History Undergraduate Awards, 2005-06

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Department Prizes:

• Fred Harvey Harrington Prize for best undergraduate thesis ($500)
  • Daniel Deacon, “The Art of Law.  Artificial Reason and Equity in Seventeenth Century English Legal Theory.”  (Prof. Johann Sommerville)
  • Honorable Mention:  Carolyn Averill, “From Remembrance to Conscience: A Study of the Goals of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum” (Prof. Rudy Koshar); and Jason Rozumalski, “Vegetable Politick:  Enlightenment and English Rural Life” (Prof Jean Lee)
• Baensch Prize for best essay on Wisconsin History ($100)  
  • Rebecca Wolfson, “The Lost City: From Pavement to Oak.”  (Prof. William Cronon)
• William F. Allen Prize for historical essay of term-paper size and scope ($200).
  
  • Carolyn Averill, “Aggiornamento:  New Solutions for a New World. St. Paul’s University Catholic Center and Changes in the Second Vatican Council during the 1960s.” (Prof. Diane Lindstrom)
  • Tricia Beckmann, “Transforming Greenbush: Urban Renewal in Madison.”  (Prof. Colleen Dunlavy)
  • Kelsey Vidaillet, “Violations of Freedom of the Press in Cuba, 1952-69.”  (Prof. Steve Stern) 
• Andrew Bergman Prize for the best undergraduate paper written for a history course.
  • David van der Linden,  “The Bitter and the Sweet:  Debating Coffee and Imagining Empire in Great Britain, 1650-1700.” ($1,000)  (Prof. Suzanne Desan)
  • Justin King, “The Challenge to Partnership: Economics, Domestic Politics, and Evolving Alliance Relationships, 1971-74.”  ($500) (Prof. Jeremi Suri)
• Mosse Prize for creativity, passionate engagement and independent critical analysis ($500)
  • Liana Prescott, “An Indefinable Identity: Creating Kokutai in Modern Japan.”  (Prof. Louise Young)

 
University Awards:

• Center for the Humanities, Sidney E. Iwanter Prize for best Senior Thesis in the Humanities ($2,000)
  • Jason Rozumalski, “Vegetable Politick:  Enlightenment and English Rural Life” (Prof Jean Lee)