Congratulations to our 2018-2019 prize-winning graduate students

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.