Undergraduates
History Department Capstone Prize
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Jack Capizzi, "History Accelerated: The Great Disruptions of 1968," (Mark Bradley), 2022
Anna M. & George N. Barnard Prize in American History, Department of History
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Molly Jones, "Rescuing the Revolution: Virtuous Women, Nonviolent Histories, and the Retelling of the American Revolution in the Age of the French Revolution," (Matthew Kruer), 2023
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Brennan Szabo, “I let the government worry about it”: The Atomic Bomb, a Distrustful Public, and Postwar Consumerism in American Culture," (Kathleen Belew), 2022
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Catherine Veronis, "Along the Lakefront, ‘Menacing Unknowns’: Strategies of Citizen Intervention and Environmental Foresight in Nuclear Power Plant Hearings on Lake Michigan, 1970 – 1978," (Fredrik Jonsson), 2022
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Helen Malley, "'We are only demanding our country’: The Legal History of Lakota Survivance and the Long War for the West," (Matthew Kruer), 2021
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Philip O'Sullivan, "Putting a Check on Police Violence: The Legal Services Market, Section 1983, Torture, Abusive Detention Practices, and the Chicago Police Department from 1954 to 1967," (Destin Jenkins), 2020
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Katie Hill, "'New Neighbors Among Us;': Homesteading, Incarceration, and the Building of Postwar America," 2019
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Honorable Mention: Claire Hagerty, "White Mind, Red Lines: The University of Chicago and Racial Capitalism from 1925 to 1940," 2019
Emil Karafiol Prize in European and International History, Department of History
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Sophie Feng, "Between the Margins of Maoism: Judicial Standards for Prosecution of Sexual Misconduct in Cultural Revolution Era Hefei, 1972-1974," (Johanna Ransmeier), 2023
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Ethan Hsi, "Reimagining the Peasantry: Mexican Rural Development in Theory and Practice, 1967-1968" (Brodwyn Fischer), 2022
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Stephanie Reitzig,"Maria Sibylla Merian, Women’s Material Practices, and the Culture of Natural History in Seventeenth-Century Germany" (Adrian Johns), 2022
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Isabella Jackson-Saitz, "Above the Urban Crowd: Negotiations of Elite Urban Masculinity in Fourteenth Century Paris," (Jonathan Lyon), 2021
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Katia Kukucka, ""Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Renaissance Politics of Italian Sovereignty and the Case of Pier Luigi Farnese, 1534-1549," (Ada Palmer), 2021
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Lena Breda, "Ruinetto's Loaf: The Effect of the 1590 Famine on Sixteenth-Century Bolognese Dietetics," (Paul Cheney), 2020
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Peilun Hao, "The Scramble for Rice in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1945," 2019
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Honorable Mention: Poovaja Rajagopalan, "The Order of Nature and Oriental Vice: Regulating Sex and Sexuality in Colonial India," 2019
Undergraduate Thesis Award, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
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Eleanor Cambron, "A Spectrum of Permissibility: Unrecognized Vaccine Hesitancy in American Smallpox Epidemics," (Michael Rossi), 2022
Ruth Murray Essay Prize
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Scarlett Akeley, 2022
Jane Morton and Henry C. Murphy Award
Chloe Brettmann, 2022
Fulbright Study Award, France
Daisy Maslan, 2023
Fulbright-Nehru English Teaching Assistant Award, India
Elizabeth Zazycki, 2023
Boren Scholar
Chloe Brettmann, 2023
Sophie Feng, 2023
Elizabeth Zazycki, 2023
Gilman Scholar
Eren Fitzgerald, 2022