Five History Concentrators Win 2024-2025 Hoopes Prize
2024-25 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners
Cayla Coleburn for her submission entitled “Behind Bars and Beyond Brown: The NAACP’s Campaign
for Civil Rights in Criminal Courts, 1910–1964”—supervised and nominated by Professor Evelyn
Higginbotham
Shruti Gautam for her submission entitled “Eden in the Hinterlands: Nature, Leisure, and Governance at a Jim Crow New Orleans Beach”—supervised and nominated by Professor Walter Johnson
Julian Joseph Giordano for his submission entitled “Carbon Footprints: Economic and Environmental
Reckoning at the Cumberland Mine, 1974–2024”—supervised and nominated by Professor Emma
Rothschild
Kay Marie Rollins for her submission entitled “ ‘Blood and Soil and the Holy War Comes’: The Farm
Crisis and the Anti-Government Turn of the Far Right, 1977–1995”—supervised and nominated by
Professor Philip Deloria
Emily Rowe Willrich for her submission entitled “The White Man’s Road? Charley Buffalo, Richard
Henry Pratt, and the Making of Carlisle Indian Industrial School”—supervised and nominated by
Professor Jill Lepore