Department of History

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 Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal

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