Brittany Mayou and Constance Glynn awarded History Undergraduate Research Grants for spring 2012

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Brittany Mayou '12  and Constance Glynn '13 have been awarded  History Undergraduate Research Grants for Spring 2012. Brittany Mayou is a History major/Sociology minor. The grant supports her History Senior Capstone research on false confessions in the 1993 West Memphis, Arkansas, murder of three young boys.

Constance Glynn, a History/English and Language Studies double-major, will use her grant in support of an independent study on the 1842 murder of New York City cigar girl Mary Rogers.

The History Department's Undergraduate Research Grant program supports the course-based or independent research of any undergraduate student for whom access to historical materials, archives, or historic sites would benefit the research project. Since 2008, History Department Research Grants have supported undergraduate research on the history of zombie films, the blacksmith in American memory, and the Book of Kells.