This fund was established in 2008 to aid graduate students in ancient Mediterranean and ancient Chinese history in a variety of ways, including the Drake Entrance Fellowship for recruiting outstanding graduate students, the Drake Research Assistantship for support of current students, and travel funds. It honors Roman historian Hal Drake, who taught at UCSB for 38 years, and his wife, Kathleen, who fed a generation of graduate students.
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Current and Previous Recipients
2023, Paige Collins; Samuel Kim; Kendall Lovely
2022, Aaron Zhao
2021, Justin Devris
2020, James White
2019, Evan Andersson
2018, No award
2017, Lisa Meyers
2016, Brett Collins
2015, This year, the fund paid for ten graduate students from History, Classics, and Religious Studies
to attend the annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians
2014, Christopher Kegerreis, James White
2013, Sean Harrington; Tracey Watts
2012, Sean Harrington
2011, Greg Goalwin; Christopher Kegerreis; Alison Turtledove; Peninah Wolpo
2010, Alison Turtledove
2009, Greg Goalwin; Ryan Horne