2023 History Undergraduate Writing Prize Winners!

The History Faculty is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 History Undergraduate Writing Prizes, honoring excellence in historical research and writing. The three awards, of $300 each, honor MIT historians John W. Dower, Pauline Maier, and Bruce Mazlish.

This year’s recipients are:

Kylee Carden ‘23
Title: Charles Blackman and the Activation of Lynching in Schley County, Georgia
Course: 21H.390 – Theories and Methods in the Study of History

Grady Thomas ‘24
Title: From Slaves to Hillbillies: A Racial History of the Banjo in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Class: 21H.390 – Theories and Methods in the Study of History

Alexis Zhou ‘26
Title: Charity and Inequality: Poor Relief in Bruges at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century 
Class: 21H.134 – Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective