#  Five History Concentrators Win 2024-2025 Hoopes Prize 

 





June 04, 2025

 

 

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



 

 

 



 

 

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