2023
First Place: Andy Manne (St. Mary's Academy)
"Odysseus of the Arctic: The Epic of John Franklin and the Search for his Lost Expedition"
Second Place: Poppy Baxter Game (Grant High School)
"The History of Vampire Folklore: Fear and Introspection, 2000 BCE.-2000 CE."
Third Place: Amelia Nason (St. Mary's Academy)
"The Contribution of Domestic and International Conflict In Renaissance Italy to the Sport of Fencing"
Young Historians 2023 Schedule (pdf )
2022
First Place: Ava Trueworthy (St. Mary's Academy)
"Beyond Rudolph: The Cultural Impacts of Reindeer Herding on the Sami”
Second Place: Samantha Knofler (St. Mary's Academy)
“All About Dynamics: Katherine Howard's Hidden Story”
Third Place: Nola Lierheimer (Grant High School)
“So Many Possibilities: A History of Noodles & Pasta”
2021
First Place: Cole Powers (Lakeridge High School)
"Fighting for Freedom: Jazz and the Cold War"
Second Place: Charlotte Cody (St. Mary's Academy)
"The Irish Language and Nationalism in the Twentieth-Century"
Third Place: Ruby Lewis (St. Mary's Academy)
“To Hell or Connaught:” How British Colonizers Both Caused and Benefitted from the Irish Potato Famine"
2020
First Place: Abigail Schipper (St Mary's Academy)
Religious Motivations Can Only Get You So Far: The Impacts and Limitations of Lutheran Educational Reforms
Second Place: Maggie Stanton (St Mary's Academy)
Paradoxical Feminism: Attempts at Gender Equality in the French Revolution
Third Place: Jason Grossman-Ferris (Grant High School)
"The Power of a Prince: Machiavelli, Devotion, and the Secularization of Western Politics"
2019
First Place: Madeleine Adriance (St. Mary's Academy)
"I Should Like to Say a Word or Two About Your Empire": Victor Hugo Le Grand, Napoléon III, and the Historiographical Battlefield of the French Second Empire
Second Place: Isabelle Paylor (Clackamas High School)
"Searching for Medieval Lesbianism and "Lesbianistic Intimacy" Within Asexual Christian Religious Orders for the Middle Ages: G. unice sue rose and C. super mel et favum dulciori"
Third Place Winners:
Isabel Lickey (Grant High School)
"Aristocracy and Agriculture: How Vergil's Georgics Inspired a Wave of Agrarianism and Imperialism"
Jasmine Yu (St. Mary's Academy)
"Liberté, Égalité, Santé: The Evolution of Medicine in Revolution-Era France"
Honorable Mention: Roni Heyman (St. Mary's Academy)
"Jean Martin Charcot’s Historical Impact on the Understanding of the Mind"
2019 Young Historians Conference Program
2018
First Place: Riona O’Donnell (St. Mary’s Academy)
"The Saint of Orleans: Her Legacy"
Four Second Place Winners
Nina Fletcher (St. Mary’s Academy)
"If Only I Could Get a Job Somewhere: The Emergence of British Punk"
Maeve Nagel-Frazel (St. Mary’s Academy)
"The Supreme and Fiery Force of a Poor Little Woman: The Development of the Prophetic Voice of Hildegard of Bingen"
Tiffany Ong (Clackamas High School)
"Marie de France’s Courtly Love: The Liberation of Women Through Romance"
Isabel Williams, St. Mary’s Academy
"Truth, Fiction, and Image: Napoleon Bonaparte and the Changing Tides of Political Imagination"
Honorable Mentions
Madeline Ott (St. Mary’s Academy)
"Impure Blood: The Menstrual Taboo in the Christian Church During the Thirteenth Century"
Chloe Sellers (Riverdale High School)
"Galen: The Philosophical Physician"
2018 Young Historians Conference Program
2017
First Place: Alisa Folen (Grant High School)
"Cultural Bias in the European Translations of Thomas More's Utopia."
Four Second Place Winners:
David Bartolome (Clackamas High School)
"The Notion of Madness in Literature, Philosophy, and Tragedy: Evolving Conceptions of Mental Illness in Athens."
Dimitra Fellman (Riverdale High School)
"The Influence of Hellenism on the Literary Style of 1 and 2 Maccabees."
Mary Potter (Lakeridge High School)
"Progressive Era Aftermath- Analysis of Municipal Housekeeping: Bertha K. Landes and Dorothy McCullough Lee."
Katie Woodhouse (St. Mary's Academy)
"Subjective Retelling: the Influence of External and Individual Factors on the Folktales of the Brothers Grimm."
2016
First Place: Sam Levin (Lakeridge High School)
"Since Time Immemorial: The Decline of Columbia River Basin Salmon"
Second Place: Lena Breda (St. Mary's Academy)
"The Scandalous Furca: The Enlightenment, Fashion, and Hierarchal Strife."
Two Third Place Winners
Emma Komers (Riverdale High School)
"The Link Between Artemisia Gentileschi's Biography and Her Artistic Oeuvre."
Rachel McKinnon (Clackamas High School)
"Breaking Boundaries: The Worth of Women in the Merovingian Period"
2016 Young Historians Conference with abstracts
2015
First Place: Lindsay Swanson (St. Mary's Academy)
"Inevitable Rebellion: The Jacobite Risings and the Union of 1707"
Second Place: Sofia DeLeonibus (St. Mary's Academy)
"Rocking the Third Republic: The Succession of Political Crisis That Led to the Rise of Xenophobic Nationalism in France"
Honorable Mention: Eliza Kamerling-Brown
“The Pursuit of Pleasure: An Intersection between Aristotle’s Poetics and Sixteenth Century Renaissance Music”
2015 Young Historians Conference Program with abstracts
2014
First Place: Stephanie Lippincott (Lakeridge High School)
"Riveting Rosie's Riveting Struggles: Women Shipyard Workers in WWII"
Second Place: Sophia Cantwell (St. Mary's Academy)
"The Power of the People in Influencing the British Government: The Kindertransport"
Full Abstracts of papers presented
2013
First Place: Lydia Bales (St. Mary's Academy)
"A Beacon of Hope in the Darkness: the Danish Resistance"
2012
First Place: Avery Fischer (Lakeridge High School)
"Painting the Enemy in Motion: Film From Both Sides of the Pacific War"
Second Place: Sonja Breda (St. Mary’s Academy)
"The Paradox of the Castrato"
2011
First Place: Sarah Cox (Clackamas High School)
“Not All Were Created Equal”
Second Place: Chloe Zimmerman (St. Mary’s Academy)
“The Anatomical Renaissance”
Honorable Mention: Matthew Krane (Lakeridge High School)
“The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Chomsky and Student Opposition to the Vietnam War"
2010
Max Heniger (Lakeridge High School)
“Seeds of Destruction: Factors Triggering the Watts Riots”
2009
First Place: Rachel Krauss (St. Mary’s Academy)
“William Harvey’s Circulatory System: the Process of Acceptance"
Honorable Mention: Kavin Vasudevan (Lakeridge High School)
“Nixon and the Watergate Scandal: 1968-1974”