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The History Department awarded student prizes for 2005-06 as follows:
The Class of 1859 History Prize for “the best thesis upon
an historical subject dealing with European studies,” to Laurel Clark
‘06 for “The Impact of Sectarianism on Catholic Women’s Activism in
Northern Ireland, 1968-1980.”
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for “the best essay dealing
with European history,” to Jenna Krumminga ‘06 for “Lucie
Varga: Interpreter of National Socialism, ‘Entraineuse’ of Lucien Febvre,
Historian Lost”
The Jones History Prize for “the best thesis upon some
subject connected with the history of the United States,” to Lindsay
Hare ‘06 for “Chicago’s Trumbull Park Homes, 1937-1950.”
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for “the best essay dealing
with United States history,” to Lisa Ding ‘08, “Union
Surgeon/Family Physician: Affirming and Challenging the Perceptions of
Confederate Enemies by the North.”
The Ray Winfield Smith Prize for “the most outstanding
thesis that deals with Asian/African cultural history,” to Claudia
Rueda ‘06 for “And My Voice Began to Be My Own: Catholic Indigenous
Women's Activism in the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas,
1960-1996.”
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for “the best essay dealing
with Non-Western history,” to Jeremy Schneider ‘07 for “Unrest
in Assam: Coolie Resistance, Government Policy and the Repeal of Act XIII.”
The Peter J. Reichard 1966 Memorial Research Award for “the
best thesis written by a student enrolled in the History Department's Honors
Program,” to Lindsay Hare ‘06 for “Chicago’s Trumbull Park
Homes, 1937-1950” (the Department also nominated Lindsay for the Jonathan B.
Rintels 1927 Prize for the best Honors thesis in the Humanities and Social
Sciences).
The Richard B. McCornack Prize for Excellence in History,
“awarded annually to the senior history major who has the highest academic
record in history of those majors admitted that year to a recognized graduate
school for further work in history,” to Claudia Rueda ‘06
(Ph.D. program in History, University of Texas-Austin).
The Charles Downer Hazen Fellowship, awarded to the junior
with the highest grade point average in History, to Jeremy Schneider
‘07.
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