Awards | Past Mansfield-Wefald Winners
Mansfield-Wefald Prize Recipients1995 Recipient:
Carlos Rojas, Cornell University
Thesis: “Nietzsche and the Body Politic: Culture and Subjectivity in Twentieth Century China”
1996 Recipient:
Laura Diane Steele, Cornell University
Thesis: “Superstructures, Space, and Social Life: Aceramic Neolithic Architecture of the Taurus/Zagros Foothills”
1996 Honorable Mention:
Diana Gibson, Harvard University
Thesis: “On the History of a Misunderstanding: the Hymenaios and the Etymology of the Hymen Refrain”
1997 Recipient:
Mark Jason Greif, Harvard University
Thesis: “The American Transformation of the Holocaust, 1945-1965”
1998 Recipient:
Ani Mukherji, Cornell University
Thesis: “‘Uncle Tom Meets Uncle Sam’: The Role of International Ideological Tensions and the Soviet Mediation of Radical Politics in the Formation of American Civil Rights Discourse, 1930-1947”
1999 Recipient:
Julia Watts, Cornell University
Thesis: “Demons Within: The Persecution of Witches amid Social Transformation in Reformation Germany”
2000 Recipient:
Selena Kyle, Stanford University
Thesis: “There Goes the Neighborhood: The Failure and Promise of Second Units as a Housing Source for the Midpeninsula”
2001 Recipient:
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Swarthmore College
Thesis: “Manning the HomeFront: Gender, Citizenship, and Conscientious Objection during World War II”
2002 Recipient:
Albert Cho, Harvard University
Thesis: “The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold: Ethnic Diversity and Economic Development in Mauritius”
2003 Recipient:
Julia Chuang, Harvard University
Thesis: “Challenging Poverty with Culture: Filial Adaptation to Labor Migration in China”
2004 Recipient:
Previn Warren, Harvard University
Thesis: “In Pursuit of Peirce: Habermas’s Reconstruction of a Fugitive Philosopher”
2005 Recipient:
Averill Leslie, Columbia University
Thesis: “To Produce the Best Type of Future Citizens: The Eugenics Survey of Vermont and the Construction of Definitive Vermonterhood”
2006 Recipient:
William Woolston, Harvard University
Thesis: “Do ‘Great Expectations’ Matter? The Relationship Between Teacher Expectations and Student Academic Success”
2007 Recipient:
Irene Yuan Sun, Harvard University
Thesis: “Population as Discourse: Medicine in Late Colonial Kenya”
2008 Recipient:
Tyler Zoanni, University of Chicago
Thesis: “The Sacred Sovereign: Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes and Early Modern Political Theory”