Recent Award Winners
Award Winners 2023
First-Year Seminar Essay Award
- Reilly Goldstrom, "A Border Guard’s Guide to Italy’s Imperialist Past ", Prof. Lauren Stokes, Winter 2022
Josef Barton Research Seminar Essay Award
- Hannah Cheves, "Unregulated Power: How Orlando Letelier's Assassination Changed Pinochet's
Dictatorship in Chile" History 395, Prof. Lina Brito
Jacob Lassner Prize in Jewish and Islamic Civilization
- Jessica Zheng, “The Oppression of Prominence: Examining Histories of Nur Jahan Through Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives.” written for History 385 with Professor Rajeev Kinra
Ivor Wilks Prize in African History
- Ann Lamptey, "Domingos Alvares and the Tragedy of Atlantic History” written for History 292. Prof. Marcos Leitao De Almeida
Hearst Foundation Prize
Awarded to strongest Junior History Major concentrating in American history.
- Jane Clarke
The Grace Douglas Johnston Award
- Griffin Harris, "In Washington’s Shadow: Race, Class, and Neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, 1950- 1970” with Prof. Kevin Boyle
- Honorable Mention: Carolina Stutz, "The "Mass" in Mass Migration: Italian Immigrant Crowdedness in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Argentina ” with Prof. J. Michelle Molina
AWARD WINNERS 2022
First-Year Seminar Essay Award
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Mary Childs Hall, "Is there Hope for the Snow Lion in a World Controlled by the Dragon: An Interpretation of the Future for Tibetan Traditions in the Face of Chinese Modernity,” History 103-6-22, Nation and Nationalism in China and Tibet, Prof. Peter Carroll, Fall 2021.
Josef Barton Research Seminar Essay Award
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Lauren Collins, “Appointment in Panama: Richard Clough Anderson, Jr. and the Estrangement of the Americas,” History 395-0-22, The Age of American Revolutions, Prof. Caitlin Fitz, Winter 2022.
The Grace Douglas Johnston Award
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Elena Andrews, "Karen DeCrow from the Barroom to the Presidency: Traversing the Radical/Liberal Divide in Feminist Activism (1960s-1970s).” Adviser: Prof. Kevin Boyle.
- Honorable mention: Chloe Bivona, "Nazi and Soviet Cross Portrayals in Propaganda Films,” Prof. Ben Frommer.
- Honorable mention: Sophia Scanlan, "'I Wasn’t Going to Wear No Shorts': Baseball and the Ideals of Mid-Twentieth Century Black Womanhood,” Prof. Brett Gadsden.
Phi Beta Kappa
The following History majors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa for 2022.
Elected this year as seniors:
- Eleanor Ellis
- Nina Fridman
- Dorothy Gaeng
- Anthony Inhorn
- John Magloire
Elected last year as juniors:
- Elena Andrews
- Abigail Roston
Elected this year as juniors:
- Samuel Rosner
- Laurisa Sastoque