Past Winners

2016

1st Place

Andrew Kelly, “Development and Dependency in Burkina Faso, 1983-2014"

2nd Place

Alexa Lindsley, “Going Old School: A Spatial Analysis of Ancient Roman Education and Its Purposes”

3rd Place

Magdalena Jachymiak, “The Unofficial Diplomat: Congressman Dan Rostenkowski’s Impact on Polish-American Relations from 1975-1990”

2015

1st Place

Joseph Filer, "Incompatible Heroes: The Absence of Communication in the Rise of Antagonism between Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Castro 1959–1963"

2nd Place

James Naughton, "Concentrated Time: The Antecedents, Implementations, and Reflections on Time in 20th Century Concentration Camps"

Honorable Mention

Shannon Koelsch, "The 'White Hand' of Healing"

2014

1st Place

Pedro Regalado, "End of Days: The Puerto Rican Riots of 1971"

2nd Place

Sarah Frank, "Legal Obscenity: American Indecency and the Hollywood Production Code"

Honorable Mention

Dan Ziemniak, "End of Days: Chicago Remembers? ...Vietnam Veterans' Memorial"

2013

1st Place

Sarah Shirey, “Child Rearing and Affection in Early Modern England"

2nd Place

Dylan LeBlanc, “‘When God Intends a Man to Work’: Seventeenth Century and the Atlantic Language of Modern Individuality”

Honorable Mention

Katie MacKendrick, “Fleet Marriage: The Vegas Wedding of the Early Modern Period”