2017-2018 Undergraduate Award Winners

Department of History Undergraduate Research Award Winners 2018

Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding Honors thesis: 
Vibha Kannan, “Promoting the Cause of Freedom”: Female Consumption in British Abolition, 1787-1833 

 Lynn M. Case Prize for the best Honors thesis in European history:
Joseph Aaron Scott LaSure, Touching the Lord’s Anointed: The Justification for the Execution of Charles I

Thomas C. Cochran Prize for the best Honors thesis in American history:
Caitlin Doolittle, Women in Bacon’s Rebellion: Female Political Action and the Making of Gender in Colonial Virginia

 Hilary Conroy Prize for the best Honors thesis in World history:
Zoe Stern, “June 16th is Ours”: The Power of Memory in Commemorations of the 1976 Soweto Uprisings

Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize for the best research paper or thesis in military or diplomatic history:
Steven Thomas Jacobson, Forgotten People in the Forgotten Battle: Aleutian American Internment during World War II

Jeanette Nichols Prize for the best research paper or thesis in Gender history or Social history:
Helen Berhanu, “The Lion, the Tiger and the Teddybear”:  the Plurality of Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Experiences in London, 1948-1962

James V. Saporito Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate research paper or thesis in Intellectual and Cultural history:
Isabel Gendler, Re-Imagining the Past and Questioning the Present: Oliver Cromwell in Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction 

Jack Reece Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in European history:
Cornell Overfield, All Quiet on the Western Front? Changes in East German Political Agitation in West Germany, 1945-1955

Gussie Wachs Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in American History:
Kristen Ierardi, The Impact of Feminist Action at the University of Pennsylvania Between 1970 and 1975: A Story of Consciousness Raising, Public Action, and Lasting Change

Martin Wolfe Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research paper in World history:
Geeta  Minocha, Deteriorating  Relations: Japan  and  America  During  the  Administration  of  Theodore  Roosevelt