J. Walter Goldstein Prize for the Best Senior Honors Thesis
2025 - Taryn Dixon and Antoinette Manteau
Taryn Dixon
“Immi Ikbi Yakni Achukma: Reimagining the Boarding School Experience in the Choctaw Nation at Goodland Indian Orphanage and School”
advised by Dalen Wakeley-Smith
Antoinette Manteau
“The Construction of the 'Foreign Worker': Bureaucratic Labor Management in Interwar France”
advised by Anne Schult
2024 - Gabby Hyman
Gabby Hyman
“Defending the Blind Law: Salvation, New Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition from 1484-1512”
advised by Mark Pegg
2023 - Mia Bloss and Cecilia Wright
Mia Bloss
"Perpetuam Salvetatem: Refugee Crisis, Permanent Heresy, and Civic Identity in the Salvetat of Medieval Toulouse"
advised by Mark Pegg
Cecilia Wright
“He wore ‘a flaming red silk waistcoat’: Remembering Francis McIntosh.”
advised by Douglas Flowe
2022 - Julia Fish, Thomas Humphrey, and Kyle Melles
Julia Fish
"Shit Jurisdiction: Land and Racialized Bodies in Seward's Outhouse"
advised by Prof. Liz Borgwardt
Thomas Humphrey
"Farm, Wood, and Valley in Late Medieval Italy"
advised by Prof. Daniel Bornstein
Kyle Melles
"Emergency Powers and Detention Laws in Colonial and Independent Kenya"
advised by Prof. Tim Parsons
2021 - Hannah Langsam and Rohan Palacios
Hannah Langsam
"A 'Storm of Controversy': Anti-Abortion Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Mexico City Policy"
advised by Prof. Andrea Friedman
Rohan Palacios
"'We Kept the City Alive': Teamsters, Tenants, and the Soul of St. Louis"
advised by Prof. Douglas Flowe
2020 - Lopaka O'Connor
"Imperial Incarceration: Confinement, Exile, and Counterinsurgency in the U.S. Colonial Philippines, 1898-1913"
Advised by Profs. Elizabeth Borgwardt and Steven Hirsch
2019 - Mary Ellis, Angela He, and Madeline Linder
Mary Ellis
"Health as Human Right, Health as Commodity: Building the Postwar Welfare State in Britain and America"
Advised by Prof. Elizabeth Borgwardt
Angela He
"Indian, Mulatto, or What?” Chinese Soldiers in the American Civil War, and Changing Perceptions of Race and Identity in the Nineteenth Century"
Advised by Prof. Mark Pegg
Madeline Linder
“Cathars and Computers: A Digital History of Manuscript 609”
Advised by Prof. Mark Pegg
2018 - James Drueckhammer and Sophie Lombardo
James Drueckhammer
"'Their Word Carries More Weight Than a Government Order': Witchcraft Prosecutions and Political Offenders in Colonial Kenya"
Advised by Prof. Tim Parsons
Sophie Lombardo
"Robert Kempner and the Politics of Postwar Justice"
Advised by Prof. Anika Walke
2017 - Rahmi Salhin Elahjji
When Development Goes Wrong: The Drainage of the Marshes of Southern Iraq in Historical Perspective
Advised by Prof. Nancy Reynolds
2016 - Ruby Ritchin
“Women’s Work”: Ada Maimon and Feminist Struggle in British Mandate Palestine and Early Israel
Advised by Prof. Anika Walke
2015 - Sonya Schoenberger
Civilizing Combat: The American War in the Philippines, 1899-1902
Advised by Prof. Elizabeth Borgwardt
2014 - Benjamin Allen Misch
Nine Meals from Anarchy: Japanese Famine in the Summer of 1946
Advised by Prof. Lori Watt
2013 - Alyssa Jenifer Stein and Hannah Rae Lustman
Alyssa Jenifer Stein
From Social Reform to Urban Modernization
Advised by Prof. Maggie Garb
Hannah Rae Lustman
"Electric shock is simply something you don't go around talking about at cocktail parties”: The Fractured Political Narrative of Thomas F. Eagleton
Advised by Prof. Iver Bernstein
2012 - Jonathan Lee Kovacs and Abby Tzy-Ming Sung
Jonathan Lee Kovacs
The Life and Death of an American Town: The Hamburg Massacre of July 1876 and the Rise and Fall of African-American Political Culture in Reconstruction South Carolina
Advised by Prof. Iver Bernstein
Abby Tzy-Ming Sung
Malaria, “Development,” and Eradication Illusions: The WHO and the Global Battle against Malaria in the Twentieth Century
Advised by Prof. Jean Allman
2011 - Andrew Jeffery Collings
Our land, our jewel, our possession: Conquest, Christianization, and the Mexica inquisition of 1536-1540
Advised by Prof. Mark Pegg