IPhD student, Jisung Lee, receiving an award from the president of the Missouri Conference on History, Dr. Jeremy McNeely.
IPhD student Jisung Lee won the Lynn and Kristen Morrow Missouri History Student Prize from the Missouri Conference on History. His essay, “The Abandoned West: The First Year of the Western Sanitary Commission, 1861-1862,” was awarded the Morrow prize for the best student paper on an aspect of Missouri History presented at the conference. This essay is part of Lee’s dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Diane Mutti Burke and was written in Dr. Drew Bergerson’s Fall 2022 Research Seminar.
Lee was recognized during the Missouri Conference on History awards ceremony on March 17, 2023 in Springfield.