Dewey Grantham Awards
Named for the late Professor Dewey Grantham, this award is presented to the best Honors Thesis in the History Department each year since Spring 1997:
2018 Cameron Rohall, “‘In Short, I am a West Indian’: Planters, Performance, Anxiety, and Abolition in Georgian Britain,” (Molineux, Epstein, Wright-Rios).
2017 Robert Yee, “Commerce and Corporate Governance: Financial Attempts to Restructure the British East India Company, 1765-1773,” (Caferro, Sheikh, Wcislo).
2016 TWO WINNERS.
Cecily Larison, “A Look Rather than a Reality: Feminism, Bras, and the Politics of Commodification,” Adviser: Paul Kramer
Talley, Mark Christian, “Forgotten Vanguard: The Origins and Mission of the National Council for United States-China Trade, 1972-1980,” Adviser: Thomas A. Schwartz
2015 Danielle Jessup Beaujon, “Coming ‘Home’: Repatriation in the Bouches-du-Rhône, 1962-1970,” Adviser: Lauren Clay.
2014 NO WINNER.
2013 Helen Li, “Culture Card: The Beijing Olympics and the Politics of Mega-Events,” Advisor: Gerald Figal.
2012 Sandra Michelle Jensen, “Curiosities on the Cumberland: Early Nineteenth-Century Museums in Nashville, Tennessee,” Advisor: Catherine Molineux.
2011 Kathryn Manza, “‘For the Poor, the Sick and the Needy’: How Socially Conscious Catholic Priests Navigated the Birth Control Debate in the U.S. in the Early Twentieth Century,” Advisor: Arleen M. Tuchman.
2010 Stephanie Lynn Freeman, “‘The Highest Stakes Poker Game Ever Played’: Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the ReykjavikSummit of 1986,” Advisor: Thomas A. Schwartz.
2009 Melanie Carol Erb, “The Rhetoric of Reform: Metaphors of Disease in John Howard’s The State of the Prisons,” Advisor: Professor James Epstein.
2008 Conrey Callahan; "The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Argentine Nationalist Intellectual Thought," Advisor: Professor Marshall Eakin.
2007 Gregory Roberts; "From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism's Charismatic Appeal," Advisor: Professor Bill Caferro.
2006 Ty Johannes; “The Other Side of the Prism:Explaining and Refuting the Image of a Weak and Indecisive Jimmy Carter,” Advisor: Instructor Breck Walker.
2005 Vreni Schoenenberger; “Staring at the Ground: Examining the Wider History of International Health Cooperation through the Indian Plague of 1896 and Trypanosomiasis in, 1900-1908,” Advisor: Professor Ruth Rogaski.
2004 Jonathan Michael Davis; “The Great Flood of 1937 In Louisville : a reconsideration of New Deal politics in a Southern City,” Advisor: Professor David Carlton.
2003 Two Awards: Megan Hektner; “’We Wanted to Sew Our History’: The Arpillera Movement, Motherhood, and Political Mobilization in Chile,” Advisor Professor Marshall Eakin, and, Ryan Crosswell; “In the Shade of Palmetto: Reconstruction, South Carolina , and David T. Corbin,” Advisor: Professor David Carlton.
2002 Two Awards: Sarah Fried; “Constructing the Self: Female Identity Development in the Turn-of-the-Century South,” Advisor: Professor Rebecca Plant, and, Justin Memmott; “Selective Silences: The Story of the American Press and Mein Kampf, 1933-1939,” Advisor: Professor Tom Schwartz.
2001 Two Awards: Lauren O’Neill; “Homemade: Domestic Bids and the Craft of Jimmy Carter’s Israeli-Egyptian Diplomacy,” Advisor: Professor Tom Schwartz, and, Lauren Ellis; “Preserving the Social Myth?: The United Steelworkers Strike at the Nashville Corporation in 1947,” Advisor: Professor Hugh Graham.
2000 No award given this year.
1999 Matthew Hanna; “The American Embassy: Catalyst for the 1965 Dominican Intervention,” Advisor: Professor Tom Schwartz.
1998 Andrew Hawken Hall; “The Last Days of Pirates,” Advisor: Professor Jane Landers.
1997 Two Awards: Clara J. Holloway; “’Hasten the Inevitable Day of Freedom’: The Carter Administration and Namibian Independence, 1977-1981,” Advisor: Professor Thomas Schwartz, and, Hilary D’Lacy Fey; “A Study of Heritage in Britain: From the Falklands War to WindsorCastle, ” Advisor: Professor James Epstein.