Chayda Harding

Chayda Harding is an outstanding junior History major whose work is highly admired by numerous faculty in the department. Chayda has been described as “smart, original, and dedicated,” pointing to their performance in the classroom, work as a Leopold Fellow, and experience as a docent at the Block Museum. Chayda has opted to work on class projects that are centered on synthesizing and analyzing primary sources, has been characterized as a top-tier research assistant, and will soon be undertaking a senior thesis project. Chayda Harding’s capabilities as a historian have earned high praise from the department.

- Professor Doug Kiel

This summer I'm continuing my work with Professor Binford through the Leopold fellowship on his project "Small Businesses in Poor Urban Communities" and working with a former Religious Studies professor (Dr. Sarah Vaux), helping her with research for a book she's writing on her family's history. I also plan to begin my senior thesis research and visit the archive I'll be working with, which is housed in the Library of Congress in DC. Overall, a very history and research oriented summer!

Fiona Asokacitta

For thesis “Picturing Java (Wo)man: Visual Reconstruction of Colonial Paleoanthropology”.  Advisor: Professor Haydon Cherry.

I will be pursuing an MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford in the Fall. Following my master’s, I hope to continue with a PhD in Indonesian visual andmaterial anthropology.

Joseph Rathke

For thesis, “Subversive Schools: Police Surveillance of Chicago Public Schools, 1967-1974." Advisor: Professor Kevin Boyle

This fall, I am excited to begin my PhD in history at the University of Chicago.

Andrew Mo

For project “Searching for Belonging: Contending with Cultural Assimilation and Preservation,” in History 393-0-24/HUM 370-5-23 Migrations in the Mediterranean (Fall 2020) with Professor Lauren Stokes.

For plans after graduation, I'll be working as an Investment Banking Analyst at Deutsche Bank.

Shanth Gopalswamy

For “Swindled by the Ego: Why Forgery Continues to Best Us” in History 103-6-20: A Beginner's Guide to Forgery (Spring 2020) with Professor Paul Gillingham.

This summer I will be interning at Infineon Technologies and pursuing opportunities to perform live music whenever possible. I have attached a picture of myself below.

Miranda Chabot

For “The Feminine Monarchy Abroad: The Honey Bee as a Model for Indigenous Interactions in Colonial Massachusetts” in ENVR_POL 390-0-26/History 395-0- Nature and Empire (Fall 2020) with Professor Lydia Barnett

This summer, Chabot is creating educational videos for Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago. After graduation, she plans to pursue environmental reporting.

Gabrielle Plotkin

For the thesis "

Renewing and Recycling: The Formation of American Jewish Environmentalism in the 1970s and 1980s." Advisor: Professor Keth Woodhouse

After graduation, I want to pursue environmental policy research.

_{*H. Paul Friesema Award for Environmental Leadership and Academic Achievement (awarded by my minor, the Environmental Policy and Culture program and recommended by Professor Shana Bernstein)}

 

_{*Best presentation and poster under the Arts, Humanities, and Performance category at the Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Expo Spring 2021}

Ali Zaid Abdullah

Umut Akova

Maria Pia Aliaga

Marc Edward Alvarez

Nikita Sohail Amir

Jacob Hubbard Anderson

Fiona Asokacitta

Anisha Bhattacharya

Sophia Rose Blake

John Michael Byrne IV

Soren Christopher Campbell

Cameron Elizabeth Cook

Carson Carlyle Copeland

Angel Francisco Croce Malave

Jack Lorenze Datin

Annika Hope de Vogel

Drew Phillip DiSerio

Adam Sumner Downing

Eric Connor Eberhardt

Patrick Jonathan Emery

Cengiz Ozan Ergungor

Robert David Fine

Rachel Nicole Fishman

Robert Anthony Gallo

Elijah Gelman

Nathan Justin Glasman

Benjamin Jordan Gross

Sarah Han

Madeleine Lee Hart

Emily Rose Holtzman

Penelope Powers Hough

Amarachi Adanna Ibe

Patricia Mary Janick

Ellis George Jones

Riley Robert Judelson

Christopher S Juhn

Martin Paul Kaehrle

Martin Konstantinov

Remy Quinn Laifer

William James Lansbury

Chloe Law

Maxwell Y Lee

Saoirse Enright Lee

Hannah Lillian Litchman

Jade K Marcum

Andrew Arthur Marquardt

Charlotte Elizabeth Masters

Diaz Manuel Mathis

Megan Elaine McDonnell

Elijah Jack McNally

Christina Catharina Melehy

Diana Julie Metz Arguello

Mihajlo Miskovic

Andrew Yifan Mo

Molly Jo Rose Molloy

Aldo G Montes

Harrison Footit Murphy

Maria Rose Nasser

Kira Ellen Neary

Hanyue Ouyang

Jessica Apurva Parekh

Gabrielle Eve Plotkin

Claire Jeannette Pregler

Mary Grace Ramsay

Joseph Oliver Rathke

Jakob Michael Reinke

Ethan Merle Reiss

Charlie Lowell Rich

Margot Elizabeth Ricketts

Amelia Rose Romick

Benjamin X Rosenberg

Beatriz Aparecida Rubianes Sampaio

Carly Rebecca Rubin

Vicente Felipe Rudolph

Nicholas Marvel Saidenberg

Elynnor Claire Sandefer

Erin Jaime Saunders

Ferila Maatulimanu-Mae Sausi

Anamaria Artemisa Sayre

Matthew Lloyd Schnadig

Shloka Shashi Shetty

Kacper Sienkiewicz

Jay Christopher Silver

Joseph Meyer Silverstein

Justin G. Sweetwood

Abhishri Rakesh Tainwala

Cathy Tang

Elizabeth Ann Vogt

Yiting Wang

Peter Clancy Warren

Jacob Wu

Rongzhen Zhou

Wanqi Zhou

Xinyang Zhou

"Climate Controversy and Scientific Credibility: The Use of Peer Review in Drafting and Attacking Climate Science and Policy, 1990-2010"

^{*Grace Douglas Johnston Prize for Best Honors Thesis} 
Advisor: Professor Ken Alder

I will be attending law school beginning in the fall.

"Now, Tomorrow, Forever: The Legacy of Governor George Wallace and the Alabama State Sovereignty Commission"
Advisor: Professor Kevin Boyle

_{*Senior Marshal for the Department of History 2021} 

After graduation, I will be moving to Durham, North Carolina to begin my PhD in History at Duke University.

“Subversive Schools: Police Surveillance of Chicago Public Schools, 1967-1974"
_{*Grace Douglas Johnston Prize for Best Honors Thesis}

Advisor: Professor Kevin Boyle

This fall, I am excited to begin my PhD in history at the University of Chicago.

The Romani Prize for Best First-year Paper:

 John Pollard - In his "Staging a Crusade: Queer Activism and the Lionheart Gay Theater of Chicago," John Pollard has written a first rate 570 that profitably combines institutional history, cultural history, community history, and social movement history into a rich and revealing study of one primary mode of gay and lesbian political action in the 1980s, namely gay and lesbian theater. 

The Romani Prize for Best First-year Paper:

John Branch - For his paper "Union Exemption, Nonprofit Work and the National Labor Relations Board and the Boundaries of Commercial Activity, 1951 - 1976"

The Perkin Prize for Best Dissertation:

Marcos de Almeida - for his thesis, "Speaking of Slavery: Strategies and Moral Imagination in the Lower Congo (Early Times to the 19th Century)." Marcos relied on a vast array of technical methods, including historical linguistics, archaeology, environmental history, and documentary sources to weave together a unprecedented exploration of the development of slavery in early Central Africa and the ways those practices and institutions then clashed or blended with, deflected or transformed European slaving and were transformed by it.

The Heyck Prize for Research in British or Irish History:

Holly Dayton for her work on "Cultural Commerce in the Dominions: Making the British World." Holly's work upends the easy assumption that places like Canada or Australia were naturally drawn into the British cultural orbit, showing instead that the spread of British culture was the outcome of efforts by individual entrepreneurs who "exported Britishness" abroad and, in turn, shaped what global British culture would become in the modern world. In doing so she creates an extraordinary blend of business and cultural history that provides new ways to interpret material goods and cultural production.

The Lacey Baldwin Smith teaching prizes:

Ana Rosado - Ana's work for Professor Kleber's "History of the American Family" class in the Fall received overwhelming praise. In the face of the unending trauma that was Fall Quarter, Ana managed to make the class into a real community and ensured that each student had a meaningful learning experience.

The Henry Binford Prize for Best Teaching Team:

Colin Bos, Alexa De Leon, and Conrad Hirano -  Colin, Alexa, and Conrad were the team for Professor Tilley's "Biomedicine in World History" class, also in the Fall, and faced all the challenges that quarter brought. They functioned as a brilliant team, supporting one another and the students. They demonstrated just how much can be done when we work together, matching our strengths with other's weaknesses to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.