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