2014-2015 Undergraduate Award Winners

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

Catherine Cleveland, “Identity in Crisis: Israeli Identity and its Effect on Israeli-West German Relations, 1952-1965”

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

Elizabeth Vaziri, ““Wel wot men that a woman hath no myght”:  Rape, the Westminster Statutes, and the Class-Based Commodification of the Female Body in Late Medieval England”

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

Jessie Goldman, "The Enemy Within: Domestic Anti-Communism and the Attack on the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, 1946-1954” 

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Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history: 

Anwar Akrouk, “The Last Jihad: How Language Trumped Religion in the Late Ottoman Empire” 

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

Rebecca Sokolow, “The Fourth Piece of the Puzzle: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War in the Far East”

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Jeanette Nichols Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper or thesis in Women's history or Social history: 

Jackson Kulas, “Feminist Tax Advocacy:  Campaigning for Economic Equality in the Reagan Era”

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

Kimberly Rosenthal, ““Their Atrophied Minds”: The Hydra’s Perpetuation of Ergotherapy and Inter-Patient Tensions in Craiglockhart Hydropathic”

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

Nicholas Canelos, “War Memorials: the Making of Monuments and Symbols”

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

Rachel Goodman, “Sins of Omission: Civil War Coverage of Camp Sumter and the Scapegoating of Henry Wirz”

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

Tomas Piedrahita, “Nuestra Argentinidad: Defining Argentina’s National Character during International Crises and Domestic Upheaval, 1920-1939”