Robert O. Collins Prize
DonateThis prize was created by the department in 2008 to honor
the memory of Prof. Robert O. Collins, who taught African
history at UCSB from 1964 until his retirement in 1994.
In recognition of his own lifelong commitment to research
and publication, and with the support of a generous gift from
Prof. Collins' three children, the Robert O. Collins Prize is
awarded for the best first publication by a History graduate student.
Present and past recipients:
2011
Rachel Winslow, "Immigration Law and Improvised Policy in the Making of International
Adoption, 1948-1961." Journal of Policy History 24:2 (April 2012), 288-318.
2011
Jill Briggs, “’As fool-proof as possible’: Overpopulation, Colonial Demography, and the Jamaica Birth
Control League,” Global South, Fall 2010.
Jill Jensen, “From Geneva to the Americas: the International Labor Organization and Inter-American Social
Security Standards, 1936-1948,” International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 2011.
2010
Scarlett Aldebot-Green, "Changelings: Transformative Perceptions of San Jose's Street Children,
l965-l981," Journal of Urban History 37 (July 2011), 479-496.
2009
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate
Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor," Journal of
American History 95 (December 2008): 678-709.