History Undergraduate Research Award Winners 2019
Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding Honors thesis:
Parker Abt, What 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 Lamon, A 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 Carpinello, Defining America: Noah Webster and Educational Discourse in New England’s Nineteenth-Century Unitarian Controversy
Justin Estreicher, Celebrating 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 Jesuthasan, Alliances 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 Klehm, Soldier-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”