Stone / Davis Prize

Stone/Davis History Senior Thesis Prize

To encourage sophisticated training and experience in historical research among history undergraduates, The Davis Center for Historical Studies awards a limited number of Lawrence Stone and Shelby Cullom Davis Prize fellowships to rising seniors for their senior thesis projects. Award recipients will receive a cash grant of up to $6,000 for use over summer break. To be considered, a student must have compiled an excellent record in departmental work, and must be recommended by a member of the department. The recommendation letter should be accompanied by a detailed research plan and budget written by the student. Please apply through the SAFE website, which will solicit the necessary recommendation letter.

The History Undergraduate Office offers proposal writing workshops. Please refer to the History Writing Group (HWG) page for dates.

Per University regulations, we only cover allowable domestic and international travel and accommodation, as well as expenses designated by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) for students to conduct research in archives and libraries. Awards will be approved for remote research in accordance with the list of allowable expenses approved by the OUR; please refer to the O.U.R. site for details and clarification on what is and is not covered. 

Note that a second, smaller round of fellowship applications is offered in late fall of senior year for research conducted during winter break.

Details of each application cycle (including deadlines for submission and dates of award announcements) will be announced to juniors early in the fall and seniors in the spring semesters via email from the Undergraduate Office of the Department of History.

Please reach out to Judie Miller, Undergraduate Program Administrator, with any questions.

2023–24 Award Recipients

Cooper Austen
The Poem of Force in Spain: Simone Weil and the Intellectual Legacy of a Fractured War

Ozzie Bayazitoglu
Journalistic and Official Portrayals of the Allied Occupation of Istanbul and the Turkish War of Independence

Luke Carroll
The Development of the Grand Jury in the American Revolution

Luza Chevres
Working Class Consciousness in the UK's Thatcher Era

Kayte Feiner
South African Jewish Treatment of Arguments for the Similarities Between Apartheid South Africa and Israel

Uma Fox
Indian Counterterror Law (1985–1995)

Justin Murdock
Lex Americana: U.S. Legal Sonderweg in Postwar Germany and Austria, 1945–1955

Bridget O’Neill
Private Memories, Public Conflict: Oral Histories from inside a 1969 Belfast Household

Navani Rachumallu
Maintaining Indian Allegiance: Counter Propaganda and the Indian Section of the BBC's Eastern Service During WWII

Past Stone / Davis Prize Winners