Senior Project
The most important
component of our major is the College-wide requirement of the Senior Project,
where students are expected to research and write as historians. Every
Alleghenian completes a Senior Comprehensive Project (known as the "Comp"),
a significant piece of original work, designed by each student and a faculty
advisor, that demonstrates to employers and graduate schools the ability
to complete a major asignment, to work independently, to analyze and synthesize
information and to write and speak persuasively.
- History
600-601
- Guidelines for the Senior Project
- Recent Senior Projects
in History
- A list of recent titles to show the range of work done by students.
Prizes in History
Prizes are awarded to the authors of the best senior projects. The prize
recipients are selected from among those students who have earned the highest
grades on their projects during the academic year. The winners of the prizes
are announced at the annual Honors Convocation in the spring of each year.
Don M. Larrabee History Prize.
For the best thesis on history
2005 Jenna C. Nigro
2004 David J. DeVenney
2003 Melissa F. McCrimmon
2002 Andrew P. Desbrow
2001 Robert Andrew Bain II
Harold Huntley Haine Prize in History.
To a senior history major who has demonstrated both academic promise and performance
in the area of American history
2005 Christopher F. Caldwell and Sarah G. Johnston
2004 Rachel M. Brehm
2003 Ryan J. Durst and Nathan L. Robinson
2002 Barbara R. Eklund and Lauren S. Guehl
2001 Erin Michelle Black
Outstanding Junior Major Prize.
2005 Christian B. Gass
2004 Sarah G. Johnston
2003 Jason A. Betts
2002 Stephanie N. Petrella
2001
