2020-2021 Research Prize Winners

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