June 2023

Congratulations to our 2022-2023 prize-winning undergraduate students

Nominees and winners were honored for their work at a small ceremony in the Humanities Quadrangle on Friday, May 19, 2023. Students and their families, along with faculty and staff were in attendance.

American History Prize Winners

The George Washington Egleston Prize

Benjamin Metzner

Revolt and Reconstruction: Public Housing, Liberalism, and the Making and Unmaking of American Jewish Identity in Forest Hills, 1971-1972

Congratulations to our 2022-2023 prize-winning graduate students

John Addison Porter Prize – Zaib un Nisa Aziz (joint winner)
Nations Ascendant: The Global Campaign Against Imperialism and the Making of Our World, directed by Rohit De
Frederick W. Beinecke Prize – Monique Ulysses
Categorizing Mexican Migrant Race and Citizenship in the United States, 1910s-1930s, directed by Stephen Pitti and Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Sylvia Arden Boone Prize – Marius Kothor (awarded by History of Art)

Project makes Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts accessible to scholars

Yale Library has hundreds of Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts but lacked staff with the language skills to catalog them, so it enlisted a graduate student to help.