This award is named in honor of the late Dr. Emanuel Levine, a history professor at Rider for nearly 40 years.
Prize description: Cash prize is awarded every semester to the History major/minor or Education/History major who wrote the best research paper in a history course.
Award Recipients
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | Katelyn Salvatore, A Seat at the Table: Feminist Art and Pop Culture During the Second Wave |
| Fall 2023 | Fall 2023 Patrick Luckie, The Social Cost of Deindustrialization: Postwar Trenton, NJ |
| Spring 2023 | Noah Phayre, Putting the “Cool” in Coolidge: The Popularity of the 30th President |
| Fall 2022 | Andrew Greenstein, The Forgotten Lessons |
| Fall 2021 | Victoria Burd, “Rights, Redistribution, and Recognition,” Newark and Its Place in the Civil Rights Movement |
Previous Award Recipients
| Year | Name | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2020 | Annamarie Bernard (Donald Duck, Dire Warnings, and Der Fuehrer: How Disney’s World War II Propaganda Uncovered Subliminal Messages) | Spring 2021 | Anthony Higueruela (The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disintegration of American Democracy) |
| Fall 2019 | Remington D’Antonio (Containment in Mass Culture: How Television Influenced the Post-War Society) | Spring 2020 | Hayley Roy (Free All of Germany from the French Yoke: German Liberalism, Nationalism, and Depictions of France in the Preussischen Jahrbüchern 1848-1871) |
| Fall 2018 | Kevin Innocenzi (Raised to Rebel: Cold War Youth Insurgency Origins and Influences) | Spring 2019 | Ryan Ciaccio (Justice Following Genocide?: The ICTY's Ability to Change International Law, Give Victims a Voice, and Punish the Perpetrators) |
| Fall 2017 | Christina Tenreiro (The Lost Cause and the Confederacy Not So Lost) | Spring 2018 | Ayesha Qureshi (The Emergence of Islamic Terrorism and the Struggle for Chechen Independence, 1990-2015) |
| Fall 2016 | Kate Bradley (I Change My Mind: Women and the Repeal of Prohibition) | Spring 2017 | Jordan Gendron (Fairies: The Enduring Strength of Irish Myth) and Bethany-May Howard (From the Almshouse to the Middle Class: An English Family’s Journey 1754-2017) |
| Fall 2015 | Randy Ball, (Moral Combat: A Cultural Investigation of Video Games) | Spring 2016 | William Benjamin Strahle (The Keystone Man: How Joseph Tito Built the Yugoslav Identity) |
| Fall 2014 | Karryne MacLean (The Colors of Hope and Despair: The Fate of Ellis Island Stowaways from 1893-1924) | Spring 2015 | Rachel Jensen (The Monster Within: The Demonization of Lesbian Feminists in the Women’s Liberation Movement) |
| Fall 2013 | Kyle Stenger (Disney) | Spring 2014 | Valerie Losa (King Henry VIII) |
| Fall 2012 | Brittany Gajewski (slavery & abolition in NJ) | Spring 2013 | Rebecca Russo (Infanticide in Colonial NJ) Griffith Montferrante (WWII Propaganda in Hollywood Films) |
| Fall 2011 | Daniel Strauss (Prohibition in NJ) | Spring 2012 | Heather Conway (U.S. Civil War Centennial) |
| Fall 2010 | Dana Nissen (Women & the American Revolution) | Spring 2011 | Marie Gill (Cleopatra) |
| Fall 2009 | Brandon Copeland (Barbary Piracy) | Spring 2010 | Robert Fisher (Convention Army) Alexandra Longo (Spiritualism) Mark Wetherbee (Animal Rights) |
| Fall 2008 | Benjamin Gibson (Vendée counterrevolution) | Spring 2009 | Christie DeCarolis (NJ School Segregation, 1961-63) |
| Fall 2007 | Dan Feingold (Robert Owen & Socialism) | Spring 2008 | Jaclyn Becker (Free Speech Movement, 1964) |
| Fall 2006 | Heather Horowitz (Earl Warren) | Spring 2007 | Josh Meredith (Civil War in Burlington, NJ) |
| Fall 2005 | Emily Wikoff (Battle of Monmouth) | Spring 2006 | Staci Pinelli (Pentagon Papers) |
| Fall 2004 | Matthew Hagar (Battle of Trenton) | Spring 2005 | Sandra Riccio (Alice Paul) |
| 2002 | Kristen Hendrickson (U.S./Panama relations) | 2003 | Timothy Kozlowski (U.S. invasion of Cambodia) |
| 2000 | Andrea Torano | 2001 | Gina Balestrieri (U.S. Freedmen's Bureau) |
| 1998 | Thomas R. Saxton (PA mutiny, 1781) | 1999 | Joshua Crome (Guatemala coup) |
| 1996 | David Caine (Hollywood Film Censorship) | 1997 | Jaime Moltisanti (Elizabeth G. Flynn and the ACLU) |
| 1994 | Winifred Lafferty (Japanese-American Internment) | 1995 | Keith Flynn (Dropping the Atomic Bomb) |
| 1992 | Thomas McGuinness (U.S./Nicaragua relations, 1932-36) | 1993 | Beth Anne Brown (Brown v. Board of Education) |
| 1990 | Patricia Rowley (The OSS) | 1991 | Melissa Beauchesne (Women in the CPUSA) |
| 1988 | Kimberly Nagy (suppression of the IWW) | 1989 | Richard Clee (U.S-China relations, 1949-1950) |