History Department Undergraduate Research Prizes 2021
Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding Honors thesis
E. Carson Eckhard
Ragged Battalions, Plotting Liberty:
Convict Leasing and the Construction of Carceral Capitalism in Florida, 1875-1925
Lynn M. Case Prize for the best Honors thesis in European history
Samuel Orloff
“A Warmth of Feeling that the Lies of Our Enemies Will Never Eradicate”:
the Battle of Cable Street and the Evolving Memory of Anti-Fascism in Britain, 1931-1949
Thomas C. Cochran Prize for the best Honors thesis in American history
Justin Greenman
Loyalty and Disloyalty in Urban America:
A comparative Study of New York City and Philadelphia Politics
Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history
Suchait Kahlon
Abolition, Africans, and Abstraction:
the Influence of the “Noble Savage” on British and French Antislavery Thought, 1787-1807
Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize for the best research paper or thesis in
American military or diplomatic history
Erin C. Kraskewicz
“Chinese Representation in the UN: The US’s Role in Taiwan’s Expulsion from the Global Stage”
Jeanette Nichols Prize for the best research paper or thesis in Gender history or Social history
Zarina Iman
“‘Sole and Separate Use’:
Marriage Settlements, White Women, and Enslaved People in Antebellum Virginia”
James V. Saporito Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate research paper or thesis in
Intellectual and Cultural history
Ana Lorenza Raggio Colagrossi
The Unity of the Roses: How the Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
Created the Foundation of the Tudor Political Identity
Jack Reece Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in European history
Bianca Serbin
“Bastardy and the New Poor Law: Redefining the Undeserving”
Gussie Wachs Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in American History
Alexandra Breckenridge
“‘Harlem…the Biggest African City on Earth’
W.E.B. Du Bois and Sol Plaatje: Black Atlantic Authors in Conversation”
Martin Wolfe Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in World history
Cole McCann-Phillips
“Rajul al-Kheima: Man of the Tent
Gaddafi and Images of Libyan History”
Robert M. Steiner prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in pre-1700 history
Sumant Rao
“L’Advocacie Nostre Dame and the Professionalization of Canon Law Practice and Education in Fourteenth Century Anglo-Norman France