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History Associates Board Prize


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The History Associates Board Prize recognizes the best paper produced in the History Department's Senior Honors seminar.






Present and previous recipients:

2009 Risa Katzen, A Comparative Study of Women's Suffrage Movements in the U.S. and South Africa
          Celine Purcell, Step It Up: The Rise of Conservative Anti-Gang Legislation in California."

2008 Scott McDonald, "Working Hard for the Sovereignty: An Examination of the Role Played by Armenia in the
             Balance of Power System Between Rome and Persia"
          Gregory Brown: "A Matter of Opinion: Analysis of Western Virginian Racial Attitudes in the Antebellum                   Period"


2007 David Wight, "The Ford Administration's Role in the 1975-76 Lebanese Civil War and the Syrian Military                Intervention"


2006 Thomas Flowers
"The International Catholic Conspiracy: Catholic Politics in Elizabethan England and the                1580 Arrival of the Jesuits"

2005 Lauren Kelly Rushton
          Natalie Alexandria Xito

2004 Mike Peixoto

2003 No award

2002 Bianca Murillo, "Urban Experiences of Elite Women in Coastal West Africa, 1880-1939"

2001 Steven B. Williams, "The Man on the Spot: General Maxwell Taylor's Ambassadorship and Involvement in
                the Vietnam War"

1998 Jeff Brax, "The British War in Vietnam: Imperialism and Military Intervention, 1945-1946"