History Major Receives 2024 Chester P. Middlesworth Award

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Veronica Sanjurjo has been named the undergraduate student winner of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Chester P. Middlesworth Award for her paper, “A Diary’s Purpose: Sarah J. Ewing’s Portrait of Domestic Abuse in Victorian London.”  The award comes with a prize of $1,000.

The Middlesworth Awards were established to encourage and recognize excellence of analysis, research and writing by Duke University students in the use of primary sources and rare materials held by the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.  The Duke University Libraries will be recognizing the winners of the Libraries’ Writing and Research Awards with a reception during Family Weekend. This year’s event will be at 3:00pm on Friday, October 18th in the Edge Workshop Room (Bostock Library 127).

Veronica Sanjurjo is a Senior majoring in History, with minors in Political Science and Spanish.  She is a member of the Baldwin Scholars Class of 2025.