Each year, NEHA considers nominations for best Graduate and Undergraduate student papers delivered at a NEHA meeting. Panel chairs, commentators, and audience members are encouraged to be on the lookout for outstanding graduate and undergraduate student work and to nominate papers for the annual prize, awarded at the following Spring meeting.
The next award will be for papers delivered in our 2025 meetings; send nominations to:
Dominic DeBrincat (Committee Chair) email: ddebrincat@missouriwestern.edu
Department of History and Geography
Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive, Popplewell Hall 114E
St. Joseph, MO 64507
Recent Winners
2024: Samuel Moore (Graduate Student, Keene State College), for “From Elephants to Ecclesiastics: The Changing Imagery of Chess and its Reflection in the Medieval Imagination,” and Bridget Clossick (undergraduate, University of Rhode Island), for “A Call to Action: Addressing the Root Causes of American School Shootings,” which was also presented at the NEHA panel at the American Historical Association meeting in New York, January 2025.
2023: Allen Horn (Graduate Student, University of Maine Orono), for “‘You Mentioned Your Old Brigade, But Not Your Horse’: Animals in the Civil War Letters of Oliver Otis Howard.”
2021: Timothy Hastings (Graduate student, Keene State College), for “Getting Away with Murder: Enslavement, Racialized Violence, and White Supremacy in Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire” (Fall 2021) and Allen Horn (undergraduate, Eastern Connecticut State University), for “Little Sorrel, Living Relic of the Lost Cause” (Spring 2021).
2020: An T. Nguyen (Ph.D. candidate, University of Maine), for “Peace Combatant: Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh and the Quest for Vietnamese Independence and Women’s Liberation” (Spring 2019) and Mira D’Amato (undergraduate, University of New England), for “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: A Guide to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District, 1958-1969” (Spring 2019)
2016: Allison Horrocks (University of Connecticut), for “‘Not Foreigners, But Friends’: The Global Politics of Home Economics in the Twentieth Century” (Spring 2015).