For the release: Friday April 11, 2025
Meyer receives Jack P. Barlow, Sr. History Book Prize, Luckey wins Sg Whittle Johnston Memorial Award
Huntington, ind. – The Department of History and Political Science of the University of Huntington is pleased to announce the recipients of two prestigious prizes, Grace Meyer receiving the Jack P. Barlow Prize, SR.book History Book for the Autumn 2024 and Rebecca Luckey semester winning the 2024 SG WHITTLE Johnston Prize.
Barlow prices are awarded to exceptional students of higher level, research and writing of the department.
Meyer is from Bremen, Indiana, and graduated from the Bremen high school. She pursues a baccalaureate in arts with majors in political science and English. After graduating, she plans to attend the law faculty and pursue a career in the legal profession.
Meyer was recognized by Dr. Jeffrey Webb, professor of American history, for his performance in the course of American political institutions.
“Grace is a first -rate critical thinker who corresponds to his considerable intellectual gifts with admirable work ethics,” said Webb. “It maintains very high standards, which will result in success at the Faculty of Law and its future career.”
The Jack P. Barlow, Sr. Book Prize honors the memory of Professor Barlow, who served for more than three decades as a American history teacher at the University of Huntington, and which brings a price of $ 250 of university books. He is sponsored by Ron Frank Fund, who rewards school performance and students’ participation during professional university conferences. The fund was created in 1973 in honor of Ron Frank, a former student at the University of Huntington.
The Johnston Memorial Award is awarded each year to the author of a research document written in the Department of History and Political Science. The appointments for the price demonstrate the highest level of intellectual engagement and membership of professional scholarship standards.
Luckey is from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and graduated from Homestead High School. She is currently working on a baccalaureate in history in history education and a baccalaureate in arts with three majors – history, political science and international studies and development – as well as the specialization program of the University of Huntington. She intends to graduate in May 2025 and pursue higher education or teach at the secondary level.
Luckey’s award -winning research document was chosen by a competitive process and his project: “The importance of Devaraja to the success of the Angkor Empire, ”detailed how devarajaA mixture of Hindu-Buddhist ideas on political authority and the divine will, served the interests of Khmer emperors in the former Cambodia during the reigns of Indravarman I, Suryavarman I, Suryavarman II and Jayavarman VII. His work was completed under the direction of Dr. Timothy O. Smith in his advanced seminar, his art and archeology of the old Angkor. Luckey also received the Jack P. Barlow Sr. History Book department’s book Prize in 2023.
“Rebecca has produced a courageous and nuanced analysis of the complicated relationship between” power “and religious” belief “in the old Cambodia,” said Smith. “In doing so, she explored dynamic synergies at work between Kingship Power and Devaraja worship, which has enabled the Khme Empire to dominate South-East Asia for several centuries.
The SG Whittle Johnston Memorial Award pays tribute to the memory of SG Whittle Johnston, a deceased professor at the University of Virginia, and benefits from a cash price of $ 1,000. He is funded by SG Whittle Johnston Memorial Award Fund, who was created by a former HU and former member of the faculty to encourage students to aim for excellence in research in the fields of history and political science.