Undergraduate Research Awards: Past Winners

Research Award Winners for 2012:

Hannah Coleman, “Clinton’s Strategic “G” Word: The United States’ Failure in Preventing the Rwandan Genocide” (first-year student award)  Abstract

Zachary Domach, “The Anglo-Norman Kingdom and Rome: William the Conqueror, Lafranc of Bec, Alexander II, and Gregory VI”  Abstract

Hyeok Kang, “Big Heads and Buddhist Demons: The Korean Military Revolution and the Northern Expeditions of 1654 and 1658”  Abstract

Research Award Winners for 2011:

Naveed Amalfard,"A Blind horse upon a Treadmill: A Document Analysis of Hammond's Mudsill Theory" (first-year student award)  Abstract

Emily Jastromb, "Facing History: Memory and Recovery in the Aftermath of Atrocity"  Abstract

Simon Mettler, "The Effects of Ballistic Missiles on International Crises"  Abstract

The judges also awarded an honorable mention to the following paper:

Katie Kamura, "The Hidden Casualties of World War II: The Struggle for Remorse, Redress, and Recognition in Japan and the United States"  Abstract

Research Award Winners for 2010:

David Elkind, “Information Warfare: Missile or Missive?”

Patrick Jamieson, “Foreign Criticisms of the 1871 Paris Commune: The Role of British and American Newspapers and Periodicals.”

Shiva Kooragayala, “American Transportation.”

Research Award Winners for 2009:

Reina Factor, “The New Book, or, Childhood's Gift: The changing view of childhood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

Presley Pizzo, “Typology of Sonority Profiles in Word-final Consonant Clusters.”

Christina Welsch, “The 'Great and Meritorious Services' of Lord Robert Clive: National identity, the East India Company, and the parliamentary enquiry of 1772-1773.”

The judges also awarded honorable mentions to two applicants:

Sarah Fell, “Redefining a National Identity: The portrayal of women in West German Cinema during Allied occupation.”

Benjamin Hein, “Adenauer's Step Dance: The precarious pursuit of rearmament prior to June 25th, 1950.”