Awards and Winners
The Department of History has four awards that are given to graduating seniors each year, two each for the College and the School of Foreign Service.
College:
The Morris Medal goes to the best senior thesis, as chosen by a departmental committee. Recent winners were:
2011: Caitlin Shea, "John Bull's Other Island" and British Identity in an Era of Imperialism: The Reactions of the Anglo-Irish Literary Elite to the Execution of the Leaders of the Easter Rising and the Trial and Hanging of Sir Roger Casement (1916)
2010: Jonathan Cohn, Who Is Out of Line in the March of Progress? Perspectives on Religion and Industry Around the Great Exhibition of 1851
2009: J. Patrick Brown, Migrants, Miners, and Mayors: A History of Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1865-1902;
and Daniel Rendleman, From Revolution to Rebellion: George Washington as Seen by the Literary Societies of the Greater Chesapeake, 1813-1868
2008: Stephen Kenny, Rex Anglorum: The Transformative Reign of Alfred the Great and the Unification of England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
2007: Kara Flook, The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Power: Examining the Mutual Influence of the Independent Russian Press and the First Chechen War
2006: Laura Dziorny, Party Politics in the Congressional Elections of 1930
2005: Philip Marcelo, The Relationship between European Settlers and Native Americans in Turn of the Century Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia (Southern Chile and Argentina, 1890-1920)
The Foley Award goes to the senior with the highest combination of academic excellence and community service, as chosen from applicants by a departmental committee. Recent winners were:
2011: Victoria Stulgis
2010: Maya Brodziak and Jonathan Cohn
2009: Christopher Miller
2008: Nathanael Van Duzer
2007: Ruben Loyo
2006: John Sutherland
2005: Kristina Gupta
SFS:
The Davids Award goes to the best senior thesis, as chosen by a departmental committee. Recent winners were:
2011: no award
2010: Matthew Giffin, The Britain of the East: Liberalism, Darwinism, and British Perceptions of Japan, 1851-1914
2009: Anthony Piccirillo, "A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty": The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the
2008: no award
2007: Emily Curran, Félix Ireta Viveros and la Danza de los Cerdos: Corruption, Politics, and Foot-and-Mouth Disease in 1940s Mexico
2006: Kelsey Ruppel, Values of Work in Volga German Culture(s), 1850-1917
2005: Jordan White, Young Europe: Mazzini's Role in the Development of European Nationalisms
The Nevils Award goes to the best student in the field of US Diplomatic History as chosen by the faculty in that field. Recent winners were:
2011: Andrea Michelsen
2010: John Maurer
2009: Meghan O’Neill
2008: Andrew Clayton
2007: no award
2006: Patrick Scruggs and Charles Smith II
2005: Megan Kinsella
Featured Items
Upcoming Events
- Feb 16, 12:30pm-1:50pm: Ordinary Faculty Meeting
- Feb 16, 6pm-8pm: Warfare & Empire: the Evolution of Complex Societies
- Feb 17, 3:30pm-6pm: The Early Modern Origins of the Alien Tort Statute
- Feb 17, 5pm-7:30pm: The Dark Side of the Friendship of Peoples
- Feb 23, 5:30pm-9pm: Political Women in the Americas

