By Jonathan Morales

2023年1月10日

Amber Verdugo, busy working on her master’s degree in History, needed an easy elective. She thought working on the 学生办的历史杂志 克莱奥 would be one.

她错了。

“There are, especially at the end, a lot of hours,” said Verdugo, who was convinced to serve as co-editor with fellow student Andrew Shimizu. “Like, I've already read this essay 20 times, but I need to go through it again and make sure that all those citations, every single period (are) exactly where (they’re) supposed to be.”

那些长时间的工作是值得的。 克莱奥 recently was named the nation’s top graduate student journal in the Nash History Journal Prize competition, sponsored annually by the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.

该杂志在2018年排名第一，在2019年和2020年排名第二。

Those earlier issues were “really good, and so I wouldn’t say we did anything better than those (editions), because we learned from previous years,” said Shimizu, a master’s in Public History student. “It was a big relief, but then also a sense of accomplishment."

克莱奥 特色学术研究从10萨克拉门托州立研究生，本科生和校友，加上书评。 The research covers topics ranging from the racial implications of zombie movies, to the impact of errors in 19^th-century U.S. census counts, to an exploration of 17^th-century Baroque Polish art.

Verdugo says the breadth of the research makes Clio stand out from journals that focus on one specific topic or research area.

Shimizu说，在杂志上发表文章对学生的好处不仅仅是为他们的简历或简历提供了一个条目

“It's a great opportunity to test yourself, to submit something, to work really hard to submit something that other people will see,” he said.

对于Verdugo和Shimizu来说，阅读23份提交的作品，从中筛选出10份，然后多次编辑，这本身就有好处。

“You get to see so many different styles of writing, so many different ways of approaching an argument, and then really critique sentence structure, word choice, the layout of the paragraphs, and whether they're making their argument strongly enough,” Verdugo said. “Doing that for other people made me have a more critical eye on my own writing as well.”