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”