Awards & Prizes

Eligibility requirements and application instructions are sent to current History majors through the History Undergraduate Listserv.

 

Honors Theses Awards (2022-2023):

• Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis.

1st Place – Dongshi Zhang’s “Laolao’s Foxes: A Microhistory of the Persistence of “Superstitious” Folk Religion in the People’s Republic of China”

2nd Place – Elise Dulay’s “Between and Beyond the Racial Binary: A Genealogical Examination of the American Mestiza Immigrant Experience”

• Mary Ritter Beard Award is for the best research paper dealing with the subject of History/Gender Studies in the UCLA History class.

1st Place – Dongshi Zhang’s “Laolao’s Foxes: A Microhistory of the Persistence of “Superstitious” Folk Religion in the People’s Republic of China”

2nd Place – Gillian Smith’s “Burned Like Witches: Petty Treason in Early Modern England Examined Through the Trial and Execution of Margery Beddingfield”