Recent Prize Winners
2007
- Zebulon Dingley, "Direct to Zion": History and Practice of the Dini Ya Roho Mafuta Pole Ya Afrika (Advisor: Ralph Austen; Preceptor: Daniel Gullo) (Karafiol Prize co-winner)
- Lisa Furchtgott, Talking in the City: Language of Rumor, Rationality, and Maternity in the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, 1949-1963 (Advisor: Neil Harris; Preceptor: Molly Hudgens) (Barnard Prize co-winner and Ruth Murray Prize in Gender Studies winner)
- Daniel B. Miller, "The Baghdad Pact, Collective Defense, and the Evolution of US Middle East Policy: 1954-60" (Advisor: Orit Bashkin; Preceptor: Grant Madsen) (Harold E. Goettler Prize Political Institutions Prize)
- Josh Segal, "We Must Do Something for Ourselves": Police Reform and Police Privatization in Chicago's Hyde Park, 1952-1970 (Advisor: James Sparrow; Preceptor: Molly Hudgens) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Robert Wiesenberger, A National Style for the World: The German Werkbund in Wartime, 1914-1918 (Advisor: Michael Geyer; Preceptor: Edward Cohn) (Karafiol Prize co-winner)
2006
- Emily Alpert, Sapphires and Welfare Queens: Black Reaganites and the Political Utility of Black Female Stereotype (Dawson) (Ruth Murray Prize in Gender Studies winner)
- Emily Rossi, Trial by Jury in Colonial Rhode Island, 1636-1670 (Cook) (Barnard Prize winner)
- Antonio Ali Winston, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Power in Cote d'Ivoire (Austen) (Karafiol Prize winner)
2005
- Alex Bender, Jewish Interactions with the Kaifeng Jews (Wasserstein) (Karafiol Prize co-winner)
- Eric Golson, Switzerland and World War II: A Neutral of Special Distinction (Boyer) (Karafiol Prize co-winner)
- Meghan Healy, "The Greatest Service We Can Render": The Associated Negro Press, the World News Service, and Apartheid (Saville) (Barnard Prize winner)
2004
- Jean Bauer, Independence of Friends and Foes: Reevaluating John Adams' Presidency in Light of his Diplomatic Career (Cook) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Amelia Nelson, The Brooklyn Navy Yard Controversy: The Effects of Resistance, Divisions, and Delay on Environmental Inequity (Gugliotta) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Daniel Sullivan, Malebranchism and the Separation of Church and Enlightenment at the End of the Confessional Age (Karafiol Prize winner)
2003
- Clinton Bowie, "Real History...at least as far as I'm concerned": (Un)Historical Memory at the Oakley Park Museum in Edgefield, South Carolina (Saville) (Barnard Prize honorable mention)
- Ciara Brogan, Patriotic Poetry: The Forgotten Realm of Poetic Discourse in the Great War (1914-1918) (Geyer) (Karafiol Prize honorable mention)
- Andrew Coghlan, Demand a Recount: Buckley-for-Mayor and the Evolving Rhetoric of the Conservative Movement (Harris) (Barnard Prize winner)
- Rebecca Nagel, French Censorship and the Calvinist Printing Industry in Geneva (Fasolt) (Karafiol Prize winner)
2002
- Sean Campbell, Laying the Foundations of Development Discourse: The World Bank in Colombia, 1949-50 (Lomnitz) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Elizabeth Everton, Female Action and the Closing of the Women's Clubs During the Reign of Terror (Auslander) (Ruth Murray Prize in Gender Studies winner)
- Samuel Grafton, A War Within a War: The Khalq/Parcham Rivalry and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (Hellie) (Karafiol Prize co-winner)
- Shino Kobayashi, Spiritual Salvation as Historical Progress: John of Salisbury, Otto of Freising and the Changing Twelfth-Century Worldview (Fulton) (Karafiol Prize co-winner)
- James Morrison, Bringing the Individual Back In: State Fetishism and Human Agency in the Creation of the American State, 1765-1795 (Novak) (Goettler Political Institutions Prize winner)
- Erin E. Thomas, The Failure of the "Middle Course": Middle East Policy and the Yemeni Civil War (Yaqub) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
2001
- Jared Heck, "The Nature of 'Stalin's Holocaust': Anti-Semitism in the Post-WWII Soviet Union and the Doctors' Plot of 1953" (Hellie) (Karafiol Prize winner)
- Maureen Mahoney, "Shaping Chicago's Ethnic Working Class: The Effects of Prohibition on Packingtown" (Harris) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Jeremy Harrison Taub, Transition in Pilsen: Understanding the Ethnic Transition at St. Procopius Parish 1950-1964, An Oral History (Chauncey) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
2000
- Sara E. Berndt, The Politics of Compromise: W. E. B. Du Bois and Racial Justice, Paris, 1919 (Boyer) (Barnard winner)
- Robert Fredona, John of Legnano on the Ius ad Bellum: The Context and Significance of a Late Medieval Just War Doctrine (Julius Kirshner) (Karafiol co-winner)
- Veena Iyer, "Eliminate Inequality, not Women": The Contradictions of the National Campaign against Sex Determination Tests in India, 1985-1994 (Geyer) (Karafiol co-winner)"