History Prizes
Prizes are awarded to the authors of the best senior projects. The prize recipients are selected from among those students who have earned the highest grades on their projects during the academic year. The winners of the prizes are announced at the annual Honors Convocation in the spring of each year.
Don M. Larrabee History Prize
For the best thesis on history:
2011 Katelyn M. Dornburg
2010 J. P. Hendrickson and Ashton S. Kinney
2009 Amy L. Negley
2008 Crystal Ptacek
2007 Matthew Kissling
2006 Thaddeus R. Rupp
2005 Jenna C. Nigro
2004 David J. DeVenney
2003 Melissa F. McCrimmon
2002 Andrew P. Desbrow
2001 Robert Andrew Bain II
Harold Huntley Haine Prize in History
To a senior history major who has demonstrated both academic promise and performance in the area of American history:
2011 Bryan D. Sciulli and Nicholas A. Zapadka
2010 Nicole E. Fuhrman
2009 Sean M. Jozwiak and James C. McHolme
2008 Kimberley Luperi
2007 Benjamin Mourer
2006 Matt A. LeBold
2005 Christopher F. Caldwell and Sarah G. Johnston
2004 Rachel M. Brehm
2003 Ryan J. Durst and Nathan L. Robinson
2002 Barbara R. Eklund and Lauren S. Guehl
2001 Erin Michelle Black
Outstanding Junior Major Prize
2011 Elizabeth P. Keene
2010 Lindsey M. DiLoreto
2009 Nicole E. Fuhrman
2008 Amy Negley
2007 Curt Anderson
2006 Laura Johnson
2005 Christian B. Gass
2004 Sarah G. Johnston
2003 Jason A. Betts
2002 Stephanie N. Petrella
The most important component of our major is the College-wide requirement of the Senior Project, where students are expected to research and write as historians. Every Alleghenian completes a Senior Comprehensive Project (known as the “Comp”), a significant piece of original work, designed by each student and a faculty advisor, that demonstrates to employers and graduate schools the ability to complete a major assignment, to work independently, to analyze and synthesize information and to write and speak persuasively.
