Awards & Prizes

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

Honors Theses Awards (2023-2024):

• Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis.

1st Place – Jeff (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”