University Awards
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
2020, Molly Brookfield / History and Women's Studies
"Watching the Girls Go By: Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980"
2019, Cyrus O'Brien / Anthropology and History
"Redeeming Imprisonment: Religion and the Development of Mass Incarceration in Florida"
2017, Oana Mateescu / Anthropology and History
"Serial Anachronism: Re-assembling Romanian Forest Commons"
2016, Austin McCoy / History
"No Radical Hangover: Progressive Economic Responses to Economic Crisis in the Midwest, 1967-1989"
2015, Davide Orsini / Anthropology and History
"Life in the Nuclear Archipelago: Cold War Technopolitics and US Nuclear Submarines in Italy"
2014, Ronit Stahl / History
"God, War, and Politics: The American Military Chaplaincy and the Making of a Multireligious Nation"
2013, Federico Helfgott / Anthropology and History
"Transformations in Labor, Land and Community: Mining and Society in Pasco, Peru, 20th C to the Present"
Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor Award
2022, Zoe Waldman / History
2021, Chao Ren / History
2020, Aidyn Osgood / History
Molly Brookfield / History and Women and Gender Studies
2019, Matthew Villeneuve
2018, Salem Elzway / History
Brittany Maugeri / History and Women's Studies
2017, Noah Blan, Emma Park
2016, Tara Dosumu Diener / Anthropology and History
Alyssa Penick / History
2015, Jacqueline Antonovich
2014, Melissa A. Johnson, Jacqueline Larios
2013, Joseph Ho
2011, Ismail Alatas / Anthropology and History
2010, Jennifer Finn
Department Awards
Fondiler Dissertation Prize
2024, Salem Elzway
Arms of the State: A History of the Industrial Robot in Postwar America
2022, ToniAnn Treviño
Mexican Americans and the War on Narcotics: Racialized Policing Practices and Community
Responses in the Postwar Texas Borderlands
2021, Matthew Villeneuve
"Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and American Indian Education, 1880-1930"
2020, Amanda Reid
"To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Post-Independence Jamaica"
2019, Emma Thomas
"Contested Labors: New Guinean Women and the German Colonial Indenture, 1884-1914"
2018, Sophie Hunt
"Grasping the Gulf: Conquest and Indigenous Power from Florida to Yucatan in the Age of Revolutions"
2017, Austin McCoy
"No Radical Hangover: Progressive Economic Responses to Economic Crisis in the Midwest, 1967-1989"
2016, Elizabeth Kamali
"A Felonious State of Mind: Mens Rea in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England"
2015, Ronit Stahl
"God, War, and Politics: The American Military Chaplaincy and the Making of a Multireligious Nation"
2014, Pedro Monaville
"Decolonizing the University: Postal Politics, The Student Movement, and Global 1968 in the Congo"
2013, Joshua White
"Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean"
2012, Anne Berg
"In and Out of War: Space, Pleasure and Cinema in Hamburg, 1938-1949"
2012, Ian Campbell
"Knowledge and Power on the Kazakh Steppe, 1845-1917"
2011, Dea Boster
"Unfit for Bondage: Disability and African American Slavery in the United States 1800-1860"
2010, Alice Weinreb
"Matters of Taste: The Politics of Food and Hunger in Divided Germany 1945-1971"
Sidney Fine Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in History
2023, Bryan Goh, Christopher DeCou
2022, Daniel Varela Corredor, Sophie Wunderlich
2021, Emily Lamond, Zoe Waldman
2020, Ren Chao, Daniel Quick
2019, Taylor Sims, Sikandar Kumar
2018, Alexander McConnell, Brittany Maugeri
2017, Noah Blan, Emma Park
2016, Tiggy McLaughlin, Sophia Hunt
2015, Davide Orsini, Mary Kathleen Wroblewski
2014, Melissa A. Johnson, Jacqueline Larios
John Williams Prize for Graduate Instructors in US History
2022, Richard Bachmann
2021, Jennifer Playstead
2020, Alexander Clayton
2019, Matthew Villeneuve
2018, Salem Elzway
2016, Alyssa Penick
2015, Jacqueline D. Antonovich
