Congratulations to our 2017-2018 prize winning undergraduates

May 24, 2018

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                                        

G​eorge 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