AHA Today Announces Winner of First Blog Contest

The American Historical Association (AHA) is pleased to announce the winners of its first AHA Today Blog Contest. Over the course of the summer, each of these historians will be writing for AHA Today about their scholarship and the experience of doing their research. One of the three winners is:

 Eladio Bobadilla, doctoral student at Duke University and an alumni of Weber State University. He will be blogging about his research on how Chicanos have embraced the cause of undocumented immigrants in America—a project that will involve both archival work and oral interviews. Read his series Journey to an Undocumented Past online.

This contest is designed to highlight the voices of graduate students and to emphasize the importance of communicating the work of historians, broadly defined, to a variety of audiences and in a variety of media. We are hoping to create a dialogue between readers and these historians about the issues they raise, so please provide feedback with your thoughts and similar experiences in the comments.