirteen times. This year, the students won in the graduate print journal category, with an issue that ranged widely in its contents, with research on the Puerto Rican nationalist independence movement, Chicana feminism, and the intersection of racist subjugation and religious justification, and remembrances of President Jimmy Carter and poet, Nikki Giovanni, along with film and exhibit reviews. Find the full issue here.
For this eighteenth issue of the journal, student editors included the following: chief editors were Christina Monson and Gustavo Alonso; copy editor Margaret Phillips; section editors Bshara Alsheikh, Ayden Kelly, Ahlys Gandara and Erin Maddex; and editors Marlet Felix, Isai Martinez, Samuel Griffin, Randi Stoner, Allen Hall, Jessie Zepeda and Moises Leon. Professor Tiffany Jones served as lead faculty advisor.
Find the full campus news item here with quotes from editors and authors, find the journal homepage here, and the ScholarWorks page here, where individual articles can be downloaded. If you might be interested in a paper copy of this or a previous issue of the journal, you can visit the History Department office in SB-357 during business hours, or contact the History in the Making faculty advisors. At the journal homepage, you can also find out how to apply to be an editor on the journal staff, and how to submit your writing to be considered for publication by the student editorial staff.
The History Department celebrates the continuation of this remarkable tradition of excellence from our graduate and undergraduate students!