Hisham Sharabi Graduate Student Essay Competition

In 1997-1998, the graduate students in the History Department organized what was to be the first of an annual graduate essay competition. The Hisham Sharabi Graduate Student Essay Competition is named in honor of the late Dr. Hisham Sharabi who taught undergraduate and trained graduate students at Georgetown for over 40 years. The Competition recognizes excellence in graduate writing with a small cash prize.

Papers submitted for the Award must have been completed as part of course requirements at Georgetown. Original research papers, historiographical reviews, and interpretive essays covering a wide range of regions and time periods, make up the diverse pool of entries. The entries are judged by a committee consisting of department faculty and a graduate student.

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2005

First Prize: Megan Faller, Masculinity in Crisis? Rethinking the Muse in Vienna, 1900

Honorable Mention: Okezi Otovo, Population Reform and Proletarian Babies: The Infant Hygiene Movement in Bahia, Brazil, in the Old Republic

Honorable Mention: Christina Petrides, Slavery on the Black Sea: A Survey of Interconnections

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Wyrtzen, Arab and Berber? Contesting, Constructing, and Mobilizing the Nation in Morocco and Algeria (1930-1939)

2004

First Prize: Ben Fulwider, An All-powerful Economic Weapon: Roads, Rails, and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1940-1950

Second Prize: Melissa Byrnes, Frenchmen or Foreigners? The Decolonization of Discourse on North African Immigration, 1961-1972

Third Prize: Vanesa Casanova-Fernández, Images of Europe and Africa in the Modern Spanish Imaginary: the Genesis and Evolution of Spanish Africanism 1859-1911

2003

No prizes awarded

2002

First Prize: Chris Morrison, Searching for Answers and Identity: The Creation of American Colonial Policy for the Philippines in an Age of Imperialism, 1898-1905

Second Prize: Aaron Palmer, Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor: Imperialist and Colonial Identity Among Governing Elites in South Carolina, Maryland, Barbados and Jamaica, 1763-1783

Third Prize (tie): Henri Lauzière, ‘Abd al-Salam Yasin in Moroccan Perspective: The Articulation of a Post-Salafi Islamism
Nadya Sbaiti, The Discourse On and Of Muta‘ in Contemporary Lebanon

2001

First Prize: Jeff Zalar, The Index of Forbidden Books and Catholic Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany

Second Prize: Catherine Blair, We Ourselves Have Seen Him and Served with Him': A Look at the Participants in the Pugachev Rebellion

Third Prize: Alex Merrow, All for the Truth, All for the Church': Catholic Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Germany

2000

First Prize: Simone Ameskamp, Chosen Peoples and Promised Lands - Nationalism and Religion

Second Prize: Sean Foley, Statesmen, Taxes, and Visions: The Rise of the Mahdi in the Sudan, 1881-1885

Third Prize: Not awarded

1999

First Prize: Sara Scalenghe, The Court Records of Tripoli as a Source for the History of Women and Gender in the Ottoman Empire

Second Prize: John McGinn, See No Evil, Hear No Evil: NATO Policy during the Prague Spring

Third Prize (tie): Kathryn Coughlin, Virginity in Islamic Juridical and Popular Discoruse: A Diachronic Examination
Gregory Spira, 'El Ingreso Secreto': Viceregal Entry Ceremonies and the Consolidation of Legitimate Government in (title incomplete)

1998

First Prize: Jeffrey Taffet, My Guitar Is Not for the Rich: The New Chilean Song Movement and the Politics of Culture

Second Prize: Sherry Föhr (Lehr), Continuity Without Manipulation: Junkers and Peasants in Imperial Germany

Third Prize: Natana DeLong-Bas, Crisis in the Haramayn: Religious Legitimacy or Practical Statesmanship? The Muwahhidun Conquest and the Ottoman Recovery of Mecca and Medina