Ryan Dunbar, Molly Smith

Congratulations to current undergraduate students Ryan Dunbar and Molly Smith, who won first and second prize for the Carey McWilliams Award, respectively. Ryan’s paper is titled Death Throes of Antiquity: The Evolution of the Early Islamic Conquest of the Near East. His advisor is John S. Langdon. Molly’s paper is titled For the Love of ‘Bad, Foreign Habits’: Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Cultural Development and Identity Differentiation from 750 to 950 C.E.. Her advisor is Jessica Goldberg.