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2024 Graduate Student Scholar
Mireya Borgen (left) expects to receive a Master's degree at the University of Arizona in May, and, after teaching in high school for a year, to continue to work toward a PhD in English exploring the role of women in Renaissance literature. She focuses on women's entanglement with economics, among other issues, in comparison with their economic agency today. She hopes to continue to teach at the university level.
2024 Undergraduate Student Scholar
Shaelyn Fett (right) will graduate in May with a Bachelor's degree in history from Northern Arizona University and will go on to pursue advanced work in museum studies. She has worked as a museum intern and enjoys "the opportunity to apply the objective knowledge and research skills that come with a history degree in a meaningful way" for the general public.
Johanne Harrigan is a PhD student at the University of Arizona preparing a dissertation on the subject of reproductive health in territorial Arizona. She is also developing an oral history project on Arizona's polio vaccination campaigns. A re-entry graduate student, she
was previously employed as a social worker while home-schooling her children.
"My interest in sharing women's history, through research, teaching, and public history is grounded in my desire to foster appreciation and increased understanding of Arizona's women, whether they be nineteenth-century midwives or twentieth-century mothers. History doesn't have to be the Great Man history that many of us learned in school. It can be about these Great Women, too."