The Department of History Announces
Annual Essay Prize Awards for 2012
Dewey Grantham Award
Named for the late Professor Dewey Grantham, this award is presented to the best Honors Thesis in the History Department each year since Spring 1997. To see all of the past winners click here.
2012 Winner: Sandra Michelle Jensen, “Curiosities on the Cumberland: Early Nineteenth-Century Museums in Nashville, Tennessee,” Advisor: Catherine Molineux.
Frank A. Woods Award
Announcing the Frank A. Woods Award in History, a new undergraduate prize. Mr. James Lachs, PB '93 established this award in honor of Frank A. Woods, BA'63, LLB '66. This award will be given to a graduating senior in the College of Arts and Science who is majoring in History and has the highest grade point average.
2012 Winner: David Potter Townsend Webb
Henry Lee Swint Award
Each spring, the Department of History awards $250 to the author of the best research paper or essay in any field of history completed during the previous calendar year. This competition is open only to undergraduate history majors and excludes History honors theses. The papers must have been completed for a Vanderbilt history course during the calendar year 2011 (Spring, Summer, Fall 2011 terms).
2012 Winner: Ari Schwartz, “Black Power Leaders and the Cold War: An American Social Movement in an International Framework,” Written for History 295, “U.S. and the Cold War,” Professor Thomas A. Schwartz.
Paul K. Conkin Award
Each spring, the Department of History awards $250 to the author of the best paper in U.S. history completed during the previous calendar year. This competition is open to all undergraduate students but excludes History honors theses. The papers must have been completed for a Vanderbilt history course during the calendar year 2011 (Spring, Summer, Fall 2011 terms).
2012 Winners: Michael T. Ramsey, “History in Four Colors: Cold War Society in the World of Comic Books,” Written for History 295, “U.S. and the Cold War,” Professor Thomas A. Schwartz.
Samuel T. McSeveney Award
Each spring, the Department of History awards $250 to the author of the best research paper or essay written for a freshman history seminar (History 115F. The papers must have been completed for a Vanderbilt History 115F course during the calendar year 2011 (Spring, Summer, Fall 2011 terms). We would like to acknowledge the generosity of Jeanne Geldson Adams for funding this award over the next five years (2012-2017).
2012 Winner: Hani Nofal, “Exchange of Medical and Surgical Ideas between Islam and the West,” Written for History 115F 21, “Medicine in Islam,” Professor Wasserstein.
