March 28

Graduate student Mr. Scott King-Owen was accepted to Ph.D programs at University of Missouri-Columbia, The Ohio State University, and Temple University. He has recently decided to enter the Ohio State which has offered him a Distinguished University Fellowship. The fellowship is a 12 month position, tuition and fees are waived, and no teaching duties. Scott will probably be working with Dr. John Brooke, continuing his research on the Federalists in North Carolina (and the South) and their efforts to wage a vigorous war against the Jeffersonians in the public sphere through newspapers.

Scott also wishes to share his thoughts about his study at UNCW:

" At UNCW I came to a greater understanding of the nature of the intellectual conversations historians have about the past. I not only developed greater insight into the study of specific people, places, and events but also became more aware of a larger discourse about how we know what we know as well as how we interpret the human experience. I benefitted from faculty members' insightful criticism, encouragement, and timely advice--particularly when my prolix prose mangled my ideas.
But my professors also invested in my future as a scholar (not just as a student in a class) by suggesting strategy and offering insight on exactly what it takes to get into a Ph.D. program. Letters of recommendation as well as useful advice contributed mightily to my acceptance at several schools where I will be able to use the investment UNCW's history department made in me as a scholar to engage in, and perhaps even start, my own intellectual conversations as a historian."