In addition to conferring honors to graduating seniors who successfully research and write an honors thesis, the History Department is pleased to offer a number of prizes annually to undergraduates for exemplary work in the discipline of history.
Department of History
History Honors & Prizes
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History Honors & Prizes
Recent Honors Theses and Other Prizes Awarded 2004-2021.
Prizes and Awards
The John Thomas Memorial Award
Best thesis in the History Department
The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize
Outstanding thesis
The Skidmore Family and Friends Prize
Best thesis in Latin American history
The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding
Theses or papers on international understanding, with emphasis on cooperation and tolerance
The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History
Outstanding undergraduate student concentrating in History
The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award
Women student who presents the best paper written as a class assignment in an American history course
Pell Medal Award
Presented to one student for excellence in United States history
The David Herlihy Prize
Best student in Medieval or Renaissance, or Ancient history
2021
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Shreya Das |
“Nation Building Post-Occupation in Singapore: How the Country Used Museums and Oral Histories to Shape Their National Identity” Advisor: Kerry Smith |
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Alex Smolar |
Alex Smolar, “‘My Involvement in These Events Is Not a Happy Memory’: Operation Igloo White and George Kistiakowsky’s Failed Effort to De-Escalate the Vietnam War”Advisor: Kerry Smith *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History |
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Nicole Yow Wei |
“Unreading the Literary: The Hikayat Anggun Cik Tunggal and Malay Historical Tradition in an Age of Print” Advisor: Cynthia Brokaw *Awarded The John Thomas Memorial Award |
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Alexa Howard |
“‘One Bad Hombre..’: Roberto Durán and the Construction of a Latino Hero in the United States” Advisor: Howard Chudacoff *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History |
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Caleigh Aviv |
“Stigma, Sexuality and Sobriety: Marty Mann and the Politics of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1980” Advisor: Lukas Rieppel *Awarded The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
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Karis Ryu |
“A New Park, a Lost Town: Defining the Legacy of U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan”Advisor: Kerry Smith *Awarded The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History |
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Karina Chavarria |
“Mobilizing to Define Motherhood: Developing Conceptions of Maternalism through Childcare Centers and Contraceptive Policy in 1980s Sandinista Nicaragua” Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez *Awarded The Skidmore Family and Friends Prize |
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Eddie Uong |
“Numbers Do Lie: Economic Research and the Family Assistance Plan” Advisor: Lukas Rieppel |
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Zoë Mermelstein |
“‘Frenchmen from Algeria’: The 1943 Campaign to Restore the Crémieux Decree and its Limits” Advisor: Jennifer Johnson *Awarded The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
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Jeanne Ernest |
“A Snapshot of the ‘Radical Middle’: On the Life and Labels of Extremist-Watcher Gordon D. Hall, 1946-1969” Advisor: Jennifer Lambe *Awarded The Christian YegenHistory Thesis Prize |
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Sophie Culpepper |
“The Role of Student Journalists in the Sixties: How The Brown Daily Herald’s Journalistic Identity, Priorities, and Values Endured and Evolved 1960-69” Advisor: Howard Chudacoff *Awarded The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
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Filippo Zinni |
“Cesare Beccaria in America: The Shrinking Meaning of Legal Equality” Advisor: Michael Vorenberg |
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Melanie Pincus |
“‘To promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States’: Professionalization, Education, and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, 1936-1939” Advisor: Howard Chudacoff *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History, and The Pell Medal Award |
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Ilana Brandes-Krug |
“The Making of America’s Judeo-Christian Myth: From Puritans to Post-War Politics”Advisor: Michael Vorenberg *Awarded The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution |
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Savannah Bridges |
“‘A Place of Padlocks and Chamber Pots’: Life and Death at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians” Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez *Awarded The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
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Gemma Sack |
“Selling Mrs. Procreator: Eugenics, Homemaking, and American Nationalism in Women's Magazines, 1929-39” Advisor: Debbie Weinstein *Awarded The GaspeeChapter Daughters of the American Revolution |
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Jamie Solomon |
“An Approximate Forest: Land, Knowledge Production and Racial Politics in the History of the Cuban Forest Administration” Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez *Awarded The Skidmore Family and Friends Prize |
| Lyle Cherneff |
The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History for his honors thesis in Gender & Sexuality Studies, “The Ties that Bind: Incest and Family-Making in the Postbellum South” Advisor: Emily Owens |
| Rainbow Chen | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Mohamed Ali |
R. Douglas Cope Memorial Award: Given in memory of Professor Robert Douglas Cope (1955-2019), to honor his scholarly and personal investment in centering the political, social, and cultural lives of non-elite actors |
| Nesya Nelkin |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2020
| Adam Lipse | “Transcendental Development: A Meditation on the Socioeconomic History of Fairfield, Iowa” Advisor: Sandy Zipp |
| Daniel Steinfeld |
"The Role 'China Threat' Ideas in the Emergence of a New Washington Consensus” Advisor: Kerry Smith |
| Isaac Leong | "Rituals of Justice” Advisor: Rebecca Nedostup *Awarded The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
| Frishta Qaderi | “Imaginary Rivers: An Environmental History of the Amu River, 1920-1970” (Honors thesis awarded in Developmental Studies) Advisor: Shahzad Bashir |
| Nikki Locklear |
“Beyond the Battle of Hayes Pond: Lumbee Identity and Politics in the 20th Century South” Advisor: Françoise Hamlin *Awarded The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution |
| Aubrey Vial | “Defining Freedom: New Mexican Debt Peonage and the Struggle to Define and Restrict Unfree Labor in the Post-Civil War Period” Advisor: Linford Fisher *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History |
| Elijah Broussard | “Herodotus’s Portrait of Psamtek I” Advisor: John Bodel |
| Jonathan He | “‘Employ Such, Rely on Such’: Catholics in English Universities under King James II, 1685-1688” Advisor: Tim Harris *Awarded The David Herlihy Prize |
| John Metz | “The Warehouse of Cards: Tobacco Inspection and the Challenges of Colonial Governance in Virginia, 1713-1738” Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Hugh O’Connor | “Money as Politics: The Boston Small Bill Crisis of 1804/1805” Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Jeremy Rhee | “At the Intersection of Immigration Histories: Studying Max Kohler’s Engagement with Chinese Exclusion Litigation” Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa |
| Ben Bienstock | “Black Awareness is Their Motto: The Black Power Movement in Providence, 1967-1972”Advisor: Françoise Hamlin *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History |
| Jacob Alabab-Moser | “The Mexican ‘Island’: Understanding the Role of the International in the Mexico City Popular Student Movement of 1968" Advisor: James Green *Awarded The Skidmore Family and Friends Prize |
| Shane Niesen | “Socialism and the ‘Black Shame’: Divergent Voices from The Crisis of Solidarity in German Social Democracy” Advisor: Tina Campt *Awarded The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
| Charles Steinman | “‘The bond of said child’s blood through her, his slave’: The Social Worlds of Slavery in Late Medieval Marseille” Advisor: Amy Remensnyder *Awarded The John Thomas Memorial Award, and The David Herlihy Prize |
| Sophie Kupetz | “'That neat, angel-devil theory was no longer useful': Prisoners Against Rape, The D.C. Rape Crisis Center and the Partnership that Transcended Walls and Critiqued the Society that Built Them” Advisor: Françoise Hamlin *Awarded The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History, and The Pell Medal Award |
2019
| Gabriela Ortiz | “Generosity of Home and Spirit: Curanderas and the Forgotten Female Healers of the Southwest” Advisor: Hal Cook |
| Kiyomasa M. Kuwana | “Reverberating Sacrifices: Remembering the Tokkotai Through Japanese Film, 1993-2013” Advisor: Kerry Smith |
| Claire McMahon Fishman | “Respectable Human Rights: The Rhode Island Fair Housing Movement, 1959-1965” Advisor: Tracy Steffes *Awarded The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution |
| Talia Brenner | “Radio’s Democratic Promise: Aspirations for Historical Radio Dramas, 1930-1943” Advisor: Tracy Steffes *Awarded The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution |
| Julia Rock | “A Prelude to Intensification: Settler Colonialism and the Opening of Minnesota’s First Iron Mines, 1854-1890” Advisor: Bathsheba Demuth *Awarded The John Thomas Memorial Award |
| Emily Miller | “A Lost Voice re-Emerges: The Ex-Slave Project’s 1930s Creation and 1970s Rediscovery” Advisor: Robert Self |
| Allison Gordon | “White Gloves, Whiter Women: Debutante Balls and the Reinforcement of White Femininity in the Post-War American South” Advisor: Kelly Colvin *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History |
| Adna Zejnilovic | “Badžijanije: Sufi Sisterhood and the Transfer of Sacred Knowledge in Early Modern Bosnia” Advisor: Faiz Ahmed |
| Jane Lichacz | “Making Up the Modern, Consuming Housewife: The Campbell Soup Company and Consumer Trust, 1905-1920” Advisor: Lukas Rieppel |
| Quinton Huang | “Extending and Remolding the State in the “Cancer” of Hong Kong: The Clearance of Kowloon Walled City, 1987” Advisor: Rebecca Nedostup *Awarded The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding |
| Miguel J. Rodriguez | “The Shadows of Barbosa: Reexamining Historical Memory of Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico” Advisor: Jenny Lambe *Awarded
The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize & The Skidmore Family and Friends Thesis Prize |
| Julia Rosenfeld | “Excavating Experience: Anti-Psychiatry, Second-Wave Feminism, and Women of Color” Advisor: Jenny Lambe *Awarded The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution |
| Jack Makari | “New Liberalism and the Organic Society: Reconciling Liberalism and Community in Turn-of-the Century Britain” Advisor: Meltem Toksoz *Awarded
The Christian Yegen History Thesis Prize |
| Alessandro Borghese | “The Role of the Interventionist Press in Promoting Italy’s Entry in the First World War, 1914-15” Advisor: David Kertzer *Awarded The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding |
| Marie Chantal Marauta | “Understanding the Myth of the Good Italian: Origins, Contestations and Trajectories” Advisor: Holly Case |
| Rachel Trafimow | “The Revolution within the Revolution: Women in the Young Lords Party’s Health Work” Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez *Awarded The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History |
| Alex Burnett | "Fighting Homophobia During the War on Crime: The Rise of Pro-Gay, Pro-Police Liberalism in Los Angeles, 1967-80" Advisor: Nic Ramos *Awarded The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize in American History |
| David C. Golden | “To End the ‘Color-Line’: The Readjuster Party and Black Organizational Politics in Post-Emancipation Virginia” Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Micah Rosen | “Facing the Coming Crisis: Peter Viereck, National Socialism, and the Search for Spirituality in Western Liberal Politics, 1938-41” Advisor: Holly Case |
| Hugo Hansen | “Making Maharashtra Straight Again: The Shiv Sena, Collective Violence, and the Discourse of the Bombay Riots” Advisor: Vazira Zamindar *Awarded The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding |
2018
| Greer M. Christensen-Gibbons | “Prisoners of Propaganda: The Repatriation Crisis and the Allied Council for the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952” Advisor: Kerry Smith *Awarded: The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Katherine A. Chu | “British Protestant Missionaries in Interwar Egypt: Uneven Encounters in Imperial Contexts” Advisor: Jennifer Johnson *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Brigitte C. Dale | "Radical Actors: The Women's Social and Political Union's Staging of the Suffrage Campaign" Advisor: Kelly Colvin *Awarded: The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History |
| Coda L. Danu-Asmara | “America’s Nightmare: The Rise and Fall of the Federal Elections Bill and the Making of an American Ethos” Advisor: Richard Meckel |
| Grace E. Gagnon | “Peal of the New Bedford: The Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery in Late Twentieth Century New England” Advisor: Bathsheba Demuth |
| Zoë B. Gilbard | “Confining the Unfit: The Eugenics Movement in Early Twentieth Century Rhode Island” Advisor: Debbie Weinstein |
| Katherine W. Jessiman-Ketcham | “Permanent Peace: Civilized Conquest and Empire in the U.S. Powder River Indian Expedition of 1865” Advisor: Michael Vorenberg |
| Isabella K. Kres-Nash | “Pathologies of Power: Disentangling the Social Constructions of Blackness and Disability within the System of Antebellum Slavery" Advisor: Emily Owens |
| Sienna R. Lotenberg | “‘Blessed is She Who in the Beginning Gave Birth’: An Intellectual History of the Brown Women’s Minyan and the Student Pioneers of American Jewish Feminism” Advisor: Kelly Colvin *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr. Prize |
| Michelle J. Ng | “North Point: Identity Formation in Hong Kong’s Hokkien Enclaves, 1950s-Present” Advisor: Rebecca Nedostup *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Sarah H. Novicoff | “Establishment and Civil War at the Hospital for the Insane, 1852-1865” Advisor: Jennifer Lambe *Awarded: The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Katelynn Pan | “The Second Removal: Urban Renewal and the Origins of the Japanese American Redress Movement” Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award; *Awarded: Brown University Distinguished Senior Thesis Prize |
| Owen C. Parr | “Challenging Invisibility and Forging Identity: Gay Cuban America and the Mariel Boatlift 1980-1998” Advisor: Jennifer Lambe *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr. Prize |
| Barry J. Thrasher | “The Origins and Contested Legacy of Indonesia’s Berkeley Mafia, 1955-1969” Advisor: Kerry Smith |
| Isabelle J. Williams | “The Politics of an ‘Apolitical’ Institution: Interpreting the Past and Educating the Future at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum" Advisor: Omer Bartov |
2017
| Eleanor F. Bohn | "Too Many Cooks Out of the Kitchen: The Dissemination of Postwar Domestic Ideals in Cecily Brownstone’s Associated Press Recipes, 1960-1965" Advisor: Robert Self |
| Otis B., Booz | "The Color of Failure: A History of African Assimilation and Multiculturalism in 20th Century French Politics" Advisor: Nancy Jacobs |
| Katherine E. Grusky | "Digging Below the Surface: Women and Families in the El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1930" Advisor: Jeremy Mumford *Awarded: The Skidmore Family and Friends Thesis Prize |
| Virginia A. Holmes | "Female Cultural Identity in Die Aktion, 1913-1919" Advisor: Mary Gluck |
| Leah C. Kazar | "The World Bank, Population Control, and the Liberal Economic Order" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa |
| Mariah Kennedy Cuomo | Robert F. Kennedy and the Farmworkers: The Formation of Robert F. Kennedy and Cesar Chavez’s Bond" Advisor: Ted Widmer |
| Aditya V. Kumar | "In Blood and Color: The Madras Torture Commission Report as a Liberal Response to a Crisis in Racial Capitalism" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| David I. Lazris | "Survival and Progress: The National Medical Association and Black Medical Professionalism, 1865-1929" Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez |
| Daniel J. Muller | "An American Colonialism: The Colonial Application of Mosquito Eradication Programs from Cuba and Panama in 1905 New Orleans" Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez |
| Benjamin T. Orf | "Whig and Country: The Exclusion Crisis and the Politics of Opposition in Restoration England c. 1674-81" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Christian A. Rodriguez | "The 1970 Seleção: The Brazilian Military Regime’s Propagandist Force Went Unrivaled by Political Opposition" Advisor: James Green |
| Emma M. Scott | "Sentenced to Settlement: Irish Vagabonds, Convict Transportation, and Labor in Early America" Advisor: Hilary Levey-Friedman |
| Bradley X. Weekes | "How to Survive an Atomic Bomb: The Role of Civil Defense Films During the Cold War, 1945-1956" Advisor: Kerry Smith |
| Bohao Wu | "Imagining Asian Modernity: Japanese Intellectuals in Manchuria and Their Agrarian Movement, 1931-1943" Advisor: Kerry Smith *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Belinda Y. Zhou | "Therapeutic Advocacy: Treating and Empowering the Politically Persecuted in Authoritarian Chile 1973-1990" Advisor: Jennifer Lambe *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Phoebe Young | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "Movements Born of the Ground: Cross-Cultural Studies of Native Resistance in Colonial New England and Post-Independence Mexico" |
| Belinda Y. Zhou | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Leah C. Kazar | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Jessica Laird |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2016
| Sarah A. Bochicchio | "Dressing Good Queen Bess: Queen Elizabeth I, Sartorial Manipulation, and Foreign Policy" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Katherine E. Boorstein | "Higher Learning, Institutionalized: The Yale University Division of Mental Hygiene, 1926-1949" Advisor: Jennifer Lambe |
| Athena C. Bryan | “'Our Great Shame': Concepts of Prostitution, Poverty, and the Public in the Working-Class Press of Late Imperial St. Petersburg" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Edward L. Clifford | "Labors of the State: Immigrants, Industrialists, and the National Guard in the 1922 Rhode Island Textile Strike and its Consequences" |
| Emily A. Dupuis | "1641: The Women’s Rebellion" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Meredith K. Heckman | "Pathology and the Possibility of Inclusion: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Alcoholics Anonymous, 1944-1982" Advisor: Jennifer Lambe |
| Michelle K. Johnson | “'Who Speaks for Chicago?' Civil Rights, Community Organization and Coalition, 1910-1971" Advisor: Françoise Hamlin |
| Caleb M. Miller | A Whole New Ballgame: How a Capitalist, a Judge, and a Political Boss Protected the National Pastime early in the 20th Century *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Jonatan Perez | "Mexican Threat: Immigration Quotas and the Racialization of Mexicans in 1930" Advisor: Monica Martinez *Awarded: The Skidmore Family and Friends Thesis Prize |
| Jeremy G. Perlman | "Beyond Plantation: The Formation of Old English Identity and the Growth of Sectarianism in 17th C Ireland |
| Danielle L. Phan | "Exchanging, Entertaining, and Eating: Participatory Transnationalism in Vietnamese San Jose" Advisor: Robert G. Lee *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Richard J. Salame | "Keeping Time: Techno-politics and Technologies of Time in the 19th Century US Economy" Advisor: Seth Rockman *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Jordan M. Schulz | "We Don’t Intend to Keep Paying for What We Haven’t Been Getting" |
| Ian M. Shank | "Visions of Empire: Italian Soldiers’ Perspectives on the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936)" *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Meredith Heckman | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "Pathology and the Possibility of Inclusion: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Alcoholics Anonymous, 1944-1982" |
| Kerrick Edwards | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "One World or None: The Atomic Bomb and World Government Dreams" |
| Katherine Boorstein | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Michelle Johnson | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Sarah Bochicchio |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2015
| Meher S. Ali | "The Hidden Left: Communist Activity in Pakistan, 1947-1954" Advisor: Vazira Zamindar *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Amelia E. Armitage | "Solving the Refugee Problem: The League of Nations, Russian Refugees, and International Refugee Relief" Advisor: Ethan Pollock *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Lee M. Bernstein | "My War Started in 1945: The Post-War Rehabilitation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors in Britain at the Children’s Home Weir Courtney" *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Nathaniel L. Huether | “From YPF to the Railways: The Emergence of Economic Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Argentina” |
| William Janover, | "Reinventing the Nation: The Generation of the Cetenary and the Rise of Naitonalism in Argentina" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Luke N. Perez | "Strangers Within Our Gates: The Los Angeles Press and Their Portrayal of Mexicans from the Mexican Revolution to the Zoot Suit Riots" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Jeremy G. Perlman | Beyond Plantation: The Formation of Old English Identity and the Growth of Sectarianism in 17th C Ireland" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| James B. Rattner | "The Founding of a National Identity in the United States: New England’s Enlisted Soldiers in the Continental Army" *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr. Prize Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Anna Rotman | "Democratical Tyranny: Rhode Island’s 1786 Land Bank in the History of Atlantic World Monetary Reform" Advisor: Jo Guildi *Awarded: The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Catherine S. Wallace | The Office of the American First Lady and Second Wave Feminism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Adam N. Waters | "Discursive Resistance: Counter-Hegemonic Pan Americanisms in the Early Cold War" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award & awarded: The Skidmore Family and Friends Thesis Prize |
| William D. Watterson | "The Construction of the Germani in Roman Literature 58BC – 150 AD" Advisor: Jonthan Conant |
| Michelle Bailhe | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, We Hold These Hypocrisies to Be Self-Evident: Slaves and Abolitionists in the Creation of the United States of America" |
| Meher Ali | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Hannah Duncan | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| William Watterson |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2014
| Zoe K. Beiser | “’If You Come to Me, Come Like a Man:’ Black Whalers, Martial Masculinity and Citizenship in Antebellum America” Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Meredith B. Bilski | "Building Community and Brotherhood: American Jewish Relief in Post-War Greece, 1945-1951" *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Marc A. Briz | "Towards a Queer Rhetoric: Western Reporting and Advocacy During the Queen Boat Trial, 2001-2004" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa |
| Thomas P. Finley | "’A Church Where Jesus is Real:’ Race, Religiosity and the Legacies of Protest Activism in the Church of God in Christ, 1968-1989" Advisor: Françoise Hamlin *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Grace M. Healey | “The Dissolution of the Reserve Officer Training Corps: Columbia, Harvard and Brown during the Vietnam War” |
| Peter A. Kentros | "’Bodies of Iron, with Souls of Steam:’ The Slave and the Machine in Antebellum America" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| John A. Kotheimer | "Making it Rain in Miklagard: Examining Political, Economic, and Cultural Factors in the Origins of Trade Among the Vikings, Byzantium, and Kievan Rus’, 9th-10th cen." |
| Samantha A. Miller | "Victory in Defeat: The Ascendancy of the Lost Cause in Appomattox Memory” Advisor: Megan Kate Wilson *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Oyinkansola Osobamiro, | "Negotiating Identities at Soccer Matches: Glasgow’s Ranger-Celtic Football Club Rivalry" |
| Gaurav Saxina | "A Toolbox for the Corrupt: The Failures of the Laws, Ordinances, Policies, and Bureaucracies Concerning Evacuees and Refugees Following Partition in India and Pakistan" Advisor: Vazira Zamindar |
| Gabrielle E. Sclafani | "Reimagining a Mexican Wonderland: Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and the International Surrealist Movement". Advisor: James Green |
| Lindsay M. Sovern | "’He Carried Himself Like a Man’: Gorbachev and Yeltsin’s Masculinities" Advisor: Patricia Herlihy *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Emma R. Wohl | "The Marks of Memory: Grassroots Activism and Government Policies of Transitional Justice in Brazil, From Abertura to the National Truth Commission" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Katie Parker | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "Oyster Regulation and the Public Trust: Examining Oyster Management in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island" |
| Julie Yue | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "Infanticide: Creation, Destruction, and Control of the Antebellum Body" |
| Zoë Beiser | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Thomas P. Finley | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| John Kotheimer |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2013
| Jonathan D. Bateman | “Three Anniversaries and a University: The Meaning of Brown’s Celebrations in 1864, 1914 and 1964” Advisor: Luther Spoehr |
| Benjamin E. Cohen | "Republicanism, Anti-Sectarianism and the Restoration, 1659-1660" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Emily L. Hurt | "Bishops, Martyrs, and Circumcellions: The Church in Conflict in Fourth-century North Africa" Advisors: John Bodel & Jonathan Conant *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Eun Seo Jo | "Korea’s Other War: The Vietnam Conflict and the Making of Modern South Korea" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Alexandra R. Linn | “The American Rejection of the BCG Vaccine for Tuberculosis: A Story of Nationalism, Radiation, and the Rise of American Scientific Culture, 1900-1960” |
| Fiona McBride | "Spanish Communists and the Crucible of Soviet Exile" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Douglas K. McDonald | "Anti-Totalitarian Thought: Positivism, Ideology, and the Legacies of Enlightenment in Adorno, Arendt, and Trilling" |
| Patrick N. Meehan | "'I am like the swan, that sings when it is dying':Physicality, Spatiality, and Transformative Violence in German Knightly Identity, c. 1200-1500" *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Tara K. Prendergast | "Hózhó and the Politics of Place: Navajo Perspectives on the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute" Advisor: Jeremy Mumford |
| Cosima O. Ramirez Ruiz de la Prada | "The Impossible Monarchy: A Utopia of the 1812 Cadiz Constitution" Advisor: Jeremy Mumford |
| Samantha F. Sanders | "The Introduction of the Pill and the Decline of Parietal Rules on College Campuses: A Study of the University of Rhode Island, Wheaton College, and Brown University" |
| Catharine F. Savage | "The Political is Academic: Women’s Studies at Brown University" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Louis E. Solmonson | "Rhody’s Tycoon: William Sprague IV and the American Political Economy, 1856-1875" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa |
| Gabrielle E. Zerbib | "Parody in Chinese Society: A Comparison of Republican-Era Political Cartoons and Contemporary E’Gao" Advisor: Rebecca Nedostup *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Katherine C. Blessing | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "In the News: The Nation of Islam and the Black Christian Community" |
| Gabrielle K. Tomson and Sharina Gordon | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for their documentary short, "Wal-Mart: Destined to Exploit" |
| Hilary R. Lynd, | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Joseph B. Elkinton | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Patrick Meehan |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2012
| Daniel W. Alexander | “From Good Neighbors to World Warriors: U.S.-Cuban Relations from 1933-1941” Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize |
| Chelsea L. Berry | "Smuggling in the Public Eye: Perceptions of Illicit Trade and Colonial Identity in Rhode Island, 1755-1765" |
| George A. Brennan | "The Mutual Security Act of 1951: Arms for Control of Latin American Militaries" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa |
| Elizabeth G. Caldwell | "The Financial Frontier: Slave Mortgaging and the Creation of the Deep South" Advisor: Seth Rockman *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Niwaeli E. Kimambo | “Keeping It Together: Assessing the ‘Failure’ of Ujamaa at the Village Level” *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Eugenie D. Montaigne | "Under the Banner of Reform: Autonomy and Autocracy in the Twentieth Century Prison" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Robert G. Nelson | "Public Power, Urban Lives: Antebellum Police Authority and Providence’s Underclass" |
| Juan M. Ruiz Toro | "Toward a Post-Nationalist Nation: The Origins of Puerto Rico’s Democratic Revolution, 1948-1964" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Kate I. Sapirstein | "Comparing American Rabbinical Conceptions of Hitler, 1933-1945" |
| Emmanuel V. Steg | "The Macedonian Army as a Social Organization under Philip II and Alexander the Great" |
| Cos B. Tollerson | "The Brazilian Military Regime’s Self-Legitimizing Discourse 1964-1974: Professing Western Exceptionalism and Projecting Western Values" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Kathryn N. Vastola, | "Wakamatsu Remembered: Collective Memory at a Gold Country Farm, 1856-Present" Advisor: Richard Meckel *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Katherine A. Welsh | "Mother Lions: Women in the American Patriot and Militia Movement of the 1990s" |
| Katherine Hadley | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "Why the Color of Rice Doesn't Matter: The 'Black Rice' Debate, Its Shortcomings, and How to Move Forward" |
| Anna Rotman | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for her paper, "Enslaved Men and Women as Economic Actors in the Antebellum South" |
| Anna Matejcek | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Elizabeth G. Caldwell | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Alexandra Wolfson |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2011
| Aaron Bartnick | “Building Britannia Verulamium, Vindolanda, and the Romanization of Britain” *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Matthew Brag | “Myths, Meinertzhagen, and the Effects of Fraudulence on the Historical Imagination: The Legacy of British Intelligence’s False Claims during WWI” |
| Jerry C. Choi | “Identities in Diaspora: An examination of the Ethnic Chinese Communities in British Columbia since 1858” |
| Jennifer Grayson | “As I saw in my time”: Abbasid Baghdad, Saadya Gaon, and the Synthesis of Jewish Philosophy, 750-942” |
| Katherine Hyland | “Progress toward Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics during 1970s: Case Studies and Comparison of Four Institutions Pursuing Different Pathways to Coeducation” |
| Clare Kim | “Math Derived, Math Applied: The Establishment of Brown University’s Division of Applied Mathematics, 1940-1946” Advisor: Luther Spoehr |
| Gabrielle Kim | “A House Divided: Pre-Post Liberation and the Struggle for Nationhood in Korea, 1919-1950” Advisor: Kerry Smith *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Evan Pelz | “Jew(ish?): Ethiopian Jewry and the Alliance Israélite Universelle’s Construction of Jewish Identity, 1867-1908” *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Lisa Qing | “The Royal Rogue: James Hind and the Politics of Theft in the English Revolution? |
| Lindsay Reed | “’A Place for Women’: The Growth and Development of the Providence Lying-In Hospital, 1884-1934” |
| Sarah Rosenthal | “He that resisteth the king resisteth God: The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Creation of an English Reformed identity” Advisor: Tim Harris *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Max I. Straus | “Novel Crimes Against a Novel Sovereign: Sovereignty, Due Process and the Law of Treason in Early Modern England? Advisor: Timothy Harris *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Simon van Zuylen-Wood | “The End of Ideology and the Beginnings of Neoconservatism: Daniel Bell to Norman Podhoretz” |
| Chelsea Waite | “The American Drink: Coffee and Mass Consumption in America from WWII to 1960s” Advisor: Robert Self *Awarded: The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Margaret C. Weeks | “Negotiating Marginalization: Survival and Activism in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 20thCentury” Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Rachel Weiler | “Blood Baptism: German Jewish Dueling Fraternities, 1886-1922 |
| Daniel Wiener | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize for his paper, "Reconstructing Public Memory: Modern Israeli War Film and the Formation of Anti-Conflict Identities" |
| Lisa Qing | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Clare Kim | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Jennifer Grayson |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2010
| Susana Aho | Breaking the Silence: The 1979 OAS Human Rights Commission visit to Argentina and the Problem of the Disappeared” Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Benjamin Asher | "Re-Thinking Music and Politics: The Legacy of the Congress for Cultural Freedom" Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa |
| Amanda Bauer | "Defending Elizabeth: Mary, Queen of Scots, The Armada and the 'Monarchical Republic' Crisis of 1584-88" |
| Jason Bertoldi | "Conquering Spirits: Temperance, Nativism and the Know-Nothing Party in Antebellum Rhode Island" |
| Sam Bollier | "Fruitful Failure: Mountaineers, Volunteers, and Federally-Sponsored Community Action in Eastern Kentucky, 1960-1970" Advisor: Luther Spoehr *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Alexander Campbell | "Black Citizenship, Black Sovereignty: The Haitian Emigration Movement and Black American Politics, 1804-1865" Advisor: Françoise Hamlin |
| Sophie Elsner | "Big Dreams Versus Small Actions: The Argentine Response to the Jewish Refugee Crisis in the 1930s" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Jonathan Hiles, | "Justice, Justice, Seek ye Always Justice; The Radical Legal Theories of the English Levellers" Advisor: Tim Harris *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Zachary Leonard, | "A Church on Trial: The Role of the Anglican Clergy in Deterring Revolution" Advisor: Timothy Harris |
| Jeffrey Martin | "'A Despotism in our Midst': Railroad Politics and Corporate Power in Antebellum America" Advisor: Seth Rockman *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| William Martin | "Franco's Vanguard: Spanish Fascism and Its Impact, 1933-1945" |
| Brian Miller | "The (Re)creation of Class: The Middle Class, Leisure, and the Spectacle of Tourism at Newport, Narragansett Pier, and the Bowery, 1870-1910" |
| Forrest Miller | "The Floating Agents: Supercargoes in the Globalization of American Trade, 1785-1835" *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Hannah Mintz | "A Prism of Defeat: The Shifting Impact of the 1967 War in Shaping the Memory of Gamal Abd al-Nasser in Egypt" |
| Joy Neumeyer | "Public Discourse, Private Lives: Love, Sex, and Family in Late Soviet Russia" Advisor: Ethan Pollock *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Rebecca Rattner | "The Formation of the Spartacus League: A Radical Alternative to Social Democracy and Bolshivism, 1900-1919" Advisor: Ethan Pollock |
| Jason St. John | "Arguing for the End of the World: Wolfgang Aytinger's Commentary on Pseudo-Methodius' Apocalypse" Advisor: Tara Nummedal |
| Linda Zang | "'Nurseries of Patriotism': Brown University and the Making of Citizens and Soldiers in the Civil War" Advisor: Luther Spoehr |
| Susan Beaty | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Joy Neumeyer | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Jeffrey Martin | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Jonathan Hiles |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2009
| Anastasia Aguiar | "In Service to the State: United Nations Humanitarian Aid during the Violent Creation of Bangladesh" Advisor: Vazira Zamindar *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Zoe Brennan-Krohn | "In the Nearness of Our Striving: Camphill Communities Re-Imagining Disability and Society" |
| Katelyn Cioffi | "The Exotic Works of Pierre Loti Defining the Self and Discovering the Other in Nineteenth-Century France" |
| Devin Cohen | "How To Start A Riot: A Historical Approach to the 1968 Democratic Convention Riots and the Chicago Conspiracy Trial" |
| David Frisof | "The Economics of Interest: Revenue Settlement and Private Trade under Company Rule in Eighteenth-Century Bengal" Advisor: Vazira Zamindar |
| Caroline Landau | "'Brazil, Show Your Face!': AIDS, Homosexuality, and Art in Post-Dictatorship Brazil" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Erinn Phelan | "To Think an Old Soldier Should Come to This… The Beginnings of Presidential Television Advertising, 1952-1964" |
| Amir Radjy | "Three Young Patriots: La Fayette, Noailles, Segur and the fall of courtier culture in France, 1750-1789" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Stefan Smith | "Soe Longe Unpunished: Homophobia and the Assassination of George Villiers" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Hillary Taylor | "An Epidemicall disease...raigneth over the whole land': Separatist Disorder, Patriotism and the Early Royalist Press in 1640-42" Advisor: Timothy Harris |
| Jennifer Weissbourd | "Knowledge Saves from Suffering: Health Reform and Women’s Rights in the Providence Physiological Society, 1850-1851" *Awarded: The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Zoe Brennan-Krohn | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Etan Newman | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history for "“For Whose Benefit? Social Control and the Construction of Providence’s Dexter Asylum" |
| Hillary Taylor |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2008
| Maha R. Atal | "Anglo-French Relations and Radical Politics: The Case of G.W.M. Reynolds 1835-53" *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Yesenia Barrragan | "Woman as Mother, Woman as Other: The Political Philosophy of Luisa Capetillo" Advisor: James Green |
| Scott A. Blumenkranz | "The Alvitre-Brown Affair Manhood, Murder and Frontier Justice in Early Lost Angeles" |
| Casey D. Bohlen |
“'Our Father, Who Art in Congress'": The Political Beginnings of Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J." Advisor: Luther Spoehr *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Fokion A. Burgess | "Calculus of the Flesh: Eugenics and the Sexual Pedagogy of American Empire" |
| Hannah N. Copperman | "A Flawed Attempt at a National Conversation on Race: President Clinton’s One America Initiative June 1997- September 1998" |
| Sara T. Damiano | "From the Shadows of the Bar: Law and Women’s Legal Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Newport" *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| David A. Fedman |
'Weighing Guilt': The Executive Committee and the Crafting of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal" Advisor: Kerry Smith *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Ryan A. Gise | "From Charity to Medical Care: The Evolution of the Modern Hospital in Providence, RI" |
| Anna K. Hermann |
"Teaching Democracy The Implementation and Outcome of the Re-Education of German Prisoners of War in RI During World War II" Advisor: Omer Bartov *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Rachel G. Hoffman |
"Arendt before Politics: Judging" |
| Henry S. Hoyle | "'Looking Ahead to Harbin’s Prospects, How Can One Not Produce a Great Sigh?' Liu Jingyan’s Chinese Harbin" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Adam M. Kriesberg | "Through King Philip’s Woods: Metacom’s Legacy and Historical Memory in Bristol, RI" *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins Jr. Prize |
| Madelyn A. Morris |
"One Riot Becomes Many A Media History of the 1968 Democratic National Convention and Rioting in Chicago" |
| Kenneth E. Seligson | "Sailing to the Ends of the Earth: The Growth and Decline of Ancient Roman Trade with the Indian Subcontinent During the First Three Centuries CE" |
| Elizabeth M. Sher |
"Music Lessons: A Cultural Analysis of Leonard Bernstein and the Young People’s Concerts, 1958-1972" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Aaron M. Stanton |
"The Periphery on the Vanguard: The Transatlantic Telegraph Cable and the West of Ireland" *Awarded: The Clarkson A. Collins Jr. Prize |
| Elisabeth A. Stelson |
"Saving Women from Suffrage: Women Antisuffragists in Illinois, 1897-1913" |
| Nicholas A. Swisher |
"The Recipe for Madness: Social, Economic and Political Satire by Mad Magazine, 1952-1960" |
| Jennifer E. Tarr |
"Damnable driftes’? Witchcraft, Community, and Common Law in Elizabethan England" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Tyler G. Whitmire |
"A Convergence of Hope: Radical Pacifists and Their Nonviolent Projects in Africa, 1959-1963" |
| Elizabeth K. Wilson |
"Staging Civil Rights: Black Theater and White Critics in New York City, 1959-1968" |
| Linda Zang | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for “The Missing Men of Brown: Competing Memories of Wartime at one Northern University” |
| Rachel Hoffman | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize for “Anchoring Identity and Memory in ‘No Place:’ Lebanese Intellectual Endeavors to Trace the ‘Negative Capability’ within Contested National Space” |
| Yesenia Barragan | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator |
| Sara Damiano | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Jennifer E. Tarr |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
| Kenneth E. Seligson | The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2007
| Francesca Brady | "A Hundred Years of Steadfast Savoir-Faire: The First Century of Miss Porter's School" Advisor: Luther Spoehr *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Shannon Chow | "GREATNESS Nitobe Inazo (1862-1933) and Prewar Japan" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize. Advisor: Kerry Smith |
| Stephanie Clark | "The Evangelist and the Educator: The Abolitionist Philosophies of Theodore Weld and Francis Wayland" *Awarded:The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Justin Cohen |
“Faith and Fallacy The Politics of Religion in Pre-emancipation Jamaica 1823-1834" |
| Justin Fike | "The Divine and Material Sword: The Development of Holy War Ideology in Medieval Iberia" |
| Janis Foo | "The History and Development of Anorexia Nervosa within The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1874-1990" |
| Michael Gladstone | "L'Ordre de Saint-Michel: A Failed Monarchical Institution in Ancient Regime France 1469-1789" |
| Courtney Jenkins | "The House That George Built: The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, D.C., 1974-1989" |
| Yuko Kawamura | "The Influence of Alcoholics Anonymous on Public Policy on Alcoholism 1935-1970" |
| Karen Kudelko | "How They Survived: Personal Histories of Liberian Refugees" *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Katherine Lamm |
"Educating Citizens in a Changing America: Brown University, 1764-1860" Advisor: Luther Spoehr *Awarded:The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Allison Laplatney | "he Repository of Infinite Possibilities" The Role of the Child in Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism" |
| Jessica Mendelson | "Shadows on the Home Front: The Treatment of the Families of Missing British Soldiers 1914-1939" |
| John Nagler | "Baptism in Helldorado Endicott Peabody in Tombstone, 1882" Advisor: Luther Spoehr |
| Jennifer Schaefer | "Negotiations of Public & Private Spaces: The Family, the Press, & the Catholic Church during the Argentine Military Dictatorship" Advisor: James Green |
| Samantha Seeley | "That pattern of a husband, a warrior and a fine gentleman: Maine's Revolutionary War Veterans and the Pension Program of 1820" Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Arminda Smith | "Round and Round They Go: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Point Park" |
| Lela Spielberg | "She is my Baby and I Think a Great Deal of Her": Parents' Voices in the Discussion of Mental Disability, 1903-1945" *Awarded: The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize |
| Carey Turnquest | "Pax Americana?: The Latin American Foreign Policies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon" Advisor: James Green |
| Jeffrey Yoskowitz | "Creating a Kosher America The Orthodox Union's Program to Reclaim Kashrut, 1945-65" *Awarded: The Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Natan Zeichner | Becoming a Vanguard: Student Activism and Popular Organizing in the Greater Sao Paulo Area During the Abertura Period of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship" Advisor: James Green *Awarded: The John L. Thomas Memorial Award |
| Christopher S. Dwight | The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize best paper dealing with the American Merchant Marine or Navy for men in the junior or senior class for “Prize Cases in the War of 1812” |
| John G. Bourne | The Clarkson A. Collins, Jr., Prize best paper dealing with the American Merchant Marine or Navy for men in the junior or senior class for “Pirates and Petty Princes: American Political Economy and the Barbary States” |
| Laura J. Atkinson | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for "Structures of Deliverance and Dread: The Fallout Shelter Question in Public Debate, 1960-62” |
| Kate L. Stoughton | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for"Morality and the ‘Market Revolution’: Family, Gender, Morality, and Failure in Antebellum America” |
| Thalia K. Beaty | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for "Postcolonial Novels as a Revision of History" |
| Christina Koningisor | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for "In Pursuit of Justice: Post-Conflict Resolution in Sierra Leone” |
| Jonathan S. Sidhu | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for “The Legacy of 1947: Nation-State Preservation and the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots in Delhi" Advisor: Vazira Zamindar |
| Sara T. Damiano | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator for for "Law and (dis)Order in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake: The Ambiguous Status of the Single Woman" |
| Rebecca H. Jacobson | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator for
Consumerism and Feminism: An Uneasy Relationship” |
| Samantha M. Seeley | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Lela P. Spielberg |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history for "Veronica Franco and the Renaissance Courtesan" |
2006
| Suzanne Altshuler | "Transforming Philanthropy and Activism: Hadassah Grows in the 1930s" |
| Samuel Biagetti | "The Red Wine Rebellion: Louisiana, 1768" |
| Jeremy Chase | Francis Wayland: A Uniting Force in an Era of Disunion" Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Constance Choi | "Shostakovich and His Music: How We Read the Multivalent Meaning of "Red" Art" |
| Alexa Clay | "Merchants of Destiny: Astrological Persona and the Scientific Imagination in Restoration England" Advisor: Tim Harris |
| Brian Corcoran | "Between Lennon and Lenin: Music and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1968-1989" |
| Devon Dear | "Writing the Spectral State: The Poetry of Abdulhamid Suleimon Ughli Cholpon in Soviet Turkistan, 1917-1925" |
| Christopher Elias | "The Company Man: John Theodore McNaughton and the Vietnam War" |
| Dana Goldstein | "Remembering the Flaneuse: Women of French Panorama, 1830-1848" |
| Jonas Kieffer | "An Interest Residing Partly in both Territories: The Emergence of Nationalism in the "Verdmont" borderlands, 1777-1794" Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Alison Klayman | "Labor and Labels: Categorizing Slavery, Servitude, Race and Gender in Colonial Southern Rhode Island" |
| Katherine Klonick | "Styling Substance: How NOW and STOP ERA Created an Unmarketable Equal Rights Amendment" |
| Tara Lang | "A Mother in Defense of Her Family is Not Easily Turned Aside: Women Strike For Peace, 1961-1973" |
| Peiling Li | "Desertion and Disunity: The North Encounters the Civil War" |
| Faizah Malik | "Negotiating Language, Identity, and State: The Decline of Urdu in Post-Partition North India" Advisor: Vazira Zamindar |
| John Nichols | “Fallen Soldiers: Remembering the Centralia Tragedy of 1919” |
| Susan Oba | "Mostly Made, Especially for this Purpose, in Providence, R.I.": The Rhode Island Negro Cloth Industry" |
| Theresa Roosevelt | “Unintended Uses of Gitmo: The Evolving Story of Refugees at the U.S. Naval Base, 1959-1995” |
| Thomas Schumann | "Heaven, Hell, or Houston: Honky Tonks, Dance Halls, House Dances, and Rural Culture in Urban Texas during the 1930's and '40's" |
| Natan Zeichner | The Clarkson A. Collins Prize for "Identity Construction in the Maritime Atlantic World” |
| Cassaundra Coulter | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for “Art Imitating Life: Representations of Interracial Relationships in American Cinema |
| Anya Goldstein | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for the paper “U.S. Slavery: A Sexual Political Economy” Suzanne Smith for the paper “The Slavery of Their Wants” |
| Kate Brandt | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for the paper “The Rape of Nanjing American Discourse: From Front Page to ‘Oblivion and Back Again’” |
| Constantine Haghighi | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for “A Proper View of History: Yasukuni Shrine in East Asia” |
| Oh-Yoon Kim | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for “The Untouchable Authentic and the Accessible Simulation: A History of Atomic-Bomb Witness in Japan and the United States” |
| Justin Glavis-Bloom | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for the paper “Unwitting C.I.A. Complicity: American Media Coverage of the Iranian Coup |
| Brian Corcoran | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for the paper “Mezi zprávou a pravdou – Between Information and Truth: Havel’s Intellectual Education” |
| Mehtab Brar | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator for "Second Generation South Asian Perspectives on Modern Arranged Marriage” |
| Dana Goldstein | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator for work on Paris and Modernity |
| Jennifer Lambe | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator for her work on Modern Brazil |
| Peiling Li | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
| Tara Lang |
The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history for the paper “Italian Renaissance Clothing: The New Meaning of the Phrase ‘Fashion Victim’” |
2005
| Akkoyunlu, Karabekir | "Bringing the Myth Down to Earth: Perspectives in the Cosmopolitan City of Istanbul during the Battle of Gallipoli" |
| Arbeit, Jeffrey | "A Moment in Crime: A Further Examination of the Brink's Robbery" |
| Beidler, Jacob | "Stolen Streets: The Exploitative Development of Chicago's Transit System, 1880-1900" |
| Berman, Adriane | "Rabbi Baruch Korff: How an Ardent Advocate for Jewish Causes Became and Unlikely Defender of Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal" |
| Bowman, Sarah | "Constructing 'Our Second Great Historical Epoch': The Massachusetts Historical Society during the United States Civil War" *Awarded: Distinguished Honor Thesis |
| Brown, Stephen | "Slavery's Echoes: Civil Liberties, Conservatism, and the Imperiled Union in the Age of the Negro Seaman's Act" |
| Champagne, Joshua | "Trusted Allies, Bloody Assassins? Western Perspectives on the Yugoslav Lands and People, 1914-1941" |
| DeAngelis, Caitlin | "Sally Jackson's Wedding Dress: Women's Consumption and the Nonimportation Movement in Boston" Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| deBoer, James | "Paddy in Rhode Island: Perceptions of the Irish in Mid-Nineteenth Century America" |
| Gribbons, Megan | "Unfit To Serve? The Story of IV-Fs During World War II " |
| Kremen, Jessica | ’The Way He Is Mothered’: Women, Infants and Medical Care in London Charitable Maternity Hospitals, 1880-1930” *Awarded: The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History |
| Leff, Benjamin | "The Story Hoosiers Love to Tell About Themselves Remembering Milan's 1954 Indiana State Basketball Championship " |
| Moore, Katharine | "The Rabbi and the Republic: French Jews and the Separation of Church and State, 1879-1906" *Awarded: Samuel C. Lamport Prize |
| Ngaotheppitak, Palin | "Paris Vivant: The Cultural and Intellectual Life of Paris during the German Occupation, 1940-1944" |
| Nichols, John | "Fallen Soldiers: Remembering the Centralia Tragedy of 1919" |
| Noguchi, Takuro | "'The Residue of Design' How Branch Rickey Organized the St. Louis Cardinals, 1881-1946" Advisor: Luther Spoehr |
| Pavlakis, Alexandra | "The Greek Diaspora of South Africa: The Early Beginnings to 1970" |
| Petruccelli, David | "Detectives Under the Swastika: The Organization, Actions, and Men of the German Criminal Police During the National Socialist Period" *Awarded: Distinguished Honor Thesis |
| Provan, Alexander | "Everything Connects: Harry Smith and the Anthology of American Folk Music" *Awarded: Distinguished Honor Thesis |
| Ris, Ethan | "Fighting for the Public Good: Political Economy in Rhode Island 1750-1800" Advisor: Seth Rockman |
| Rosenbloom, Alexa | "Crime New's Deal: FDR and the Federalization of Crime Policy" |
| Schermerhorn, Peter | "Competing Visions: Historic Preservation and Institutional Expansion on Providence's East Side 1937-1966" |
| Talman, Stefan | "Balkan Cities, Oriental Ghosts: The Balkan City in the Western Imagination, 1870-1930" |
| Walkerman, Sally | "A Captain's Nightmare: The Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871" *Awarded: The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award |
| Young, Edward | "Robert Moses' Long Island Sound Crossing " |
| Emily Nemens | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for an examination of the relationship between landscape painting and nationalism |
| Jamie Fleischman | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for the “‘Twice as Real…as the Peace that Followed’: Walker Percey’s Civil War" |
| Greta Pemberton | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for “Politea Americana: The Classical Influence on American Constitutions" |
| Monica Martinez | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award for “The Bracero: Mexico’s Lost Resource" |
| Rebecca Simon | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for "Farmers and Political Thinkers: A Comparison of Hesiod's Works and Days and Nate Shaw's Stories in All God's Dangers" |
| Lillian Guenther | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding for “Bohuslav Martinů and the Boston Symphony Orchestra: A Musical Collaboration, 1925-1959" |
| Hilary Falb | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding "Internalizing Iran: The Post-Mosaddegh Era Intellectuals and the Coming Revolution" |
| Takuro Noguchi | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understandingfor "Negotiating a Middle Ground" |
| Caitlin DeAngelis | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator for "Proud to Be An American: Patriotism and the American Military in Post-9/11 Popular Country Music |
| Sarah Bowman | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history |
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The David Herlihy Prize for Medieval, Renaissance, or Ancient history |
2004
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Asarnow, Jenny Ariel |
"Dirty Books and the Avant-Garde: Merlin and The Paris Olympia Press" |
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Baskin, Brian Jay |
"The Role of the Independent Press in Post-Independence Zimbabwe" |
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Bhakta, Nickhill Hitesh |
"The Silent Explosion: International Response to India's 1974 Nuclear Test" |
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Cromwell, Jesse |
"A Second Haiti?: Nineteenth Century Afro-Cuban Militancy and United States' Racial Thought" *Awarded: UCS-DOC Diversity Honors Thesis Prize |
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Dominguez, Freddy Cristobal |
"Helping a Troubled Neighbor: Spanish Involvement in the French Wars of Religion 1559-1563" |
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Eddy, Jared James |
"A Divided Profession: Theory and Practice in Ancient Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen" |
| Fidler, Alexandra Macks | "Breaking Boundaries: The Lineage and Legacy of African-American Artistic Activism" *Awarded: UCS-DOC Diversity Honors Thesis Prize |
| Goldman, Beth Ilana | "Kickers of the Noiseless Revolution" |
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Green, Ariana Carlyn |
"Poetry in Commotion: WBAI and the Black-Jewish Rift, NYC 1968 History through Radio, Radio through History" |
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Hernandez, Vivian Denise |
"To Safeguard the Health and Well-Being of the Nation's Children" A History of the National School Lunch Program |
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Johnson, Jennifer Elizabeth |
"Frantz Fanon in History: Selective Readings in the Black Power Movement and Postcolonial Studies" |
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Karwowski-Hoppel, Charles Joseph |
"Sir Robert Wilson and the Birth of British Russophobia: 1791-1832" |
| Krause, Arielle | "The Exclusionary Bar: The Genesis of Female Attorneys and their Professional Identity for Female, From 1880-1930" |
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Lew, Elizabeth |
"Reexamining Irish-Chinese Relations in America: A Study of Belleville, New Jersey 1870-1886" |
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Love, Catherine Reynolds |
"The Voice of Your Brother's Blood: Clerical Reactions to Torture During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1969-1973" |
| Marshall, Rachel Rebecca | "A Crumb of Equality": The Amendment Adding Gender to the Civil Rights Act of 1964"" |
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Phillips, Nicholas Francis |
"Training for Citizenship: Universal Military Training Legislation, 1945-1952" |
| Prasad, Sheela | "Fire in the Multiversity: The ROTC Phase-Out at Brown University, 1967-1972" Advisor: Luther Spoehr |
| Sokoloff, Aaron | "British Views of France and Germany from the Armistice to 1923" |
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Stern, Anna Pauline |
"Conservative Judaism and the Challenge of the 1950s" |
| Vanze, Judith Shaw | ""The Slender Harlem Girl" and "the Long-Legged Tigerbelle": Althea Gibson and Wilma Rudolph in the Black Press" |
| Janis T. Foo | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award | ||
| Ariana C. Green | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award | ||
| Elizabeth R. Lew | The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Award | ||
| Brian J. Baskin | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding | ||
| Gaurab Basu | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding | ||
| Jennifer E. Johnson | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding | ||
| Catherine R. Love | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding | ||
| Megan A. Maley | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding | ||
| Aaron B. Sokoloff | The Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding | ||
| Jenny A. Asarnow | The Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History for outstanding female History concentrator | ||
| Alexandra M. Fidler | Pell Medal Award for excellence in United States history | ||
| Benjamin Persons |
The Anne S. K. Brown Prize in Military History |