History honors theses and course paper submissions for prizes are made by the faculty of the History Department.
Awarded annually to the major who has achieved the highest grade point average in history at the end of their senior year. For students graduating prior to June 2023, the Hazen Prize was awarded to the major who had achieved the highest grade point average in history at the end of their junior year.
The 2023 recipient for highest grade point average in history at the end of their senior year was Marc Novicoff '23.
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in American History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with United States history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2023 recipient: Jessica Chiriboga '24, "Mexicans during the 'Great Hiking Era': A Study of the Los Angeles Times' Coverage of the San Gabriel Mountains (1886-1950)"
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in Asian, African or Latin American History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with Asian, African or Latin American history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2023 recipient: Diana D'Souza '23, "Imperial Japan's Visual Propaganda in Manchukuo".
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in European History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with European history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2023 recipient: William Dougan '23, "The Voices of the Saints: Chaplains, Soldiers, and Preaching in the New Model Army"
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in Interregional or Comparative History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with a topic of interregional or comparative history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2023 recipient: Clare Downey '24, "LGBTQIA+ Migrants and Asylum Seekers before and after 1994"
Awarded annually by the Department of History to a member of the History Foreign Study Program in London who has written the best independent research paper.
The 2023 recipient: Hunter Binney '24, "The Peaceable Kingdom's Underworld: Crime, Disorder, and Instability in the Interwar Period"
The Chase Peace Prize was established at Dartmouth College by Edward M. Chase, a native of Lithuania who emigrated to the United States, settling in Manchester, New Hampshire, until his death, in 1939. A philanthropist of many causes, Mr. Chase established the Peace Prize in order to encourage careful reflection on the causes of war and the prospects for peace in the world. The Chase Peace Prize is awarded to the best senior thesis or culminating project that treats the subject of war, conflict resolution, the prospects and problems of maintaining peace, or other related topics.
Recent History majors who have won this distinguished prize:
Bryanna Entwistle '23, "After the Fall: Human Rights and US Policy Towards the Cambodian Genocide"
Ethan Klaris '20, "To Punish Them and Make Them Very Poor: Morality and Total War on the Southern Plains, 1868-1875"
Yoo Jin Chae '18, "'May This Tribunal Prevent the Crime of Silence': The Russell Tribunal on War Crimes in Vietnam, 1967"
Carson Hele '16, "The Family-Friendly Occupation: Military Dependents and American Power in Postwar Japan, 1945-1952"
Blaze Joel '15, "One People. One Nation. Two Wars: Nationalism and Memory in Croatia and the Breakup of Yugoslavia"
Louis Wheatley '14, "Matriotism: American Motherhood in Protest Against WWII, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War"
Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis dealing with Latin American or western hemispheric history.
This prize was not awarded in 2022 or 2023.
The 2021 recipient: Maryfer Mendoza '21, "Tijuana La Zona Norte, An In-Between Zone: The Evolution of Vice-Industry and Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Border," advised by Professor Annelise Orleck.
Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis upon an historical subject dealing with European studies.
The 2023 recipient: Ryan Ashby Shores '23, "'The third great scourge of the world': British Drug Cultures and Regulation, 1918-1926," advised by Professor Greenberg
Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis upon some subject connected with the history of the United States.
The 2023 recipient: Maude McCole '23, "Information lost in prescription: the rise of neoliberalism in the defense of the pharmaceutical industry," advised by Professor Moreton
Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis in Latin American history.
The 2023 recipient: Hatley Post '23, "From Dominion to Conservation: Natural Resource Management in Barbados and Bermuda, 1600-1800," advised by Professor Estabrook
Awarded annually for the best thesis written by a student enrolled in the History Department's Honors Program.
The 2023 recipient: Emilie Lucia Bowerman '23, "The Cult of the Cross in the Hispanic Rite, Fourth to Eighth centuries," advised by Professor Gaposchkin
This prize is awarded annually in the fall for the best honors thesis in the Social Sciences. Two history theses have been awarded the Rintels Prize in the past four years, 2020-2023.
The 2020 recipient: Courtney Stump '20, ""For the Public Good": Women's Political Engagement in Revolutionary-era Boston," advised by Professor Paul Musselwhite.
The 2023 receipient: Emilie Lucia Bowerman '23, "The Cult of the Cross in the Hispanic Rite: fourth to eigth centuries," advised by Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin.
Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis in non-western history.
The 2023 recipient: Natasha Raman '23, "The Influence of Sun Yat-Sen's Ideas on Foreign Investment in China's Republican Era and Beyond," advised by Professor Link
Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis dealing with a topic of interregional or comparative history.
The 2023 recipient: Sarah Engelman '23, "'We Women Judge War Differently from Men': Discourses of Pacifism and Feminism at the 1915 International Congress of Women," advised by Professor Greenberg