Rhodes junior history major Joe Angelillo won the award for Best Undergraduate Paper at the recent Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference held Feb. 9 at Arkansas State University. His paper is titled “No Remedy for Racism: The Crump Regime and Perpetuating the Burden of Blackness.”
Phi Alpha Theta is a national history honor society, and The University of Memphis, University of Central Arkansas, and Harding University were among the other schools represented at the regional conference.
Tim Nelson ’20, a Rhodes political science major and member of Phi Alpha Theta, also presented his paper “Affirming the Inclusion of Diversity Programs: The (d)Evolution of Affirmative Action since Bakke” at the conference.