AWARDS AND PRIZES

Eligibility requirements and application instructions are sent to current History majors through the History Undergraduate Listserv. 

Honors Theses Awards (2020-2021):

• Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis.  The Award winner(s) will be announced at the departmental reception on Commencement Day.

1st Place - Ashley Huendo's "The Legacy of Affliction: Coping through Palo Monte and Regla de Ocha in Special Period Cuba"
2nd Place - Catherine Colson's "The Alien Red Menace: American Elites’ Promotion and Framing of Anti-Radicalism During the First Red Scare"
3rd Place - Brandon Broukhim's "The Historian’s Judgment: Robert Paxton, The Sorrow and the Pity, and the Politics of Memory of Vichy France"

• Mary Ritter Beard Award is for the best research paper dealing with the subject of History/Gender Studies in the UCLA History class.  The Award winner(s) will be announced at the departmental reception on Commencement Day.

1st Place - Elizabeth Hanczor's "A (Re)Marriage Story: A Historical Validation of the Comedy of Remarriage Subgenre"
2nd Place - Madison Elder's "Witches, Whores, and Wavering Gender Roles: German Women in the Thirty Years War"