2019 History Department Undergraduate Award Recipients
The Department of History is proud to announce the 2019 recipients of our annual student awards.
Mark and Linee Diem Endowed Scholarship:
Leah Warren
The Professor Effie K. Ambler Memorial Endowed Scholarship in History:
Aya Beydoun and Megan Eisenstein
Baiardi Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship:
William Weis
Sterne-Lion Research Scholarship in History:
William Weis, for "Politics and Theology through the Lens of Early Medieval Manuscripts in Vienna"
Joseph Gelinas Drouillard & Elizabeth Lesperance Annual History Award:
Adeline Walsh
F. Richard Place Endowed Memorial Award:
Kenneth Alyass, "From Crisis to Statehood: The Great Panic of 1837 and Competing Notions of Economic Development in Michigan"
Place Gateway Award:
Kyle Donahue, "The Napoleonic Enigma"
Rob Macaulay, "The Descent of Darwin"
Steven Stoddard, "Darwin's Sexual Revolution: An Analysis of the Reaction to Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man by Women"
Rolf and Jennie Johannesen Endowed Memorial Award:
Emmeline Birchall, for "The Political Power of the Oracle of Delphi"
Dr. Gerald R. Dreslinski Award:
Jackson Hoover, for "''To Stand between the Living and the Dead': Tracing Lewis Cass's Changing Views on Indian Policy, 1813 to 1830"
Faculty Undergraduate History Award:
Michaela Lewalski, for "Rhetoric and Reaction: Russia's Second Chechen War and its Place in the United States-Led Global War on Terror"
Thomas Frank Mayer-Oakes Annual Memorial Scholarship:
Undergraduates: Molly Minamyer and Catherine Gracik
Graduate: Sean O'Brien, for "Hiroko Nagata: A Manga Manifesto"
Phi Alpha Theta Inductees:
Ken Alyass, Aya Beydoun, Emmeline Birchall, Brian Bouchard, Thomas Hayes, Jackson Hoover, Matthew Mutnick, Lydia Virzi, Leah Warren
