# 2021-2022 Undergraduate Prizes May 11, 2022 **Department of History Prizes** [Colton Award](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#hattiecolton) **Alan Dai**, “‘A World Without Frontiers’: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Cosmopolitan Nationalisms In East Asia, 1886-1920.” [David Herbert Donald Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#davidherbertdonald) **Alec Fischthal**, “A Nation of Strangers: Anti-Communism, Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Immigration Reform, 1952-1965.” [Department of History Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#departmentofhistorysenior) **Alec Fischthal** [Department of History Undergraduate Essay Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#departmentofhistoryundergrad) **Charlotte Johnstone**, “Too Mani Ascetic Religions! The Impact of Manichaeism on Asceticism in the 4th Century Roman Empire.” [Franklin and Eleanor Ford Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#historyfranklineleanorford) **Zelin Liu**, “‘Inter Exempla Erit’: Germania In Tacitus And Its Use By Early German Humanists” [Lillian Bell Prize in History](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#lilianbell) **Kenneth Taylor Whitsell**, “Shielding Justice: National War Crimes Prosecutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” [Philip Washburn Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#philipwashburn) **Courtney DeLong**, “Nourishing Community: Culinary Traditions’ role in Shaping Localized Black Identities in St. James Parish, Louisiana” *and* **Jasper Schoff**, “Le Bon Goût Musical: Printers, Paratexts, And Politesse In Early Modern Paris, 1532 – 1598.” [William Scott Ferguson Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#williamscottferguson) **Uday Schultz**, “Containers and Consumers: Deindustrialization, Gentrification and Urban Change in Red Hook.” [Cynthia Wight Rossano Prize in Harvard History](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#cynthiawightrossano) **Katherine Enright**, "Life and Death in Harvard's Natural History Collections" *and* **Kendrick Foster**, “‘Whatever the Form, Let Us Have It’: The Harvard Political Review in the Pre-Internet Era, 1969-1996.” **University Prizes** [Department of the Classics Prize in Ancient History](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/prizes) **Zelin Liu**, “Inter exempla erit: Germania in Tacitus and Its Use by Early German Humanists.” [Department of the Classics Prizes](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/prizes) **Zelin Liu**, class of 2022. [Captain Jonathan Fay Prize ](https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/harvard-radcliffe-institute-awards-2022-fay-prize-for-outstanding-theses) **Zelin Liu**, "Inter exempla erit: Germania in Tacitus and Its Use by Early German Humanists.” [James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Prize](https://drclas.harvard.edu/thesis-prizes) **Kendrick Foster**, “Four-Cornered Statecraft: The United States, Mexico, and Native Americans in Texian Diplomacy, 1836–1845.” [Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#newboldrhinelanderlandon) **Joseph Patrick Kester**, class of 2023 and Zelin Liu, class of 2022. [Lowell House Franklin Ford Award](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#lowellhousefranklinford) **Camden Michael Archambeau**, class of 2023. [Sally and Cresap Moore Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#sally&cresapmoore) **Noah Secondo**, Class of 2022. [Elliott and Mary Perkins Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#elliottandmaryperkins%20) **William Michael Sutton**, class of 2023. [Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies](https://advising.college.harvard.edu/star-prize-0) **Jonathan Katzman**, “A Dependent ‘Special Relationship’: Jewish American Economists and the Liberalization of the Israeli Economy.” [Selma and Lewis H. Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies ](https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/) **Hannah Mae Miller**, “Let My People Go! The Movement for Soviet Jewish Emigration’s Impact on U.S. Human Rights Policies, 1963–1975.” [Jane Coolidge and Walter Muir Whitehill Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#whitehill) **Tobias August Abrams Benn**, class of 2024. [Thomas Wood Award in Journalism ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#thomaswood) Oliver Leo Riskin-Kutz, class of 2023. [Judge Charles Wyzanski Prize ](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#charleswyzanski) **Chinaza Katherine Asiegbu**, class of 2022 **Hoopes Prizes** **David Brannon** for his project entitled “George Fitzhugh and the End of Southern Order”—supervised and nominated by Professor Drew Faust **Alan Dai** for his project entitled “‘A World without Frontiers’: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Cosmopolitan Nationalisms in East Asia, 1886–1920”—supervised and nominated by Professor Michael Szonyi **Alec Fischthal** for his project entitled “A Nation of Strangers: Anti-Communism, Anti-Discrimination, and the Politics of Immigration Reform, 1952–1965”—supervised and nominated by Dr. Aaron Bekemeyer **Jonathan Katzman** for his project entitled “A Dependent ‘Special Relationship’: Jewish American Economists and the Liberalization of the Israeli Economy”—supervised and nominated by Professor Derek Penslar **Zelin Liu** for his project entitled “Inter exempla erit: Germania in Tacitus and Its Use by Early German Humanists”—supervised and nominated by Professor Ann Blair and Professor Richard Thomas **Samuel Murray** for his project entitled “Roadblocks: Politics, Protests, and Planning in Boston’s Highway Debates, 1950–1973”—supervised and nominated by Mr. Jacob Anbinder **Todd Qiu** for his project entitled “Cowards, Brothers, Slaves: American Perceptions of Allies and Adversaries during the Korean War”—supervised and nominated by Ms. Ruodi Duan **Jasper Schoff** for his project entitled “Le Bon Goût Musical: Printers, Paratexts, and Politesse in Early Modern Paris, 1532–1598”—supervised and nominated by Professor David Armitage and Professor Alexander Rehding **Ema Schumer** for her project entitled “The Boston Police Strike of 1919: The Rise and Fall of Left-Wing Police Unionism in Interwar America”—supervised and nominated by Ms. Samantha Payne **Noah Secondo** for his project entitled “Just Sojourners? Traveling Artists, Civil Rights Activism, and U.S. National Security”—supervised and nominated by Professor Daniel Aguirre Oteiza and Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)