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The History Department awarded student prizes for 2006-07 as follows:
The Class of 1859 History Prize for “the best thesis upon
an historical subject dealing with European studies,” to David
Faherty for “The Fourth Rome: Myth and Power in Mussolini’s Eternal
City.”
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for “the best essay dealing
with European history,” to Zachary Dorner for “Fear and
Flight: Morality in the Medical Print War of 1665.”
The Jones History Prize for “the best thesis upon some
subject connected with the history of the United States,” to John
Muller for “Nature, Nurture and Circumstance: The Success of
‘Sterilization for Human Betterment’ in California, 1909-1942.”
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for “the best essay dealing
with United States history,” to Ben Taylor for “’A Struggle for
the Minds of Men’: The Changing Role of Broadcast Propaganda as a Foreign
Policy Tool from 1945 to 1952.”
The Steven S. Rosenthal ‘71 Prize (formerly the Ray
Winfield Smith Prize) for “the most outstanding thesis that deals with
Asian/African cultural history”: no submissions this year.
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for “the best essay dealing
with Non-Western history,” to Jeremy Schneider for
“Evaluating Postwar Labor Movements [in Japan] through the Lens of Miike.”
The family of our late colleague, Charles Wood, generously endowed two new
student prizes. The Charles T. Wood Prize for the best
thesis in inter-regional or comparative history went to Jeremy
Schneider for “Discourses in Capitalism: Ovaltine Advertisements and
Visions of Domesticity in the British Empire During the Interwar Period.”
The Louis Morton Memorial Prize for the best essay dealing
with inter-regional or comparative history, to Jonathan Gordon
for “A Series of Betrayals: The R.A.F. and the Incorporation of Southern
Kurdistan into Iraq.”
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 Jeremy Schneider for “Discourses in Capitalism:
Ovaltine Advertisements and Visions of Domesticity in the British Empire During
the Interwar Period.” Honorable mention to John Muller for
“Nature, Nurture and Circumstance: The Success of ‘Sterilization for Human
Betterment’ in California, 1909-1942.” The Department also nominated
Jeremy Schneider 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 Jeremy Schneider
(graduate program in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford).
The Charles Downer Hazen Fellowship, awarded to the junior
with the highest grade point average in History, jointly to Jean Ellen
Cowgill and William DeKrey.
For 2006-07 the Department did not award the Salvador Allende Gossens Prize,
“awarded annually to the graduating senior who has distinguished himself or
herself in the study of Latin American or Inter-American relations and has
pursued humanitarian goals as a member of the College community.”
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