Each year, the History Department recognizes outstanding graduate students with four awards:
George Romani Prize:
This award is given for the best research paper by a First Year Graduate Student. The amount of this award is $300.00.Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence:
This award is given to most outstanding seminar leader and the most outstanding section leader. Awards are given to the highest CTEC (Course and Teacher Evaluation) scorer. The amount of each award is $250.00.History Alumni Teacher-Mentor Awards
This award is given in recognition of graduate students who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the teaching of undergraduates. Recipients collaborate with a faculty coordinator in the development and administration of the department's program for graduate teacher training. The amount of the award is $500.
Harold Perkin Prize:
This award is given for the best dissertation of the year.
Past Winners
2006/07
George Romani Prize: Robert Harkins, "Protestant Conformity and Nicholas Grimald's: The Imitation of Cicero in Reformation England." Additionally, honorable mentions were accorded to Alison McGevna, "Stool Pigeon or Savvy Leader?: The Relationship Between Roy Wilkins and the F.B.I. in the 1960s," and Andrew Warne, "The Children of Abraham: Southern Baptists, Judeo-Christianity, and the Evangelical Turn to Philo-Semitism and Pro-Israel Politics."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Erin-Marie Legacey & Ronnie Grinberg
- section leader: Meghann Pytka & Andreana Prichard
Harold Perkin Prize: Erik Gellman, "'Death blow to Jim Crow': The National Negro Congress, 1936-1947" (Nancy MacLean), & Nicholas Baker, "From a civic world to a court society: Culture, class, and politics in Renaissance Florence, 1480-1550" (Ed Muir).
2005/06
George Romani Prize: Fernando Carbajal, "'We Do not Profess to Being Angels...': The T.W.O. Youth Project, the Chicago Red squad, and the End of the War on Poverty."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Tobin Shearer & David Smith
- section leader: Shawn Clybor & Shannon Grady
Harold Perkin Prize: Sarah Ross, "The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England" (Ed Muir).
2004/05
George Romani Prize: Courtney Kneupper, "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Rethinking Heresy in Metz in the Fourteenth Century," & Strother Roberts, "Indians, Inuit, and Race: Racialized Differentiation among the Populations Surrounding Hudson’s Bay in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries." Additionally an honorable mention was accorded to Lonnie Robbins, "The Rhetoric of Wit as a Social Mediator in Tudor England."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Erik Gellman & Michael Pelletier
- section leader: Britt Petersen & Tobin Shearer
Harold Perkin Prize: Neil Kodesh, "Beyond the Royal gaze: Ganda Clans and the Construction of an African Metahistory" (David Schoenbrun), & Guy Ortolano, "The 'Two Cultures' Controversy: Radicals, Technocrats, and the Crisis of Postwar Liberalism" (Bill Heyck).
2003/04
George Romani Prize: Gergely Baics, "From Catherine Market to the Cellars: Black Public Dancing in Early 19th-Century New York City," & Darcy Heuring, "'All Tainted As They Are:' Wet Nurses, Fallen Women, and Infanticide in Victorian Britain, 1858-1872."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Michael Pelletier
- section leader: Deborah Cane & Amy Whipple
2002/03
George Romani Prize: Elise Lipkowitz, "Matters of Family, Matters of State: A Cultural History of Inoculation in France, 1754-1774," & Eric Taylor, "Rebel Limbs and Obligations: Disabled Confederates and the Politics of Memory in Early Reconstruction North Carolina."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Erik Gellman
- section leader: Michael Pelletier
2001/02
George Romani Prize: Sarah Ross, "Her Father's Daughter: Women's Renaissance Through the Father."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Christopher Hodson
- section leader: Carole Emberton & Michael Guenther
2000/01
George Romani Prize: Jarod Roll, "Gideon's Band: From Socialism to Vigilantism in Southeast Missouri, 1907-1916."
Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence
- seminar leader: Sarah Fenton
- section leader: Sean Field
northwestern.edu