First Vasant Kaiwar Prize Winner Announced!

We're pleased to announce that Nathan Strang is the inaugural winner of the Vasant Kaiwar Prize in Undergraduate Historical Research, for his paper entitled "Eugenics In the Press: Francis Galton’s Early Ideas and Public Responses (1870 – 1904)."

Established upon his retirement in 2023, the Kaiwar Prize is meant to honor the beloved professor's deep commitment to undergraduate research- including the sharing of it through publication- over the course of his 30-year career at Duke University.  During that time, Dr. Kaiwar taught courses covering South Asia and pre-modern world history, as well as a gateway seminar, “Empires in Historical Perspective”.

The prize takes the form of a $250 cash award, as well as publication of the winning essay in the Spring issue of Historia Nova: The Duke Historical Review.

Nathan Strang is a Public Policy Undergraduate at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, graduating in Spring 2024.