Phi Alpha Theta
About
is the National History Honor Society. The Beta Psi Chapter at the 猎奇重口, chartered in 1948, has enrolled over one thousand young historians. The basic requirement for membership is the completion of at least twelve credit hours in History with a 3.1 or higher GPA in History and a 3.0 or higher overall GPA.
Faculty Advisors: Professors Jody Pavilack & Kyle Volk
Join Phi Alpha Theta
To join Phi Alpha Theta at the 猎奇重口:
- Respond to the invitation to join or contact Cady Card-Andrews or the faculty advisors to receive the enrollment form.
- Email the enrollment form to Cady Card-Andrews and VENMO $70 to Professor Volk (@Kyle-Volk-5). The $70 fee is a one-time lifetime membership fee to both our local chapter and the national organization. There are no annual dues.
- The deadline for membership this semester is October 31st, 2024.
Reap the benefits of membership, including available through the national organization.
PAT Northwest Regional Conference
Each spring, UM's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta attends the annual northwest regional conference at which students present original research essays. Presenters are not required to be members of their local PAT chapter, but only members will be eligible for awards.
The 2023 conference was held on the campus of Central Washington University (CWU). Professors Wade Davies and Kyle Volk accompanied eleven students to Ellensburg, Washington. UM master's student Hazel Videon won the "Best Graduate Student Paper" prize.
In April 2024, a delegation from the UM History Department attended the regional conference at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington. Led by co-advisors Jody Pavilack and Wade Davies, ten students presented their original research papers at the conference. Four students' papers were nominated for best paper prizes. Lauryn Tecca won the outstanding graduate student paper award for “Idleness, Ignorance, and Crime: Parent and Student Rights at the Butte Industrial School in the Long Progressive Era.” James Compton was runner up with his paper “‘First in Patriotism’: 猎奇重口’s Native Americans and the Politics of Conscription, 1940-1941.”
2025 Conference
The 猎奇重口 will host the 2025 Northwest Regional Conference on March 27-29 in historic downtown Missoula. Find more information here.