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History

In its Honors Program the History Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2019-2020

• Meredith Barber, "Jefferson’s “Marble Mausoleum”: Incongruence in the Historical Memory of Thomas Jefferson, 1936-1943" (High Honors)
  Susan Kern + Amy Limoncelli, Alexandra Joosse
• Heather Byrum, "Changing Notions of Identity: Transformations in Jewish Self-Identification Before, During, and After the American Civil War" (Honors level)
  Carol Sheriff + Jay Watkins, Maggie Kirsh
• Luke Campopiano, "Terra Nullius and the Svalbard Question: Exploring an Anomaly in International Law" (Highest Honors)
   Michael Butler + Fabricio Prado,  Paul Davies
• Emma Diduch, "Worthy Widows, Feckless Fathers, and Innocent Babes: Experiences of Poverty in Early Industrial England" (Highest Honors)
   Amy Limoncelli + Kathrin Levitan,  Deborah Morse
• Aaron Higgins, "The Rise and Fall of ‘New Ulster’: Northern Irish Politics in Flux, 1963-1969" (High Honors)
   Amy Limoncelli + Laurie Koloski,  Clay Clemens
• Tessa Payer, "A Space of Their Own: Women's Political Involvement in 1790s United States Capitals" (Highest Honors)
   Julie Richter + Abby Schreiber,  Tric Wesp
• Olivia Vande Woude, "In the Cathedral of the Devil: Young Witches of Navarre, 1608-1614" (Highest Honors)
   Lu Ann Homza + Gerard CHouin,  Giulia Pacini
• Nina Willms, "Debatable Deeds, Indisputable Identity: Negotiated Structural Violence and Honor Culture of the Anglo-Scottish Borderers" (High Honors)
   Nicholas Popper + Amy Limoncelli,  Audrey Horning
• Yutong Zhan, "Imperial Professionals: American Protestant Female Medical Missionaries to China, 1880-1930" (Highest Honors)
   Adrienne Petty + Joshua Hubbard,  Leisa Meyer

2018-19

• Lydia Heaton, "'The Celebrated Madame Campan': Educating Republican Mothers à la Française in Nineteenth-Century America" (Highest Honors)
  Carol Sheriff + Kathrin Levitan, Michael Leruth
• Matthew Kowal, "Atlanta's Curtain Call: AIDS Activism on the Southern Stage"
  Jerry T. Watkins + Leisa Meyer, Laurie Wolf
• Zhengyuan Ling, "Pre-Modern Japanese Proto-nationalism: A Study of Japanese Confucianism’s Intellectual History" (Honors)
  Eric Han + Josh Hubbard, Tomoyuki Sasaki
• Abby Whitlock, "A Return to Camelot?: British Identity, The Masculine Ideal, and the Romanticization of the Royal Flying Corps Image" (Highest Honors)
  Frederick Corney + Chandos Brown, Amy Limoncelli, Bruce Campbell
• Charlotte Engel, "Jumping through Hoops: The Rise and Demise of the Hoop Petticoat in the Eighteenth Century" (High Honors)
  Julie Richter + Gerard Chouin, Patricia Wesp

2017-18

• Mehr Ali, "The Women of the PWA: The Politics and Writings of Rashid Jahan and Qurratulain Hyder" (High Honors) 
  Chitralekha Zutshi + Jerry Watkins, R. Benedito Ferrão
• Rose Olwell, "The Devil's Café au Lait: the Métis Question in Colonial French West Africa, 1870-1940" (Highest Honors) 
  Guillaume Aubert + Gérard Chouin, Oludamini Ogunnaike 
• Samantha Ryan, "Althea Hunt: Behind the Curtain" (High Honors) 
  Leisa Meyer + Jerry Watkins, Patricia Wesp
• Keon Shahidi, "The Influence of Christian Scripture on the Metaphysics and Mystical Theology of Evagrius Ponticus" (High Honors) 
  Philip Daileader + Ronald Schechter, Michael Daise 
• Brendan Thomas, "Back to Batoche: Métis History and Memory 1885-2015" (High Honors) 
  Andrew Fisher + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Frederick Corney

2016-17

• Douglas Breton, "“No Great Mischief if They Should Fall”: Scottish Highland Soldiers in the French and Indian War" (High Honors) 
  Julie Richter + Paul Mapp, Giulia Pacini
  
• Monica Cronin, "U.S. Combat Morale in the World Wars: The European Theater of Operations" (Highest Honors) 
  Julie Richter + David Corlett, Michael Butler, Kelly Charles
  
• Cody Grogan, "Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Diplomacy and the Democratization of Taiwan" (High Honors) 
  Michael Butler + Dajeong Chung, Tun-Jen Cheng
  
• Susannah Haury, ""Our Wages for Our Pains:" National Identity, Patriotism, and the Motivation of American Sailors in the Revolutionary War" (High Honors) 
  Julie Richter + Carl Lounsbury, Colleen Kennedy
  
• Polly Lauer, "Community Radio in Guatemala: A Half-Century of Resistance in the Face of Repression" (Highest Honors) 
  Betsy Konefal + Richard Turits, Teresa Longo, Chinua Thelwell
  
• James Leach, "American Education Reform and the Humanism of Mathematics, 1890-1940" (Highest Honors) 
  Nicholas Popper + Marc Sher, Ronald Schechter
  
• Luke Maclay, ""Living History:" Heritage Breed Livestock and the Pursuit of the Past" (High Honors) 
  Laurie Koloski + Frederick Corney, Jeremy Stoddard
  
• Francesca Maestas, "In Between and Nowhere at all: How an Autobiography Reveals Hybridity" (Honors) 
  Ayfer Stump + Jonathan Glasser, Robert Vinson, Kathrin Levitan 
  
• Sloane Nilsen, "The Myth of Egalitarianism in Wartime and Austerity Britain" (Highest Honors) 
  Frederick Corney + Kathrin Levitan, Laurie Koloski, Bruce Campbell 
  
• Rachel Rosenfeld, "Oscar Micheaux’s Cinematic Legacy: Through the Eyes of Contemporary BlackDavid Brown + Jody Allen, Arthur Knight
  
• John Weaver, ""A Corps of Much Service:" The German Regiment of the Continental Army" (High Honors) 
  Julie Richter + Bruce Campbell, Ronald Schechter
  

2015-16

• Mary Andino, "Group Discipleship and Individual Spirituality: Challenging Models of False Sanctity in Early Modern Italy and Spain" (High Honors) 
  Lu Ann Homza + Robert Leventhal, Tuska Benes
  
• Meghan Condlin, "The Hammer and Sickle, Parallel Bars and Spikes: How Cold War America Responded to Soviet Olympic Success" (High Honors) 
  Cindy Hahamovitch + Kyrill Kunakhovich, James Whittenburg
  
• Kelsey Fenske, "History Influencing History: Changing Perceptions of the Starving Time at Jamestown" (High Honors) 
  David Brown + Laurie Wolf, Kyrill Kunakhovich
  
• Brenna Ferris, "“The Internal Conflict:” Navigating Transitional Education in Postwar Guatemala" (Honors) 
  Betsy Konefal + Michael Iyanaga, Robert Vinson
  
• Luke Frerichs, "Foundations of Empire: The American Military Government in the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902" (High Honors) 
  David Corlett + Richard Turits, Neil Norman
  
• Cade Meinel, "Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain" (High Honors) 
  Philip Daileader + Fabricio Prado, Driss Cherkaoui
  
• Jeremy Ross, "Civil Patrols, Race, and Repression in Guatemala, 1982-1996" (High Honors) 
  Betsy Konefal + Silvia Tandeciarz, Richard Turits
  
• Abigail Trevor, "Theobald Wolfe Tone as a Politician and Diplomat" (High Honors) 
  Ronald Schechter + Kathrin Levitan, Kim Wheatley

2014-15

• Jacob Abrams, "Disaster and Discourse: Reactions to the 1906 Courrieres Colliery Mine Disaster" (High Honors)
  Ronald Schechter + Frederick Corney and William Hausman
• Timothy Courtney, "Black Slaves, Christian Servants: Race and Legal Identity in Northampton and Middlesex Counties, Virginia, 1632-1705" (Highest Honors)
  C. Julia Richter + Jody Allen and Monika Gosin
• Whitney Fields, ""Among the Graves": Constructing Community, Resistance, and Freedom on Nineteenth Century Plantation Burial Grounds" (High Honors)
  Hannah Rosen + Robert Vinson and Michael Blakey
• Madeline Grimm, "Historical Precedents and Early Modern Interpretations: English Histories of America, 1500-1700" (High Honors) 
  Nicholas Popper + James Whittenburg and Brett Wilson
• Jacob Jose, "The Case of Charles Horman Revisited: Complication and Conflict within Declassification" (Honors) 
  Betsy Konefal + Richard Turits and Susan Norman
• Kathryn Plunkett, "'We Made You': The Contrived and Contested Nature of Authenticity in American Folk and Hip Hop Subcultures" (High Honors) 
  Charles McGovern + Scott Nelson and Richard Lowry
• Alaric Powell, "'The State of These Countries...Is Truly More Astonishing Than Our Story Can Fully Convey': The Crusader States in the Late Twelfth Century from the Perspective of Three Pilgrims" (High Honors) 
  Philip Daileader + Ayfer Karakaya-Stump and Cristina Stancioiu
• Hannah Tucker, "A Smoking Structure: Firm Organization in the Transatlantic Tobacco Trade" (Highest Honors) 
  Scott Nelson + Nicholas Popper, Peter McHenry and Paul Mapp
• Sydney Weaver, "Narrativity in French Depictions of the Crusades" (Honors) 
  Fahad Bishara + Philip Daileader and Maryse Fauvel

2013-14

• John Bridgeford, "The Making of a 'New Ramallah': A Palestinian Diaspora Community in America" (Highest Honors) 
  Ayfer Karakaya-Stump + Fahad Bishara, Tamara Sonn
• Bryan Casey, "The Internal Foe: Rethinking Slave Resistance in Antebellum America" (Highest Honors)
  Melvin Patrick Ely + Robert Trent Vinson, Jackson N. Sasser, Jr.
• Robin Crigler, "When George Washington's Ghost Turned Handsprings: South African Crisis & American Identity, 1895-1905" (Highest Honors)
  Robert Trent Vinson + Hannah Rosen, Chinua Thelwell
• Yonsoo Kang, "A Framework for Understanding the US Air Bombing Campaign in Korea, 1950-51" (High Honors)
  Hiroshi Kitamura + Eric Han, Beverly Peterson
• Luke Nicastro, "'No Commitments': Canada and Imperial Defense, 1936-1939" (Highest Honors) 
  Michael Butler + Eric Han, Ross Carroll  
• Amy Schaffman, "Keep Calm and Carry On?: Examining WWII Great Britain through the Lens of Overseas Evacuation" (Highest Honors)
  Bruce Campbell + Frederick Corney, Jennifer Taylor
• Dwight Weingarten, "'To Thine Own Self Be True': Robert F. Kennedy, the Inner Cities, and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1968" (High Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Andrew Fisher, John L. Froitzheim
• Deborah Wood, "'Infallible Proofs': Math, Knowledge, and Religion in the Medieval Islamicate World" (Highest Honors)
  Nicholas Popper + Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Frans Schalekamp

2012-13

• Chelsea Bracci, "Community and the Site of Memory: The Effect of Internationalization on Community-Museum Relations" (Honors)
  Tuska Benes +Frederick Corney, Marc Raphael, Laurie Koloski 
• Meredith Duffy, "The Origins of Hatred: An Analysis of Antisemitic Political Cartoons in Fin-de-siecle Vienna" (High Honors) 
  Leslie Waters + Tuska Benes, Marc Raphael
• Sophia Farrulla, "The Enemy Within: Internecine Conflict in the Second Kingddom of Kush" (Highest Honors)
  Jeremy Pope + Neil Norman, Ronald Schechter
• Jill Found, "Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museumsin Virginia Represent Slavery" (Highest Honors) 
  Susan Kern + James Whitenburg, Michael Blakey
• Sarah Higgins, "Creating an American Identity-Propaganda During the Second World War" (High Honors)
  Leisa Meyer + David Dessler, David Corlett
• Neal Hurst, "'Kind of Armour, Being Peculiar to America:' The American Hunting Shirt" (High Honors) 
  Julie Richter + Susan Kern, Patricia Wesp
• Allison Kennington, "Redefining the "Women's Movement" in Modern Japan" (High Honors) 
  Eric Han + Joanna Schug, Chitralekha Zutshi, Kathrin Levitan 
• Hannah Metheny, "'For a Woman': The Fight for Pensions for Civil War Army Nurses" (Highest Honors) 
  Carol Sheriff + James Whittenburg, Katherine Preston
• Zack Quaratella, "'The Ornament of Human Society': Anti-Southernism in New England Common Schools" (High Honors) 
  Carol Sheriff + Scott Nelson, John Baltes
• Rebekah Turnmire, "'Worthy to be Classed': Slavery and its Legacy in Grayson County, Virginia" (Highest Honors) 
  Julie Richter + Susan Kern, Charles McGovern
• Henry Ware, "The Personal of the Event Subjectivity and the English Civil War" (High Honors) 
  Nicholas Popper + Frederick Corney, Jonathan Glasser
• Glenn Williams, "Virginia's 'Legacy of Legal Complicity with Race-Based Slavery': A Review of the Legal Treatment of Slaves in Antebellum Virgina with a focus on Albermarle County" (High Honors) 
  James Whittenburg +Martha Alexander, David Corlett
• Kyra Zemanick, "War on the Ground: A Study on the Relizability of Firsthand Testimony on the Battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862" (Honors)
  James Whittenburg +Carol Sheriff, E. Grey Gundaker  

2011-12

• Eric Ames, "The Spirit of Association: The Nelson Family and Commercial Resistance in Yorktown, Virginia 1769-1771" (High Honors) 
  Julie Richter +  Paul Davies, Scott Nelson
• Roger Bailey, "'Nothing But A Pack of Boys' Preble's Boys and the Culture of Honors in the Early Naval Officer Corps, 1798-1825" (High Honors) 
  Chandos Brown + Richard Lowry, Paul Mapp 
• Andrew Budiansky, "The "Iona Chronicle" and Irish Politico-Ecclesiastical Connections: The Transmission of a Text Reconsidered" (High Honors) 
  Philip Daileader + John Conlee, Nicholas Popper 
• Andrew Frantz, "For the Advancement of So Good a Cause: Hugh Mackay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland" (Highest Honors) 
  Nicholas Popper + Paul Mapp, Simon Stow 
• Max Lazar, "Beyond Jericho: The Resurgence of German Jewish Life Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (High Honors) 
  Tuska Benes, Cindy Hahamovitch, Jennifer Taylor
• Rebecca Little, "What Can You Learn From the Kinsey Report: Kinsey and the Gay and Lesbian Population, 1970-1993" (High Honors)
  Leisa Meyer + Chandos Brown, Nancy Gray 
• Diana Ohanian, "Memory Derailed: Vichy Memory in International Court Cases and Business Legislation against the French National Railway" (Highest Honors)
  Ronald Schechter + Frederick Corney, Giulia Pacini 
• Charles Ritinski, "The Tactics of Our Fathers: A Discourse on Seventeenth Century Warfare in Virginia" (Honors) 
   David Corlett + Nicholas Popper, Patricia Wesp
• Ellen Walsh, "Conceptions of and Treatments for Cognitive Disability in Antebellum Virginia: John Minson Galt's 'Lecture on Idiocy' (1859)" (Honors)
  Karin Wulf + Jennifer Putzi, Carol Sherriff   
• Mason Watson, ""Not Italian or German, but British in Character": J.F.C. Fuller and the Fascist Movement in Britain" (Highest Honors)
  Kathrin Levitan + Frederick Corney, Kathrin Seidl-Gomez
• Andrea Williams, "Sir James Wright in Georgia: Local and Imperial Conflict in the American Revolution" (High Honors) 
  Paul Mapp + Maria Swetnam-Burland, James Whitenburg 

2010-2011

• Daniel Bever, "'The Higher Court of Heaven': Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch and Violant Abolition" (High Honors)
  James Whittenburg + Chandos Brown, Mel Ely, Chris Howard
• Doina Cretu, "Assimilation, Segregation, Integration: State Control on Minority Policies in Modern Romania (1918-2007)" (Honors)
  Gregor Kranjc + Tuska Benes, Paula Pickering
• Mark Guerci, "It Took a War: The End of Slavery in West Virginia" (Highest Honors)
  Scott Nelson + Mel Ely, Clyde Haulman
• Erin Holmes, "The Staircase: Evolution of Design and Use in Elite, Domestic, Virginia Architecture 1607-1812" (High Honors)
  James Whittenburg + Carl Lounsbury, Ed Pease
• Meredith Howard, "Discovering El Cuaderno: An Examination of the Zugarramundi Witch-Hunts and Three Debating Inquisitors, 1609-1614" (Honors)
  Lu Ann Homza + Nick Popper, Erin Minear
• Jennifer Joyce, "Hanged Harpers and Incinerated Instruments: Tudor Government Policies Toward Irish Poets in the Sixteenth Century" (High Honors)
  Nicholas Popper + Paul Mapp, John Conlee
• John Kelly, "The Richmond & Petersburg Railroad: A Story Of Antebellum Southern Success" (High Honors)
  Scott Nelson + Mel Ely, John Donahue
• Blair Saunders, "Confident of Color: White Activists in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement" (Honors)
  Robert Vinson + James La Fleur, Amy Selzer
• Julianne Sicklesteel, "'The Father of His Country': Peyton Randolph and the Definition of Liberty in Colonial Virginia" (Highest Honors)
  Julia Richter + Paul Mapp, Terry Meyers
• Anna Storm, "Religious Conviction and The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721" (High Honors)
  Paul Mapp + Chandos Brown, Randy Coleman
• Michael Young, "Baseball, Immigration, and Professionalization in the 19th Century" (Honors)
  James Whittenburg + Phil Daileader, John Conlee

2009-10

• Lydia Barrett Blackmore, "Just Imported and Sold: Methods of Acquisition and use of Knives, Forks and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia"
  Julie Richter + Susan Kern, Martin Gallivan

• Christopher James Consolino, "Watchful Guardians of Liberty: The French Revolution and the Development of the Democratic-Republicanism in Philadelphia, 1792-1797" (Highest Honors)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Paul Mapp + Ronald Schecter, John Baltes

• Caryne Eskridge, "Illinois Culture, Christianity and Intermarriage: Gender in Illinois Country, 1650-1763" (High Honors)                                                                           Brett Rushforth + Ronald Schecter, Martin Gallivan

• Andrew Garden, "The Triumph of Reason: Roots of Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s" (Highest Honors)                                                                                       Bruce Campbell + Tuska Benes, Fred Corney, Clay Clemens

• Rebecca Green, 'Men of Substance and Ability of Body and Estate: Justices of the Peace and the Rise of a Creole Elite in Isle of Wight County, Virginia at the Turn of the Seventeeth Century" (Highest Honors)                                                                                                                                                                                                         James Whittenburg + Paul Mapp, Adam Potkay

• Amy Limoncelli, "Looking at East End in the Face: The Impact of the British Monarchy on Civilian Morale in the Second World War" (High Honors)                       Kathrin Levitan + Bruce Campbell, Ronald Schechter

• Thomas Queen, "The Effect of 24-Hour Television News on American Democracy and the Daily Show as a Counterbalance to 24-Hour News" A History" (High Honors) Charles McGovern + Hiroshi Kitamura, Melanie Dawson

• Jennifer Souers, "To Say What the Law is: John Marshall and his Influence on the Origins of Judicial Review in America" (High Honors)                                           James Whittenburg + Carol Sheriff, Christine Nemachek

2008-09

• Katherine Arnold, "The Transformation of the Lutheran Church in Namibia: How the Church Evolved into a "Voice for the Voiceless" (Highest Honors)
  Robert Vinson + Ismail Abdalla, Brad Weiss
  
• Michael Blaakman, " 'Nasty Holes' and New Hotels: Public Accommodations in Early New York City" (Highest Honors)
  Camille Wells + Carol Sheriff, David Holmes
  
• Samantha Grill, "Dust Bowl Days: A Study of Women's Lives and Experiences" (High Honors)
  Leisa Meyer + Andy Fisher, Colleen Kennedy
  
• Jaimie Lewis, "Negotiating 'Popular' Religion: Clerical and Lay Culture in Thirteenth-Century Exempla" (High Honors)
  Philip Daileader + LuAnn Homza, Barbara Watkinson
  
• Joshua Litten, "American-Educated Chinese Students and their Impact on U.S.-China Relations" (High Honors)
  Craig Canning + Erik Han, T.J. Cheng
  
• Jeffrey Mason, "The Undeserving Other: A Study of Service and Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on "Latino-ness" in Williamsburg" (High Honors)
  Hiroshi Kitamura + Charles McGovern, Marley Brown
  
• Matthew Morrill, "The Development of Merchant's Square: Colonial Imagery and the Consequences of Redevelopment in Williamsburg, Virginia and Other Small Towns, 1910-1955"
  Carl Lounsbury + Scott Nelson, Ed Pease
  
• Camerson Shriver, "William Wells and the Old Northwest, 1770-1812" (High Honors)
  Paul Mapp + Brett Rushforth, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
  
• Elizabeth Yohn, "Haitians in Montreal: The Role and Experience of a Francophone Immigrant Group in Modern Quebec Nationalism" (Highest Honors)
  Cindy Hahamovitch + Tuska Benes, Dennis Smith

2007-08

• Hannah Ayers, "Space, Secularism, and the Expansion of Forced Child Begging in Senegal, 1850-2008" (High Honors)
  James LaFleur + Melvyn Ely, Tamara Sonn
• Marie Booth, "Prostitution and the Representation of Anxiety in London, 1723-1870" (High Honors)
  Kathrin Levitan + Karin Wulf, Deborah Morse
• Laura Brandt, "Boys Don't Make Passes (at Girls who Wear Glasses): Gender, Vision Aids, and Persona in the Early American Republic" (Honors)
  James Whittenburg + Julie Richter, Kathleen Bragdon
• Kelly Creed, "Classical Liberal Stunt Men: Lord Acton, Herbert Spencer, and the Development of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Highest Honors)
  Tuska Benes + Kathrin Levitan, Robert Leventhal
• Jennie Davy, "From Color Line to Colorblind: Changing African American Perceptions of the Japanese during World War II" (High Honors)
  Chandos Brown + Hiroshi Kitamura, Arthur Knight
• Jason Drake, "Servant to England: The Biography of Adam Marsh (de Marisco)" (Honors)
  Philip Daileader + LuAnn Homza, Monica Potkay
• Allison Finkelstein, "'Unhappy Differences': The American Revolution and the Disruption of the Course of Theatre in Virginia" (High Honors)
  James Whittenburg + Susan Kern, Richard Palmer
• Jennifer Hoover, "Secrets in Switzerland: Allen W. Dulles' Impact as OSS Station Chief in Bern on Developments of World War II & U.S. Dominance in Post-War Europe" (High Honors)
  Hiroshi Kitamura + David McCarthy, William Rennegal
• Paul Kuenker, "Out of the Depths: The Construction of Meaning After Colorado Mining Disasters" (Honors)
  Andrew Fisher + Kris Lane, Charles Palermo
• Ashley Whitehead, "Though my people slay me, yet I will trust in them': Varina Davis and the Elusive Paradigm of the Politically Elite Confederate Woman" (Highest Honors)
  James Whittenburg + Susan Kern, Katherine Preston

2006-07

• Elizabeth Anderson, "'Again in the Providence of God:' Two Appalachian Women Inscribe Community, Family, and Faith on the Civil War" (Highest Honors)
  Karin Wulf + Leisa Meyer, Jennifer Putzi
• Philip Baylor, "The Instruments of Peace: The West Indies in the Seven Years' War, 1759-1963" (Honors)
  James Allegro + James Axtell, Sharla Blank
• John Bell, "'It was honest': The Politics of Authenticity in the American Folk Revival and British Punk Subcultures" (Highest Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Scott Nelson, Rob Leventhal
• Sara Casey, "Elizabeth Avery Meriwether: One Southern Woman's Life of Contradiction" (High Honors)
  Chandos Brown + Carol Sheriff, Susan Donaldson
• Stephanie Crumbaugh, "'To Sell for Exploitation': Indian Slavery in the English Colonies" (Highest Honors)
  James Axtell + Andrew Fisher, Fred Smith
• Katherine Eade, (Honors)
  Ronald Schechter + Chitralekha Zutshi, Margaret McColley
• Mary French, "History and Memory: The Memoirs and Other Writings of Russian Literary Emigres Bunin, Berberova, Nabokov and Brodsky" (Highest Honors)
  Fred Corney + Tuska Benes, Alexander Prokhorov
• Leah Giles, "'A Great Ambition to Serve Your Lordship': The Influence of Sir John Yeamans of the Founding and Early Development of South Carolina" (Highest Honors)
• Timothy Huffstutter (Honors)
  Carol Sheriff + Charles McGovern, Rich Lowry
• Jacob Lubetkin, "'England's Freedom, Soldiers Rights': Democratic Upheaval in the English Civil War" (Highest Honors)
  Dale Hoak + Tuska Benes, Don Campbell
• Heather Maclean, "King Henry VIIIÕs Sumptuary Laws and Their Impact on British Society during the Tudor Era" (Honors)
  Dale Hoak + LuAnn Homza, Patricia Wesp
• Celeste McNamara, "Patronage in Savonarola's San Marco: the Correspondence of fra Santi Rucellai" (Highest Honors)
  LuAnn Homza + Dale Hoak, Monica Potkay
• John Regina, "Between Migration and Nativism: The Adjustment of the Italians in America" (Honors)
  Carl Strikwerda + Hiroshi Kitamura, John Donahue
• Sarika Reuben (High Honors)
  Chitralekha Zutshi + Hiroshi Kitamura, Deenesh Sohoni
• Stuart Smith, "To Those Who Fought: The Pacific War's Place in American Historical Memory" (High Honors)
  Chandos Brown + Melvyn Ely, Walter Wenska
• Joshua Specht, "Boodle-Carriers, Shovers, and Cony-Men: Counterfeiting in Nineteenth-Century America" (Highest Honors)
  Scott Nelson + Ronald Schechter, Tim Costelloe
• David Williard, "'An Officer May Punish a Private, But He Dare not Curse Him': Social Values and Wartime Experience in the Army of Northern Virginia" (Highest Honors)
  Carol Sheriff + Melvyn Ely, David Holmes
• Nora Wolf, "Popular Art and the Culture of Racism: Establishing the Semiotics of Race" (High Honors)
  Melvyn Ely + Kris Lane, Anne Charity
• Brandon Wolfe, "'Democracy in Housing': Property Rights and the Civil Rights Movement in St. Louis, 1948-1968" (Highest Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Hiroshi Kitamura, Jackie McLendon

2005-06

• Joseph Bertini, "Capturing the Mandate of Heaven: State Control and Religion in Chinese History" (High Honors)
  Craig Canning + Walter Skya, Kevin Vose
• Jennifer Brickey, "The Diary of Fanny Fain of Blountville: Defining Allegiance in Civil War East Tennessee" (Honors)
  Jim Whittenburg + Scott Nelson, Will Hausman
• David Carey, "The Burden of Memory: German Holocaust Memorialization 1945-2005" (High Honors)
  Tuska Benes + Laurie Koloski, Clay Clemens
• Sarah Cordes, "'Yanks' in Post-War Germany: The Role of Gis in the American Occupation of Germany, 1944-1949" (High Honors)
  Hiroshi Kitamura + Laurie Koloski, Rob Leventhal
• Edward Geist, "Repressing the Unthinkable: Public Perceptions of Civil Defense in the Cold War" (High Honors)
  Hiroshi Kitamura + Charles McGovern, Tony Anemone
• Kristi James, "Captured Innocence: Narratives of Children's Captivities Among the Indians, 1677-1874" (High Honors)
  James Axtell + Andrew Fisher, Kathleen Bragdon
• Susanna Klosko, "Victims or Heros? The Chmielnicki Uprising and Jewish Interpretations of Martyrdom" (High Honors)
  Laurie Koloski + Ron Schechter, Naama Zahavi-Ely
• Elizabeth McCrillis, "'Virginians are of Genuine Blood - They Will Dance or Die!': The Significant Role of Dance in Eighteenth Century Northern Neck Virginia" (Highest Honors)
  Jim Whittenburg + Andrew Fisher, Chris Nemacheck
• Jonathon Miller, "Dueling Editors: Honor, the Duel, and the Public Sphere in Antebellum Virginia" (High Honors)
  Scott Nelson + Andrew Fisher, Phil Kearns
• Caitlin Verboon, "Apostles of Democracy: The Green Family in Nineteenth Century Politics" (High Honors)
  Scott Nelson + Cindy Hahamovitch, Charles McGovern

2004-05

• Matthew Bernt
  Kevin Kelly + Paul Mapp, Clyde Haulman
• Alison Ferguson
  Mel Ely + Carol Sheriff, Dee Royster
• Brian Haynes
  Dale Hoak + Paul Mapp, John Conlee
• Scott Hoffman
  James McCord + Laurie Koloski, Clay Clemens
• Catherine Huennekens
  Dale Hoak + LuAnn Homza, Nancy Gray
• Sharon Jones
  Jim Whittenburg + Jim Axtell, Bella Ginzbursky-Blum
• Stuart Lilie
  Ronald Schechter + Paul Mapp, Giulia Pacini
• Graham Nessler
  Kris Lane + Brett Rushforth, Ann Marie Stock, Kirsten Kellogg
• Kate Pierce-McManamon
  Laurie Koloski and Bruce Campbell + Fred Corney, Ron Schechter
• Peter Taylor
  James Whittenburg + Phil Daileader, Jennifer Taylor