Congratulations on graduating from college, graduate school and achieving outstanding awards in history! Although we are not able to gather in the Harris Hall Leopold room this year, we still want to recognize our students and appreciate you being here today to celebrate our graduates and award winners.
We hope that this virtual celebration will give you and your loved ones the opportunity to share this experience together in a meaningful way. Thank you for being a part of the History Department’s end of year celebration.
We recognize our graduates, both undergraduate and Ph.D., award winners, and those who have made special marks in the department. Click to view slideshow presentation which includes details, photos, and some statements from our distinguished honorees.
We congratulate our honors recipients on a successful year!
The department bestows several awards each year to undergraduates who have completed exemplary work in various fields of study.
The History Department congratulates our 2020 departmental prize winners.
Special Acknowledgements and Thank Yous
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Maria Melia Agudelo |
Haaris Bashir Alvi |
Evan Christopher Augeri |
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Ryan James Borgdorff |
Claire Louise Bugos |
John Byrne |
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Chase Anthony Carnevale |
Yi Chun Chen |
Graham William Cromley |
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Colin Lee Drexler |
Roy Dushi |
Thomas C Fredericks |
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Caleb Matthew Friedman |
Nathan Glasman |
Levi Michael Goldstein |
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Amanda C. Gordon |
Jordan Shea Green |
Eden Rachel Halterman |
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Amelia C Hancock |
Marisa Loretta Hattler |
Luke A Holey |
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Gabriel Michael Ghais Jankovsky |
Martin Kaehrle |
Netta Paz Keesom |
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Imran Ahmad Khan |
Ronald Y Kim |
Zachary Aaron Koons |
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Johann Daniel Lara Osorio |
Jakob M. Lazzaro |
Seri Lee |
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Andrew Douglas Mishkin |
Henry C. Molnar |
David Morales |
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Nathan Mostow |
John Wilson Nagel |
Maria Rose Nasser |
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Claire Jeeyoung Pak |
Dana Jadwin Pepowski |
Elizabeth S Perkins |
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Rachel Elizabeth Price |
Matthew Alexander Reay |
Andrew Ryan Reed |
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Sage M Ressler |
Kyle Aaron Rosen |
Katharine Virginia Sanderson |
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Mychala Tara Schulz |
Bradley James Schwartz |
Jacqueline Rena Siegle |
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Michael Joshua Snider |
Trent A Steelman |
Skye Ashley Tavarez |
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Yiting Wang |
Olivia Nicole Winn |
Daniel Kalisa Witte |
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Do Hun Yang |
Jonathan Frederick Zarrilli |
Jared Nelson Zvonar |
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James Albert Belleque |
Eric Benes |
Isaac Bykhovsky |
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Maya Julia Daiter |
Riley Rex Freeman |
Jonathan Louis Goldberg |
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Hannah Elizabeth Karzmer |
Elizabeth Ann Koehler |
Isaac Joseph LaLuzerne |
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Riley James Lees |
Julia Skye Morgenstern |
Henry Joseph Moskal |
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Pedro Xavier Orellana |
Louisa Baum Oreskes |
Ruby Evelyn Phillips |
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Mahima Pirani |
Juliana Marie Rev |
Jesse Danielle Rudnick |
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Rebecca Jean Schumm |
Andrew James Stopera |
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After a year of hard work, research, analysis and a tumultuous spring quarter, these students have triumphed and earned the distinguishment of being Department of History Honors Recipients.
Haaris Alvi, “Comparisons across Countries: Exploring unique causes and effects of Hyperinflation in Interwar Europe”; Advisor: Joel Mokyr
Yichun Chen, “Entrepreneurial Ethnic Writers: Jade Snow Wong, Rose Hum Lee,
and Chinese American Knowledge Production in the Early Cold War Years”; Advisor: Melissa Macauley
Thomas Fredricks, “Conflicting Visions: How Britain, France and Germany Forged a United Europe”; Advisor: Benjamin Frommer
Amy Ouyang, “Law vs. History: The Crisis of Legitimacy in the South China Sea”; Advisor: Peter Carroll
Elizabeth Perkins, “’Equally Determined to Send Their Children’: Pro-Integration Activism and the Persistence of Segregation in the Public Schools of Southern Illinois, 1874-1952”; Advisor: Kate Masur
Andrew Reed, “Money Hungry: Famine Policy Under the British East India Company, 1770-1840”; Advisor: Ashish Koul
Jared Zvonar, “The War that Never Happened: War Plan Red, Defence Scheme No. 1, and the
Myth of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1919-1939”; Advisor: Henry Binford
Grace Douglas Johnston Award is given to the best Senior Honors Thesis - Thomas Fredericks, “Conflicting Visions: How Britain, France and Germany Forged a United Europe”, Adviser: Professor Benjamin Frommer.
Jacob Lassner prize for best undergraduate essay in Jewish or Islamic civilization written for any department or program - Netta Keesom, “Our Dear Nations’ Esther Azhari Moyal and the Silhouette of an Arab-Jew," for Professor Ipek Yosmaoglu's HISTORY 393-0-24 Ottoman Jews in the Age of Nationalism, Fall 2019.
Josef Barton Research Seminar Essay Award (History 395 Seminar Paper) - Xinyang Zhou, “Becoming the ‘New People’ A Discussion on the Abolition of Prostitution in Shanghai from 1949 to 1958,” for Professor Peter Carroll's History 395-0-24 Shanghai: Modernity and Modernism in 20th Century China, Fall 2019.
First-year Seminar Essay Award is given annually for the best History first-year seminar final paper - Eman Akhtar, “I Had Joined the Struggle Like One Joins a Religion’ Religion, Gender, and the 1984 Family Code," for Professor Daniel Immerwahr's HUM 101-6-21: Empire, Fall 2019.
Teng Li
Advisor: Melissa Macauley
Judiciary at the Crossroad: Property Laws and Courts in Post-World War II Taiwan and Manchuria, 1945–1953, Summer 2019
Jessica Biddlestone
Advisor: Sarah Maza
"Empire of Ruins: France in Roman Africa, 1830-1900.", Summer 2019
Kevin Baker
Advisor: Ken Alder
World Processor: Computer Modeling, The Limits to Growth, and the Birth of Sustainable Development, Summer 2019
Michael Brownrigg
Advisor: Michael Sherry
"The Morphine Man" The Emotioal Politics of the Early War against Drugs, 1870s-1920s, Fall 2019
Luthfi Adam
Advisor: Haydon Cherry
“Cultivating Power: Buitenzorg Botanic Garden and Empire-Building in the Netherlands East Indies, 1745-1917”, Spring 2020
Morgan Barry, “‘SUBJECT’s wife’: Gender, Anticommunist, and Black Women Activists in Early Cold War Chicago.”
Eunike Setiadarma, “NATION AT HOME: Women, Family, and Bangsa Tionghoa in the Writings of Kwee Thiam Tjing.”
Luthfi Adam, “Cultivating Power: Buitenzorg Botanic Garden and Empire-Building in the Netherlands East Indies, 1745-1917.”
Claire Arnold, “The Demands of Distance: Global British Families and the World, 1830-1914.”
Aisha Valiula
Vanda Rajcan
Emily Lyon
Elizabeth Barahona
Emiliano Aguilar
Elizabeth Howell
Caitlin Monroe - Current Teaching Coordinator
Aisha Valiulla - Succeeding Teaching Coordinator
