2018-2019 Undergraduate Award Winners

History Undergraduate Research Award Winners 2019


Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding Honors thesis: 

Parker AbtWhat They Can Do Themselves: Agency and Politics in the Colonias of South Texas, 1945–95


Lynn M. Case Prize for the best Honors thesis in European history:

Madeleine LamonA Study in Contradiction: Jewish Parisians in Pursuit of Emancipation in the French Revolution (1789)


Thomas C. Cochran Prize for the best Honors thesis in American history:

Courtney CarpinelloDefining America: Noah Webster and Educational Discourse in New England’s Nineteenth-Century Unitarian Controversy
Justin EstreicherCelebrating Conquest: Broken Treaties, World’s Fairs, and Constructions of Native American Savagery, 1875-1905


Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history:

Meerabelle JesuthasanAlliances against Empire: Intercolonialisms and Internationalisms in Paris between the Wars


Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize for the best research paper or thesis in military or diplomatic history:

Bryce KlehmSoldier-to-Soldier Diplomacy: Joint U.S.-Russian Peacekeeping in Bosnia, 1995-1996


Jeanette Nichols Prize for the best research paper or thesis in Gender history or Social history:

Angela Ra, “Let's talk about Sex[ual Harassment]: The Evolution of Workplace Sexual Harassment in the Courts, Feminist Activism, and Public Discourse”


James V. Saporito Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate research paper or thesis in Intellectual and Cultural history:

William Weiss, "'Ther nys a bettre knight': Hector as a Medieval Knightly Ideal"


Jack Reece Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in European history:

Shiri Gross, "Le Polemiche al Caffe Michalangiolo"


Gussie Wachs Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in American History:

Luke Mullan, “Sent South: Reassessing Secessionism in Civil War Baltimore”


Martin Wolfe Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in World history:

Timothy Lim, “One Base, One Rail: China’s African Vision”