Student News
Graduate students received a number of grants and accolades.
The Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research awarded the Rees Davies Prize to Tom Parkinson; the Neale Prize to Eloise Davies; a RHS / IHR Marshall Fellowship For Doctoral Research to Humaira Chowdhury; and runner up for the Alexander Prize to Max Long.
Dr Merve Fejzula and Dr Ruth Lawlor were joint winners of the Sara Norton Prize for the best dissertation in American History. Dr Sara Caputo and Dr Jake Subryan Richards were joint winners of the Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize, awarded for a dissertation involving original historical research.
Grace Whorrall-Campbell won the Social History Society Postgraduate Prize. Fearghal Grace won the Robert Silver Prize. George Morris received the Duncan Tanner Prize.
Both Max Long and Scott Mandelbrote received AHRC grants.
Our undergraduate students received a wide range of awards and nominations as well.
In Part II of the Historical Tripos, Radka Pallová was jointly awarded the Faculty Prize for the best dissertation for ‘The Emperor and Constantinople in the 'Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronika,' along with Boris Fonarkov for ‘Reconsidering the Nature and Extent of Failure in Nikolai Sparfarii's Embassy to Beijing, 1675-177’. Radka Pallová was also nominated for the Winifred Georgina Holgate-Pollard Prize for being the undergraduate with the most outstanding results in Part II, the Royal Historical Society’s prize for the best dissertation, and she was jointly nominated for the Gladstone Memorial Prize for the best dissertation from amongst candidates of History, Economics and Social and Political Sciences. Gabriel Osborne was awarded the Istvan Hont Prize for his dissertation entitled, ‘Of Traffique and Trade: the early modern discourse of exchange,’ which was also nominated for the Ellen McArthur prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in economic history.
Khadija Tahir was awarded the Alan Coulson prize for the best dissertation on a topic in the field of British imperial expansion for her dissertation, ‘An Urban and Social History of Bhatti, c. 1930-1939’. Charlotte Gamble received the Sara Norton Junior Prize for the best dissertation on American Political History for ‘Policing the Black Dance Hall: Leisure, Surveillance and Uplift in the African-American City, c. 1900 to c.1930’. Broderick Haldane-Unwin was jointly nominated for the Gladstone Memorial Prize for the best dissertation from amongst candidates of History, Economics and Social and Political Sciences for 'No money will henceforth do bargains for my life': The prevalence and mechanics of ransom in the Viking Age,’ which was also awarded the Cambridge Historical Society prize.
Alice Byrne was nominated for the Ellen McArthur prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in economic history for ‘The Industrial Gender Order in Lancashire, c. 1960-2000,’ as was Fiona Mitchell for ‘Women's Employment in Northern England, 1767-1851’. Mitchell’s dissertation was also nominated for the CUQM prize for the best undergraduate using quantitative methods in the social science and humanities Triposes. Rachel Imrie was nominated for the Ellen McArthur prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in economic history for ‘The Industrial Gender Order in Lancashire, c. 1960-2000’. Michael Fraser was nominated for the Royal Historical Society’s award for the best dissertation in Scottish history for ‘Scottish Presbyterians and the "Protestant Cause", c. 1685-1748’. Trudy Yates was nominated for the History of Parliament Dissertation award for the best dissertation in the field of British or Irish parliamentary or political history for ‘The Office of Principal Secretary, through the eyes of Robert Beale’. Billy Liu was nominated for the German History Society award for the best dissertation in German history for ‘Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter as theorists of democracy in the age of catastrophe’.
In Part I, Mr S Rubinstein (Trinity) received the Faculty Prize and Mr F Markan Jones (Wolfson) received the Cambridge Historical Society Prize.
Miss J M Raw and Mr Adam Fereday were jointly awarded a prize for the best overall performance in the History and Politics Tripos. Mr V Prudnikovs was nominated for the Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize.
David Austen was awarded the Winifred Georgina Holgate-Pollard Prize for being the undergraduate with the most outstanding results in Part II of the 2020 Historical Tripos. Lili Donlon-Mansbridge was awarded the British Society of Sport in History Prize for 2020.