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.
- Adam M. Kriesberg, for "Through King Philip's Woods: Metacom's Legacy and Historical Memory in Bristol, RI" (2008)
- Aaron M. Stanton, for "The Periphery on the Vanguard: The Translantic Telegraph Cable and the West of Ireland" (2008)
- 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."
- Jenny Weissbourd for "Knowledge Saves from Suffering Health Reform and Women's Rights in the Providence Physiological Society, 1850-851" (2009)
- Linda Zang for "The Missing Men of Brown: Competing Memories of Wartime at one Northern University" (2008)
- 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."
- Zoe Brennan-Krohn "In the Nearness of Our Striving: Camphill Communities Re-Imagining Disability and Society" (2009)
- Yesenia Barragan for "Woman as Mother, Woman as Other: The Political Philosophy of Luisa Capetillo" (2008)
- 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.
- Anastasia M. Aguiar for "In Service to the State: United Nations Humanitarian Aid during the Violent Creation of Bangladesh" (2009)
- Rachel G. Hoffman for "Arendt before Politics: Judging" (2008)
- 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.”
- Hillary Taylor for "An Epidemicall disease...raigneth over the whole land: Separatist Disorder, Patriotism and the Early Royalist Press in 1640-42" (2009)
- Kenneth E. Seligson for "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" (2008)
- Jennifer E. Tarr for "Damnable driftes'? Witchcraft, Community, and Common Law in Elizabethan England" (2008)
- 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 United States history.
- Etan Newman for "For Whose Benefit? Social Control and the Construction of Providence's Dexter Asylum" (2009)
- Sara T. Damiano for "From the Shadows of the Bar: Law and Women's Legal Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Newport" (2008)
- 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 Honors thesis.
- Caroline Landau for "Brazil, Show Your Face!": AIDS, Homosexuality, and Art in Post-Dictatorship Brazil" (2009)
- Maha R. Atal for "Anglo-French Relations and Radical Politics: The Case of G.W.M. Reynolds 1835-53" (2008)
- Sara T. Damiano for "From the Shadows of the Bar: Law and Women's Legal Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Newport" (2008)
- Anna K. Hermann for "Teaching Democracy: The Implementation and Outcome of the Re-Education of German Prisoners of War in RI During World War II" (2008)
- 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)
Yegen History Department Prize for outstanding Honors thesis.
- Amir Radjy for "Three Young Patriots: LaFayette, Noailles, Segur and the fall of courtier culture in France, 1750-1789" (2009)
- Casey D. Bohlen for "Our Father, Who Art in Congress: The Political Beginnings of Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J." (2008)
- David A. Fedman for "Weighing Guilt: The Executive Committee and the Crafting of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal" (2008)
- Henry S. Hoyle for "Looking Ahead to Harbin's Prospects, How Can One Not Produce a Great Sigh? Liu Jingyan's Chinese Harbin" (2008)
- Elizabeth M. Sher for "Music Lessons: A Cultural Analysis of Leonard Bernstein and the Young People's Concerts, 1958-72" (2008)
- 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)