Charlotte Watters won the John F. Ramsey Award in 2017.
A passion for history infuses Charlotte Watters’ studies at UA. For Watters, a history and political science major, history is a living, vibrant area offering a wealth of intellectual opportunity.
Her commitment to her studies – particularly in a project involving “the fascinating and paradoxical relationships between the living and the dead, body and spirit in the middle ages” – has deeply impressed the history faculty, said Dr. James D. Mixson, associate professor of history.
Watters — a Tucson, Arizona native — has served as a undergraduate history peer mentor, Honors College Assembly director of civic engagement and a DREAM Alabama facilitator. Another area Watters feels passionate about lies in women’s issues. In addition, she has studied in Spain and in UA’s UA Honors Study Abroad at Worcester College, Oxford, England. She has served as a mentor at Cottondale Elementary School and Hillcrest High School, where her encounters with girls has left her with an even deeper appreciation for the struggle toward women’s equality. Her mother is Andrea Watters.