Department of History Undergraduate Research Prizes 2023-2024
The Department of History is pleased to announce the results of the 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Prize competition. Congratulations to this year’s winners! All prize recipients will be honored at the History Majors Graduation Celebration on May 19.
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"