HUAB Teaching Awards
The History Undergraduate Advisory Board, a student-run organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between History Majors and Penn History Faculty, annually presents awards recognizing exceptional teaching.
Richard Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching by Standing Faculty
Teaching Assistant of the Year
Prizes for Research Papers & Honors Theses
The Department of History recognizes every year the best research papers written in history courses, as well as the best honors theses.
In anticipation of next year's awards, students are invited to submit research papers for consideration.
Lynn M. Case Prize, for the best senior Honors thesis in European history.
- Rachel J. Omansky, "'Their Nation Dishonored, the Queen Shamed, and Country Undone': Feuding, Factionalism, and Religion in the Chaseabout Raid"
Thomas C. Cochran Prize, for the best senior Honors thesis in American history.
- Daniel Warsh, "The Silent Partner: How the Ford Motor Company became an Arsenal of Nazism"
Hilary Conroy Prize, for the best senior Honors thesis in World history.
- Priya Agarwal, "Forgetting the Violence, Remembering the Report: The Paradox of the 1931 Kanpur Riots"
Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize, for an outstanding paper based on original research.
- Melissa Teixeira, "Caught on the Periphery: Portuguese Neutrality during World War II and Anglo-American Negotiations with Salazar"
- Joshua Matz, "Free Speech from Holt to Holmes: The English Birth and American Career of the ‘Classic View’"
James V. Saporito Memorial Prize, for the best undergraduate essay in intellectual and cultural history (with preference given to exceptional European history essays).
- Uri Friedman, "World’s Fairs in Chicago and Barcelona: Spectacle, Memory, and Nationalism"
Jack Reece Prize, for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in European history.
- Kojo Minta, "‘God of Battles’: The Genesis of British Crusade Ideology in the Great War"
Gussie Wachs Prize, for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in American history.
- Natalie Hamilton Kelly, "Concerned Parents: Politics, Race, and Education in Philadelphia, 1957 - 1988"
Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize, for the best research paper written by a graduate or undergraduate student in American history (with preference given to Military history papers).
- Alice Stewart Hickey, "'Departing for the Ends of the Earth to do My Humble Part': The Life of William A. Rich, Volunteer Ambulance Driver for the American Field Service, 1942 - 1945"
