Stuart Bernath Prize
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The Stuart L. Bernath Prize is awarded to the History undergraduate whose research paper is selected by the History Prizes Committee as the best paper produced in a one-quarter course..
Present and previous recipients (prizes prior to 1990 were administered by the History department):
2009 Michael Daly, "No Casa to Call Home: Mexican Industrial Workers in 1920s Chicago"
2008 Agnieszka Matysiak: "Rabi'a Through the Eyes of Scholars"
2007 Aubrey L. Boag: "They Expected the Worst, They Did Not Expect the Unthinkable: Jewish Emigration from
Germany, 1933-41"
David Wight: "Malick Sow Meets Jim Crow: African Diplomats, Route 40, the State Department,
and Civil Rights, 1961-64"
2006 Rachel Binning: "I Remember: The Shoah Foundation's Attempt to Address Poland's Complicated Past"
Alexandra Alicia Beaton
2005 Jason Scott Shattuck: "Smoking Altar, Burning Bull: Antioch's Opposition to Julian's Sacrifices"
2004 Thomas Flowers: "Rhetorical Allegiance: the 1606 English Oath of Allegiance Controversy"
2003 Nelson Richards: "The Grand Puppeteer: Tacitus's Use of Historical Figures as Rhetorical Tools in The
Annals"
2002 Courtney Salera: "Kristallnacht: What Makes Us Remember?"
2001 Michelle Hill "If You Want My Body You Must Pay For It: Prostitutes on Prostitution in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century"
2000 Jill Cramer: "Beautiful as Well as Brave" British Women and Appearance in World War II"
1999 Jennifer Atkinson: "Storm Clouds in the West: The Battle between Free Labor and Slavery in Missouri -
1819-20"
1998 Timothy A. Molloy: "'Des Bes' Friend a N----- Ever Had: Paternalism and the WPA Narratives"
1997 Brent Butler
1996 Jason Moralee: "The Cursed Stomach: Diet and the Construction of Holiness in Late Antique Syria"
1995 Marc Eagle
1994 Jim Emmons: "The Variae of Cassiodorus: Romans, Barbarians, and Accommodation in 6th Century Italy"
1993 Frank Reckard: "New Mexico, 1890-1930: Land of Four Cultures? Changing Perceptions of the Pueblo
Indians"
1992 Kathleen M. Miller: "Before the Intifada: A History of Palestinian Women's Politicization in the Twentieth
Century"
1991 Christian Peterson: "Zulu and Voortrekker: The Struggle for the Valleys of Natal"
1990 Carolyn Edwards: "Adolescence in Tudor and Stuart England"
1989 No prize awarded
1988 Elizabeth Ann McCormick: "Ann Conway"
1987 Brian Gunnarson: "Nationalism in Meiji Japan: Education, Athleticism and Baseball"
Stephanie Cooper: "Art Forgery: The Beauty and The Beast"
1986 No prize awarded
1985 Regan Rhea: "America the Vigilant"
1984 Jeff Goldstein: "Whose Land Is It? Customs and Security of Baronail Land Inheritance during the Reign of
Henry II"
1983 Jennifer Berg: "Incest: the Muted Crime"
1982 Brian Scott Whaley: "The Incompatibility of a 'Godly Society' with a Free Commonwealth, or the tug-of-war
between Order and Freedom in Seventeenth Century England"
1981 Miriam Raub: "Saint Daniel the Stylite and the Role of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity"
1980 Michael Bransfield: "Prohibitions and Jurisdictional Conflicts during the Early Years of James I's Reign"
1979 David Weeks: "The 1917 Stockholm Conference: A Socialist Peace Initiative"
1978 Beth Liss: "A Social-Legal History of the Care and Treatment of Mentally Retarded Persons in the United
States"
1977 Cynthia A. Wethe: "From the Inside Looking Out: Harassed and Harried Heretics"
1976 Leonie Van Gelder: "O how the Southwest Wind Blows! A Study of Phelips, Eliot and Pym, three leaders of
the opposition from the southwest of England
1975 Ronald S. Cohen: "The Atomic Bomb in Literature and Film"
1974 Clark Rivera: "The Quest for the True Church: Separatists and the Congregationalists, 1590-1640"
1973 Mary Suydam: "Comparisons of Mystical Thought in the Medieval West"
1972 James H. Wells
1971 Nevin C. Brown: "The Church and Slavery: The Development of Religion and Pro-Slavery Sentiment in the
Ante-bellum South"
1970 Dianne Dennis: "Theodore Roosevelt: Historian"
1969 Robert H. Plaxico: "Trade and the Northern Nguni State Systems"
1968 Stephen E. Lucas: "The Role of Rhetoric in History as Exemplified by the Oratory of Maximillen Robespierre"
1967 Charles Storke: "Expropriation of Foreign-Owned Oil Properties in Mexico"