Phi Alpha Theta Award Winners

38th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2022)

List of awards, award winners, and paper titles (PDF)

37th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2021)

List of awards, award winners, and paper titles (PDF)

36th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2020)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Steffanie Sobitz, UH Mānoa
Monumental: Confronting Memory, History, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Spain

Best Undergraduate Paper, Honorable Mention
Joseph Parrish, HPU
The Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559 & The Bridge in Warfare Between the Middle Ages & Modernity

Best Graduate Paper
Peter Bushell, UH Mānoa
The Liberation of the Philippines: A Cost Assessment Analysis of Both American and Japanese Forces
Scott D. Cunningham, HPU
The (Brief) Case for U.S. Support to Iraqi-Kurdish Independence

Best Graduate Paper, Honorable Mention
Billy Mayer, HPU
An Unbreakable Code: The Navajo Code Talkers during the Second World War

Walter Vella Prize
Laurabell Obana, HPU
Shaping the Future Leaders: Alumni of U.S.-Sponsored Exchange Programs

Walter Vella Prize, Honorable Mention
Andrew Merz, HPU
U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Military: The Unseen Impact of Security Cooperation

Sara Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Research / Hawaiʻi or Pacific History
George Young, UH Hilo
“Taʻisi O.F. Nelson and the Mau”: Sāmoan Independence Movements Prior to 1927

Idus A. Newby Historiography Prize
Christopher Wrenn, UH Mānoa
Sacred Cenotes, the Great Ballcourt, and Vision Serpents: How had Chichén Itzá Survived the Droughts of the Twelfth Century?

Idus A. Newby Historiography Prize, Honorable Mention
Peter Bushell, UH Mānoa
The Liberation of the Philippines: A Cost Assessment Analysis of Both American and Japanese Forces

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Dustin Schrock, HPU
The Anti-Imperialist League and Racism

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History, Honorable Mention
Darryl K. Lindsey, HPU
The Peace Corps in Afghanistan: A Case for Cultural Diplomacy

Fritz Rehbock Prize in maritime history and/or the histories of science, medicine and technology
Gene Ahn, HPU
Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Indigenous Communities

Fritz Rehbock Prize, Honorable Mention
Christopher Wrenn, UH Mānoa
Sacred Cenotes, the Great Ballcourt, and Vision Serpents: How had Chichén Itzá Survived the Droughts of the Twelfth Century?

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize
Kai Phung, BYU Hawaiʻi
Allen McQuarrie

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize, Honorable Mention
Noah Hull, HPU
Who Wants to Live Forever? Freddie Mercury’s Statue in Switzerland

Jerry H. Bentley Prize in world history
Adrian Alarilla, UH Mānoa
Watching the End of the World from the Island Shore

Jerry H. Bentley Prize, Honorable Mention
Rae Baer, HPU
Hyperinflation and the Logic of Absurdity

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize in the history of global conflicts and the search for peace
Lauren Hauck, UH Mānoa
The Surveillance State: Creating an Urban Panopticon in Israel/Palestine
Darryl K. Lindsey, HPU
The Peace Corps in Afghanistan: A Case for Cultural Diplomacy

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize, Honorable Mention
Batsukh Batmunkh, UH Mānoa
The Examination of Russian Empire’s Foreign Policy and Economic Interests in East Asia through Primary Documents Concerning Outer Mongolia (circa 1910-1913)

GFWC Women’s History Prize
Brittany Perry, HPU
The Power of Dance: A Form of Diplomacy that Transcends Language Barriers

GFWC Women’s History Prize, Honorable Mention
Emily Holmberg, UH Mānoa
Daddy Issues: How Paternalism, Racism, and Civilization Influenced the Era of Indian Removal

Oceania Prize exploring Pacific Islands’ pasts
Antoine Hollmon, HPU
The Role of U.S. Military in American Expansion Abroad: From 1865 – 1900s

Oceania Prize, Honorable Mention
Patrick O’Neill, HPU
Cut Off from History

35th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2019)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Kirsten McDonald, UH Hilo
Son of Distant Shores: How a Native American Quietly Greeted Japan before Commodore Perry

Best Graduate Paper
Kulamauukomohana Companion, HPU
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Walter Vella Prize
Mei Xu, UH Mānoa
Through the ‘Private Eye:’ Politics, Social Upheavals and Women’s Roles in Cheng Xiaoqing’s Huo Sang Tan An

Walter Vella Prize, Honorable Mention
Batsukh Batmunkh, UH Mānoa
Brief History of Writing Mongolian with a Special Reference to Precursors and Offshoots of Traditional Mongolian Script

Sara Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Research / Hawaiʻi or Pacific History
Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, UH Mānoa
He Kālailai Keka o ka Moʻolelo no ko Luka Keʻelikōlani Wā Kamaliʻi (A Gendered Analysis of Ruth Keʻelikōlani’s Childhood) 

Sara Sohmer Prize, Honorable Mention
Wainani Traub, UH Hilo
Lost in Translation: Māori Resistance to Colonization in 19th Century Aotearoa

Idus A. Newby Historiography Prize
Mākena Rivera-Concannon, UH Mānoa
Expressions of War: The Art of Yoshio Takamoto and the Lives of the 100th Infantry Battalion

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Antoine Hollmon, HPU
Postwar Occupation: Aftermath of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Fritz Rehbock Prize in maritime history and/or the histories of science, medicine and technology
Sulim Kim, UH Mānoa
Ondol Socialism: Socialist Life Expressed through North Korean Urban Spaces

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize
Billy Mayer, HPU
A Churchillian Crusade: Bounded by Predestination and Freewill

Jerry H. Bentley Prize in world history
James Miura, UH Hilo
Pirates and Patronage: Merchants, Smugglers, and Bandits in the Greater China Seas

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize in the history of global conflicts and the search for peace
Lauren Hauck, UH Mānoa
Battleground Bodies: Rape Warfare and the Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials in the Former Yugoslavia

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize, Honorable Mention
Peyton Bailey, UH Mānoa
The Boxer Indemnity: Reevaluation of Early 20th Century US-China Relations and the Origins of the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship

GFWC Women’s History Prize
Brittani Hartley, UH Mānoa
White Power Women: How Fashion, Domesticity, and Sexuality Transcend Hate

Oceania Prize exploring Pacific Islands’ pasts
Greg Ihakara Wright, BYUH
Te Rauparaha: Competent War Chief or Ruthless Tyrant? A Leader of His Time

Oceania Prize, Honorable Mention
Mackenzie Ellsworth, UH Hilo
Three Countries, Four Eras: Military Occupation on the Island of Guam and the Lasting Effects on Chamorros

34th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2018)

Best Undergraduate Paper*
Kelli Acopan, UH Mānoa
Elizabeth Fries Ellet: Conflicting Roles of Domesticity in Victorian America

Best Graduate Paper*
Uluwehi Hopkins, UH Mānoa
Moʻolelo as Resistance: The Kaona of Kahalaopuna in a Colonized Environment

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize*
Kelli Lyman, UH Mānoa
A Light in the Pacific: Lucy Goodale Thurston and 19th Century Women Missionaries in Hawai‘i

Jerry H. Bentley World History Prize*
Brent Bond, HPU
American Cultural Diplomacy in the South Pacific

Sara Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Research: Hawaiian or Pacific History*
Wainani Traub, UH Hilo
Venereal Disease in Hawaiʻi: The Barrier Between Depopulation and Recovery

Walter Vella Prize (Primary Source Research)
Christopher Wrenn, UH Mānoa
The Nixon Administration and the 1973-1975 Global Economic Crisis

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize in the History of Global Conflicts and the Search for Peace
Nikolas van der Meulen, HPU
Assessing the Similarities, Differences and Cultural Acceptance at the Crossroads of LGBT Muslims Fleeing to the United States, United States-Born LGBT Muslims, and the Modern Muslim Societies

GFWC Women’s History Prize*
Sina Maiava, BYUH
Myths and Women of Samoa: E au le inailau a Tamaitai

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science
Artem Sergeyev, UH Hilo
The Role of Anthropogenic Radiation in the Global History of Disease

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Madison Semones, UH Mānoa
How Jean O’Hara Revolutionized Prostitution in Hawai‘i

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Mei Xu, UH Mānoa
Chinese Cosmopolitanism, “Unhomeliness,” and The Politics of Memory in Cheng Xiaoqing’s Detective Series Huo Sang Tan An

*Prizes Supported by GFWC History Club of Honolulu

33rd Annual Meeting Award Winners (2017)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Miranda Kam (UHM)
“Masters of La Mode: Representations of Women in the French Fashion Press, 1797-99”

Best Graduate Paper
Rob York (UHM)
“‘Besieged by imperialists’: North Korea’s state media in English, 1998-2003”

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize
Camron Stockford (BYUH)
“Understanding a Silent Soldier”

Jerry H. Bentley World History Prize
Eli K.M. Foster (UHM)
“Hernando and Tuscaloosa: Individual encounters as World Historical phenomenon”

Sara Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Research: Hawaiian or Pacific History
Artem Sergeyev (UHH)
“Medical Missionary Dwight Baldwin & Ka Wa Hepela”

Walter Vella Prize (Primary Source Research)
Catherine Ulep (UHM)
“Exotic Exchanges: Sex Work, Trade, & Euro-American Men In Early Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i”

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize in the History of Global Conflicts and the Search for Peace
Rob York (UHM)
“‘Besieged by imperialists’: North Korea’s state media in English, 1998-2003”

GFWC Women’s History Prize
Steven Flukiger (UHM)
“Caquenga and Women’s Social Power in the Philippines”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science
Michael Lanza (HPU)
“Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cold War”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Chris Benbow (UHH)
“The Space Race: How American Nationalism Took Off”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Lee English (UHM)
“Changing Conceptions of Chinese-Nomadic Interactions in Central Asian Borderlands”

32nd Annual Meeting Award Winners (2016)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Matthew Roberts (BYUH)
“Leadership of the Union Army during the Civil War: In Search of a General”

Best Undergraduate Paper, Honorable Mention
William D. Mayer (HPU)
“The Dying Lion of Lucerne: A Royal Situation, A Democratic Transformation”

Best Graduate Paper
Brian Chun-Ming (HPU)
“North Korea and the Korean DMZ Conflict 1966 -1969: Understanding How and Why North Korea Used Military Aggression (Militarism) and Low Intensity Conflict to Meet National Goals”

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize
Graceanne Warburton (UHM)
“Russian Princess, British Scholar: Examining the Intellectual Life of Princess Dashkova”

Jerry H. Bentley World History Prize
Sara J. Connis (HPU)
“Sino-Indian Tensions over the Brahmaputra: The Role of Economic Development and Nationalism in Hydropower”

Sara Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Research: Hawaiian or Pacific History
Noah Dolim (UHM)
“Pilikia in the Pacific: The Rationalization of U.S. Imperialism through Counter-Narratives in Travel Writing, 1892-1907”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science
William Matt Cavert (UHM)
“Pearl of the Empire: Science, Commerce, and Conservation in the Tuamotu Archipelago”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Eli KM Foster (UHWO)
“Mount Tabor Indian Community, Living in Two Worlds: An Indian Community Survives and Thrives”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Tokikake Ii (UHM)
“Searching for the Objective Analysis: Japanese Atomic Bomb Research and the Victimhood Narrative”

Walter Vella Prize (Primary Source Research)
Michele Ezaki (HPU)
“Motive and Opportunity: The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974”

Marc Jason Gilbert Prize in the History of Global Conflicts and the Search for Peace
Keavy Hunnigal-Gaw (HPU)
“An Assessment of Finland’s System of Protection against Extremism during the Inter-war Period”

GFWC Women’s History Prize
Faye J. Glover (HPU)
“Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years War”

31st Annual Meeting Award Winners (2015)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Alex Ikeuchi (UHM)
“Wife, Student, Writer: “Warbler in the Grove” and Gender Roles in Meiji-era Japan”

Best Undergraduate Paper, Honorable Mention
Tanner Greer (BYUH)
“Why Pick an Eighty Year Fight? Investigating the Causes of Han-Xiongnu Contention in the Reign of Han Wudi”

Best Graduate Paper
Matt Cavert (UHM)
“At the End of an Empire; Disease, State, and Identity in New Caledonia 1899-1900”

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize
Kaitlyn Iwashita (UHM)
“One False Note: The Case of Billy Tipton and America’s Reactions to Transgender Individuals in the 1980s and 1990s”

Jerry H. Bentley World History Prize
Alex Holowicki (UHM)
“Ravished Armenia and the Pursuit of International Justice”

Sara Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Research: Hawaiian or Pacific History
Alexander ʻĀlika Guerrero (UHH)
“In Search of a Sovereign Pacific: Mōʻī Kalākaua Visits Emperor Meiji”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science
Sara J. Connis (HPU)
“The History of the Sino-Indian Border Dispute and its Impact on the Tension over Water Resources”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Angela Soto Balmores (UHM)
“Mama, Don’t Let Your Girls Grow Up to be Housewives: Effects of the Modernized Kitchen Propaganda on Women in the 1950s”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Stacey Reed (UHH)
“Victims or Vital: Contrasting Portrayals of Women in WWI British Propaganda”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography, Honorable Mention
Edward Hoogland (UHM)
“Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: Seeing Collective Action Clearly”

Walter Vella Prize (Primary Source Research)
J. Uluwehi Hopkins (UHM)
“The Value of Display: Hawaiʻi’s Newspapers on Museums, and the 1867 Exposition Universelles”

30th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2014)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Brycen Chun (UHM)
“Transpacific Exchange and the Impact on the Spanish Americas: The Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade”

Best Graduate Paper
Richard Forster (UHM)
“Rajendra Prasad and the Fate of Hindustani”
Michael Johnson (UHM)
“Origin Stories and Americanization Narratives: The Introduction of Baseball to the Hawaiian Islands, 1840-1867”

Walter Vella Prize (Primary Source Research)
Trevor J. Tresselle (HPU)
“Eisenhower’s Psychological War: The Use of Music to Buttress Americanism”

Sara Sohmer Prize, Graduate (Research in Hawaiian or Pacific History)
William Cavert (UHM)
“Claiming the Frontier: Colonial Resource Law in the French Pacific, 1843-1931”

Sara Sohmer Prize, Undergraduate (Research in Hawaiian or Pacific History)
Erin Akinaka (BYUH)
“Kalākaua: Disempowered by the Media”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Rebekah Carroll (UHM)
“From Warriors to “Hula Girls”: Painting a Picture of Politics, Gender, and Hawaiʻi”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Saul Rollason (UHH)
“Crying in the Dark – Reconstruction and the Birth of Blues”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in Science and Discovery
Jenna Harburg (UHH)
“Cumal to Kūmara: The Voyage of the Sweet Potato across the Pacific”

Robert E. McGlone Biography Prize
J. Uluwehi Hopkins (UHM)
“Curators in Conflict at Hawaiʻi’s Bishop Museum: The Story of William T. Brigham vs. Emma K.M.B. Nakuina”

Jerry H. Bentley World History Prize
Brock Kahakawai Huddleston (UHM)
“Interaction Networks Across the Ancient Pacific: How Hawaiian History Re-invented our Approach to World History”

29th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2013)

Best Undergraduate Paper
Craig Lyons (UHM)
“The Relationship Between the Luiseno and Father Peyri and the Development of Mission San Luis Rey”

Best Graduate Paper
Alex Holowicki (UHM)
“Reel Idealism: Wilsonian Politics and the Amateur Cinema League, 1926-1954”

Walter Vella Prize (Primary Source Research)
Andrew Haberer (UHM)
“The Path Less Traveled: The Impact of the Global War on Terror on the American Community”

Walter Vella Prize, Honorable Mention
Trevor Tresselle (HPU)
“Oil Rush: The Struggle for South China Sea Oil”

Sara Sohmer Prize (Research in Hawaiian or Pacific History)
Keanupohina Manoa (BYUH)
“A Year After the Day That We Will Never Forget”
Keely Kauʻilani Rivera (UHH)
“Pīpī Holo Kaʻao (And so the story goes): The Preservation of Traditional Moʻolelo Through Hula”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Alexander Mizumoto-Gitter (UHM)
“Cesare Borgia and Viana: Biographies and Historical Memories in Navarra”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Shirley Buchanan (UHM)
“Dee Brown: Challenging American History”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in Science and Discovery
Hannah Henry (UHH)
“Reactions of Epidemics in Hawaiʻi of 1848 to 1849.”
Christopher Hardy (UHH)
“Cultural Revitalization: The Path to Health for Native Hawaiians”

28th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2012)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
David Romney (BYUH)
“Fighting for our Leaders . . . Whether They Like It or Not: Understanding Buddhist Militarization”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Shirley Buchanan (UHM)
“The Iroquois Connection: Atlantic Dimensions of Iroquois Trade”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
David Rosehill (HPU)
“Where Do We Go From Here? Oil in America’s Last Frontier”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History (3 winners)
Jon Abraham (UHH)
“From Yam to Spam: An Evolution of Pacific Islander Food Culture”
Craig Lyons (UHM)
“The Catholic Church in Hawaii”
Kananileialoha Kawika (UHM)
“Missionary Influence on Hawaiian Music Tradition in 1823”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Ruby Secrist (UHH)
“Trotsky: The Devil’s Bastard or Russia’s One True Revolutionary?”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History (presented by Fran Margulies in her husband’s memory)
Tyler Chinnen (UHH)
“Battlefield Innovations of the Civil War”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Lena Moore (UHM)
“The Visibility of the Mentally Ill in the New England Colonies, 1620-1700”

27th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2011)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Jason Poulter (BYUH)
“Forgotten Islands: Object Lessons from Samoa, 1880-1900”
Robert Franklin (UHH)
“The War of Jenkins’ Ear: Jingoistic Mercantilism, Pacifistic Diplomacy, and the Securing of the Georgia Border”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Richard Forster (UHM)
“Mughals, Maghs, Portuguese Pirates and Persian Poets: Earlly Modern Arakan in a Cosmopolitan Bay of Bengal World”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
Oliver Bordallo (UHM)
“The Rude Art: ‘Nimrod’, ‘Novice,’ and Sporting in the Sarawak Gazette, 1874-75”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History
Lauren Emily Kamalei Stovall (UHH)
“Ka Poʻe i Aloha i ka ʻAina: The People Who Love the Land, A History of Creative Resistance”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Pavel Stankov (HPU)
“Suspend Judgment: Problems of the Thoery of Philosophic Continuity Between Greece and India”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Michael Corlew (UHM)
“AIM and the Red Power Movement”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Adam Witten (UHM)
“Reclaiming Chinese Agriculture”

26th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2010)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Laʻakea Yoshida (UHH)
“Bloodline Accession and Gifted Power: Nero Claudius Drusus and the Struggle to Define Heirship in Rome during the Reign of Tiberius”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Kevin MacClaren (UHM)
“A Cold October: Reshaping America’s Diplomatic Role in the Middle East”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
Michael Clement (UHM)
“Hafa Adai Cam Rahn Bay: Chamorro Music and the Vietnam War”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History Co-winners
Rebecca Odierna (UHM)
“Educate, Organize, and Confront!: John Kelly and the Save Our Surf Movement”
and
Jared Medeiros (BYUH)
“The Duke Classic: A Lost Hawaiian Legacy”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Richard Forster (UHM)
“Mangal Pandey: Drug-crazed Fanatic of Canny Revolutionary?”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Pavel Stankov (HPU)
“The Brothers’ War”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Bruce Chun (UHH)
“Pioneer Trails into a New Frontier: The Pioneer 10 and 11 Missions to Jupiter and Saturn”

Alliance Française d’Hawaii Prize in French History*
Josh Hevert (UHM)
“Consoling the Cathars: Cathar Identify in Ritual Manuscripts”

*This prize will hereafter be known as the Thomas E. Mahoney Annual History Essay Award in honor of the late World War II U. S. Air Force pilot and long-time member of the Alliance.

25th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2009)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Jessica Johnson, UHM
“The Role of Black Folk Culture in the Harlem Renaissance”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Kim Schauman, UHM
“(Re)Vision the Nation: The King Kamehameha I Monument.”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
Adam Fong, UHM
“‘The Power to Subdue the Hundred Beasts’: The History of Guangzhou and Its Hinterland from the 3rd to the 6th Centuries CE”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History
Liann Marks, UHH
“Kahuna Lapaʻau in the 19th Century: A Form of Cultural Agency”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Richard Forster, UHM
“Indian Migrants in the Age of Empires: Continuities in an Indian Ocean World”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Cassandra Milke, UHM
“‘The Gem That Sparkles Yet’: The Ever-Changing Image of Belle Starr, the ‘Bandit Queen’”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Jonathan Clemens, UHM
“From Cogs to Computers: South Korea’s Transition to the Information Age”

Alliance Française d’Hawaii Prize in French History
Annalia Montany, UHM
“Pascal’s Provincial Letters and Their Significance to Old Regime France”

24th Annual Meeting Award Winners (2008)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Laʻakea Yoshida, UHH
“Clodius Pucher, Caeser’s Willing Puppet: The Bona Dea Affair and Its Effect on Cicero and the Fall of the Republic”
Martha Randolph, HPU
“Shadows in the Valley of Shining Light: The Destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Oliver Bordallo, UHM
“Uncle Sam Under the Looking Glass: English, Public Education, and the Chamorros of Guam, 1922-1941”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
Melissa Esmacher, UHM
“‘I’d Rather See Hitler and Hirohito Win Than Work Next to a [Black Man]’: Race and Labor in Detroit, 1940-1943”
Cassandra Bohe, Chaminade
“Spirit of Resistance: The Bataan Death March and the Filipino Experience in World War II”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History
Drew Gonrowski, UHM
“Resistance Through the Moʻolelo of Pele: Maintaining Hawaiian Culture and Identity in the 1820’s and Today”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
David Mergens, UHM
“Jazz, Civil Rights, and Sounds of Conscience”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Michael Ortega, UHM
“Empire and the Emergence of Modern Medicine”

Alliance Française d’Hawaii Prize in French History
Gavin Lamb, UHM
“The Diderot-Palissot Conflict”

23rd Annual Meeting Award Winners (2007)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Daniel Mawyer, UHM
“Suffering the Storm: The Arsikantegoukian Experience During King William’s War”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Bryce Beemer, UHM
“Southeast Asian Slavery and Slave Gathering as a Vector for Cultural Transmission: The Case of Burma and Thailand”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
Scott Bailey, UHM
“In the Service of Empire? Chokan Valikhanov in Central Eurasia”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History
Paul Orr, UHH
“Early Dealings with European Whalers and Traders in the Solomon Islands”
Jason Borja, UHH
“How Chamorros Utilized Foreign Influence During the Spanish Era”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Adam Fong, UHM
“A Shining Tower in the Southern Sea: Uncovering the Trade Diasporas of Southern China, 619-907 CE”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Kelli Nakamura, UHM
“‘A Campaign of Terror’: The Bombing of the House of Sakamaki and the Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Richard J. Martin, UHM
“Alfred C. Kinsey: Historiographical Perspectives on an Icon”

22nd Annual Meeting Award Winners (2006)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Spencer McBrid, BYUH
“The Catholic Conquest of California”

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Mark Ombrello, UH
“Railroads in Japanese and Japanese Colonial Modernity”

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
Scott Kramer, UHM
“Japan’s Claim to the Bonin Islands and the Legend of Ogawasara Sadayori”

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History
Kelli Nakamura, UHM
“A Dual System of Alienation: Internment, Repatriation, and Torn Japanese/American Identities”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Adam Fong, UHM
“Extraction, Administration, or Central-Place? Theories About Chinese Urban History, 220 BCE-1279 CE”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Aren Worley, UHH
“The Hessians in the American War of Independence”

Fritz Rehbock Prize in the History of Science and Discovery
Scott Bailey, UHM
“‘In the Wild Countries of Asia’: Nikolai Przhevalskii’s Expedition to Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and Northern Tibet, 1870-1873”

21st Annual Meeting Award Winners (2005)

Best Undergraduate Paper Prize
Lindsay Yamauchi, BYUH
Ryan Koo, UHM

Best Graduate Paper Prize
Kelli Nakamura, UHM

Walter Vella Prize for Outstanding Research
William Stevenson, UHM

Sara Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian or Pacific History
Alan Boyes, UHM
“Safe Savages: The Construction of Native Hawaiian Primitivism”

Idus A. Newby Prize in Historiography
Adam Fong, UHM
“History With a Purpose: Nationalism and the Writing of Vietnamese History”
Dominique Mansilla Hermann, UHM
“The Question of Hu: A Narrative Without Analysis?”

Herbert F. Margulies Prize in American History
Michelle Murray, UHM