We all know that our History majors work their tails off. Doctoral candidate (and Department Historian reporter) Joshua Tait crunched some numbers and found that at a minimum, our Majors read about 10,000 pages, and crank out roughly 25 term papers (totaling 195 pages of original writing) over the course of their History careers at Carolina—and that’s not counting all the work they do in other departments! So all of our graduating seniors deserve a hearty congratulations.
For many of our students, those long nights in Davis Library have yielded gratifying recognition.
Congratulations to all our talented students who have earned honors this academic year!
| Recipients of Honors and Highest Honors in History | |
| Jacob Bell (Highest Honors) | Lacey Hunter |
| Mary Grady Bell | Matthew McKnight |
| Sydney Bezanson | James Messmer |
| Katherine Frances Cayton (Highest Honors) | Alexander Peeples |
| Rebecca Cockram (Highest Honors) | Michael Purello |
| Olivia Holder | Sophie Rupp |
| Jeremy Howell | Michael Sanders |
| Emma Watts | |
| Phi Beta Kappa Inductees | |
| Mary Grady Bell | Alexander Peeples |
| Danielle Callahan | Grace Porter |
| Rebekah Cockram | Joshua Rodriguez |
| Peyton Coleman | Sophia Rupp |
| Jordan Jenkins | Lydia Trogdon |
| Luke Kessel | |
| Phi Alpha Theta Inductees | |
| Rebecca Agner | Madison McCaffrey |
| Mary Armstrong | Akash Mishra |
| Catherine Blake-Harris | Meredith Norman |
| Mercer Brady | Alison Oehling |
| Emma Burri | Richard Denton Ong |
| Andrews Faulk | Amanda Packer |
| Brage Humphries | Grace Porter |
| Maya Kapoor | Michael Sanders |
| Anna Knotek | Mary Sotelo |
| Jacob Koehler | |
Undergraduate Awards
Frank W. Ryan Award for Best Honors Thesis
Frances Clayton, “Radio Free Europe, Poland, and 1956: Impact and Incoherencies in American Psychological Warfare Intervention Efforts”
Joshua Meador Prize for the Best History 398 Paper
Max Conley, “Nationality and Florality: Cherry Blossoms and the Hybridity of Japanese Identity”
Michael L. and Matthew L. Boyatt Award (to fund research expenses and study abroad)
Oliver Mitchell-Boyask, “The Historical Memory of World War One in the United States during the Interwar Period”
Walter Vozzo, “Locating Felix Fabri in Material and Regional Space”
Richard Denton Ong, “States of Emergency in 20th Century America: A Political History”
Max Conley (study in Japan)
Jordan Jenkins (study in Edinburgh, Scotland)
Mitchell Sokol (study in Poland)
Siani Antoine (study in Poland)
Grace McKinley (Ireland)
Mercer Brady (Spain)
Joseph Holmes (Spain)
Catherine Blake-Harris (Hong Kong)
David Anthony Kusa Award (to fund research expenses)
Daniel Harrell, “A Tenuous Relationship: Muslim League Support for the British during World War II”