May 21, 2019
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!
Frederick W. Beinecke Prize
Johns Webb Graham
“Environmental, Social, and Political Change in the Otomi Heartland: A Hydraulic History of the Ixmilquilpan Valley (Hidalgo State, Mexico)”
Advisor: Stuart Schwartz
The Frederick W. Beinecke Prize is awarded upon the recommendation of the History Department for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Western American History.
George Washington Egelston Prize
Catherine Mas (HSHM)
“The Culture Brokers: Medicine and Anthropology in Global Miami, 1960-1995”
Advisor: Naomi Rogers
The George Washington Egelston Historical Prize, awarded to a graduate or undergraduate research student who discovers new facts of importance for American history or reaches important new conclusions from existing data.
Hans Gatzke Prize
Kate Brackney
“Phantom Geographies: An Alternative History of Holocaust Consciousness”
Advisor: Carolyn Dean
Aner Barzilay
“Michel Foucault and First Philosophy: A Nietzschean End to Metaphysics in Postwar France, 1952-1984”
Advisors: Marci Shore and Samuel Moyn
The Hans Gatzke Prize is awarded upon the recommendation of the History Department of the outstanding dissertation or dissertations in a field of European history.
Edwin W. Small Prize
Catherine Mas (HSHM)
“The Culture Brokers: Medicine and Anthropology in Global Miami, 1960-1995”
Advisor: Naomi Rogers
Ben Zdencanovic
“From Cradle to Grave: The United States in a World of Welfare, 1940-1953”
Advisor: Jennifer Klein
The Edwin W. Small Prize, in memory of Edwin W. Small, B.A. 1930, M.A. 1934. Awarded in recognition and furtherance of outstanding work in the field of American history.
Arthur and Mary Wright Prize
Timothy Lorek
“Developing Paradise: Agricultural Science in the Conflicted Landscape of Colombia’s Cauca Valley, 1927-1967”
Advisor: Gilbert Joseph
Santiago Muñoz Arbelaez
“The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1530-1620”
Advisors: Stuart Schwartz and Gilbert Joseph
The Arthur and Mary Wright Prize is awarded upon the recommendation of the History Department for the outstanding dissertation or dissertations in the field of history outside the United States or Europe.