#  2020-2021 Undergraduate Prizes 

 





June 02, 2021

 

 

   
**Department of History Prizes**

 [Colton Award](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#hattiecolton)  
Jingyao (Lux) Zhao  
Thesis Title: “The History And Mathematics Of The Axiom Of Choice: A Story in Three Acts, 1904–2021”

 [David Herbert Donald Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#davidherbertdonald)  
Drew Mammel

 [Department of History Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#departmentofhistorysenior)  
Koji Everard *and* Frances Hisgen *and* Justin Wei

 [Department of History Undergraduate Essay Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#departmentofhistoryundergrad)  
Carissa Chen, “A Private Rebellion in a Public Bank with Millions of Assets at Stake: Hsia Pin-Fang and the Bank of China London Branch from August, 1949 to February, 1950”  
*and*  
Frances Hisgen, “Detrimental to the Public Interest: Anti-Miscegenation in 1880s-1920s British China”

 [Franklin and Eleanor Ford Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#historyfranklineleanorford)  
Alexandra Todorova, “The Evil Years: Danish Archaeology in the Grip of National Socialism, 1935-1947”

 **Lillian Bell Prize in History**  
Tamara Shamir, “No Exit: Stuck Inside Trump’s Immigration Trap”

 [Philip Washburn Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#philipwashburn)  
Koji Everard, “The Political Ecology Of Sugar: Beet Agriculture and the Limits of State Power in Interwar Hokkaido”   
*and*  
Frances Hisgen, “We Don’t Know What To Do With The Likes Of You: Racializing Britishness during the Civilian Evacuation of Hong Kong, 1939-1941”

 [William Scott Ferguson Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#williamscottferguson)  
Julie Hartman, “The CIA and Lumumba’s Assassination: Not Just About Communism”

 **College Wide Prizes**

 [Captain Jonathan Fay Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#captainjonathanfay)  
Frances Hisgen, “‘We Don’t Know What to Do with the Likes of You’: Racializing Britishness during the Civilian Evacuation of Hong Kong, 1939– 1941”

 [Cynthia Wight Rossano Prize in Harvard History](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#cynthiawightrossano)  
Sonia F. Epstein, “The Fight for Fritz, Kurt, Konrad, and Max: Memorializing German Student-Soldiers at Harvard Post-WWI”  
*and*   
Alexander Schwartz Koenig, “Internal and External Pressure: The Effects of McNamara’s Visit to Harvard, 1966”

 [Department of the Classics Prizes](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#classicsprizes)  
Justin Tseng

 [James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#drclashammond)  
Jakob Phillips Lazar, “International Fission: Atoms for Peace, Mexico, and the Creation of a Cold War International Community, 1953–1967”

 [Louis Curtis Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#louiscurtis)  
Justin Tseng

 Friends of the Harvard Department of Mathematics Prize  
Jingyao (Lux) Zhao

 [Sally and Cresap Moore Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#dunsterhousesallyanddavidmoore)  
Carissa J. Chen

 **Hoopes Prizes**

 Carissa Chen for her submission entitled “‘Though Dwelling in a Land of Freedom’: An Intergenerational Biography of Harvard Enslaved and Their Descendants in Boston, 1734–2020”—supervised and nominated by Professor Sven Beckert

 Koji Everard for his submission entitled “The Political Ecology of Sugar: Beet Agriculture and the Limits of State Power in Interwar Hokkaido”—supervised and nominated by Professor Ian Miller

 Frances Hisgen for her submission entitled “‘We Don’t Know What to Do with the Likes of You’: Racializing Britishness during the Civilian Evacuation of Hong Kong, 1939–1941”—supervised and nominated by Professor Maya Jasanoff

 Alexandra Todorova for her submission entitled “‘The Evil Years’: Danish Archaeology in the Grip of National Socialism, 1935–1947”—supervised and nominated by Professor Mary Lewis

 Garrett Walker for his submission entitled “A House Divided: The Rise of Hyperpartisanship in the House of Representatives, 1968–1989”—supervised and nominated by Professor Fredrik Logevall and Mr. Aaron Bekemeyer

 Jingyao (Lux) Zhao for her submission entitled “The History and Mathematics of the Axiom of Choice: A Story in Three Acts, 1904–1921”—supervised and nominated by Professor Ann Blair and Professor W. Hugh Woodin



 

 

 



 

 

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