John Highbarger Memorial Award for the best doctoral dissertation
This annual award honors the memory of John Highbarger (1940–1973), who was a doctoral student in the History Department.
Istvan Szepesi
5+1 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
"Unspoken Accommodations: A Century of Religious Coexistence in Cologne, 1517–1617"
2022
Sejoo Kim
Assistant Professor, Gyeongin National University of Education, Incheon, South Korea
“American Postcolony: Imperial Citizenship and the Rise of Garment Metropolis in the Pacific, 1944–1999”
2021
Nicholas Roberts
Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield VT
“A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Sa‘id bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace”
2020
Nicholas Bonneau
Full-Time Lecturer, University of Maryland–Baltimore County, and Consulting Scholar, Mütter Research Institute, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
“Unspeakable Loss: New England’s Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735–1775”
2019
Jonathan Riddle
Assistant Professor, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu CA
“Prospering Body and Soul: Health Reform, Religion, and Capitalism in Antebellum America”
2018
Samuel K. Fisher
Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
“Fit Instruments: Gaels, Indians, and the Diverse Origins of Imperial Reform and Revolution”
2017
Adam Foley (deceased)
“Homer’s Winged Words and Humanist Latinity: The Task of Translating Homer in the Italian Renaissance”
2016
Benjamin Wetzel
Assistant Professor, Taylor University, Upland IN
“American Crusade: Lyman Abbott and the Christian Nation at War, 1861–1918”
2015
Courtney Wiersema
Director, Graduate Career Development, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
“All Consuming Nature: Provisioning in Industrial Chicago, 1833–1893”
2013
Maria Rogacheva
“The Soviet Scientific Intelligentsia from Stalin to Gorbachev, 1956–1985: A History of A town That Did Not Exist”
2012
Melinda Grimsley-Smith
Coordinator, International Scholarships, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY
“Politics, Professionalization, and Poverty: Lunatic Asylums for the Poor in Ireland, 1817–1920”
2011
Danielle Dubois
Archivist, National Archives, Baltimore MD
“Before the Culture Wars: Conservative Protestants and the Family, 1920–1980”
2010
Nicholas P. Miller
Professor, Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien Springs MI
“The Religious Roots of the First Amendment: Dissenting Protestantism and the Separation of Church and State”
2009
David R. Swartz
Professor, Asbury University, Wilmore KY
“Left Behind: The Evangelical Left and the Limits of Evangelical Politics”
2008
Steven Schroeder
Associate Professor, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford BC, Canada
“Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944–1954”
2007
Thomas Rzeznik
Associate Professor, Seton Hall University, South Orange NJ
“Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Philadelphia, 1880–1950”
2006
Margaret Abruzzo
Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL
“Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate”
2005
Darren Dochuk
Professor, University of Notre Dame
“From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Southernization of Southern California, 1939–1969”
2004
Bonnie Mak
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign IL
“(Re)defining the Page for a Digital World”
2004
Darin Hayton
Associate Professor, Haverford College, Haverford PA
“Astrologers and Astrology in Vienna During the Era of Emperor Maximilian I (1493–1519)”
2003
Daniel B. Hobbins
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
“Beyond the Schools: New Writings and the Social Imagination of Jean Gerson”
2002
Rachel M. Koopmans
Associate Professor, York University, Toronto ON, Canada
“Dispute, Control, and the Individual Voice: The Making of Miracles at Christ Church, Canterbury, 1080–1220”
2002
Mark A. Jantzen
Professor, Bethel College, North Newton KS
“At Home in Germany? The Mennonites of the Vistula Delta and the Construction of a German National identity, 1772–1880”
2001
Nicole Mische Gothelf
“Persecution, Identity, and Politics: The English Protestant Martyr Narrative and Oppositional Politics in Early New England and Pennsylvania”
2000
Barbra M. Wall
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA
“Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Nuns, Nursing, and Hospital Development in the West and Midwest, 1865–1915”
1999
Michael G. Clinton
Professor, Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley PA
“The French Peace Movement, 1821–1919”
1999
Steven M. Nolt
Professor, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown PA
“German Faith, American Faithful: Religion and Ethnicity in the Early American Republic”
1998
Vladimir Janković
Reader (equivalent to Professor), University of Manchester, United Kingdom
“Meteors under Scrutiny: Private, Public, and Professional Weather in England, 1800–1850”