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“