Recent Award Winners

The Edward G. Gray Award for Undergraduate Exploratory Research in the Department of History

  • Recipient 2025: Jeffrey Lubinski

The Laurie M. Wood Award for the Undergraduate Study of History

  • Recipients AY 2024-2025: Leah Sauceda and Daela Webster
  • Recipients AY 2023-2024: Ashley Krupa and Ana Luyanda

History Department Undergraduate Research Paper Award

Recipients 2025:

  • Winner: Alejandro Valdivia, “Enemies, Memory, and the Orient in Italian Renaissance Thought”

Recipients 2024:

  • First-Place: Ana Luyanda, “Sixteenth Century Spanish Perspectives on Water Management in Aztec Tenochtitlan”
  • Honorable Mention: Meredith Glahn, “Gender and British Convict Transportation in the 1830s”

Recipients 2023:

  • First-Place: Benjamin Ream, “Rewriting History: The Significance of Roman Origin Stories in the Augustan Age”
  • Honorable Mention: Anne Tirrell, “Chocolate Drinks and Labor in Central America: A Historical Materialist Analysis”

The John and Susan Ausley Undergraduate History Award

  • Recipient for AY 2025-2026: Alejandro Valdivia
  • Recipients for AY 2024-25:  Sarah Brophy and Reilly Maresca