Recent Prize Winners
2010
- Samuel Casper, “Cain Where Are They, Those Whom You Brought Here?” Soviet War Correspondents Confront the Nazi Genocide, 1941-1945 (Advisor: Sheila Fitzpatrick; Preceptor: Jennifer Amos) (Montag Research Fellowship winner and Chicago Center for Jewish Undergraduate Essay Prize winner)
- Douglas Dishong, Towards a New World Order: Socialist Feminism and the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, 19681-1976 (Advisor: Christine Stansell; Preceptor: Betsy Wood) (Sack Summer Research Fellowship in History co-winner)
- Tsion Gurmu, Students Activism and the Transnational Black Liberation Movement: a Comparative Study of Black Student Movements in the United States and South Africa (Advisor: M. Dawson; Preceptor: Jessica Neptune) (Sack Summer Research Fellowship co-winner)
- Sara Leginsky,First Class Americans, Second Class Texans: the American G.I. Forum and the Politics of Citizenship in Post-World War II Texas (Advisor: Emilio Kourí; Preceptor: Betsy Wood) (Barnard Prize winner)
- Pierre Monnat, Bottom Lands: Farms, Farmers, and Urban Growth on Seattle’s Urban Fringe, 1910-1962 (Advisor: Kathy Conzen; Preceptor: Betsy Wood) (Sack Summer Research Fellowship in History co-winner)
- Margot Parmenter, There Is No “I” in Group”—But There Is in “Right”: Tracing the Cultural Meaning of European Rights Discourse from the Minority Treaties to the Post-World War II Era (Advisor: Michael Geyer; Preceptor: Patrick Houlihan) (Karafiol Prize winner)
2009
- Katherine Ammirati, The Gritti and the 1530 Treaty of Bologna: Myth and History during the Dogeship of Adrea Gritti (Advisor: Cornell Fleischer; Preceptor: Patrick Houlihan) (Sack Summer Research Fellowship winner and Montag Research Fellowship co-winner)
- Elizabeth Cross, The Myth of the Foreign Enemy: The Brunswick Manifesto and the Radicalization of the French Revolution (Advisor: Paul Cheney; Preceptor: Patrick Houlihan) (Karafiol Prize winner)
- Emily Gilman, “They Will Enjoy ‘Liberty and the Rights of Citizenship’”: Conceptions of Equality and Citizenship in Colonization Schemes, 1715-1818 (Advisor: Edward Cook; Preceptor: Matt Millikan) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Benjamin Jervis, Western Power Brokers: The L.A. Times, Baseball, and the Plan to Remake a City (Advisor: Adam Green; Preceptor: Jessica Neptune) (Mann Travel Grant co-winner)
- Emily Mokros, Constructing Symbols: Discourse on the 1993 Spreebogen Internationaler Städtebaulicher Ideenwettbewerb and the New Berlin (Advisor: Michael Geyer; Preceptor: Patrick Houlihan) (Sack Summer Research Fellowship co-winner and Montag Research Fellowship in History co-winner)
- Natalia Ostrowski, The Polish Renaissance through Il Cortigiano Polacco: Mirror of Italian Renaissance: Thought or Looking Glass into Polish Cultural Nationalism? (Advisor: Constanin Fasolt; Preceptor: Jennifer Amos) (Sack Summer Research Fellowship co-winner and Montag Research Fellowship co-winner)
- D. Alexandra Schumann, A Foucauldian Analysis of the Detention of Prostitutes during World War I (Advisor: Christine Stansell; Preceptor: Matt Millikan) (Ruth Murray Prize winner)
- Emma Scripps, Race, Community, and the Conflict over Youth: Parkway Community House, 1936-1949 (Advisor: Adam Green; Preceptor: Jessica Neptune) (Barnard Prize co-winner)
- Bingyu Zheng, Harmonizing Chinese Tradition and Western Modernity: Hong Rengan's Contact with the West and Attempt at Modernization (Advisor: Guy Alitto; Preceptor: Jennifer Amos) (Mann Travel Grant co-winner)
2008
- Derek Bowers, “Hesychasm and the Body: Hospitals in Late Byzantine Society” (Advisor: Walter Kaegi; Preceptor: Ben Zajicek) (Karafiol Prize winner)
- Susanna (SJ) Cohen, "When a Birth Certificate is Completed…There are Different Levels of Truth": M.T. v. J.T., in re Ladrach, and the Hidden History of Transsexual Marriage Law” (Advisor: Amy Stanley; Preceptor: Gwendolyn Ickes) (Ruth Murray Prize winner)
- Kimberly Foley, “Stamping Out the Smoking of Opium: Deportation, Narcotics and the Construction of American Citizenship in Early Twentieth Century” (Sack Summer Research Fellowship winner)
- Ethan Frenchman, “Private Interests, Public Gains: Property and the Tennessee Valley Authority” (Montag Research Fellowship co-winner)
- Rachel Landau, “Stepping Off or Staying on the Pedestal: The Women of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition” (Mann Travel Grant winner)
- Alexander Lerner, “Gendered Witnessing: Performative Identity and the World of Spectatorship, Regulation and Authority in the Murder Trial of Ephraim Avery, 1833” (Advisor: Amy Stanley; Preceptor: Gwendolyn Ickes) (Barnard Prize co-winner and Ruth Murray Prize winner)
- Zoe Samuels, “Retreat from Radicalism: Northern Republicans and the Negro Exodus to Kansas” (Mann Travel Grant winner)
- Randall Williams, “Manuel Lisa, Militarism, and Contract Law in the Early American Fur Trade, 1804-1812” (Advisor: Edward Cook; Preceptor: Roman Hoyos) (Barnard Prize co-winner and Montag Research Fellowship co-winner)
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)"