| Recipients of Honors and Highest Honors | Phi Beta Kappa Inductees | Phi Alpha Theta Inductees |
| Georgia Jane Brunner Elizabeth Crenshaw Chase (Highest) Michael Ian Hensley Ruoyu Ji Adrienne Kronovet Charles Bracken Lumsden (Highest) Meredith Grace Miller (Highest) Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler Ethan Henry Tyler (Highest) |
Lea Efird George Johnson Adrienne Marlo Kronovet Meredith Gracen Miller Austin Michael Mueller Lauren Trushin |
Brooke R. Bekoff Mariana I. Castro-Arroyo Jennifer M. Gay Madeline Hollingsworth Rachel Victoria Holcomb Lacey E. Hunter Luke A. Kessel Christopher G. Lamack Andrew N. Lazarchuk Robert A. Lyerly Brendon C. Murray Sophie R. Plott Michael Edward Purello Sophie I. Rupp Lydia C. Trogden Aidan R. Walker Shea L. White |
| Frank W. Ryan Award for Best Honors Thesis |
| Meredith G. Miller, “When Paris met Bohemia: Discovering the Czech Nation through its Art, 1900-1938.” |
| Joshua Meador Prize for the Best History 398 Paper |
| Trey Carpenter Flowers, “A Tale of Two Conventions: US Colonialism and the Fragility of Philippine Democracy.” |
| Michael L. and Matthew L. Boyatt Award to fund research expenses |
| Alexander Peeples, “The Tanzanian Education Act, 1969-2002: A Legal Narrative of Nation and Change” Sophie Rupp, “‘There Are Those Who Drink Our Blood’: The Beilis Case and the Power of Anti-Semitism in Late Imperial Russia” |
| David Anthony Kusa Award to fund research expenses |
| Jacob Bell, “The Autocrat and the Revolutionary: John Paul Jones in the Service of Catherine the Great” Frances Cayton, “Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Thaw: An American Perspective” |
Graduate Student Teaching Awards
| Peter Filene Innovative Teaching Award |
| Elizabeth Hasseler |
| Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
| Lindsay Holman Max Lazar |
Faculty Awards
| Clarendon Award |
 Kenneth Janken, the outgoing Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, and Professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies with a joint appointment in History, has won the 2016 Clarendon Award for The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). The Clarendon Award is given each year by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society in Wilmington, NC for the scholarly publication that best presents the history of the Lower Cape Fear area to the public. |
| Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize Award |
 Katherine Turk’s Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) has won the 2017 Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize award given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for “the most original” book in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History. The OAH defines “the most original” book as one that is a pathbreaking work or challenges and/or changes widely accepted scholarly interpretations in the field. |
| Manekin Award |
 Molly Worthen is the 2017 recipient of the Manekin Family Award for Teaching Excellence, bestowed by Honors Carolina. Honors students nominate faculty each year and then a sub-committee of the Honors Carolina student advisory board selects the awardee. |