Recipients for 2018–2019
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.
Julia Shatz
Christene Stratman
Christopher Lawson
Shoufu Yin
Emma Bianco and Harriet Steele
Nicole Viglini
Julia Lewandoski
Erfan Moradi
2018–2019 Proposed Honors List
Requirements for graduating with Honors in History
Highest Honors
Emily Breay
Charles Culioli
Harriet Steele
Sabrina Anne Waller
High Honors
Samuel David Aptekar
Anjali Banerjee
Emma Bianco
Jonah Buchanan
Madison Ashley Burson
Cait Cady
Charlotte Laurence
Erfan Moradi
David Thaddeus Mori
Keir John Oxford Pope
Lucas Pogue
Vilma Marjorie Ronzon Concepcion
Gongyu Zhang
Honors
Sierra Abasolo
Angelica Aguirre
Marshall Boaz Ahn
Chris Alviri
Ruby Rosebud Armstrong
Guive Assadi
Jaclyne Darlene Atoigue
Jose Andres Ayala-Artiga
Camryn Bell
Peter Birghoffer
Ronan Braun
Adrian Burnes
Kathryn Carlson
Ziqian Chen
Emily Anne Clancy
Justin Alexandre Des Rochers
Zoe Edelson
Spencer Craig Gondorf
Zachary Charles Handler
Fatima Hasanain
Theron Herd
Joseph Valentine Hernandez
Daniel Mason Hoover
Seamus Andrew Howard
Alexey Isayev
Dylan Lance Jarman
Shira Klasky-Gamer
Bryce Lennan
Meishan Liang
Richard Lim
Marcus Samuel Loiseau
Nik Lucaj
Oliver Ma
Claire Machado
Mathew Madain
Isabella Mariano
Amy Mendelsohn
Parsa Moein
Sevana Tiana Nourian
Thomas Pastis
Irma Adeline Perez
Jacob Albert Phillips
Vanessa Vijiang Qian
Katrina Reynolds
Avelina Marie Rivera
Danielle Santos
Stanley Shaw
Anna Sturla
Brooke Teasley
Brian Tsui
Dominick M. Van Cleve
Grace Vu
Phi Beta Kappa Members
2018–2019 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 Bianco
Ronan Braun
Justin Alexandre DesRochers
Zachary Charles Handler
Charlotte Laurence
Richard Lim
Nik Lucaj
Mathew Madain
Jacob Albert Phillips
Katrina Reynolds
Harriet Steele
Brian Tsui
Sabrina Anne Waller
Past Prize Recipients
2018
Graduate Seminar Paper Prize
Samuel Stubblefield
Michael I. Gurevich Prize
Jillian Forsyth & Harrison King
George Guttridge Prize
Franklin Sammons & Sarah Stoller
David Hollinger Prize
Timothy C. Wright
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize
Christopher Casey
Fred J. Martin American Political History Award
Robert Nelson
Matilda Morrison Miller Award
Brittney Nareau
Friends of Cal History Thesis Prize & Department Citation
Camille Jetta
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