Recipients for 2017–2018
Student prizes are selected by a faculty Honors Committee and awarded at the department's annual commencement ceremony. Prizes are supported, in part, by gifts to the Friends of Cal History Fund.
Christopher Casey
Samuel Stubblefield
Jillian Forsyth & Harrison King
Franklin Sammons & Sarah Stoller
Timothy C. Wright
Robert Nelson
Brittney Nareau
2017–2018 Proposed Honors List
Requirements for graduating with Honors in History
Highest Honors
Julia Porter Burke
Camille Margaret Jetta
Anya Marie Keller
Isabel Victoria Papadimitriou
High Honors
Anjali Mehta Banerjee
Ryan Dean Brown
Graciela Yvette Dueñas
Jeremy B Goodwin
Haley Ruth Hayashi
Madeleine Holloway
Angus Lewis
Rodrigo J Moscoso
Amanda Marie Mosler
Jeffrey R Myers
Brittney Ashley Nicole Nareau
Claire Marie Olmstead
Daniel Russell Cheung
Jenisha Sabaratnam
Andrew Sun Yang
Honors
Emma Aiyanna Auer
Jose Andres Ayala-Artiga
Ryen Bani-Hashemi
Reyna Lynn Benson
Thomas Blair Blakeslee
Melody C Carey
Emilyanne Clancy
Elise Catherine Cox
Samantha Jean Craig
Gabriella Tala Cuevas
Tianyi Dong
Ismael Ahmed Farooqui
Emilio Flamenco
Adah Forer
William Jon Gardner Jr.
Noah Hyman Gerber
Dakota Goodman
Daniel Joseph Hennessy
Caitlin J Horn
Seamus A Howard
Christopher Andrew Hulshof
Alan Jiang
Curtis Orion Jones
Lauren Taylor Kelly
Helen Grace Kirkby
Ryan Paul Kordik
Hannah Emily Korn
Jeffrey David Leach
Bethany Marie Lynch
Jonathan David Woo Morford
Abigail Catherine Murphy
Gabriella J Orellana
Aidan Galileo Frank Perricone
Tyson Joseph Nippert Pope
Alexandra Mia Ruiloba
Shirin Mikiko Sadjadpour
Lindsey Alison Schwartz
Margaret Ann Shaw
Jamie Ye Shen
Kailee Y Shimabukuro
Benjamin Kinder Sloan
Qingyang Song
Anna Wilkerson Sturla
Matthew Thacher
Krista M Thomas
Evan Joseph Vercellini
Emily Muyao Wang
Avir Lev Waxman
Austin Anthony Weinstein
John Alonzo Wilfley
Sally Wu
Ellen B Zhang
Phi Beta Kappa Members
2017–2018 Members
Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic honor society, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Election to Phi Beta Kappa is a recognition of academic achievement, especially in the acquisition of knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences.
Emma Aiyanna Auer
Ryen Bani-Hashemi
Tianyi Dong
Ismael Farooqui
Jeremy Goodwin
Daniel Joseph Hennessy
Seamus Andrew Howard
Camille Margaret Jetta
Curtis Orion Jones
Lauren Kelly
Ryan P. Kordik
Abigail Murphy
Jeffrey Myers
Margaret Ann Shaw
Jacob Tyler Stark
Emily Muyao Wang
Austin Weinstein
Past Prize Recipients
2017
Graduate Seminar Paper Prize
Benjamin Daniels
Michael I. Gurevich Prize
Emily Hoge
George Guttridge Prize
Trevor Jackson
Jason Ross Rozumalski
David Hollinger Prize
Anthony Gregory
Leo Lowenthal Memorial Prize
Sophie FitzMaurice
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize
Bathsheba Demuth
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize
Justin Germain
Michelaina Johnson
Matilda Morrison Miller Award
Henry Clay Carter
Friends of Cal History Thesis Prize & Department Citation
Ryan L. Culpeper
2016
Graduate Seminar Paper Prize
Sophie FitzMaurice
Michael I. Gurevich Prize
Michael Coates
Hillary Lynd
George Guttridge Prize
Julia Lewandoski
Ivana Mirkovic
David Hollinger Prize
Jenni Allen
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize
Sarah Hines
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize
James Bradley
Charlotte Hull
Matilda Morrison Miller Award
Erin Shoshana Faigin
Friends of Cal History Thesis Prize & Department Citation
Conner Kenneth Grubaugh
2015
Graduate Seminar Paper Prize
Sheer Ganor
Michael I. Gurevich Prize
Jesus Madrigal
Joy Emma Neumeyer
George Guttridge Prize
Sam Wetherell
Leo Lowenthal Memorial Prize
Robert Lee
David Hollinger Prize
Samantha Iyer
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize
David Beecher
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize
Michelaina Johnson
Matilda Morrison Miller Award
Bernard Remollino
Department Citation
John Williams
Friends of Cal History Thesis Prize
Luther Cenci
John Williams
2014
Graduate Seminar Paper Prize
Aaron Hall
Michael I. Gurevich Prize
Thomas Lowish
George Guttridge Prize
India Mandelkern
Tehila Sasson
David Hollinger Prize
Grahame Foreman
Robert Lee
Colin Miller Prize
Alice Main
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize
Albert Wu
Matilda Morrison Miller Award
Rachel Lynne Cadman
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize
Rachel Lynne Cadman
Matthew William Enger
Friends of Cal History Thesis Prize & Department Citation
Adrian Butler
2013
Graduate Seminar Paper Prize
Joseph Kellner
Brendan Shanahan
Michael I. Gurevich Prize
Mirjam Voerkelius
George Guttridge Prize
Robert Lee
Radhika Anita Natarajan
Leo Lowenthal Memorial Prize
Sarah Gold McBride
Colin Miller Prize
Elena Kempf
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize
Ariel Ron
Matilda Morrison Miller Award
Madeleine Seiwald
Friends of Cal History Thesis Prize & Department Citation
Amelia Lincoln