2024 History Undergraduate Writing Prize Winners!

The History Faculty is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 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:

Dharma Sofía Suárez Palacios ‘24
Title: María, Mariana and Other Mothers of Mexico
Course: WGS.301/17.007/24.137 Feminist Thought

Rhea Bhattacharjee ‘25
Title: Women, Fencing and the Olympic Games, 1924-1996
Class: 21H.390 – Theories and Methods in the Study of History

Gideon Tzafriri ’26
Title: Predestined? Contextualizing English and Italian Reactions to the Plague
Class: 21H.134 – Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective