Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award

In recognition of the late Walter Rundell, Jr.'s commitment to graduate education in the field of Western History, the Western History Association offers a $1,500 award for graduate student research. The applicant should be a doctoral candidate who has completed comprehensive examinations for their dissertation subject on the North American West. The award supports graduate student research in particular libraries or collections relevant to their dissertation work on Western American history. The award is named after Walter Rundell, Jr. (1928-1982), who was a leading authority on Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb and played a pivotal role in elevating western history within the larger academic canon. Rundell was instrumental in founding the Western History Association in 1961 and served as the organization's twenty-first president before his untimely death in 1982.