2022-2023 Research Prize Winners

History Department Undergraduate Research Prizes 2023

 

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

Adrian Ke

Oceans Apart and Spaces Between:
Sociopolitical Identity Formation in Early 20th Century Chinese Peruvians

 

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

Anne Curran

Radical Women:
How Female Leaders of the Ladies’ Land League Battled Political, Economic, Religious, and Gender Inequality to Fight for Irish Land Reform

 

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

Hannah Liz De Oliveira

Conflict, Resistance, and Resolve, Uncovering Lost Narratives in Japanese-American Internment
 

Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history

Adrian Ke

Oceans Apart and Spaces Between:
Sociopolitical Identity Formation in Early 20th Century Chinese Peruvians

 

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

Alex Frumovitz

"Naming Rights:
Tracing the Term “Concentration Camp” and the Battles Fought Over Claim to It"

 

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

Caroline Jones

"Radical Failure in Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex"

 

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

Jake Leff

"Nietzsche, Stirner, and the Disease of “Hegelism”:
Shared Approaches to Critique of the Left Hegelians"

 

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

Ballina Prishtina

"Albanian Fighting and Writing in the Spanish Civil War"

 

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

Benjamin Moss-Horwitz

"“Unlocking the Human Spirit”: The National Endowment for the Arts under Nixon"

 

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

Jiayi Li

"The Battle of Ideas Governing Agrarian Reforms in China’s Great Revolution, 1924-1927: Foundations, Evolutions, and the Eventual Divergence"

 

Robert M. Steiner (COLL '60) prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in pre-1700 history

Sophie Qi

“Dissembling Pains: Everyday Resistance of Indentured and Enslaved Slaves in late 17th Century Jamaica