Vincent P. DeSantis Prize for the best unpublished paper by a graduate student in History
This annual prize honors Professor Vincent P. DeSantis (1917–2011), a distinguished and beloved scholar of American political history, who taught in the History Department for no less than sixty years, from 1949 until 2009
2023
Gavin Moulton
Ph.D. candidate, University of Notre Dame
“From Church Riot to Sit-Down Strike: Polish Catholics and Collective Action in South Bend, 1885-1940”
2022
Benjamin (Jack) Young
Ph.D. candidate, University of Notre Dame
“See You at the Pole: Evangelical Youth Culture and the Search for Sacred Space in 1990s America”
2021
Sean Raming
Ph.D. candidate, University of Notre Dame
“We Shall Not Alter It Much by Our Words: The Press and the International War Crimes Tribunal of 1967”
2020
Jorge Puma Crespo
Assistant Professor, Hope College, Holland MI
“The Nazas-Aguanaval Group: Radical Priests, Catholic Networks, and Maoist Politics in Northern Mexico”
2019
John Nelson
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX
“Sigenauk’s War of Independence: Anishinaabe Resurgence and the Making of Indigenous”
2018
Tomás Valle
Postdoctoral scholar, University of Hamburg, Germany
“Crafting the map of Orthodoxy: The Case of Eilhard Lubin”
2017
Jonathan Riddle
Assistant Professor, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu CA
“All Catholics Are Spiritualists: The Boundary Work of Mary Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols”
2016
Elizabeth Baker
Assistant Professor, Grove City College, Grove City PA
“Suffragette Palace: Sophia Duleep Singh, Hampton Court Palace, and Votes for Women”
2015
Samuel K. Fisher
Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
“Fit Instruments in a Howling Wilderness: Colonists, Indians, and the American Revolution”
2014
Belen Vicens Saiz
Associate Professor, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD
“Swearing by God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia”
2012
David Russell Komline
Professor of Church History and Coordinator for Strategic International Initiatives, Western Theological Seminary, Holland MI
“‘If There Were One People’: Segregation, Race, and Ethnicity in Reconstruction-era American
Catholicism”
2011
Eleanor (Pettus) Schneider
Independent Scholar & Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library
“The Stripping of the Classrooms: The Reformation and the End of English Humanism”
2010
John Cirilli
Proofreader/Editor, Writer
“Truthful Deceptions and Omissions of Sin: On the Intent and Possible Intended Printing of Henry Garnet’s ‘A Treatise Against Lying and Fraudulent Dissimulation’”
2009
Joshua Kercsmar
Assistant Professor, Unity College, Unity ME
“Absence does not Make the Heart Grow Fonder: The Conflicted Legacy of Perry Miller and the Re-visioning of Early New England”
2008
David Morris
Director of the Souvay Memorial Library at Kenrick Glennon Seminary, St. Louis MO
“Babylon and the Evolution of Medieval Exegesis”
2006
Martina Cucchiara
Professor of History, Bluffton University, Bluffton OH
2005
Justin Poché
Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA
2004
Margaret Abruzzo
Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL
2002
Steven Schroeder
Associate Professor, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford BC, Canada
2000
Christine Caldwell Ames
Professor, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC