Three History Majors Win 2025 UCLA Library Research Prizes

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Rowan James, Robbie Hall, and Maya Mendoza have received 2025 UCLA Library Prizes for Undergraduate Research for papers written in Professor Minayo Nasiali’s capstone seminar, A Right to the City.

Rowan James – “Space, Control, and Resistance: Tlatelolco and the Postcolonial Right to the City”
First-place, International Collections category (not pictured)

Robbie Hall – “The Role of Violence on Gay Bodies in Establishing West Hollywood as a ‘Gay City’”
First-place, Library Special Collections category (left)

Maya Mendoza – “Chavez Ravine: Urban Renewal, Communism, and the Dodgers”
Second-place, Library Special Collections category (right)