Undergraduate Essay Prize

Prize awarded May 2009

The History Department is pleased to announce this year's winners of the annual award for an undergraduate research paper. 

Bradley Kohler for his paper "How Do Officers Think the USAF Should Transform to Confront 21st Century Warfare?"  Mr. Kohler's research was significant in that he used failed operations to highlight the need for creative links between technology and theory.  Mr. Koelher wrote his paper for a HIST481 seminar with Brian Linn. 

Haley Watkins for "Constructing a Sense of Place: The Portraiture of Elite Jewish Women in Colonial British America."  Ms. Watkins used paintings, letters, furnishings, and generational transitions to describe the process of assimilation for an early Eighteenth Century Jewish family in New York.  Ms. Watkins wrote her paper for a HIST481 seminar with Rebecca Schloss. 

 

Aschley Schiller

Prize awarded May 2008

Second Place: Laura Pike
Essay: Sex, Stilettos and Status: Caricatures of Postfeminism in Sex and the City
Faculty Director: Dr. Terry Anderson
Prize Award: $75

Profiting From History

Sherry Myers wins the 2005 Undergraduate History Essay Prize at Texas A&M University. Her essay (written in HIST 481: History of Gender in America) entitled "Benjamin Franklin and Republican Motherhood" was a well crafted piece of historical writing, conceptually ambitious, richly footnoted, and thoroughly researched. On Wednesday, May 10, 2006, Sherry received an award of $150, and a framed certificate. This Fall she will begin doctoral level studies in early American history at the University of Maryland. The History Department takes great pride in the academic achievements of all its students, and we especially salute Sherry Myers as one of our most outstanding undergraduate students.