Undergraduate News
Winner of the 2010 Undergraduate Essay Prize
Prize awarded May 2011
First Place
"Isaac Asimov and Foundation: The Cult of Knowledge" by Daniel Horn (Professor Ada Palmer)
Second Place
"Education of Women" by Britany Payne (Professor Katherine Engel)
Honorable Mentions
"Alexander the VI and the Conquest of the New World: the Papacy's Affect on the Caribbean," by Emily Dossman (Professor Glenn Chambers)
"Castiglione's Fight Against Effeminacy" by Travis Urban (Professor Ada Palmer)
Winner of the 2009 Undergraduate Essay Prize
Prize awarded May 2010
The History Department is pleased to announce this year's winners of the annual award for an undergraduate research paper.
First prize goes to Kevin Pesek for his paper "Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Boom or Bust," written for a 481 course directed by Felipe Hinojosa. Mr. Pesek's paper focused on the Catholic Charismatic movement within the Latin American church and used a wide variety of sources, including interviews, church documents and newspapers. This is a topic of growing interest in the history of religion and in Borderland Studies.
The co-winners for second place are Bryan Henry for "Liberation or Repressive Desublimation: Encountering Herbert Marcuse in Higher Education," written for a 481 course directed by Ada Palmer, and to Brian Bajew for "Antoine-Jean Gros's 'Napoleon Visiting the Plague-Stricken at Jaffa': The Attempted Revision of History and Construction of French Public Opinion through Propagandistic Art of the Napoleonic Campaign into Egypt," for a HIST406 course directed by Rebecca Schloss.
Winner of the 2008 Undergraduate Essay Prize
Prize awarded May 2009
The History Department is pleased to announce this year's winners of the annual award for an undergraduate research paper.
Bradley Kohler for his paper "How Do Officers Think the USAF Should Transform to Confront 21st Century Warfare?" Mr. Kohler's research was significant in that he used failed operations to highlight the need for creative links between technology and theory. Mr. Koelher wrote his paper for a HIST481 seminar with Brian Linn.
Haley Watkins for "Constructing a Sense of Place: The Portraiture of Elite Jewish Women in Colonial British America." Ms. Watkins used paintings, letters, furnishings, and generational transitions to describe the process of assimilation for an early Eighteenth Century Jewish family in New York. Ms. Watkins wrote her paper for a HIST481 seminar with Rebecca Schloss.