Congratulations to our 2018-2019 prize-winning undergraduates

May 17, 2019
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!

Outside Prizes

Ethan Swift
“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
2019 Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial
 
Samuel Bennett
“A Critic Friendly to McCarthy”: How William F. Buckley, Jr. Brought Senator Joseph R. McCarthy into the American Conservative Movement between 1951 and 1959
Advisor: Professor Beverly Gage
2019 Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial
 
David Weller     
“Saint Paul’s War of Words Behind Minnesota’s Battle for American Northward Expansion 1865-70”
Advisor: Professor Jay Gitlin
Canadian Prize 
 
Seamus Joyce Johnson                 
“Its Cargo Is People” Repositioning Commuter Rail as Public Transit to Save the New York-New Haven Line, 1960-1990
Advisor: Professor Paul Sabin
The New Haven Hegel Prize
 

Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Middle East Prizes

Alex Williams                     
“Chains of Law: Prosecuting collaboration and War Crimes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 1945-48”          
Advisor: Professor Rohit De
Andrew D. White LAAA History Prize      
 
Hannah Hauptman         
“From Cuban Shores to American Stores: The Development and Decline of the South Cuba Sponge Fishery, 1890-1960 “                                             
Advisor: Professor Stuart Schwartz
Max Bildner Prize in Latin American History and Robert D. Gries LAAA History Prize
 
Deborah Monti                
“Así se Baila: Situating Contemporary Mexican Vogue Within Mexico’s Cultural History and Theory (1980s-2019)”
Advisors: Professor Gilbert Joseph & Professor Marcela Echeverri
Max Bildner Prize in Latin American History          
 
Wei Tai Ting       
“To Identify a Chinaman by His Photograph:” Photography and Surveillance in Hong Kong and China from 1871 to 1911
Advisor: Professor Valerie Hansen
Robert D. Gries LAAA History Prize                                                                            
 
 

European History Prizes

Kelly (Keming) Fu            
Reading “Improvement” in Eighteenth-century Empires: The Everyday Enlightenment of James Creassy
Advisor: Professor Keith Wrightson
Winifred Sturley History Prize
 
Gabriel J. Groz  
“Purely Commercial: Trade, State, and the British Imperial Vision for East Asia, 1783-1794
Advisors: Professor Isaac Nakhimovsky & Professor Peter Perdue
Winifred Sturley History Prize
 
Avital Smotrich-Barr       
Goodwill Ambassadors or Ideological Warriors? Cultural Diplomacy and the American-Soviet Exhibit Exchanges in the USSR 1959-1976
Advisor: Professor Beverly Gage
Andrew D. White European History Prize
 

American History Prizes

Robbie Short                     
“American in Lip Service Only” Japanese Americans and the Language of Citizenship during World War II
Advisor: Mary Lui
John Addison Porter American Prize
 
Matthew Mister              
Bleeding Baltimore: The Plug Uglies, Anna Ella Carroll, and Election-Day Violence
Advisor: Professor Ed Rugemer
John Addison Porter American Prize
 
Sarah Donilon                                   
“End the Arms Race Not the Human Race: Women Strike for Peace and its Transnational Fight Against Nuclear Weapons in the 1960s
Advisor: Professor Beverly Gage
Andrew D. White American Prize
 
Eliza Fawcett                     
“An Oasis in Harlem” Riverton and New York City’s Postwar Black Middle Class, 1947-1973
Advisor: Professor Beverly Gage
Andrew D. White American Prize
 
Claudia Torres
‘“An Example to His Mentors”: The Family Health Care Center, Medical Student Activism, and Race Relations in Newark, 1965-1972’
Advisor: Professor Naomi Rogers
Percival Wood Clement History Prize
 
Seamus Joyce Johnson                 
“Its Cargo Is People” Repositioning Commuter Rail as Public Transit to Save the New York-New Haven Line, 1960-1990
Advisor: Professor Paul Sabin
Percival Wood Clement American History Prize
 
Rachel Kaufman               
Whispered Tradition: New Mexico Crypto-Jewish Memory, Origins to 2007
Advisor: Professor David Sorkin
Edwin W. Small American History Prize
 
Julia Fleming-Dresser                    
“Mongrels, Greasers and Despots:” Fugitive Slaves and the Criminalization of Mexicans on the Texas Border, 1820-1861
Advisor: Professor David Blight
Edwin W. Small American History Prize
 
Declan Riley Kunkel                        
Rehabilitation, Proportionality, and Societal Maintenance: A Documentary History of the American Death Penalty, 1800-1860
Advisor: Nicholas Parrillo
George Washington Egleston American History Prize
 

History of Science, History of Medicine Prizes

Sara Tridenti
“To Affinity and Beyond: Tables, Textbooks, and the Disciplinary Development of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Europe”
Advisor: Chitra Ramalingam
Martin Klein and George Rosen Prize
 
Elizabeth Karron
‘“Kids First?”: Imagined Futures and Shifting Conceptions of Risk in Hepatitis B Immunization Policy in the United States, 1982-1999’
Advisor: Naomi Rogers
Elias E. Manuelidis Prize