2021-2022 Research Prize Winners

History Department Undergraduate Research Prizes 2022

 

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

Leo Gearin

The Reconstruction Crusade:

Rebuilding France's Catholic Churches After World War I, 1914-1939

 

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

Eden Vance

“It is Necessary to Make a Complete Breach with the Past”:

How the Failures of the Second Boer War Shaped British Policy, Politics, and Society in the Edwardian Era

 

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

Bianca Serbin

“Not a Question of “Whether or Not,” but “Where” and “How”:

Crises of Affordable Housing in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1968-1996

 

Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history

Junyoung Baik

Memories of Captivity in the Great East Asian War (1592-1598)

 

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

Denali Sagner

Building the Battle, Losing the War:

The Defense Economy, Industrial Capitalism, and the Cold War’s Fallout in Alabama’s ‘Model City’

 

Jeanette Nichols Prize for the best research paper or thesis in Gender history or Social history

Zarina Iman

On the Tails of the Trade: Enslaved Women, Slave Traders, and the Households they Shared

 

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

Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa

The Law of the Other:

Converts and Gentiles in the Eyes of Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Rabbis

 

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

Katherine Hann

“An Analysis of the History of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels”

 

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

Nicholas Fernandez

“Motion Picture Shoah: the First Depictions of the Holocaust in American Film”

 

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

Summer Thomas

“Black Aliveness in Revolutionary Grenada”

 

Robert M. Steiner prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in pre-1700 history

Daniel Rohll

“Juan de Gaona’s Colloquios – Fixing Words and Heretical Plagues in Colonial Mexico”