History DepartmentDeNault Award Winners

2024

  • Emily Carlson: "The Impacts of the Moral Response to Epidemic Cholera in the United States
  • Melissa "Mel" Pardock: "Do Not Scorn a Weak Cub- He May Become the Brutal Tiger" Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
  • Corina Occhiato: "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire"

2023

  • Ruby O'Hagan: "Personal Beliefs and the Means to Save"
  • Chasey Wedge: "French Art in the Era of Occupation"
  • Emily Carlson: "Historiography: Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement"

2022

  • Lucy Dolan
  • Lillie Ortloff: "Fearful for American Well-Being: How U.S. Policy Ostracized Gay Immigrants During the AIDS Epidemic"
  • Sophie Pfluger: "Enough Adventure for Nine Lifetimes (Scottish Reformation 1527-1637)"
  • Cole Remme: "Akhenaten: Religious Visionary or Fanatical Theocrat?"

2021

  • Lucy Dolan
  • Lillie Ortloff: “Sex Testing of Women and Intersex Athletes in Twentieth-Century International Competitions”
  • Ruby O'Hagan: "Simón Bolívar’s Greatest Influences"

2020

  • Amy Rose
  • Lillie Ortloff: "Historiography of Bystanders to the Holocaust"
  • Michael L. Gluth
  • Vy Hai Nguyen
  • Sonja May Quimby
  • Alexia M. Vonruden

2019

  • Jessica Strobush
  • Matthew Venzke

2018

  • Daniel J. Trentacoste
  • Louis G. Gagnon

2017

  • Anna M. Lund: “Going West: A Woman’s Life on the Overland Trail"
  • Tanner S. Petroske

2016

  • Isaak M. Hagan
  • Samuel L. Panzer

2015

  • Brianna G. Dickel
  • Sage A. Macklay: "Some Innocent Heads Were Cracked: The 1963 Harlem Riots in Print Media"
  • Samuel L. Panzer

2014

  • Emily L. Fitzsimmons
  • Ava K. Goepfert

2013

  • Rachel M. Chase
  • Samantha J. Good
  • Lauren K. Sekelsky

2012

  • Jacob P. Albrecht
  • Avery L. Wallace: "Turn of the Century Grand Canyon: The Reenactment of Manifest Destiny"

2011

  • Jordan W. Kraemer
  • Eric R. Kunkel
  • Whitney M. O'Connell
  • Kyle L. Vick

2010

  • Laura N. Baker
  • Kiera L. Braun
  • Angela L. Larson
  • Christopher A. Stewart
  • Laura R. Walker

2009

  • Aaron M. Hiltner
  • Emily A. Wendorff

2008

  • Aaron M. Hiltner
  • Casey M. Johnson
  • Margaret K. Sotos
  • Jennifer L. White

2007

  • Chelsea L. Becker
  • Luke O. Pesonen
  • Bridget A. Traut
  • Geoffrey H. Wessendorf

2006

  • Nicole L. Gergen
  • Nolan F. Klouda
  • Christopher L. Lowry
  • Taylor D. Metz

2005

  • Andrew J. Erickson
  • Erin R. Gebhart
  • Sara M. Given
  • Elizabeth M. Ory

2004

  • Lisa E. Ahnell
  • Andrew J. Erickson
  • Elizabeth M. Ory

2003

  • Jody E. Anderson
  • Erica K. Hedstrom
  • Andrew T. Leaf
  • Nadine S. Lysiak

2002

  • Carl J. Nelson
  • Aeleah H. Soine

2001

  • John P. Eidell III
  • Rebecca M. Knudsen

2000

  • Linda A. Lanz
  • Justin M. Rhodes
  • Joseph H. Thompson

1999

  • Michael G. Horn
  • Thomas M. McHugh

1998

  • Kirsten Bland
  • Eric Martin

1997

  • Judy Hensley
  • Thomas Kelsey

1996

  • Teri Jeske
  • Christopher Pouliot

1995

  • Neal Enssle
  • Darcy Whitcomb
  • Lance Hampton

1994

  • Jassica Chapel
  • Joseph Gaugler
  • Laura Timm

1993

  • Wendy Garbers
  • Christopher Gerke

1992

  • Stephanie Briggs
  • Linda Elvee

1991

  • Mark Hoekstra
  • Sarah Fatherly
  • Jane Simonsen
  • Molly Harris