The following History graduate students were awarded Yale and department prizes this commencement weekend. Congratulations to all of our outstanding students! See below for details on the prize winning dissertations and scroll to the end for prize descriptions.
Alice Baumgartner
Alice Baumgartner was awarded the Frederick W. Beinecke Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Western American History. Her work, Abolition from the South: Mexico and the Road to the U.S. Civil War, 1821-67, was also awarded the John Addison Porter Prize by the University.
Dissertation directors: David Blight and John Mack Faragher
Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant was awarded the George Washington Egelston Prize, which is awarded to a student who discovers new facts of importance for American history or reaches important new conclusions from existing data. Crucible of Care: Economic Change and Inequality in Postwar Pittsburgh, 1955-1995, was also awarded the John Addison Porter Prize by the University.
Dissertation director: Jennifer Klein
John Burden
John Burden was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for an outstanding dissertation in a field of European history for his work, Between Crime and Sin: Penitential Justice in Medieval Germany, 900-1200.
Dissertation director: Anders Winroth
Amy Watson
Amy Watson was also awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for her work, Patriot Empire: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1716-1748.
Dissertation director: Steven Pincus
Wendell Adjetey
Wendell Adjetey was awarded the Edwin W. Small Prize for outstanding work in the field of American history for his work, From the North Star to the Black Star: African North Americans and the Search for a Land of Promise, 1919-1984. Mr. Adjetey also received the Sylvia Arden Boone Prize and the Canadian Studies Prize.
Dissertation directors: Glenda Gilmore and Gerald Jaynes
Max Fraser
Max Fraser was also awarded the Edwin W. Small Prize for his work, The Hillbilly Highway: A Social History of Transappalachia, 1918-1972. This work was a finalist for the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians.
Dissertation director: Jennifer Klein
Andra Chastain
Andra Chastain was awarded the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for an outstanding dissertation in a field of history outside the United States or Europe for her work, Vehicle of Progress: The Santiago Metro, Technopolitics, and State Formation in Chile, 1965-1989.
Dissertation director: Gilbert Joseph
Cindy Ewing
Cindy Ewing was also awarded the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for The Asian Unity Project: Human Rights, Third World Solidarity, and the United Nations, 1945-1955.
Dissertation director: Ben Kiernan
Faizah Zakaria
Faizah Zakaria was also awarded the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for Sacral Ecologies of the North Sumatran Highlands: Converting Peoples and Landscapes, 1800-1928.
Dissertation director: Ben Kiernan