Scholarship & Prize Winners

Awarded in 2010-2011

Hedley Donovan Scholarship

Andrew Larkin (2011-2012) “Franco-Cameroonian Economic Cooperation”
Maria May (2011-2012) “Artists and Dissidents’ Lives after the October 1956 Hungarian Revolt”
Joseph Whitson (2011-2012) "Appalachian Music and folklore”

Norman Moen Scholarship

Talle Family Merit Scholarship for Excellence in History

Class of 1889 Memorial Prize

Kimberly Scriver (2011-2012) “Preserving Patriarchy: Young Women of the South and the American Civil War"

George D. Green American History Research Prize

Kya Marienfeld (2010-2011) “ ‘Dr. Seuss vs. Daddy:’—The National Implications of a Small-Town Conflict Between Logging and The Lorax.’ “

Howard Reinmuth Prize in European History

Hedley Donovan Scholarship

Yuridia Ramírez (2010-2011) “Centennial to Bicentennial: One Hundred Years of Mexican Press Coverage”
LaReina Adams (2009-2010) “Family and Gender in Ancient Rome”
Jessica Hobson (2009-2010) “The Hermit Kingdom’s Children: Korea’s Role in Shaping U.S. Nationalism”
Paige Patchin (2009-2010) “The ‘Cocalero’ Movement in Feminist-Environmentalist Terms”
Chelsie McGuire (2008-2009) “Privateers in the American Revolution
Rowan Morbey (2008-2009) “A Challenge to Non-Intervention: Dukhovskoi and his Assessment of Islam in 19th Century Turkestan
Jennifer Stiles (2008-2009) “Placed-Out in Clinton County”
Bonnie Bigalke (2007-2008) "Hazel Grace"
Kevin Malloy (2007-2008) "Siege of Beziers"
Emma O'Brien (2007-2008) "The Historical/Cultural Geography of Twin Cities Hip Hop"
Stephanie Cox (2006-2007) "A Historical Look into the Challenges Facing Native Tribes Seeking Federal Acknowledgement"
Amanda Dlouhy (2006-2007) "Immigration, Housing, and Urban Change in the Twin Cities"
Maria Moncur (2006-2007) "Who Burned the White House Down"
Andrew Dach (2005-2006)"A Philosophe at Versailles : Quesnay and the Court of Louis XV"
Lisa Lillie (2005-2006)"Teaching Across Continents: Proposed Plan of Study"
Mercedes Tuma-Hansen (2005-2006) "Historical Re-enactment as Public History"

Norman Moen Scholarship

Talle Family Merit Scholarship for Excellence in History

Class of 1889 Memorial Prize

Rowan Morbey (2009-2010) “Islam in Turkestan: A Report by Governor-General Sergei Mihailovich Dukhovskoi”
Alisha Santoorjian (2009-2010) “Hot Pants Take the Field: Media Representations of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Championship in Mexico”
Emma O'Brien (2008-2009) “Mapping the City One Rap at a Time: Place and Hip Hop in Minneapolis, Minnesota"
Maria Moncur (2007-2008) “Our Brave Fathers:” The War of 1812 and the Development of Public Historical narratives in Ontario, 1812-1900
Grant Grays (2006-2007) "Artistic Expression, Political Participation, and African-American Identity in the Third Black Renaissance"
Timothy Hulett (2006-2007) "Travel, Place, and Social Mores in Early Modern England"
Ryan Mulholland (2006-2007) “The Runaway Presidency: a Judicial Theory of Presidential Power”
Amanda Dlouhy (2005-2006) "The Role of Historic Preservation in Neighborhood Revitalization: Milwaukee Avenue"

George D. Green American History Research Prize

Audrey Clungeon (2009-2010) “At the Crossroads of Japanese Internment: Support and Resistance”
James Kircher (2008-2009) “A Dakota Minnesota: A New Fontier History”
Adrian Odya-Weis (2007-2008) “giving a Voice to the voiceless: The Sanctuary Movement’s Influence on Asylum Policy through the Media
Svetlana Gitman (2006-2007) "Denying Themselves Motherhood: the Practice of Birth Control, Abortion, and Infanticide as an Act of Love and Resistance amoung Black Female Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Antebellum South"
Christopher Vega (2005-2006) “Minnesota Captial On and Off the Hook: Rationale, Resistance and Repeal Regarding Extended Shareholder Liability, 1849-1933”

Howard Reinmuth Prize in European History

Kathleen Hiatt (2009-2010) “Victory Day in Russia: Collective Memory and the Second World War”
Meredith Wardlaw (2008-2009) “Proto-Nationalism: Religious Orthodoxy and the Construction of late Medieval Spanish Identity”
Luke Walker (2007-2008) “Reconsidering Resistance: A Reexamination of the Catholic Resistance to National Socialism in Berlin”
Allison Cimpl (2006-2007) "The Moral and Social Defense of Women in the Works of Christine de Pizan"
David Schrader (2005-2006) "Hitler and Christianity: A Study of His Private Beliefs"

Norman Moen Prize

Alisha Volante (2005-2006) "The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover at the University of Minnesota"

Undergraduate Studies
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Scholarship and Paper Prize Deadlines: February 29, 2012

All scholarship and paper prize materials are due by February 29, 2012 in the Undergraduate Studies Office, 1135 Heller Hall.
More information
February 3rd, 2012