Mary Elizabeth Thomas Dissertation Prize

  • Recipient 2025: Yang (Alice) Zhang “Adapted Diasporas: A History of Chinese Adoption in the United States from 1953 to 2015,” Major Professor: Suzy Sinke; Honorary Mention: Brandon Bernick "The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: The Strategic Influence of America's Flawed Intelligence Partnership with Reinhard Gehlen," Major Professor Kurt Piehler 
  • Recipient 2024: Caroline Hackett “Propriétaires in Plain Sight: The Legal and Economic Autonomy of Married Women in Southern France, 1750-1815," Major Professor: Rafe Blaufarb
  • Recipient 2023: Erick Braeden Lewis “The Émigré Homefront: Microhistories of Migration from the Franco-Spanish Borderlands During the Age of Revolutions," Major Professors: Rafe Blaufarb and Cathy McClive