LACHS Scholarship
The LACHS Board approved implementation of a program to award scholarships to outstanding history graduate students at local universities and colleges. We hope that LACHS members who wish to support the program will donate funds to the program. Please note that 100% of all donations will go to students.
The Board recognizes the critical value of the study and analysis of history to our democracy and seeks to encourage outstanding students in the field.
2023 Scholarships
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California State University, Long Beach
Araceli Ramos - The 1956 Machris Brazilian Expedition: A Vehicle for Scientific Discovery and Ecological Conservation
Hazel Carias-Urbina - Conspirando en Los Ángeles
Please join us for a webinar with our 2023 LACHS Scholarship recipients from California State University, Long Beach. The two students will present their essays followed by a Q&A session. Click the link below to register for the webinar.
2022 Scholarships
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Cal State University Los Angeles
Christopher Empett - It’s Complicated: Cross Purpose Politics and Reassessing Community in New Deal Era Whittier
Jerry Sisneros - Shared Experiences and Regional Kinship Webs: Mid-Twentieth Century New Mexico, México, and Los Angeles
Cal State University Long Beach
Hector Gamboa - Militant Machismo: Hypermasculinity & The Brown Berets
Zachery Roethlisberger - The San Diego Blood Sisters: Highlighting Queer Women’s Activism During the AIDS Epidemic
2021 Scholarships
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Cal State University Los Angeles
Ariel Xochitl Hernandez - Calaveras in the Streets: Chicano Death, Art, and Día de los Muertos in Los Angeles, 1970-1980
Chris Fennessy - The Most Amazing Chapter in the Southland’s History: Mythmaking and Boosterism in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
Cal State University Long Beach
Valeria Martinez - The Formula for a Massacre: Growing Stereotypes and Rising Tensions Towards the Chinese Community in the Late 1800s
Angela Romero - Sorry Charlie: How a Cartoon Fish Became America’s most Enduring Icon of Counterculture Capitalism
In memory of Angela Romero
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of LACHS 2021 Scholarship recipient Angela Romero on April 8, 2022. She was only 43. Angela was very involved in sharing the history of San Pedro with the community, including founding a nonprofit dedicated to establishing the San Pedro Heritage Museum. We will miss her greatly and appreciate her contributions to the Los Angeles City Historical Society. She won her scholarship for her paper “Sorry Charlie: How a Cartoon Fish Became America’s most Enduring Icon of Counterculture Capitalism”.
Cal State University Northridge
2020 Scholarships
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Cal State University Los Angeles
Moisés Ponce-Zepeda - Unapologetically Left: Temple-Beaudry Community Activism 1970-1990
Abigail Calderon Garcia - Eradicating History or Embracing Change: The Debate About Renaming Streets to Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles in the 1990s
Cal State University Long Beach
Samantha Gelera - The Zoot Suit Riots: Challenging the Mexican-American Identity
Jocelyn Aguilera - "We Don't Need the English!" Transforming and Reconstructing Punk Politics into Chicana Punk Social Activism 1977-1989
Cal State University Northridge
Gavin Evans - Reframing A Crisis: Solving Homelessness in Los Angeles
Anthony Peña - Sidewalk Wars: Los Angeles Street Vendors in the 1980s
2019 Scholarships
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Cal State University Los Angeles
Robert Bates - The Progressive Legacies from the 1948 Progressive Party and the 1968 Peace and Freedom Party Presidential Campaigns
Ian Spik - Fear of a Black Picket: Anxieties about Racial Equality at Cal State Los Angeles in the 1960s
Cal State University Long Beach
Taylor Stack - (Sub)Urban Struggle: Youth Culture and the Search for Meaning and Space in Suburban Southern California, 1980-1986
Matthew Lindsay - Life was Once a Picnic in Long Beach: Hawkeye Traditions and Their Cultural Assimilation to Southern California
Cal State University Northridge
Daniel Aburto - From “Unfit for Human Consumption” to Taco Tuesday: Mexican food in Los Angeles from the Early 1900s
Arnoldo Toral, Jr. - They Have Always Existed: The Recent Success of Black Filmmakers in the Contemporary Era
