Awards and Accomplishments
History Awards Recipients
2019 - 2020 Awards
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
2016 - 2017 Awards
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
2015 - 2016 Awards
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
2014 - 2015 Awards
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
2013 - 2014 Awards
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
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