History Department Award 2023
The History Department is proud to announce awardees of this year’s departmental awards. Many congratulations to them, and to all History students who have persevered throughout this academic year.
Undergraduate Awards
Freshman Seminar Prize
Best paper in History Freshmen Seminars:
Madison Closson, “American Antisemitism and the Ignorance of the Holocaust”
Hilda Smith Prize: Best Essay/Paper Women’s History
Winners:
Alivia Miller, “Forbidden: An Exploration of the `Abbasid Harem”
Anji Patel, “Systematic Oppression and Subordination of Hindu Women in the Caste System”
George Newberger Prize: Best History Capstone Essay, U.S. History
Winners:
Abigail Crabtree, “Grabbing the Third Rail: Lydon B. Johnson's Policy Concerning Mexico and the Alliance for Progress”
Emma Hynes, “Not Your Mother's Birth Control: A History of Cincinnati's Vasectomy Services, Inc.”
George B. Engberg Prize: Best History Capstone Essay, Non-U.S. History
Winners:
Grant Gerlinger, “Holodomor: How Media Contributed to Stalin's Coverup of the Soviet Ukranian Famine”
George Newberger Prize: Best History Capstone Essay, U.S. History
Divya Kumar: "'I don't have a good education. Should I be afraid to be treated in a hospital?': An Analysis of Informed Consent in the Cincinnati Radiation Experiments: 1960-1972
History Club Leadership Award
Greta Davis
Lenore F. McGrane Prize: Most Promising Student U.S. History
Ava Gyurcsik, Emma Hynes, and Austin NEville
Emma Louise Parry Prize: Top History Student in Any Area
Dillon Jackson, Kathryn Siemer, and Grace Suhadolnik
Scholarship Recipients for coming 2022 - 2023 academic year
Daughters of the American Revolution
Liberty Davies
Timothy Spaeth
Badanes Fellowship in International History
Truman Hutchinson
Autumn King
Grace Suhadolnik
Dr Henry Winkler Scholarship in History
John Kain
Kathryn Siemer
Werner & Anne Von Rosenstiel Scholarship
Cece Karbowsky
Tyler Zimmermann
Graduate Awards
Zane Miller Prize for Best Graduate Student Research Paper
Felicity Moran (left) and Dr. Willard Sunderland (right)
First-place:
Felicity Moran, "Chaste and Famous: Female Behavior and the Development of Professional Musicians in Renaissance Italy"
Second-place:
Reese Whitely, "The Foundations of Nuremberg: Wartime Culpability and the Struggle to Define the Crime of Aggression"
Shepherd Ellis, "Religious Conversion in the Spanish Empire: Identity Formation in Hapsburg Spain & Baroque Mexico"
Trevor Johnson , "The “Terrible Turks” Come to America: Masculinity, Orientalism, Nationalism, and Professional Wrestling in Late 19 th and Early 20 th Century America"
John K. Alexander Prize for Best Graduate Student Teacher or Teaching Assistant
Prize-winners:
Reese Whitely and Wil Morriss
Honorable Mentions:
Felicity Moran, Anna Sensel, Brittney Smith, Sophie Ospital, Nicholas Short
Roger Daniels Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
Anthony Russomano
Herbert Shapiro Scholarship in African American History
Brittney Smith
Niehoff Research Fellowships
Wil Morriss (left) and Christian O’Cull (right)
Departmental Research Support Awards
Sophie Ospital, Wil Morriss, Christian O’Cull
Graduates in 2022
Ph.D. Graduates:
Casey Huegel and Evan Johnson
MA Graduates:
Shepherd Ellis, Trevor Johnson, Felicity Moran, and Reese Whitely
Von Rosenstiel Awardees, 2021 - 22
Sophie Ospital, Reese Whitely, Shepherd Ellis, Brittney Smith, Nicholas Short, Harper Lee
Taft Award Recipients
Dissertation Fellowship 2021 - 22:
Nicholas Brown, Daniel Farrell, Kevin McPartland
Graduate Enrichment Awards:
Sophie Ospital, Harper Lee, Wil Morriss, Christian O’Cull, Anna Sensel
Grad Summer Fellowship for Summer 2022:
Alysha Federkeil
Taft Dissertation Fellowship Recipients for the coming 2022-23 academic year:
Diamond Crowder and Alysha Federkeil