2019-2020 Undergraduate Award Winners

History Department Research Prizes 2020

 

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

Alia Schechter

Mothers, Wives and Voters: A Transition to
Difference-Oriented Feminist Rhetoric in Mexico, 1938-1953

 

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

Brooke Krancer

“A Modern and Distinctively Scottish Portrait”:
Scottish Modern Art and National Identity in the Interwar Period

 

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

Noah Kest

Encountering the Irrational: The Introduction of
Existentialism to the United States in the Postwar Era, 1945-65

 

Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history

Archana Upadhyay

A Much More Peculiar Institution:
British Conceptions of Ottoman Slavery in the Age of Abolition

 

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

Leo Gearin

Statesmen Behind Bars: The Informal Diplomatic Role of
Detained American Mariners during the Revolutionary War

 

Jeanette Nichols Prize for the best research paper or thesis in gender history or social history

Elizabeth Eckhard

Peculiar Institution at Prestigious Institutions:
The Chattel Principle in Higher Education

 

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

William Weiss

Trag Leyden Geduldiklich: Popular Reception to
Mystic Teachings of Suffering in 14th Century Germany

 

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

Alexandru Zanca

Swedish Welfare Development in the Post-War Decades

 

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

Sabrina Palacios

Slavery and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania

 

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

Ji Yoon

Europe and the African Fetish: The Dialectics of
Religious, Social and Artistic Modernity

 

Robert M. Steiner (COLL '60) prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in pre-1700 history

Raja Promige

Knightly Motivations in the First Crusade