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.
Present 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