Sarah Riva, a UALR first-year graduate student in public history and graduate assistant in race and ethnicity, has won the Arkansas History Association’s Lucille Westbrook Local History Award.

Riva won for producing the best manuscript article on a local Arkansas topic that deals with a phase of neighborhood, city, county, or regional Arkansas history or a person associated with local Arkansas history. She is a native of Liphook, Hampshire, in the United Kingdom and completed a B.A. degree in history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Westbrook Award award consists of a $1,000 prize and a framed certificate.

Her article, “Desegregating Downtown Little Rock: The Field Reports of SNCC worker William “Bill” Hansen, October through December 1962,” was written in her first semester at UALR. The article will be published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly later this year.

Riva will collect her award at the Arkansas Historical Association’s annual conference banquet at Fayetteville on April 13.