21/05/2026
Lauren Yanase received the Joel Palmer award today for the best article in the Oregon Historical Quarterly. Lauren, we couldn't be prouder! The PHR is so lucky to have you in the office as our Caroline Stoel graduate editorial fellow.
Congratulations, Lauren Yanase, for winning the Oregon Historical Society’s Joel Palmer Award for her article “‘Not fit for human habitation’: Portland’s Wartime Japanese American Detention Camp” in the Spring 2025 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly. The Joel Palmer award is given annually to the best article in the Oregon Historical Quarterly.
Lauren is currently a graduate student in the History Department but her article began as a paper she wrote as an *undergraduate* in Prof. Catherine McNeur’s Research Seminar on Environmental History a few years ago.
Congratulations, Lauren! You make us all proud!