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 2026 recipient: Dalton Swenson ‘26, "A War of Reform: Class and Social Relations in Britain During the Crimean War." (Advised by Professor David Petruccelli).

Awarded annually to a member of the History Department's Honors Program who, in the judgment of the Department, submits the best thesis upon a subject connected with the history of the United States.

• The 2026 recipient: Emma Coulter ‘26, "Subversives on the Small Screen: Unions, the Television Blacklist, and the Politics of Fear in 1950s America," (Advised by Professor Jennifer Miller).

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.

Not awarded in 2025 and 2026.

• The 2024 recipient: Jason Acosta Espinosa, "Hermanas en Armas!" The Women of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, 1979-1992 (Advised by Prof. Voekel)

Awarded annually for the best thesis written by a student enrolled in the History Department's Honors Program.

• The 2026 recipient: Aryeh Lesch ‘26, ""The Law is your Master": Memory, Treason, and Rule in Restoration England," (Advised by Professor Carl Estabrook).

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.

Not awarded in 2026.

• The 2025 recipient: Caleb Liu, "Creating Racial Canons: Race in the Epistemology of Modern South Africa" (Advised by: Professor Zeinstra).

This prize is awarded annually in the fall for the best honors thesis in the Social Sciences. 

• The 2024 recipient: Kaya Çolakoğlu '24, "Time, Structure, and the State in the Turkish Years of Lead (1950-1980)," advised by Professor Golnar Nikpour.
• The 2023 recipient: Emilie Lucia Bowerman '23, "The Cult of the Cross in the Hispanic Rite, fourth to eighth centuries," advised by Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin.
• The 2020 recipient: Courtney Stump '20, "'For the Public Good': Women's Political Engagement in Revolutionary-era Boston," advised by Professor Paul Musselwhite.

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 2026 recipient: John Coleman ‘26,  “The Appearance of the Confederate Flag in the Seas”: The CSS Sumter, Neutrality, and the International Dimensions of the American Civil War,” (Advised by Professor Robert Bonner).