History Department Award 2024

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

History Club Service & Leadership Award

Winner:

Cat Marshal

Freshman Seminar Prize: Best Paper in History Freshmen Seminars

Winners of the Freshman Seminar Prize

Winner:
Cole Miller, “'Justifying Hatred: Scientific Racism and Immigration in America”

Hilda Smith Prize: Best Essay/Paper Women’s History

Winners of the Smith Prize

Winners:
Kathryn Siemer (right), “'Utility, Novelty, and Elegance': War, Politics, and Women's Fashion in France and Britain, 1795-1815”

Grace Suhadolnik, “'Unsuitable for Females': Examining the 1921 Women's Football Ban in the Context of Post-War Britain”

Em Ivanov (center), “The Women of Wonderland”

Lili Alimohammadi (left), "Braids: Anarch-Feminism in Punk"

Best Digital, Public History, or Media Project Prize

Winner of the Best Digital, Public History, or Media Project Prize

Winner:

Gretchen Nieberding, "Inca Mummification and Ritual Killings (A StoryMap project)"

George B. Engberg Prize: Best History Capstone Essay, Non-U.S. History

Winner of George B. Engberg Prize

Winners:

Grace Suhadolnik, "''Unsuitable for Females': Examining the 1921 Women's Football Ban in the Context of Post-War Britain:

Ty M. Kerr, "High Caliber"

George Newberger Prize: Best Digital/Media/Public History Capstone Prize

George Newberger Prize Winner

Winner:
Jack Yungblut, “Urban Renewal in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills Neighborhood”

Emma Louise Parry Prize: Best History Capstone Essay, U.S. History

Winners:

Oliver Heitz, "Methods of Display: Science and Racism at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair"

Em Ivanon, "The Women of Wonderland"

Lenore F. McGrane Prize: Outstanding Achievement in History

Winners of the McGrane Prize

Winners:

Jack Yungblut

Joey Dietz

Dillon Jackson

Em Ivanov

Scholarship Recipients for coming 2024-2025 academic year

Daughters of the American Revolution

Liberty Davies

Jasmine Gibson Mckenzie

Ricco Hayward

Badanes Fellowship in International History

Lexi Duvall

Tyler Zimmerman

Liberty Davies

Dr Henry Winkler Scholarship in History
Seth Greco

Werner & Anne Von Rosenstiel Scholarship

Kathryn Siemer

Seasa Elam

Tanmay Srivastava

George Newburger Scholarship

Kathryn Siemer

Tanmay Srivastava

Graduate Awards

Zane Miller Prize for Best Graduate Student Research Paper

John K. Alexander Prize for Best Graduate Student Teacher or Teaching Assistant

Roger Daniels Graduate Summer Research Fellowship

Herbert Shapiro Scholarship in African American History

Niehoff Research Fellowships

Departmental Research Support Awards

Graduates in 2022

Von Rosenstiel Awardees, 2021 - 22

Taft Award Recipients