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Eugene D. Levy Award for Most Outstanding Graduate, Department of History

Julia Scherb (2021)

Hadrian Demaioribus (2020)

Haider Nazir (2020)

Sarah M. Boyle (2019)
Mikaela Wolf-Sorokin (2018)
Mary Catherine Devine and Emmett A. Eldred (2017)

Lucy Pei (2016)

Emma R. Livne and Katherine E. Thomas (2015)

Marcy P. Held (2014)

Jeffrey A. Zayas (2013)

Jacqueline Anne Cortese (2012)

The Levy Award has been presented each year since 2012 and succeeds the Neff Award.

Margaret C. Neff Award for Best Overall Academic Record

Anthony John Kuhn (2011)

Laura Emmons Thorén (2010)

James Ian Dougherty and Mark Robert Rudnick (2009)

Anthony Falleroni (2008)

Clara E. Reyes (2007)

Anusha Balasubramanian (2006)

Nelissa Danelle Milfeld and Dinah A. Winnick (2005)

Bethany J. Lehman and Mark D. Egerman (2004)

Faith Anne Cole and Melissa McMahon (2002)

Anne Marie Mesco and Russell O'Lare (2001)

Jessica S. Merlin (2000)

Joy Heather Ferguson (1999)

Frank Marra Ligons (1998)

Ian Paul Murphy (1997)

Edward Steven Slavishak (1996)

Troy Samuel Benowitz (1995)

The Neff Award has been presented each year from 1969 through 2011. Contact the Undergraduate Coordinator for information on recipients before 1995.

Ludwig Schaefer Award in Social History or Anthropology and History

Frances (Franky) Moore and Douglas Patterson (Fall 2020)

Ah Jin Youn (2020)

Margaret D. Slevin (2019)
Kyle J. Wing (2018)
Robert William Reynolds and Brady R. Wilson (2017)

Noël B. Um and Thomas L. Vielott (2016)

Jessica M. Phoa (2015)

Emily Anne Gibson (2014)

Stephen M. Rosnick (2013)

Hester Leonora Wolfe Simons (2012)

Jean Hoy Kim (2011)

Leslie J. Coletti and Hannah Mirkinson Rosen (2010)

Jennifer E. Johnson and Yael M. Klionsky (2009)

Valerie Anderson Savage and Seven Toby Weinberg (2008)

Rebekkah Amye Belferman (2007)

Megan Miller (2006)

Kimberly Danielle Lackner and Frances C. Ritchie (2005)

Shivdev K. Rao (2002)

Neema B. Avashia and L

In 1986 the Ford Foundation launched a funding initiative to encourage the development of programs designed to encourage more academically outstanding undergraduates to consider careers as college and university professors. A second goal of the initiative was to foster a renewed sense of commitment to the academic profession by current faculty members. Based on a survey to identify college and universities that had produced a significant percentage of bachelor degree alumni who went on to graduate school and completed a Ph.D., the Foundation invited 39 institutions to apply for grants to establish programs designed to encourage more of their best and brightest undergraduates to consider the academic profession. The list included many of the nation’s leading universities, including all the members of the Ivy League, the University of Chicago, and Stanford. Among the 39 was Eckerd.

A team of faculty chaired by the Dean of Faculty designed a program and submitted a proposal which along with Princeton and Brooklyn College, was one of the first three institutions to be approved for funding: $250,000 over three years. In 1991, 16 institutions among the original 39 were invited to apply for additional funding. Eckerd was among these and received an additional $200,000.

Eckerd’s program was launched in the fall of 1986 with the selection of 20 rising Juniors as Ford Apprentice Scholars to enroll in a specially designed two semester course in the History of Ideas, the first step in a two year sequence of study culminating in a major research project under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. The first class of Ford Scholars graduated in May, 1989.

The essential elements of the program are a two semester course in the History of Ideas in the Junior year concluding with a symposium at which the Apprentice Scholars make public presentations; a summer research project in close collaboration with their faculty sponsor; a major research project as a Senior; publ