History Undergraduates win awards

Undergraduate History Department researchers have been awarded the following 2015 Library Prizes for Undergraduate Research.Working under the supervision of Prof. Katsuya Hirano, Yiming Ha submitted the winning entry in the 2015 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research (Social Sciences) for his project: “A Clash of Perceptions: Deceit in the Ming-Japan Negotiations during the Imjin War.”Lucas Bensley, Magdalyn Schmall, and Neda Hefzi, guided by Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, submitted the winning entry for the 2015 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research (Special Collections) for the “Black Prisoners Project.”Michael Stinson, who worked under the supervision of Prof. Carla Pestana.  Michael’s paper “A Good Death” was selected as a winning entry in the 2015 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library prize)