Awards and Accomplishments

David M. Kennedy Prize

• Baird Johnson, Perpetuating the Union: The Struggle for American Federalism (Advisors: Jonathan Gienapp and Josiah Ober)

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Baird Johnson, Perpetuating the Union: The Struggle for American Federalism (Advisors: Jonathan Gienapp and Josiah Ober)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Noah Sveiven, Model Humans: Interpreting Apes, Creating Data, 1960-1979 (Advisors: Caroline Winterer and Jessica Riskin)

Oral Communication Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation

• Luke Lamberti, Leaven in the Lump: The American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Program, 1971-1978 (Advisors: Destin Jenkins and Theresa Iker) 

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Nilou Davis, Under the Same Banner? Wages for Housework and the Contestation over ‘the Bills,’ 1972-1980

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Nilou Davis, Under the Same Banner? Wages for Housework and the Contestation over ‘the Bills,’ 1972-1980

Francisco Lopes Prize in the Humanities (Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

• Luke Lamberti, Impossible Womb: Transgender Women and the Idea of Pregnancy, 1989-1996

Stanford Award of Excellence

• Yusuf Zahurullah
• Oluwatobi Bankole 

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Sophie Callcott ('24)
• Baird Johnson ('24)
• Nilou Davis ('25)
• Zelig Dov ('25)
• Novia Liu ('25)
• Marguerite Vasy ('25)

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Stephanie Castaneda Perez, Assembling the Transnational Economy: Female Labor and the Clothing Trade in Neoliberal Mexico (Advisor: Pedro Regalado)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Krystal Navarro, Everyday Soldiers: America’s History of World War II in Video Games (Advisors: Gil-li Vardi and James T. Campbell)

Oral Communication Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation

• Julia Milani, Conduct Becoming and Unbecoming of Students: Public Discourses on Dating, Sexuality, Gender, and Consent at Stanford University, 1919-1941 (Advisors: Kathryn Olivarius and Caroline Winterer)

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Jasmine Shih, Chinese Porcelain in the European Civilizing Process

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Mátyás Kisiday, The Officer Next Door: The Political Police and Social Contacts in Socialist Hungary, 1961-1969

Francisco Lopes Prize in the Humanities (Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

• Julia Milani, Conduct Becoming and Unbecoming of Students: Public Discourses on Dating, Sexuality, Gender, and Consent at Stanford University, 1919-1941 (Advisors:  Kathryn Olivarius and Caroline Winterer)

Josephine Baker Undergraduate Honors Thesis Prize (France-Stanford Center)

• Jessica Femenias, Ecology, Ecstasy, History, and the Haitian Revolution (Advisors:  Zephyr Frank and Mikael Wolfe)

Exceptional Achievement Award (Black Community Services Center)

• Kene Nzelu

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Shannon Gifford
• Kyra Jasper
• Julia Milani
• Jevan Yu

Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association

• Stephanie Castaneda Perez

Community Impact Fellowship (Haas Center for Public Service)

• Scarleth Contreras

Marshall Scholarship (United Kingdom)

• Kyra Jasper

Fulbright Grant (Dominican Republic)

• Jessica Femenias 

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Hagar Gal, Aswim in a Sea of Poppies: Opium Challenges the English Empire, 1827-1910 (Advisors: Thomas S. Mullaney and Priya Satia)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Arman Kassam, Man on the Moon: John Wilkins's Lunar Fascination and its Anthropocentric Futures, 1630-1650 (Advisors: Paula Findlen and David Como)

Oral Communication Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation

• Hagar Gal, Aswim in a Sea of Poppies: Opium Challenges the English Empire, 1827-1910 (Advisors: Thomas S. Mullaney and Priya Satia)

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Daniel Travassos Ferreira, The Making of Branner’s Geological Map of Brazil (1919)

J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement

• Brian Grenadier

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Arman Kassam, 'Another Habitable World': John Wilkins’s Geographical Inspiration for The Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)

The Donald and Robin Kennedy Undergraduate Award (Jewish Studies)

• Hagar Gal, Aswim in a Sea of Poppies: Opium Challenges the English Empire, 1827-1910 (Advisors: Thomas S. Mullaney and Priya Satia)

James W. Lyons Award for Service

• Josiah Rodriguez

Haas Center for Public Service Walk the Talk Service Leadership Award

• Henry Liera

Julie Kennedy Public Service Scholarship

• Josiah Rodriguez

Black Community Services Center Superior Achievement Award

• Kene Nzelu

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Carolyn Chun
• Hagar Gal
• Brian Grenadier
• Arman Kassam
• Jevan Yu

Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association

• Alexander Bhatt
• Arman Kassam
• Henry Liera
• Josiah Rodriguez
• Elizabeth Spaeth

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Peter Thomas, Aristotelianism and English Political Thought: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Advisors: David Como and Laura Stokes)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Ayesha Pasha,  “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of Heaven”: The Second Great Awakening and the Transformation of Slave Religion in Virginia, 1790-1840 (Advisors: Kathryn Olivarius and Kathryn Gin Lum)

Oral Communication Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation

• Ayesha Pasha, “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of Heaven”: The Second Great Awakening and the Transformation of Slave Religion in Virginia, 1790-1840 (Advisors: Kathryn Olivarius and Kathryn Gin Lum)

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Arjan Walia,  “Like Coming Out All Over Again”: Challenges to Racial Exclusion in San Francisco’s Gay Male Community, 1970-1985

J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement

• Peter Thomas
• Ayesha Pasha

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Elizabeth Lindqwister, “Tabernacle of Flesh”: Traversing and Transcending Death and Gender in the Life of the Public Universal Friend, 1776-1819

History Majors Winning National/International Awards

• Ziyi Wang, Rhodes Scholarship (BA ’20)
• Jiyoung Jeong, Fulbright Award
• Jessica Kate Yeager, Fulbright Award
• Erin Wenokur, Fulbright Award

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Ayesha Pasha
• Brian Grenadier
• Arman Kassam
• Fiona Henderson
• King Jemison
• Jiyoung Jeong
• Clara Romani
• Stephanie Shim
• Peter Thomas
• Erin Wenokur

Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association

• Sarah Engs
• Fiona Henderson
• Jiyoung Jeong
• Emilia Porubcin
• Indy Sobol
• Daniel Wu

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Lily Foulkes, Queer Deviancy, Undesirable Caribbean Refugees, and the Rise of Carceral Immigration Detention. (Advisors: Ana Minian and Estelle Freedman)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Berber Jin, George Padmore’s African Revolution: Reviving Marxism-Leninism in the 20th Century Pan-African Tradition. (Advisors: James Campbell and Priya Satia)
• Ben Maldonado, Perfect Marriage, Perfect Race: Eugenic Prescriptions in American Marriage Manuals, 1900-1945. (Advisors: Estelle Freedman and Jennifer Burns)

Oral Communication Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation

• Clara Romani, Secrecy, Subversion, and the Second Sex: Women’s Networks in the Mid-Thirteenth Century Cathar Languedoc. (Advisors: Rowan Dorin and Fiona Griffiths)

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Emily Wilder, “Anything But God’s Children”: The Nonviolent Resistance of Birmingham’s Child Crusaders.

Carl N. Degler Prize (Herodotus)

• Berber Jin, George Padmore's African Revolution: Reviving Marxist-Leninism in the Pan-African Tradition

Donald and Robin Kennedy Undergraduate Award (Jewish Studies)

• Anat Peled, Creating the Kibbutz Family in the 1920s: Between Revolution and Tradition. (Advisors: Norman Naimark and Mark Mancall)

Geballe Prize for Writing (Cantor Arts Center)

• Arman Kassam, Of Watery Words and Hidden Meanings: Thinking of a Safavid Magic Bowl as an Object of Mimesis and Innovation.

J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement

• Ravi Veriah Jacques

The Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement

• Ravi Veriah Jacques

History Majors Winning Awards and Scholarships for Further Research/Study

• Anat Peled, Rhodes Scholarship
• Ravi Veriah Jacques, Schwarzman Scholarship
• Melodie Liu, Yenching Scholarship
• Berber Jin, Yenching Scholarship
• Clara Romani, Fulbright Award
• Sofia Patiño-Duque, Fulbright Award
• Eva Borgwardt, Harry S. Truman Scholarship

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Chapman Caddell
• Ayesha Pasha
• Won Ji Jung
• Melodie Liu
• Zoe Mahony
• Ravi Veriah Jacques

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Aron Rameirez, There Goes the Neighborhood? Civic Identity and the Making of the Mexican Beverly Hills, 1981-1998  (Advisors:  Gordon Chang and Al Camarillo)

David M. Kennedy Thesis Prize

• Aron Ramierez,  There Goes the Neighborhood? Civic Identity and the Making of the Mexican Beverly Hills, 1981-1998  (Advisors:  Gordon Chang and Al Camarillo)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Patrick Donovan, Between People and Property: John Kelly’s Tammany Hall and the Fight for Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York  (Advisors:  Richard White and James Campbell)

Carl N. Degler Prize (Herodotus)

• Azucena Marquez, Ambivalent Empowerment and a Shift in Bias: Women's Legal Education and Employment in the United States, 1960s-2000s

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Alexander Veitch, The Imagined Menagerie: Taming the Cistercian Conversi with the Latin

Raymond J. Cunningham Prize

• Lena Geiger, "The Right to Participate and the Right to Compete: Stanford Women’s Athletics, 1956-1995,"  (Advisor: Estelle Freedman)

History Majors Winning Awards and Scholarships for Further Research/Study

• Allison Emgee, Fulbright Award
• Aron Rameirez, Beinecke Scholarship and Ford Foundation Fellowship
• Lena Zlock, Ertegun Graduate Scholarship, Osford

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Griffin Bovée
• Rebecca Cheng
• Alexis Rochat

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Heath Michael Rojas,  The Power of the Executive: Redefining Monachial Authority in the First Three Years of the French Revolution. (Advisors: Keith Baker and Dan Edelstein)

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Nicholas John Burns, The Politics of Reform and the Redemption of Athens: George Grote's Theory of Popular Conservatism. (Advisors: Jessica Riskin and Josiah Ober)

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Lena Catherine Giger, The Right to Participate and the Right to Compete: Stanford Women's Athleticsm 1956-1995.

Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association

• Jessie Mei Dalman
• Meridith Brook Shield

J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement

• Zachary Samuel Brown

Hume Humanities Honors Fellows

• Nicholas John Burns

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Lena Catherine Giger

Raymond J. Cunningham Prize

• Heath Rojas, "A Model of Revolutionary Regicide: The Role of Seventeenth-Century English History in the Trial of King Louis XVI," (Advisor: Keith Baker)

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Ryanne Kathryn Bamieh
• Zachary Samuel Brown
• Nicholas John Burns
• Madeline Kyung-Hee Chang
• Heath Michael Rojas
• Naomi Simone Subotnick

History Majors Winning Other Prizes

• Madeline Kyung-Hee Chang, 2018 Rhodes Scholar
• Lena Catherine Giger, First-Team All-American Honors in Track and Field and PAC12  All-Academic Honors
• Marjorie Allison Lee, Pac-12 NCAA National Championship Women's Soccer Team; Wake Forest University of Business Corporate Fellowship for 2018 Master of Management Program.Academic Recognition Award.
• Raghav Mehrota, 2017-2018 College Squash Association.
• Ziyi Wang, 2018 Rhodes Scholar

Hume Humanities Honors Fellows

• Holly Dayton
• Michael Gioia
• Alina Utrata

Beyers Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing from the Stanford Historical Society

• Holly Dayton

Carl N. Degler Prize

• Nathan Hausman, Palestinian Resistance to Iraq's Occupation of Kuwait: A Reconsideration of Palestinian Collaboration with the Ba'ath Party.

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Holly Dayton, "The Bad Theater" of the Great War: A Cultural History of Performance on the West End during the First World War. (Advisor: Priya Satia)

Jerry Anderson Prize for Best History Undergraduate Research Paper

• Nathan Hausman, Palestinian Resistance to Iraq's Occupation of Kuwait: A Reconsideration of Palestinian Collaboration with the Ba'ath Party. 

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Michael Gioia, The Revolutionary Priest: An Intellectual Biography of Claude Fauchet. (Advisor: Keith Baker)

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Roger Cain
• Ken-Ben Chao
• Holly Dayton
• Michael Gioia
• Arthur Iula
• Daniel Ruprecht
• Viet-Co Tran

Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association

• Ramah Awad
• Julia Laurence
• Lilia Popova
• Viet-Co Tran

History Majors Winning Other Prizes

• Sophia Chase, U.S Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Honors, MPSF All-Academic Honors, PAC-12 Cross-Country All-Academic First Team, Stanford Athletic Department Honor Roll
• Elizabeth Cusick, MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete and Second Team for Lacrosse
• Holly Dayton, Eleanor Prosser Prize for Excellence in Scholarship from Theater and Performance Studies
• Lilia Popova, Cap and Gown Leader Award
• Viet-Co Tran, Special Achievement Undergraduate Award by the Asian American Community
• Alina Utrata, Marshall Scholarship

Hume Humanities Honors Fellows

• Emily Frantz
• Sarah Sadlier
• Eve Simister

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Michael Henry Ishitani, The Last American Aristocracy: Alexander Addison and the Culture of Judicial Power in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania.  (Advisor: Jack Rakove)

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Rory Houghton-Berry, The Ideal Medieval State?  Examining Norman England and its Relations with the Papacy During the Investiture Controversy.  (Advisor: Fiona Griffiths)
• Soo Ji Lee, Photographing for Change: Reinterpreting Bob Fitch's Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement and United Farm Workers Movement.  (Advisor: Ana Minian)

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Jennifer Allison
• Abigal Dow
• Michael Henry Ishitani
• Melanie Langa
• Sarah Sadlier
• Eve Simister
• Hannah Smith
• Chuan Xu
• Lowry Yankwich

History Majors Winning Other Prizes

• Cameron Miller, Pac-12 All Academic First Time
• Melissa Diaz, Arturo J. Islas Prize and Fulbright Scholarship for 2016-17
• Beatrice Garrard, Carl N. Degler Prize; Grand Prize in the Taube Center Undergraduate Short Story Contest; Amy Levy Prize, and Fulbright Scholarship 2016-17
• Alexa Liautaud, Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Internship Award from the Department of Communications
• Destiny Lopez, John Gardner Public Service Fellowship from the Haas Center
• Sarah Sadlier, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo Prize, Stanford Award of Excellence, Stanford Outstanding Achievement Award, and James W. Lyons Award for Service
• Hannah Smith, All-Academic Selection for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Neel Thakkar, "All the World in my Hut": Colonial Broadcasting, Ideologies of Rule, and the Making of a Listening Public in Northern Rhodesia, 1935-1963.  (Advisor: Priya Satia)

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Pearle Lun, Being Matteo Ricci: Secular & Spiritual Pathways of a Jesuit in China.

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Dina Hassan, "The Canary Looks at the Crow": Hikida Yasuichi and Japanese Interest in Afro-America during the Second World War.  (Advisor: Jun Uchida)

J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement

• Benjamin Mercer-Golden
• Jason Willick

The Boothe Prize for Outstanding Expository and Argumentative Writing

• Jacob Sonnenberg, Legend and Legacy: A Rhetorical History of Lewis and Clark. 

Pi Sigma Alpha Essay Award

• Benjamin Mercer-Golden, Revisiting the Iraq War, the Surge and the Rise of ISIS: Time for a Reassessment of American Power?

Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award

• Sarah Sadlier

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo Prize

• Valerie Stevens, A Love Triangle: Race, Sexuality, and Leprosy on Molokai.

Crossfield, Black, and Coley Award for Exceptional Academic Achievement

• Magali Duque
• Dina Hassan

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Olivia Bryant
• Vincent Paul Carroll
• Nina Foushee
• Dina Hassan
• Luisa Hulsroj
• Gerar Mazarakis
• Cole Manley
• Jacob Sonnenberg
• Neel Thakkar

Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association

• Jeffrey Abidor
• Madison Donatoni
• Lauren Miller
• Jacob Sonnenberg
• Rachel Waltman

History Majors Winning Other Prizes

• Paul Carroll, Terman Award for Excellence in Engineering; inducted to Tau Beta Pi
• Madison Donatoni, Haas Center Walk the Talk Leadership Award
• Benjamin Mercer-Golden, Stanford Historical Society Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing
• Lauren Miller, inducted to the National Pi Sigma Alpha Honors Society
• Neel Thakkar, Hume Honors Fellowship
• Rachel Waltman, Fulbright Award for 2015-16

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts

• Andrew Aguilar, Un Mal Nécessaire: Secular Interventions in French Islam, 1980-2013.  (Advisor: Joel Beinin)
• Laura Groenendaal, Islands of Capital: The Qualifying Zones in Jordan. (Advisor: Joel Beinin)

Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

• Keegan Boyar, Fanatics or Freedom Fighters? The Tomochic Rebellion in the Porfirian Press.
• Meredith Wheeler, Moral Citizens: Coeducational Transformation at Stanford.

Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

• Elle Stuart, The Polar Bear in the Room: The Role of Institutions in the Changing Arctic.  (Honors thesis in International Security Studies) 

James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding History Honors Thesis

• Jeremy Schreier, How Can We Sing the Song of the Lord in a Foreign Land?  Jewish Music and Identity in the Life and Work of Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630).  (Advisor: Paula Findlen)

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

• Andrew Aguilar
• Keegan Boyar
• Keshav Dimri
• Meredith Wheeler

History Majors Winning Other Prizes

• Andrew Aguilar, Hume Humanities Honors Fellowship and El Centro Chicano Academic Achievement Award
• Hilary Anderson, Stanford Award of Excellence by the Stanford Alumni Association
• Julia Barrero, Order of Omega’s President’s Award
• Hope Burke, Sheryl Johnson Academic Excellence Award; NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship; Capital One All-District Academic First Team; and Kennell Jackson Research Award in the Program of African American Studies
• Megan McKoy, Harold K. Boyd Student Leadership Award; the African-American Fraternal Sororal President’s Award; the Crossfield, Black, Coley Award for Exceptional Academic Achievement; the Donald and Robin Kennedy Award of Jewish Studies
• Lawrence Neil, Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts for the field of Creative Writing
• Jeremy Schreier, Taube Center for Jewish Studies Award of Best Undergraduate Thesis
• Meredith Wheeler, Rhodes Scholarship
• Cameron Wilson, NCAA Men’s Golf Individual Title