Awards & Prizes
Eligibility requirements and application instructions are sent to current History majors through the History Undergraduate Listserv.
Honors Theses Awards (2024-2025):
- Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis
1st Place (tied) – Cecelia Fischer’s “Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rejudaization of Christianity: The German Intellectual Provenance of Jewish-Christian Encounters After the Holocaust“
1st Place (tied) – Ellen Lu’s “Laundry Swindlers & Lost Sisters: The Gendered Dimensions of Anti-Chinese Activism, 1868-1905“
- Mary Ritter Beard Award is for the best research paper dealing with the subject of History/Gender Studies in the UCLA History class
1st Place – Ellen Lu’s “Laundry Swindlers & Lost Sisters: The Gendered Dimensions of Anti-Chinese Activism, 1868-1905“
Honors Theses Awards (2023-2024):
- Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis.
1st Place – Zipeng Tang’s “Li Zubai and the Theory of a Western Christian Origin of Chinese Civilization“
- Mary Ritter Beard Award is for the best research paper dealing with the subject of History/Gender Studies in the UCLA History class.
1st Place – Jakob Johnson’s “Reframing an Epidemic and Recentering Gay Life Amid AIDS“