Student Resources
Each year, History students have the opportunity to apply for a variety of scholarships designated specifically for History majors. These awards support students pursuing diverse areas of study, including teaching, Ancient History, U.S. History, World History, and European History. Made possible through the generosity of our donors, these scholarships are available through the annual spring application cycle. Available scholarships can be found through Beach Scholarships, and examples of departmental awards are listed below.
Please note that scholarship awards are not distributed as cash payments. Funds are applied directly to student accounts and may affect other forms of financial aid, including student loans.
David Hood Ancient History Endowed Scholarship
To provide a scholarship for a History Major with the option in Ancient Greece or Rome or equivalent, Graduate and Undergraduate students.
Douglas McNealy Endowment
To provide a scholarship to History Majors that have performed outstanding service to the History department and demonstrated academic achievements.
Elizabeth Nielsen Scholarship (History Award)
To provide scholarship support to a student majoring in either English or History
Irving H. Ahlquist Memorial Scholarship
Awarded to a history major with a concentration in U.S. history, and who, on the basis of a promising record in this department, plans to go on to graduate school.
Jean Donald Miller Endowed Scholarship in American History
To provide scholarships to students majoring in History.
Lynne Israelsky Memorial Scholarship Award
Awarded to History Credential students.
Nicholas Perkins Hardeman Graduate Award
To provide scholarship support to a History Graduate student for outstanding academic achievement.
Richard and Louise Wilde Scholarship
To provide a scholarship for a History Major Graduate, Credential, or Undergraduate student at the senior class level.
The Sharon Sievers Scholars Award
This scholarship is given in honor of Professor Sharon Sievers, a pioneering feminist historian of Japanese and women’s history.
In addition to the awards listed on BeachScholarships, the History Department gives prizes for the best portfolios in HIST 301 and HIST 499. The Department Awards Committee will inform History students directly about how to apply for these.
Brown Issues is a leadership-based organization devoted to empowering underserved communities of color through advocating for both institutional and non-institutional educational advancement, encouraging individuals to resist patriarchal systems that limit growth, and seeking to reject destructive "gang" culture within communities. With the organization's strong focus on equality, community engagement, and narrative change within the Latinx and other marginalized populations at CSULB, Brown Issues cultivates the next generation of Brown leaders committed to creating social and political change both on and off campus.
For questions text our instagram @brownissues_csulb or email @brownissues.csulb@gmail.com
The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play is a collaborative, interdisciplinary space where researchers, students and gaming community at CSULB can engage in the critical study and teaching of video games and their impact on culture. Games occupy an essential place in the contemporary media ecology and our students’ lives, and they are necessary objects of critical and historical analysis.
History Games Critical Play Sessions (Table Top History Based Games)
Join Professors Lawler and Smith, and your fellow students as we play and investigate the meaning and questions that history based card and table-top games explore. We meet every other week, to play history based games, have a good time, establish a sense of community, and every once in a while discuss the games that we’re playing. Each meeting we bring a variety of games from lighter fun historical fare like Salem, where witches rule the table and the townsfolk fearfully try to kill them, to games like Gugong or Western Legends that are bit more complicated but no less fun.
