Undergraduate > Honors and Awards Recipients
2005-06
James Birdsall Weter Prize for Best History Honors Thesis:
- Nathaniel Kurz, Writing and Rewriting the Balfour Declaration: The Manchester Zionists and Chaim Weitzmann. (Advisor: Steven Zipperstein)
- Brian Brege, Artillery, Fortification, and War: Renaissance Ferrara under Alfonso I d'Este, 1505-1534. (Advisor: Paula Findlen)
Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts:
- Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Curious Memories and Tragic Cases (Advisor: Paula Findlen)
- Paul Luis Navarro, Maoism in the Andes: A Concise History of the Partido Comunista del Peru Ð Patria Roja (1960-1992) (Advisor: Herbert Klein)
John and Marjorie Hines Prize for undergraduate research in American history:
Victor McFarland
History Majors Winning Other Prizes:
- Andrew Ardinger, recipient of the J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement
- Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, recipient of the Dean's Award for Academic Accomplishment and the Wreden Prize for Book Collecting
- Eugenie Kim, recipient of the Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing
- David Lewis, recipient of the Quad Prize for Architectural History
- Camille Ricketts, recipient of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Internship
2004-05
James Birdsall Weter Prize for Best History Honors Thesis:
- Laura Godinez-Avina for her thesis entitled From la Hacienda to San Jose Ciego to San Jose Nuevo: The Formation of San Jose Piedras Blancas, Michoacan during Post-revolutionary Mexico (Advisor: Zephyr Frank)
- Amy Lisa Isaacs for her thesis entitled Secret Weapon of the Union? The Sewing Machine and Civil War America (Advisor: Joseph Corn)
Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts:
- Hal Brands for his thesis entitled Contested Visions, Shifting Images: The United States and the Emperor of Japan, 1942-1946. (Advisor: Barton Bernstein)
- Piotr Kosicki, for his thesis entitled, From Christian Democracy to Secular Spirituality: Spiritual Ideologies and the Origins of the European Community's Political Culture, 1948-1953. (Advisor: Norman Naimark)
- Daniel Rubens for his thesis entitled Debating the Policy of Slavery in the Ohio Valley, 1787-1824. (Advisor: Gavin Wright)
John and Marjorie Hines Prize for undergraduate research in American history:
Hal Brands and Dan Rubens
History Majors Winning Other Prizes:
- Piotr Kosicki, recipient of an IIE Fulbright Scholarship and the Dean's Award for Academic Achievement.
- Katharine Skolnick, recipient of the Stanford Public Interest Network Fellowship.
- Alexis Smith, recipient of the Gordon A. Craig Prize for the best freshman paper written for a History course.