Purpose: This scholarship, endowed by UNO alumnus Carl E. Muckley, is intended to provide financial assistance to a full-time junior or senior UNO history major who demonstrates exceptional ability and promise.
Amount and Nature of Award: This is typically a $1000 cash award. The award will be disbursed in two equal payments, paid to the recipient when he or she registers for fall and spring classes.
For more than thirty years, UNO Professor Joseph Logsdon was that rare combination of scholar and teacher. At the time of his death in the late 1990s, he had just been named the first Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair holder. In addition to being named a Research Professor, he was recognized for outstanding teaching. Logsdon mentored younger faculty colleagues as well as students. A native of Chicago, he became a New Orleans bon vivant during the thirty plus years he lived in the city. Not just a class room teacher, Logsdon lived the ideals he taught and was active in the NAACP, at the local, state, and national levels. His teaching popularity was equaled by his scholarship and he became a role model for many of his students, both undergraduate and graduate. One of them, Carl Muckley, was so impressed that he endowed a scholarship for history majors. Photograph courtesy of the University of New Orleans Archives, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.
Eligibility: Applicants must be continuing UNO undergraduate history majors of at least junior standing in the Fall semester, (60 hours earned) with an overall 2.50 GPA, including at least 12 hours earned in History with a 3.00 over-all average in all history courses. Recipients must be full-time students during the semesters of the award. Sons and daughters of UNO history faculty are not eligible.
Criteria: Applicants will be judged and the scholarship awarded on the basis of academic performance and clarity of goals and purpose. Financial need can also be a consideration.
Application: Applicants must write a short (300 to 500 words) statement in which they outline their past academic work, career goals, and financial needs that they wish to have considered. Formal transcripts of grades are not needed. One letter of reference (preferably from a member of the History faculty) is required, addressed to the Undergraduate Advisor, Department of History.
Deadlines and Award Dates: The deadline for application is typically in the middle of March for the following academic year. The scholarship awardee will be announced at the annual College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation, and the first half of the scholarship granted at Fall semester registration.
Application forms are available via this link: Logsdon scholarship
Year |
Past Recipients |
| 2008 |
Christine Horn |
| 2008 |
John Mangipano |
| 2007 |
Ryne Schuler |
| 2006 |
Bruce Hayes Abney, Jr. |
2005 |
Charles Michael Murphy |
2004 |
Claire A. Popovich |
2003 |
Camilla Maria Cederberg |
2003 |
Ernest Clarence Cline III |
| 2002 |
Mary K. Dawes Franzen |
| 2001 |
Michael Baltazar |
| 2001 |
Mianca Delatte |
| 2000 |
Alison D’Antonio |
| 2000 |
Armand K. Fruga |
| 1999 |
Leigh Anne Plasse |
| 1998 |
Hydee Renee Dennis |
| 1997 |
Theodis Wright |
| 1996 |
Connie Bordelon |
| 1995 |
Connie Ruth Gill |
| 1994 |
Joseph Young Dickens |
| 1993 |
Phyliss Lucille Gabb |
| 1991 |
Susan Mary Webre |
| 1990 |
Daniel J. Hubbell |
| 1989 |
Paula Jean Yoon |
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