History majors Jillian Liesemeyer and Catherine Medici made a little history of their own at a recent conference. Jillian and Catherine took home first and third place awards, respectively, from the Phi Alpha Theta undergraduate paper competition at the Missouri Valley Regional History Conference held in Omaha March 5-7.
Jillian Liesemeyer won first place for "Greasy Grinds and Quasi-Robots: The Exclusion Rhetoric of Jewish and Asian Pacific American Students from Universities" and Catherine Medici won third place for "I Think It Not Meet for a Prince: Elizabeth I's Virgin Image and Her Gender Identity." They competed in a field of 28 student papers from Phi Alpha Theta chapters across the region.
Phi Alpha Theta is the national history honor society and Creighton is home to the Theta Eta chapter.