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Awards and Honors


University Awards

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award 

2020, Molly Brookfield / History and Women's Studies
"Watching the Girls Go By: Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980"

2019, Cyrus O'Brien / Anthropology and History
"Redeeming Imprisonment: Religion and the Development of Mass Incarceration in Florida"

2017, Oana Mateescu / Anthropology and History
"Serial Anachronism: Re-assembling Romanian Forest Commons"

2016, Austin McCoy / History
"No Radical Hangover: Progressive Economic Responses to Economic Crisis in the Midwest, 1967-1989"

2015, Davide Orsini / Anthropology and History
"Life in the Nuclear Archipelago: Cold War Technopolitics and US Nuclear Submarines in Italy"

2014, Ronit Stahl / History
"God, War, and Politics: The American Military Chaplaincy and the Making of a Multireligious Nation"

2013, Federico Helfgott / Anthropology and History
"Transformations in Labor, Land and Community: Mining and Society in Pasco, Peru, 20th C to the Present"
 

Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor Award

2022, Zoe Waldman / History

2021, Chao Ren / History

2020, Aidyn Osgood / History
            Molly Brookfield / History and Women and Gender Studies

2019, Matthew Villeneuve

2018, Salem Elzway / History
          Brittany Maugeri / History and Women's Studies

2017, Noah Blan, Emma Park

2016, Tara Dosumu Diener / Anthropology and History 
          Alyssa Penick / History     

2015, Jacqueline Antonovich

2014, Melissa A. Johnson, Jacqueline Larios

2013, Joseph Ho

2011, Ismail Alatas / Anthropology and History

2010, Jennifer Finn

 

Department Awards

Fondiler Dissertation Prize

2024, Salem Elzway
Arms of the State: A History of the Industrial Robot in Postwar America

2022, ToniAnn Treviño
Mexican Americans and the War on Narcotics: Racialized Policing Practices and Community
Responses in the Postwar Texas Borderlands

2021,  Matthew Villeneuve
"Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and American Indian Education, 1880-1930"

2020, Amanda Reid
"To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Post-Independence Jamaica"

2019, Emma Thomas
"Contested Labors: New Guinean Women and the German Colonial Indenture, 1884-1914"

2018, Sophie Hunt
"Grasping the Gulf: Conquest and Indigenous Power from Florida to Yucatan in the Age of Revolutions"

2017, Austin McCoy
"No Radical Hangover: Progressive Economic Responses to Economic Crisis in the Midwest, 1967-1989"

2016, Elizabeth Kamali
"A Felonious State of Mind: Mens Rea in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England"

2015, Ronit Stahl
 "God, War, and Politics: The American Military Chaplaincy and the Making of a Multireligious Nation"

2014, Pedro Monaville
"Decolonizing the University: Postal Politics, The Student Movement, and Global 1968 in the Congo"

2013, Joshua White
"Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean"

2012, Anne Berg
"In and Out of War: Space, Pleasure and Cinema in Hamburg, 1938-1949"

2012, Ian Campbell
"Knowledge and Power on the Kazakh Steppe, 1845-1917"

2011, Dea Boster
"Unfit for Bondage: Disability and African American Slavery in the United States 1800-1860"

2010, Alice Weinreb
"Matters of Taste: The Politics of Food and Hunger in Divided Germany 1945-1971"
 

Sidney Fine Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in History

2023, Bryan Goh, Christopher DeCou

2022, Daniel Varela Corredor, Sophie Wunderlich

2021, Emily Lamond, Zoe Waldman

2020, Ren Chao, Daniel Quick

2019, Taylor Sims, Sikandar Kumar

2018, Alexander McConnell, Brittany Maugeri 

2017, Noah Blan, Emma Park

2016, Tiggy McLaughlin, Sophia Hunt

2015, Davide Orsini, Mary Kathleen Wroblewski

2014, Melissa A. Johnson, Jacqueline Larios
 

John Williams Prize for Graduate Instructors in US History

2022, Richard Bachmann

2021, Jennifer Playstead

2020, Alexander Clayton

2019, Matthew Villeneuve

2018, Salem Elzway

2016, Alyssa Penick

2015, Jacqueline D. Antonovich