UM History Students Attend 2023 Phi Alpha Theta Conference

In April, History students from the University of Montana attended the 2023 Northwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference held at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Phi Alpha Theta is the national history honor society, and UM has had an active chapter for decades. Each spring, UM sends a contingent of students to share their original research. This year, eleven students presented papers at the conference. Two UM History faculty members, Professors Kyle Volk and Wade Davies, accompanied them and commented on the research essays of students from other colleges and universities in the Pacific northwest.

Congratulations to all of the UM students, and special congratulations to MA student Hazel Videon. Her essay, "Sunrise in the Heartland: The Ahmadiyya Mission and African American Conversion to Islam, 1920-1944," garnered the "Best Graduate Student Paper Prize" at the conference. 

UM History students' participation in the annual Phi Alpha Theta conference is supported all those who have generously contributed to the Harry Fritz Fund for Student Achievement.