2016-2017 Undergraduate Award Winners

Department of History Undergraduate Research Award Winners 2017

Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding Honors thesis:
David Murrell
Gone Viral: the Role of the Press during the Dreyfus Affair

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Lynn M. Case Prize for the best Honors thesis in European history:
Julia Fine
“Art Treasures” and the Aristocracy: Public Art Museums, Exhibitions, and Cultural Control in Britain, 1805-1862

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Thomas C. Cochran Prize for the best Honors thesis in American history:
Hannah Fagin
A Long Hot Summer: the Columbia Avenue Race Riot and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia

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Dorian Ledbetter
“Unhallowed Bonds”: Interracial Sex, Rape, and the Law in the Antebellum Carolinas

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Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history:
Daniel Thompson
Defrocking Cuba’s Clergy: the Catholic Church’s Struggle for Autonomy in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1961

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Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize for the best research paper or thesis in military or diplomatic history:
Sarah Samuels
“An Outstanding and Unusual Contribution:” the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars

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Jeanette Nichols Prize for the best research paper or thesis in Gender history or Social history:
Mariana Pavia
"What Was Lost in the Fire: Analyzing Representations of the Bogotazo"

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James V. Saporito Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate research paper or thesis in Intellectual and Cultural history:
Logan Staller
Hugh Broughton, the Cantankerous Christian Hebraist: a Case Study in Sixteenth-Century Jewish-Christian Boundaries and Borrowing

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Jack Reece Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in European history:
Cosette Gastelu
“A Mutineer he lived:” Acts of Mercy for Mutineers in the Parliamentarian Army

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Gussie Wachs Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in American History:
Joseph Kiernan
The Age of Infrastructure: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Progressive Civil Religion

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Martin Wolfe Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in World history:
Grant Kleiser
More Tears for the Indians: Anglo-Carib Relations in the Colonial Caribbean, 1625-1680