William H. Ellison Prize
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The William H. Ellison Prize, awarded in memory of William H. Ellison, Professor of History from 1925 to 1948, recognizes the best graduate seminar paper.
Present and previous recipients (Prior to 1990, this prize was administered by the History department):
2009 Seong Hee Lim, "The 1938 Los Angeles picketing ordinace: The Bona Fide Labor Dispute and Spatial Restrictions"
2008 Andrea Gill: "Moving to Integration?: The Origins and Limits of Chicago's Gautreaux Assisted Housing" Program�
Rachel Winslow: "Immigration, Improvised Policy, and Race in the Making of International Adoption,
1948-1961"
2007 Elizabeth Tandy Shermer: "A New Phoenix Rising: The Conservative Mobilization in and Re-Envisioning of
Phoenix, AZ"
2006 Lee Goodwin: "Contestation of Power in a Northern Frontier Province of New Spain: Texas, 1807 to 1812"
2005 Leandra Ruth Zarnow
2004 Jason Dormady: "A New Jerusalem for a New Mexico: Religious Community in Post-Revolutionary Mexico"
2003 Anil Mukerjee
2002 Erin Edmonds:
Corinne Wieben: "Dare beccare alle serpi: The Political Life of Verdiana da Castelfiorentino"
2001 Matthew Sutton: "Re-envisioning Evangelicalism Through Pentecostal Eyes"
2000 Laura Nenzi: "The Province of Sagami: A Preferred Package Tour for Edo-Period Travellers"
1999 Jacob Hamblin
1998 Kenneth Osgood: "Sputnik Reconsidered: National Security and the Origins of U.S. Outer Space Policy"
1997 Michael Adamson
1996 Elizabeth DePalma Digeser: "Lactantius and Constantine's Policy of Religious Toleration"
1995 Kathryn Statler
1994 Richard Barton: "Aristocratic Experience of Anger in Medieval France, 800-1200"
1993 Douglas Lumsden: "Domine, fiat: Positive Eschatology in the Latin West during the Carolingian Period"
1992 No prize awarded
1991 Heather J. Tanner: "The Expansion of the Power and Influence of the Counts of Boulogne under Eustace II"
1990 Janet M. Pope: "Some Observations on Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Monastic Land Transactions"
1989 Jan Ryder: "Testimonio multorum: Miracles and Their Verification, England, 700-1202"
1988 Lois Lynn Huneycutt: "The Office of Queenship in the Central Middle Ages"
1987 Will Donley: "The Panamian Riots of 1964"
Sean O'Neill: "French Jesuit Missionaries' Motives for Baptism on the Frontier of 17th and 18th Century
New France"
1986 Marylou Ruud: "Episcopal Reluctance: Lanfranc's Resignation Reconsidered"
1985 Cassandra Potts: "Norman Dukes and their Nobles' Monastic Patronage before the Conquest"
1984 Kimberly daCunha: "Montenegro at the Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920"
1983 Corinne Vause: "Pope Innocent III and the Medieval Preaching Tradition"
1982 Katharin R. Mack: "The Great Thegns in Council: Aristocratic Participation in Late Saxon Government"
1981 RaGena C. DeAragon: "In Pursuit of Aristocratic Women: A Key to Success in Norman England"
1980 Rick Mayberry: "Monarchy and Provincial Governance in the Late-Saxon Kingdomï"
Robin Fleming: "A Statistical Study of the Domesday Holding of the Confessor and the Godwinesons"
1979 Stephanie Mooers: "Backers and Stabbers: Problems of Loyalty in Robert Curthose's Entourage"
Jeffrey K. Stine: "Nelson P. Lewis and the City Efficient: The Rise of the Municipal Engineer in City
Planning"
1978 Elizabeth Hodes: "Commitment to Internationalism: British and American Scientists' Response to Nazi
Policies Affecting Science, 1933-1939"
1977 John H. Culley: "Clarence H. Venner and the Development of American Corporation Law"
1976 Marc Meyer: "Women and the Tenth Century English Monastic Reform"
1975 Ronald L. Nye: "Philanthropy and Unemployment in Santa Barbara, 1930-1932"
1974 David S. Spear: "William Bonne Ame, Archbishop of Rouen (1079-1110): A Medieval Sketch"
1973 Sally Vaughn: "The Influence of Robert of Meulan in the Rise of the Anglo-Norman State"
1972 Horst M. Lorscheider: "The German Economic Penetration of the Balkans, 1871-1914
1971 Thomas K. Keefe: "The Feudal Inquests of Henry IIï"
1970 Eric Hansen: "Pierre Dubois and the Secularization Process of the Fourteenth Century"
Edwin O. Dix., Jr.: "When the World Came to Chicago: The World's Columbian Exposition, 1893"
1969 William A. Bullough: "''It is better to be a country boy': Education Responses to Urbanization in the Gilded
Age, 1876-1906"
1968 No prize awarded
1967 Anthony D. Branch: "The American Civil War and Internal French Opposition to the Second Empire"