HistoryGRACE LINDSEY ABELS (High Distinction)
Prayers to the Patriarchy: A Case Study of Women in the Nation of Islam's Writings in Muhammad Speaks
Advisor: Jenny Wood Crowley
NANCY BEAUJEU-DUFOUR (High Distinction)
"National in Form, Orthodox in Content": An Examination of Russia’s Imperial Pursuits of Muslim Kazakh Populations at the End of the Tsarist Period
Advisors: Mustafa Tuna & Mona Hassan
LILY CLAIRE BROWN (Distinction)
The Memory of Slavery in the Peach Tree State: Race, Education, and History in Georgia, 1920-1991
Advisor: James Chappel
PATRICK DUAN (William T. Laprade Prize, Highest Distinction)
The Last Shall Be First: The Genealogy of Russian Historical Exceptionalism and the Road to Revolution, 1830-1917
Advisor: Martin Miller
MELODY GAO (High Distinction)
Growing Old in the New South: Race and the Center for Aging at Duke University, 1950-1990
Advisor: James Chappel
ALEXANDRA BAILEY GRIFFEN (Raymond Gavins Prize, Highest Distinction)
The ‘Last Midwife’ that Never Was: Gender, Race, and Birth in Durham’s Medical Establishments, 1900-1989
Advisor: Sarah Deutsch
ISABEL BEATRICE LEWIN-KNAUER (Highest Distinction)
Love, Lust, and Violence: Cultural and Sexual Politics in the Memoirs of Pablo Escobar’s Wife, Victoria Henao, and Lover, Virginia Vallejo
Advisor: John D. French
JACK AARON MORRISON PALMER (Distinction)
A Century Apart: Ship Captains Recording the British Atlantic Slave Trade, 1690s – 1790s
Advisor: Barry Gaspar
YU FAN SUN (High Distinction)
"By the light of our own age": Benjamin Jowett’s Plato and the Politics of Classical Interpretation in Victorian England
Advisor: Vasant Kaiwar
LISA ZHAO (High Distinction)
Denial and Mistrust in the Sunderland Cholera Epidemic, 1831-1832
Advisors: Margaret Humphreys & Evan Hepler-Smith
