DR. TIMOTHY GRAHAM | CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2022 | GRADUATED 2022 WITH HONORS 

Jackie Truitt "An Exploration of Nordic Food Culture of the Viking Age"

DR. MICHAEL A. RYAN | CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2021 | GRADUATED 2020 WITH HONORS 

Hero Morrison "Gender Fluidity in Viking Magic:Seiðr in Icelandic Tradition."

DR. LUIS HERRAN-AVILA | CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2021 | GRADUATED 2020 WITH HONORS 

Alice Herla "Incaism and the Andean Utopia: Examining the Role of Mythological Past in Social and Political Mobilization,"

 | CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2021 | GRADUATED 2020 WITH HONORS 

Benjamin Yocco “Political Repression and COINTELPRO.” 

| CONLON-DEMAS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FUND IN HISTORY 2018 | GRADUATED 2019 

Sean Summer

Dr. Caleb Richardson| CONLON-DEMAS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FUND IN HISTORY 2017 | GRADUATED 2017 WITH HONORS 

Louis Bernal "Religious Ties among Late Medieval English Laity."

Dr. Caleb Richardson | CONLON-DEMAS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FUND IN HISTORY 2017 | GRADUATED 2017 WITH HONORS 

Daniel Bidal "The Wars of the Roses"

Dr. Campos| CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2016 | GRADUATED 2016 WITH HONORS 

Casey Dowling "Secrecy and Espionage in WWII and the Cold War"

Dr. Tiffany Florvil| CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2016 | GRADUATED 2016 WITH HONORS 

Emily Briggs "Prostitution in 19th Century London and Paris"

Dr. Timothy Graham|  |2016

Bryna Milligan "Culinary Attitudes in Early Medieval Northern Europe: Traditions, Customs, and Influences”  

My thesis examines food customs in northern Europe and the British Isles during the early medieval period, and contains three chapters organized thematically. The first chapter focuses on the basics of agricultural practices in Anglo-Saxon England, and relies heavily on Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith’s Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, which was newly published at the time. The second chapter examines attitudes towards food and drink and the influences of Germanic custom, Church doctrine, and classical theory. The third chapter focuses on changes to all aspects of food and eating during the twelfth century, through the lens of disruptions caused by the Crusades. This survey ties together things I learned in my lectures with new discoveries from my independent study. It provided invaluable training for my subsequent Master’s dissertation.

Dr. Timothy Graham|CHARLES E. COAN MEMORIAL AWARD 2016| Graduated 2014

Bronwyn Schell “Women and Power in the Viking World”

Dr. Timothy Graham|| Graduated 2014

Robert Esquibel “Anglo-Saxon Influences on the United States: How Anglo-Saxon Laws, Society, and Language Impacted, Informed, and Shaped the United States of America.”

My Honors thesis explores how early English culture influenced a key figure of the American Revolution. The founding fathers of the United States, particularly Thomas Jefferson, looked to the example of Anglo-Saxon England to help them create and shape their new country. Jefferson studied the laws of Anglo-Saxon England intensively, with the goal of establishing the United States upon the basis of Anglo-Saxon law and social structure. He also advocated for the teaching of the Old English language in schools, especially in the University of Virginia, believing that principles of freedom and self-governance could be absorbed through study of texts written in Old English.