Nicholas & Lena Dumas Essay Award
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The Nicholas and Lena Dumas Essay Award in the History of Culture of the Greek People in Ancient and Medieval Times is given for the best undergraduate paper on a topic in Greek History and Culture. It was created by Nicholas and Lena Dumas to honor students in their adopted home of Santa Barbara as well as to honor their native country.
Present and previous recipients:
2009 Loren Fox, "Homeric Betrothal Customs: Do They Represent One Time or Many?"
2008 Allison Kubota, “A Historiographical Account of the Peloponnesian War: Does History Repeat Itself?”
2007 Danielle Black, “Unveiling Antigone’s Tragic Hero”
2006 Laurent Cases, "Eusebius and Reccared: The Use of Christian Philosophy at the Third Council of Toledo"
2005 Colin Whiting, "Strabo and Arrian on India: A Land Like Any Other"
2004 Jason Shattuck, “Smoking Altar, Burning Bull: Antioch’s Opposition to Julian’s Sacrifices”
2003 Mindy Mann, “Coexistence and Ethnic Tension Between Greeks and Egyptians in Ptolemaic Egypt”
2002 Jamie Elizabeth Morrow, “Aberration and Model: Two Views of Democracy"
2001 Lee Klohr Shaker, “Heralds: Ancient Conduits of Information”