Awards and Accomplishments

History Awards Recipients

2022 - 2023 Awards

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 ShihChinese 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)

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 
2021 - 2022 Awards

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

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
2020 - 2021 Awards

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
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
2018 - 2019 Awards

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

 

 

 

 

2017 - 2018 Awards

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

 

 

 

 

 

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