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Recent Departmental Undergraduate Honors and Awards

 

Clarkson Collins Prize "for best paper dealing with the American Merchant Marine or Navy" for men in the junior or senior class.

  • Christopher S. Dwight, for “Prize Cases in the War of 1812” (2007)
  • John G. Bourne, for “Pirates and Petty Princes: American Political Economy and the Barbary States” (2007)
  • Natan Zeichner for "Identity Construction in the Maritime Atlantic World" (2006)

Gaspee Chapter DAR Prize for a "woman student who presents the best paper written as a class assignment in an American history course."

  • Laura J. Atkinson for "Structures of Deliverance and Dread: The Fallout Shelter Question in Public Debate, 1960-62” (2007)
  • Stephanie G. Clark for "The Evangelist and the Educator: The Abolitionist Philosophies of Theodore Weld and Francis Wayland” (2007)
  • Katherine E. Lamm for "Educating Citizens in a Changing America: Brown University, 1764-1860” (2007)
  • Kate L. Stoughton for "Morality and the ‘Market Revolution’: Family, Gender, Morality, and Failure in Antebellum America” (2007)
  • Kate Brandt for "The Rape of Nanjing American Discourse: From Front Page to 'Oblivion and Back Again'" (2006)
  • Cassaundra Coulter for "Art Imitating Life: Representation of Interracial Relationships in American Cinema" (2006)
  • Anya Goldstein for "U.S. Slavery: A Sexual Political Economy" (2006)
  • Suzanne Smith for "The Slavery of Their Wants" (2006)
  • Jamie Fleischman for "'Twice as Real...as the Peace that Followed': Walker Percey's Civil War" (2005)
  • Monica Martinez for "The Bracero: Mexico's Lost Resource" (2005)
  • Emily Nemens for an examination of the relationship between landscape painting and nationalism (2005)
  • Greta Pemberton for "Politea Americana: The Classical Influence on American Constitutions" (2005)
  • Sally Walkerman for "A Captain's Nightmare: The Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871" (2005)

Marjorie Harris Weiss Prize for an "outstanding undergraduate woman majoring in History"

  • Sara T. Damiano for "Law and (dis)Order in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake: the Ambiguous Status of the Single Woman” (2007)
  • Rebecca H. Jacobson for “Consumerism and Feminism: An Uneasy Relationship” (2007)
  • Mehtab Brar for "Second Generation South Asian Perspectives on Modern Arranged Marriage" (2006)
  • Dana Goldstein for her work on Paris and Modernity (2006)
  • Jennifer Lambe for her work on Modern Brazil (2006)
  • Caitlin Deangelis for "Proud to be an American: Patriotism and the American Military in Post-9/11 Popular Country Music" (2005)
  • Jessica Kremen for "Women, Infants and Medical Care in London Charitable Maternity Hospitals, 1880-1930" (2005)

Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding with an emphasis on cooperation and tolerance.

  • Thalia K. Beaty for "Postcolonial Novels as a Revision of History” (2007)
  • Christina Koningisor for "In Pursuit of Justice: Post-Conflict Resolution in Sierra Leone” (2007)
  • Karen J. Kudelko for "How They Survived: Personal Histories of Liberian Refugees” (2007)
  • Jonathan S. Sidhu for “The Legacy of 1947: Nation-State Preservation and the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots in Delhi” (2007)
  • Jeffrey A. Yoskowitz for “Creating a Kosher America: The Orthodox Union’s Program to Reclaim Kashrut, 1945-65” (2007)
  • Brain Corcoran for "Mezi zpavou a pravdou-Between Information and the Truth: Havel's Intellectual Education" (2006)
  • Justin Glavis-Bloom for "Unwitting CIA Complicity: American Media Coverage of the Iranian Coup" (2006)
  • Constantine Haghighi for "A Proper View of History: Yasukuni Shrine in East Asia" (2006)
  • Oh-Yoon Kim for "The Untouchable Authentic and the Accessible Simulation: A History of Atomic-Bomb Witness in Japan and the United States" (2006)
  • Hilary Falb for "Internalizing Iran: The Post-Mosaddegh Era Intellectuals and the Coming Revolution" (2005)
  • Lillian Guenther for "Bohuslav Martinu and the Boston Symphony Orchestra: A Musical Collaboration, 1925-1959" (2005)
  • Katharine Moore for "The Rabbi and the Republic: French Jews and the Separation of Church and State: 1879-1906" (2005)
  • Takuro Noguchi for "Negotiating a Middle Ground" (2005)
  • Rebecca Simon for "Farmers and Political Thinkers: A Comparison of Hesiod's Works and Days and Nate Shaw's Stories in All God's Dangers" (2005)

David Herlihy Prize to the “best student in Medieval or Renaissance History”

  • Lela P. Spielberg for "Veronica Franco and the Renaissance Courtesan" (2007)
  • Tara Lang for "Italian Renaissance Clothing: The New Meaning of the Phrase 'Fashion Victim'" (2006)

The Claiborne Pell Medal for excellence in U.S. history

  • Samantha M. Seeley for "That pattern of a husband, a warrior and a fine gentlemen: Maine's Revolutionary War Veterans and the Pension Program of 1829" (2007)
  • Peiling Li for "Desertion and Disunity: The North Encounters the Civil War' (2006)
  • Sarah K. Bowman for "Constructing ‘Our Second Great Historical Epoch’: The Massachusetts Historical Society during the United States Civil War" (2005)

The John Thomas Memorial Award for Best Thesis

  • Natan T. Zeichner for "Becoming a Vanguard: Student Activism and Popular Organizing in the Greater Sao Paulo Area During the Abertura Period of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship" (2007)

Outstanding Honors Thesis

  • Francesca P. Brady for “A Hundred Years of Steadfast Savoir-Faire: The First Century of Miss Porter’s School (2007)
  • Shannon M. Chow for “Greatness: Nitobe Inazo (1862-1933) and Prewar Japan” (2007)
  • Lela P. Spielberg for “She is my Baby and I Think a Great Deal of Her: Parents’ Voices in the Discussion of Mental Disability, 1903-1945” (2007)
  • Samuel Biagetti for "The Red Wine Rebellion: Louisiana, 1768" (2006)
  • Constance Choi for "Shostakovich and His Music: How We Read the Multivalent Meaning of "Red" Art" (2006)
  • Devon Dear for "Writing the Spectral State: The Poetry of Abdulhamid Suleimon Ughli Cholpon in Soviet Turkistan, 1917-1925" (2006)
  • Christopher Elias for "The Company Man: John Theodore McNaughton and the Vietnam War" (2006)
  • Dana Goldstein for "Remembering the Flaneuse: Women of French Panorama, 1830-1848" (2006)
  • Sarah K. Bowman for "Constructing 'Our Second Great Historical Epoch': The Massachusetts Historical Society During the United States Civil War" (2005)
  • David Petruccelli for "Detectives Under the Swastika: 'The Organization, Actions. and Men of the German Criminal Police During the National Socialist Period" (2005)
  • Alexander Provan for "Everything Connects: Harry Smith and the Anthology of American Folk Music" (2005)