2023-2024 History Department Prize Winners
FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR FORD PRIZE
Established in 2021 by Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Emeritus, this prize is awarded for the best senior thesis in the Department of History on the history since 1500 of one or more of the countries, territories, or societies currently in Europe—including, if appropriate, their international and global role.
To: Justin Hu for: “STUDYING WITH CÉSAIRE: Caribbean Counter-Pedagogies of the Lycée Victor Schoelcher during the Third Republic, 1870-1945”
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY PRIZE (for the best total record as history concentrator by the end of the senior year).
To: William Brown whose thesis title is: “THE SYSTEM OF DEED: On the Political Philosophy of Friedrich Julius Stahl, (1802 – 1861)”
PHILIP WASHBURN PRIZE (for best thesis on historical subject).
To: Tobias Benn for: “The Princeton Consultants and the Social Sciences in the CIA, 1946-1959” and to: Sophia Charles for: “Navigating the Natural Record: Climate & Avar Migration in Sixth-to-Ninth-Century Central Eurasia”
DAVID HERBERT DONALD PRIZE (for excellence in American history).
To: Walter Goldberg whose thesis title is: “Brownstone Frontier: Race, Community Development, and the Origins of Gentrification in Central Brooklyn”
COLTON AWARD (for excellence in the preparation of a senior thesis in the Department of History).
To: Joshua Park for: “LEGITIMACY OF HISTORY: Collective Memories of the March First Movement and National Identity in South Korea, 1945–1960”
LILLIAN BELL PRIZE (for student with the best paper, including non-written material, such as: audio files and videos, on the Holocaust or other major 20th-century event involving human tragedy).
To: Julia Tellides whose thesis title is: “Defending “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” Resilience and Disempowerment in Interwar Jewish Thessaloniki”
WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON PRIZE (For best History 97 essay).*
To: Julian Giordano for the History 97P paper: “Trading Translation” and to: Mira-Rose Kingsbury Lee for the History 97P paper: “Beyond the Seventh Canoe: a Critical Examination of the Moriori Genocide"
UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE (For the best work of original historical scholarship, including non-written material, such as: audio files and videos, produced before the senior year in a history department course).*
To: Rachel Harris for the History 89J paper: “Seforim in Shanghai: The Survival of the Mir Yeshiva, 1941-1946”
CYNTHIA WIGHT ROSSANO PRIZE IN HARVARD HISTORY (for the best essay or multimedia presentation on any aspect of Harvard history).*
To: Eleanor Wikstrom for the History 2950 paper: “Making Subjects of Subjects: Harvard and the Transpacific Project of U.S. Colonial Education in the Philippines”
The Ferguson Prize (For the best History 97 essay), the Undergraduate Essay Prize (For the best work of original historical scholarship produced before the senior year in a history department course), and the Cynthia Wight Rossano Prize in Harvard History will be awarded in the fall term for papers from the previous academic year. Thus, papers from the 2023-2024 academic year will be considered in the fall of 2024.