World History Association Student Paper Prize
Past Winners

2006-2007:

Graduate division: Preston Matthew Bakshi, “Decolonizing Medicine: Professionalization and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Independent India,” University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Undergraduate division: Rigel A. Behrens, “Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, and the Cold War: The Latin American Church’s Response to a Changing World,” Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky
Student Paper Prize: 2006-07 runners up:
Undergraduate division runners up: Taylor Burton, Columbus State University, Georgia, for "Bwiti: A Syncretic Faith of Modern Africa"; and Kevin Michael Smith, University of California at Irvine, for "Coterminous Companions: Nationalism, Class, and Anational Arab-Jewish Cooperation in Mandatory Palestine"

2005-2006:

Graduate division: Jeffer Daykin, “Progressive Pedagogy in Rural China: Tao Xingzhi’s Xiaozhuang Experimental School as an Implementation of John Dewey’s Educational Philosophy,” Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Undergraduate division: Robert Cole, Power and Performance in Bombay’s Victoria Terminus,” University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

2004-2005:

Graduate division: Phillip Sinitiere, "Navigating the Indian Ocean: Exploring the Textures of an African Diaspora," University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Undergraduate division: Kyle Jackson, "Preface to a Brief History of Modern Humans," Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

2003-2004:

Graduate division: Luke Clossey, “Distant Rites: The Jesuit China Mission and Its Global Ritual Community,” University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Undergraduate division: Elizabeth Kamradt, “Colonial Jamestown and Cape Town: A Discussion of Early Changes and Lastinf Outcomes,” Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky

2002-2003:

Graduate division: Christopher J. Lee, Stanford University, “Current Concepts in the Red Atlantic: World History as Political Practice in Cape Town, South Africa, 1943-48”
Undergraduate division: Kathleen Vazoulas, Marist College, “Complexity of Relations: Mexico and the United States, 1938-1942”

2001-2002:

Graduate division: No Prize Granted
Undergraduate division: Nadine Leon, “The Saint Domingue Revolution: The Impact of the Revolution on Colonial France, 1789-1815,” Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Runner-up #1: Laurie Lahey, “Time After Time: China, Europe, and the Fate of the Mechanical Clock,” Rowan College, Glassboro, New Jersey
Runner-up #2: Kirk Lawler, “The Jesuit Incursion into Ming China: Science and Humanism in the Service of God,” North Central College, Naperville, Illinois

2000-2001:

Graduate division: Mary Ann R. Gabbert, University of Texas El Paso, for “El Paso, A Sight for Sore Eyes: Medical and Legal Aspects of Syrian Immigration, 1906-1907”
Undergraduate division: Thomas D. Pomenti, Ursinus College, for “Genocidal and Non-Genocidal Cleansings: Why a Perpetrating Regime Will Choose Either Total Murder or Mass Expulsion as Its Means of Population Cleansing”

1999-2000:

First year of competition. No prize granted.