Congratulations to our 2018-2019 prize-winning undergraduates

The History Department awarded the following students with senior essay prizes at a ceremony in Rosenfeld Hall on Friday, May 17th.  Read more about the prizes here.

 

Congratulations to our seniors!

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“Young Americans for Freedom and the Anti-War Movement: Pro-War Encounters with the new Left at the Height of the Vietnam War”

Advisor: Professor Beverly Gage

 

“A Critic Friendly to McCarthy”: How William F. Buckley, Jr. Brought Senator Joseph R. McCarthy into the American Conservative Movement between 1951 and 1959

 

“Saint Paul’s War of Words Behind Minnesota’s Battle for American Northward Expansion 1865-70”

Advisor: Professor Jay Gitlin

 

“Its Cargo Is People” Repositioning Commuter Rail as Public Transit to Save the New York-New Haven Line, 1960-1990

 

“Chains of Law: Prosecuting collaboration and War Crimes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 1945-48”          

Advisor: Professor Rohit De

 

“From Cuban Shores to American Stores: The Development and Decline of the South Cuba Sponge Fishery, 1890-1960 “                                             

Advisor: Professor Stuart Schwartz

 

“Así se Baila: Situating Contemporary Mexican Vogue Within Mexico’s Cultural History and Theory (1980s-2019)”

Advisors: Professor Gilbert Joseph & Professor Marcela Echeverri

 

“To Identify a Chinaman by His Photograph:” Photography and Surveillance in Hong Kong and China from 1871 to 1911

 

 

Reading “Improvement” in Eighteenth-century Empires: The Everyday Enlightenment of James Creassy

 

“Purely Commercial: Trade, State, and the British Imperial Vision for East Asia, 1783-1794

 

Goodwill Ambassadors or Ideological Warriors? Cultural Diplomacy and the American-Soviet Exhibit Exchanges in the USSR 1959-1976

 

“American in Lip Service Only” Japanese Americans and the Language of Citizenship during World War II

 

Bleeding Baltimore: The Plug Uglies, Anna Ella Carroll, and Election-Day Violence

 

“End the Arms Race Not the Human Race: Women Strike for Peace and its Transnational Fight Against Nuclear Weapons in the 1960s

 

“An Oasis in Harlem” Riverton and New York City’s Postwar Black Middle Class, 1947-1973

 

‘“An Example to His Mentors”: The Family Health Care Center, Medical Student Activism, and Race Relations in Newark, 1965-1972’

 

“Its Cargo Is People” Repositioning Commuter Rail as Public Transit to Save the New York-New Haven Line, 1960-1990

 

Whispered Tradition: New Mexico Crypto-Jewish Memory, Origins to 2007

 

“Mongrels, Greasers and Despots:” Fugitive Slaves and the Criminalization of Mexicans on the Texas Border, 1820-1861

 

Rehabilitation, Proportionality, and Societal Maintenance: A Documentary History of the American Death Penalty, 1800-1860

 

“To Affinity and Beyond: Tables, Textbooks, and the Disciplinary Development of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Europe”

 

‘“Kids First?”: Imagined Futures and Shifting Conceptions of Risk in Hepatitis B Immunization Policy in the United States, 1982-1999’

Advisor: Naomi Rogers