2024-2025 Research Prizewinners

History Department Undergraduate Research Prizes 2025

Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding honors thesis: Eug Xu, Modes of Bookkeeping: How Material Samples Illustrate the Limitations of VOC Trading Expertise 

Lynn M. Case Prize for best honors thesis in European history: Eug Xu, Modes of Bookkeeping: How Material Samples Illustrate the Limitations of VOC Trading Expertise

Thomas C. Cochran Prize for best honors thesis in American history: David Deng, Radical Roots: A History of Chinese American Resistance and Activism in Philadelphia Chinatown, 1900-1940

Hilary Conroy Prize for best honors thesis in World history: Jiayi Li, Creative Evolution, Intuition, and Myth: Nationalist Thought of Liang Qichao and Zhang Dongsun during the First World War

Jeanette Nichols Prize for best thesis or paper in gender history or social history: Imani Nkrumah Ardayfio, “Peaceful Mothers” and “Violent Mothers”: Media Representations and the Realities of Female Guerrillas in Liberia and South Africa (1960-2003)

James V. Saporito Prize for best thesis or paper in intellectual or cultural history: Connor Nakamura, Cloaked Radicalism: Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-65)

Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize for best paper or thesis in military and/or diplomatic history: Mia Kao, “Beheiren: Japan’s Anti-War Activism during the Vietnam War”

Jack Reece Prize for best paper or thesis in European history: Zach Wang, “Agents of Church and Empire: The role of British Missionaries in German East Africa during the First World War”

Gussie Wachs Prize for best paper or thesis in American history: Carolyn Vaziri, “Blackness, Borders, and Belonging: Eliza Jane Johnson’s Kidnapping in “Free State” Ohio”

Martin Wolfe Prize for best paper or thesis in World history: Seyoon Chun, “The Influence of Presbyterian and Catholic American Churches on Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement”

Robert M. Steiner (COLL ’60) prize for the best research paper in pre-1700 history: Olivia Rosenfeld, “The Paris and Barcelona Disputations: Conversion Efforts or Inward-Facing Instruments of Validation?”