Department of History Department 2019-2020 Student 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

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