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Wilbur Jacobs Prize

Wilbur Jacobs
Wilbur Jacobs

The Wilbur R. Jacobs Prize honors Wilbur R. Jacobs, Professor of History from 1949 to 1988 and a founding member of the History Department. It is awarded to an outstanding History graduate student in one of the three areas of Professor Jacobs’ research interest: colonial, Native American,
or frontier studies.

Present and previous recipients:

2023

Kendall Lovely

2022
Elizabeth Schmidt

2021
Laura Voisin George

2020
Rana Razek

2019
Christopher MacMahon

2018
Dana Hughes

2017
Mariel Aquino and Rana Razek

2016
Alexandra (Sasha) Coles

2015
Paul Barba

2014
Jason Zeledon

2013
Jackson Warkentin

2012
No award

2011
Monica Isabel Garcia

2010
Peggy Beedle

2009
Bianca Brigidi

2008
Vanessa Crispin-Peralta

2007
Todd William Wahlstrom

2006
Travis Raymond Smith

2005
Janet Christine Britton

2004
Vanessa Crispin-Peralta

2003
Travis Raymond Smith

1999
Anne Petersen

1996
Betsy Homsher

1993
Peter Quimby

1992
Joseph La Sala

1991
Cara Anzilotti

1990
Sean Patrick O’Neill

1989
Michael Joseph Mullin