2014 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CEREMONY
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2274
The 2014 AFT GRADUATE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD goes to ERIN
MULLIGAN.
Erin is a member of Phi Alpha Theta History, Rho Alpha Sigma National Residence Life,
and Alpha Lamda Delta Freshman honors societies.
She participated in several conferences including:
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Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Eastern Pennsylvania Regional
Conference in April, 2012 with work entitled Slavery’s Superiority: How Slavery
Defined Antebellum Southern Women.
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Represented Ramapo College at the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
Northeast Regional Undergraduate Research Conference in October, 2012
presenting Women's Plight and Soldier's Will to Fight; How Correspondence from
the Home-Front Affected Confederate Desertion.
•
Phi Alpha Theta Northeast Regional Conference in April, 2013 with work The
Soldier’s Monument in the Hackensack Cemetery; A Community’s
Reconciliationist Commemoration.
•
Phi Alpha Theta National Biennial Convention, Albuquerque New Mexico in
January, 2014 with Visual Representations of Primary Source Documents in
Pictorial Histories; From Lossing to Lodge 1850-1898.
Erin was the third place winner in the spring 2012 SSHGS Essay Contest with work
titled: Slavery’s Superiority: How Slavery Defined Antebellum Southern Women. This
spring, she also was the second place winner in the SSHGS Essay Contest for work
Alice C. Fletcher and Zitkala-Ša: The Indian Home in Turn of the Century Civilization
Debates.
Erin will be attending Bowling Green State University in the fall to pursue her M.A. in
American Culture Studies.