DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

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

• Olivia England

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”