THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Undergraduates
History Department Capstone Prize
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Ethan Buck, "Reorganizing the Rectory: Stewarding the Archive of St. Josaphat Parish," (Alice Goff), 2024
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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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Ruby Bromberg, "It Takes The Village: How Greenwich Village Housewives Defeated the Lower Manhattan Expressway," (Jonathan Levy), 2024
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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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Eli Wizevich, "In Transit and Transition: Shell, the British State, and the Global Fossil Fuel Economy, 1892-1914," (Fredrik Albritton Jonsson), 2024
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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, 2024
Fulbright-Nehru English Teaching Assistant Award, India
Elizabeth Zazycki, 2023
Boren Scholar
Chloe Brettmann, 2023
Sophie Feng, 2023
Elizabeth Zazycki, 2023
Max Parness, Named Alternate, 2024
Gilman Scholar
Eren Fitzgerald, 2022
Honorable Mention, Udall Foundation
Elena Tiedens, 2024
Yenching Academy of Peking University
Alice Xiuqi Tay, 2024
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program, American Statecraft Program
Astrid Weinberg, 2024 (declined)
Critical Language Scholarship
Elizabeth Zazycki, (Named Alternate), Hindi, 2024
Elena Tiedens, (Named Alternate), Russian, 2024
US Teaching Assistantship (USTA) Program, Austria
Emma Kreistler, 2024