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Valerie French & Robert Beisner History Education Fund
This student support is provided to an undergraduate student to attend a conference or conduct research for a project. Established in honor of the late AU History Professor, Valerie French.
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2022: Alex Zaremba
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2021: Mark Episkopos
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2020: Katherine Kerekes
- 2019: Nathan Moore
Dorothy Gondos-Beers Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded annually to honor excellent work produced by a student in the department. This award was made possible through the generosity of AU History Professors Dorothy and Victor Gondos Jr.
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2022: Julia Cronin
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2021: Yael Isaacs and Jonah Kaufman Cohen
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2020: Gabriella Folsom
- 2019: Isabella Parrotta
- 2018: Isabella Parrotta
- 2016: Emily Peikin, Katilyn Ros
- 2015: Toby McCarroll
- 2014: Ariel Mond and Willim Oldham
- 2012: Sarah Adler and Kathryn O'Dwyer
- 2010: Kurt Karandy
- 2009: Abigail Kret
Honors in History (Graduating)
2020: Gabriella Folsom, Kathryn Morgan
Janet Oppenheim History Prize (Capstone)
This prize is awarded annually to honor excellent work produced in a capstone research seminar for undergraduate students.
This prize was established in memory of AU History Professor Janet Oppenheim.
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2022: Ryan Fernandez-Hom
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2021: Austin Bartola
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2019–2020: William Helfrich
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2018: Nathaniel Edenfield
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2017: Alexander Friedman, Kaitlyn Ross
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2016: India Pasiuk
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2015: Ariel Mond, William Oldham
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2014: Caitlyn Stellar
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2013: Madeline Steiner, Matthew Skie, Zach Kopin
History Single-Semester Capstone Prize
This prize honors excellent work produced in a single-semester capstone research seminar for undergraduate students.
This prize was established in memory of AU History Professor Valerie French.
2022: Andrew Klabnik
2021: Silvi Grodstein
2019–2020: Elizabeth Raymakers, Raymond Roesler
- 2018–2019: Emily Surman
Anna Kasten Nelson Award for Excellence in History
This award is given annually to senior History majors, who have earned at least a 3.5 in the major, and provides recipients with a one-year membership to the American Historical Association.
The award was named in memory of Distinguished-Historian-in-Residence Anna Kasten Nelson.
2019–2020
- Marita Anastasi
- Sarah Canfield
- Andrew Decarolis
- Gabriella Folsom
- Hannah Gelband
- Caroline Hannum
- Margaret Hudak
- Katherine Kerekes
- Alexandra Kommel
- Sarah Levin
- Jessica Levin
- Timothy Madigan
- Betty Mfalingundi
- Kathryn Morgan
- Dana Stevenson
- Katie Wong
2018–2019:
- Matthew Adams
- Sierra Apaliski
- Faith Asmore
- August Atencio
- Shaan Chilukuri
- Dan Dupuis
- Gabriella Folsom
- Melissa Galvin
- Susana Gude
- William Helfrich
- Amanda Laughead
- Tomasso Piccirilli
- Elizabeth Raymakers
- Raymond Roesler
- Silvana Scott
- Connor Whitson