The Department of History Congratulates the Class of 2022

The Department of History congratulates and bids a fond farewell to 41 History majors and minors, including seven honors thesis writers, in the Class of 2022.

2022 Honors History Students and Thesis Titles

• Benjamin Citow, To Flee, or Not to Flee: Refugees and Religious Mobility in Early Modern Tuscany (advisor: Prof. Pirillo)
• Londyn Crenshaw, Growing Gardens of Resistance: An Intergenerational and Transregional Exploration of the Struggle, Skill, and Resistance of Black Southern Farmworkers from the Antebellum Period to the Early 21st Century (advisor: Prof. Orleck)
• Grace Hammarskjold, The Question of How-to Best Design Housing for the Middle Class: Three Planners and their approaches to Urban Residential Design (advisor: Prof. Rabig)
• Katherine Hoover, The Life and Music of Emma R. Steiner: Genre, Legacy, and Canonization in American Music (advisor: Prof. Orleck)
• Maya Khanna, Reimagining Pristine Wilderness: Examining 175 Years of Genocide in America's National Parks (1848-Present) (advisor: Prof. Orleck)
• Matthew Krivan, Colonization Under the Guise of Conservation: The American Bison Society's Marginalization of American Indians at the Turn of the 20th Century (advisor: Prof. Calloway)
• Mary Winters, "These Religious Art Poems of France": The Creation of the Cloisters Museum and Medieval Memory Making in Early 20th Century America (advisor: Prof. Gaposchkin)

Class of 2022 Prize Recipients

Louis Morton Memorial Prize in American History

• Ndalaku Okolo '22, "The Legacy of the Feminist Wave Metaphor" written for Professor Julia Rabig in HIST 96.38.

Louis Morton Memorial Prize in Asian, African or Latin American History

• John Cho '22, "No Longer Voting with their Feet: The Changing Agricultural Practices of the Hmong People in Southeast Asia" written for Professor Douglas Haynes in HIST 75/ENVS 45.

Louis Morton Memorial Prize in European History

• Billy Hobbs '22, "Brews to News: The Transformation of the Coffee House in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London" written for Professor Carl Estabrook in HIST 96.03.

History Honors Thesis Prizes

Class of 1859 Prize

• Benjamin Citow '22, "To Flee, or Not to Flee: Refugees and Religious Mobility in Early Modern Tuscany," advised by Professor Diego Pirillo.

Jones History Prize

• Londyn Crenshaw '22, "Growing Gardens of Resistance: An Intergenerational and Transregional Exploration of the Struggle, Skill, and Resistance of Black Southern Farmworkers from the Antebellum Period to the Early 21st Century," advised by Professor Annelise Orleck.

Peter J. Reichard 1966 Memorial Research Award

• Maya Khanna '22, "Reimagining Pristine Wilderness: Examining 175 Years of Genocide in America's National Parks (1848-Present)," advised by Professor Annelise Orleck.

Charles T. Wood Prize

• Mary Winters '22, "'These Religious Art Poems of France': The Creation of the Cloisters Museum and Medieval Memory Making in Early 20th Century America," advised by Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin.