{"id":571,"date":"2018-06-01T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=571"},"modified":"2018-06-01T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:48:33","slug":"ben-wallis-received-history-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2018\/06\/01\/ben-wallis-received-history-academic-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wallis received history academic honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduating senior and double history and political science major Ben Wallis received the Outstanding Student Award in history at the May 11, 2018 academic honors awards ceremony. Wallis was a 2017 recipient of a TruScholars award, and was a preceptor in two student-initiated courses,&#8221;Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement&#8221; (Spring 2017) and &#8220;Introduction to the Marxist Theory of Capitalism&#8221; (Spring 2018). 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