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)

History Peer Advising Program

The history department peer mentor program provides majors (and prospective majors) with fellow students who are experienced, knowledgeable and available to help navigate the major. Our peer advisors represent a range of different interests and trajectories through the major. Please contact them if you have any questions about the History department, regarding courses, professors, requirements, the senior essay, or any other subject.