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Recent Award Winners
Award Winners 2026
First-Year Seminar Essay Award
- Sabrina Xu, “Fear and Fragility in the Massachusetts Bay Colony”
Josef Barton Research Seminar Essay Award
- Nate Berman, “Clandestine Immigration of Holocaust Survivors to Palestine, 1945-1948”
JAcob Lassner Prize in Jewish and Islamic Civilization
- Nate Berman, “Clandestine Immigration of Holocaust Survivors to Palestine, 1945-1948”
Hearst Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship in History
The Grace Douglas Johnston Award
- Carissa Bruno, “Communal Consensus in the Making of a Murder: Mariticide, Petty Treason, and Negotiating Justice in Early Modern England"
The Grace Douglas Johnston Award Honorable Mention
- Lara Weissmann, “There Is an Alternative: Breira and the Moral Debate over Establishment Zionism in 1970s American Jewish Life”
- Nat Wells, “California Prometheus: Stewart Brand and Techno-Optimism in the Late 20th Century”