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Departmental Honors are awarded to a
graduating history major on the basis of a high average in history
courses
and an excellent senior thesis. Only ten percent of
graduating majors may receive departmental honors.
The recipients of Departmental Honors for 2010-2011 are:
The recipients of Departmental Honors for 2009-2010 are:
The recipients of departmental honors for 2008-2009 are:
Please click on each student's name to download a PDF copy of his or her senior thesis.
The History Prizes
are award to graduating history majors with the most outstanding senior
theses. Nomination
and submission guidelines, as well as information about additional
prizes of interest to history students, can be found in the
undergraduate handbook, History at
Columbia: A Guide for Undergraduates.
Charles
A. Beard Prize
- For a senior thesis of superior distinction in any historical field and
period.
2011 Recipient: Learned Foote for his senior
thesis “Homosexual Democracy in America: Political
Ideology and Organization in the Mattachine, 1950-1954”
Chanler Historical Prize
– For the best essay submitted by a senior on a topic dealing with the history
of American civil government.
2011
Recipient:
Timothy Reuter for his senior thesis “A Star Shall Fall: Young
America and the Politics of Manifest Destiny, 1844-1861”
Albert
Marion Elsberg Prize
– For a sophomore, junior, or senior who has demonstrated excellence in modern
history.
2011 Recipient: Jordan Katz for her senior
thesis "To Judge and to be Judged": Jewish Communal Autonomy in Metz
and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Eighteenth-Century France”
Herbert
H. Lehman Prize for Excellence in History - Given to a General Studies
student with an outstanding record of accomplishment in history courses at
Columbia. Preference given to those with substantial coursework in US History.
2011 Recipient: Andrew Edwards for his senior thesis
“Bloody, Bloody Yazoo Jackson: The Crisis over Speculation and Sovereignty in
the Early Republic”
Lily Prize
- For the best senior thesis in history on a non-U.S. topic, established by
James P. Shenton in memory of his mother.
2011 Recipient: Jordan Katz
Garrett Mattingly Prize
- For a senior thesis of superior distinction in any historical field and
period.
2011 Recipient: Rachel Mark for her
senior thesis “Reputation and Reality in America's Model Town: Remembering
Racial Integration in Teaneck, NJ, 1949-1868”
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