2012

First prize: Justine DeCamillis (2012)

“Liminal Space and Identities: The Transitional and Juxtaposition of Opposites within the Prologue, Bisclavret and Lanval of Marie de France’s Lais.”

Honorable mention: Peter Arsenault (2012)

“Poetic Liminality in the Middle Ages: The Case of Thomas Hoccleve.”

2011

First prize: Christopher Russell (2010)

“A Tale of Two Cities: How the Government Caused and Maintained Racial Inequality in Oakland, ca. 1945-1970.”

Honorable mention: Marjorie Connolly (2011)

“Anarchy to Activism: Italian Immigrant Politics During Boston’s Great Molasses Flood.”

Honorable mention: Sarah Goldstein (2012)

“Cambodian Immigration and the Cambodian Crisis Committee”

2010

First prize: Paul Kinsman

“Platonic and Pythagorean Ratios in the Formal Analysis of 15th Century Music”

Honorable mention: Vanessa De Santis

“The Emergence of a Class of Informed, Working Italian Immigrant Women in the Early Twentieth Century“

Honorable mention: Austin Powell

“Woman-As-Witch
An Analysis of Gender in Pre to Early Modern Society

2009

First prize: Eric Dorrington

“Lebanese historical memory and the perception of national identity through school textbooks“

Honorable mention: Amy Couto

“Treaty of Canandaigua: The political necessity of peace

Honorable mention: Phil Jensen

“We are history, we are legend: Perspectives of American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War