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Congratulations to the 2016-2017 Essay Prize Winners

DEPARTMENT AWARDS

Robert Gibbs

Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course
Robert Gibbs,  ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ (HIST 1040: The Presence of the Past, Jennifer Bonnell)

Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 2000-level Course
Robert Gibbs, ‘Perceptions of the Falklands War’ (HIST 2400: British History from the Tudors to Thatcher, Nick Rogers and Stephen Brooke)

 

Lionel Widmer

Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 3000-level Course
Lionel Widmer, ‘Amateurism and Professionalism in Ancient Greek Sport’ (HIST 3125: Sport and Society in Ancient Greece, Jeremy Trevett)

Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 4000-level Course (two awards available)
Julie White, ‘Power and Control of Women in the Commodian Court and the Effects of Disobedience’ (HIST 4132: Caesar’s Palace, Ben Kelly)

Caitlyn Taylor, ‘Semper In Memoriam Nobis: Literature as Commemoration in the Interwar Period’ (HIST 4360: Europe Between the Wars, 1918-1939, Matthew Kerry)

Harry S. Crowe Memorial Prize
Shivanie Mahabir, ‘Psyching Out Sexuality: What Historians Say about Homosexuality as a Mental Illness in Canada’ (HIST 4511: Themes in Canadian Social 
and Cultural History, Joanna Pearce)