Prize winners announced at Underhill Undergraduate Colloquium

The 12th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium, held on April 8, 2016, celebrated excellence in undergraduate essays, articles, documentary videos and digital history projects. The prize winners are listed below.

Congratulations!

Essay Prize Winners
1st Year
Evelyn Bartlett, “‘Whore’ or Revolutionary: The Politics of the ‘Sex Question’ in Soviet Russia & the Historiographical Representation of Aleksandra Kollontai.”
James Lee, “Christianity in India: Restructuring Local Power Relations and National Expansion Objectives.”
2nd Year
Sarah Cole, “Visions of Home: Supernatural Experience and English Nationalism in the First World War”
Tyler Owens, “Mightier than the Sword”
3rd Year
Taylor McKinnon, “The Question of Military Assistance in Kuwait”
Ellen Case, “ ‘Five or Six Women Long to Take Your Place’: Expressions of Gender and Sexuality by African- American Blueswomen in the Harlem Renaissance”
4th Year
Patrick Speck, “Tolerance, Cooperation and Conflict: Defence of the Undefended Border and the Development of Canada-United States Relations”
Jennifer Halsall, “To be Man in Modern Times: The Renegotiation of Historic Masculinities in South Africa”

Articles in Making History Matter

Andrew Narraway, “Witnessing History: Looking Back at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”
Pitseolak Pfeifer, “The Truth and Conciliation Commission Closing Events: Reflections of an Aboriginal Student”
Jacob Kenney, “The Legacy of the U.S. Occupation of Haiti”
Jennifer Halsall, “Humanitarianism, Haiti & the Media”
Katherine North, “To Preserve or Conserve? Trophy Hunting in Southern Africa”

Digital Research Presentations
Allison Kuhl “The Abbey of Cluney: Monastic Life During the 12th Century”
Ryan Pickering “The Historical Consciousness of Dwarf Fortress, or, The Ways Gamers Think Like Historians”
Craig Lord & Benjamin Doyle “Open Syllabus Explorers”