2023-2024 Research Prize Winners

History Department Undergraduate Research Prizes 2024

 

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

Sanya Malhotra

Workers, Farmers and Social Philosophers: the Rise of Socialist Activity in Colonial Punjab and North America, 1906-1926

 

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

Anjie Wang

Treaty-Making, British Colonialism, and Indigenous Subjugation: a Comparative Study of New South Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand
 

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

Liv McClary

A ‘Bootleg Trade’: Comstockery, Entrepreneurship, and Criminal Consumption in New York’s Contraceptive Industry, 1865-1900
 

Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history

Augustus Otto Kindel

Pragmatic Empire: Ethiopian Administration of the Ogaden Region under Emperor Menelik II

 

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

Sophia Rosser

"Forging Alliances and Fractures: Cesar Chavez and the Marcos Dictatorship"
 

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

Hannah Bast

"Rykener and the Moral Law: A Probe into Sexuality and Gender around 14th Century England"

 

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

Miriam Shah

Léon Bloy: Martyr or Madman?  A Study of Friendship and Conversion at the Time of the Catholic Renewal

 

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

Euel Kebebew

“A Mirror for Princes: Augustinian Underpinnings and Evolution in Medieval Political Philosophy”

 

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

Catherine Sorrentino

“ ‘This vision heartened and inspired me’: the Rise and Fall of the United Farm Worker Health Clinics”

 

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

Ezra Chan

“Religion and Relief: Examining the Medical Mission in Early Postcolonial Congo, 1960-1964”

 

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

Alexander Brownfield

“Kings, Councils, and Codes: How and Where Legal Authority was Deployed in Tenth Century Anglo-Saxon England"