Dewey Grantham Awards

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:

2009 Melanie Carol Erb, “The Rhetoric of Reform: Metaphors of Disease in John Howard’s The State of the Prisons,” Advisor: Professor James Epstein.

2008 Conrey Callahan; "The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Argentine Nationalist Intellectual Thought," Advisor: Professor Marshall Eakin.

2007 Gregory Roberts; "From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism's Charismatic Appeal," Advisor: Professor Bill Caferro.

2006 Ty Johannes; “The Other Side of the Prism:Explaining and Refuting the Image of a Weak and Indecisive Jimmy Carter,” Advisor: Instructor Breck Walker.

2005 Vreni Schoenenberger; “Staring at the Ground: Examining the Wider History of International Health Cooperation through the Indian Plague of 1896 and Trypanosomiasis in, 1900-1908,” Advisor: Professor Ruth Rogaski.

2004 Jonathan Michael Davis; “The Great Flood of 1937 In Louisville : a reconsideration of New Deal politics in a Southern City,” Advisor: Professor David Carlton.

2003 Two Awards: Megan Hektner; “’We Wanted to Sew Our History’: The Arpillera Movement, Motherhood, and Political Mobilization in Chile,” Advisor Professor Marshall Eakin, and, Ryan Crosswell; “In the Shade of Palmetto: Reconstruction, South Carolina , and David T. Corbin,” Advisor: Professor David Carlton.

2002 Two Awards: Sarah Fried; “Constructing the Self: Female Identity Development in the Turn-of-the-Century South,” Advisor: Professor Rebecca Plant, and, Justin Memmott; “Selective Silences: The Story of the American Press and Mein Kampf, 1933-1939,” Advisor: Professor Tom Schwartz.

2001 Two Awards: Lauren O’Neill; “Homemade: Domestic Bids and the Craft of Jimmy Carter’s Israeli-Egyptian Diplomacy,” Advisor: Professor Tom Schwartz, and, Lauren Ellis; “Preserving the Social Myth?: The United Steelworkers Strike at the Nashville Corporation in 1947,” Advisor: Professor Hugh Graham.

2000 No award given this year.

1999 Matthew Hanna; “The American Embassy: Catalyst for the 1965 Dominican Intervention,” Advisor: Professor Tom Schwartz.

1998 Andrew Hawken Hall; “The Last Days of Pirates,” Advisor: Professor Jane Landers.

1997 Two Awards: Clara J. Holloway; “’Hasten the Inevitable Day of Freedom’: The Carter Administration and Namibian Independence, 1977-1981,” Advisor: Professor Thomas Schwartz, and, Hilary D’Lacy Fey; “A Study of Heritage in Britain: From the Falklands War to Windsor Castle, ” Advisor: Professor James Epstein.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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