The History Department awarded the following students with senior essay prizes at a ceremony in the department on Friday, May 18th. Read more about the prizes here.
Congratulations to our seniors!
American Prizes
Chelsea Samora
Advancement in Every Direction, Except Suffrage: Female Anti-Suffrage and Conceptions of Political Womanhood in the United States, 1880-1920
George Washington Egleston American Prize
Advisor: Joshua Lynn
Rohan Naik
Para un Futruo Mejor: The Evolution of Puerto Rican Identity, Activism, and Politics in New York City from 1950 to 1964
John Addison Porter American History Prize
Advisor: Mary Lui
Emily Xiao
Between Incarceration and Care Disability, Bureaucracy, and Citizenship in Japanese American Wartime Camps 1942-1946
John Addison Porter American History Prize
Advisor: Mary Lui
John A. Augustine
Framing the Public: James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railroad’s Public-Benefit Strategy Between 1885 and 1917
The Percival W. Clement Prize
Advisor: Jay Gitlin
Walter McLean Ramsden
Action Intellectuals and Responsible Bureaucracy in 20th Century America
The Percival W. Clement Prize
Advisor: Terence Renaud
Sinclair Ewing-Nelson
Gun Violence and Gun Control in Coleman Young’s Detroit
Andrew D. White Prize
Advisor: Beverly Gage
Daniel Judt
The Reactionary Dilemma: George Fitzhugh and the Flight for a Southern Future, 1850-1870
Andrew D. White Prize
Advisor: Beverly Gage
Kyle Ranieri
Restoring Hozho: Indigenous Constitutionalism in the Navajo Tribal Courts
The Edwin W. Small Prize
Advisor: Jameson Sweet
Griffin Black
Lion at the Lectern: Frederick Douglass Becomes an Orator 1838-1845
The Edwin W. Small Prize
Advisor: David Blight
European Prizes
David Shimer
The Stasi’s Operation to Save Ostpolitik: Bribery, Corruption and the Near Downfall of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt
Andrew D. White European Prize
Advisor: Timothy Snyder
Samuel Gurwitt
The Egyptian Façade of the German Democratic Republic Cultural Politics of East Berlin’s Egyptian Museum 1953-1989
Andrew D. White European Prize
Advisor: Jennifer Allen
Caitlin Walsh
All that Glitters is Not Gold: The Rise and Fall of Early British Colonial Banking Schemes in Massachusetts, Jamaica, and Barbados
Winfred Sturley Prize
Advisor: Steven Pincus
Jonathan Adler
The Iraq Petroleum Company in Mandatory Palestine, 1927-1939
Winfred Sturley Prize
Advisor: Rosie Bsheer
Latin America, Asia, Africa and Middle East Prizes
Isabel Benares
Technocratic Rule Under Ferdinand Marcos: The Men Behind His “New Society”
Andrew D. White LAAA Prize
Advisor: Rohit De
Lena Nasrallah
Contested Space: Refugees, the Law, and the Shaping of Post Partition Calcutta
Andrew D. White LAAA Prize
Advisor: Rohit De
Mitchell Tan
Spiritual Fraternities: The Transnational Networks of Ngô Đinh Diệm’s Personalist Revolution and South Vietnam’s First Republic, 1955-1963
The Robert D. Gries Prize
Jonathan Adler
The Iraq Petroleum Company in Mandatory Palestine, 1927-1939
The Robert D. Gries Prize
Advisor: Rosie Bsheer
Caroline Kuritzkes
Tourism, Democracy, and the Cuban Revolution after Soviet Collapse: Economic Reform in The Special Period 1989-1995
The Max Bildner Prize in Latin American History
Advisor: Marcela Echeverri
Elena Anderson
Seven Million Colored Condoms: Population and Family Planning Initiatives in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1985
The Max Bildner Prize in Latin American History
Advisor: Anne Eller
Outside Department Prizes
Will Bernstein
From Paris to New Haven: Maurice Rotival and the Longue Durée of Urban Renewal
Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Prize; Hegel Prize of New Haven
Advisor: Jay Gitlin
Maya Sweedler
Why were you not Zusya: Maurice Friedman and the Americanization of Martin Buber
Advisor: David Sorkin
Stephan Sveshnikov
Politics and Daily Life at the First Session of the Sobor of 1917-1918
Advisor: Sergei Antonov
Hedy Gutfreund
“Somewhere in the Middle-Between:” Opportunities and Limitations for Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
Advisor: Jennifer Allen
Sergio Infante
Of Embassies and Empires: Brazil in South Asia, 1945-1965
South Asian Studies Prize
Advisor: Rohit De