Lancon Earns Inaugural Pollock Memorial Scholarship

Congratulations to M.A. student Luca Lancon, winner of the inaugural Bradley Pollock Memorial Scholarship in History. Lancon, an alumnus of our B.A. program in History, is researching and writing about the mutual influence of colonizer and indigenous gender roles in the early lower Louisiana colony. Per the donor's instructions, the scholarship is awarded based on academic merit to full-time juniors, seniors, or graduate student majoring in History, with preference given to a student expressing an interdisciplinary interest in human development focused on Afro-America, Asian, Latin American, Native American, or transregional or ethnic areas.

This scholarship is endowed in memory of Bradley Pollock, who died in 2009. Pollock was a kind, gentle, thoughtful colleague and friend who played a vital role in the department. He joined the faculty in 1984 and, over the next twenty-five years, offered a range of important classes in U.S., African, African American, and Global History. He was a deeply respected teacher and highly sought after community activist. From the time of His M.A. thesis, "W. E. B. Dubois and the Dilemma of the Racial Dialect," Pollock dedicated himself to the discussion and consideration of minority affairs and the importance of Black culture in the United States.