One of the best parts of my job as the Asst. Director of Undergraduate Studies in the History Department here at Harvard is the opportunity it gives me to work closely with our Senior Thesis writers. One would be hard-pressed to find a brighter or more thoughtful group of students, and their individual projects‚Äîwhich took them from the college library to Manchuria‚Äîwould, in many cases, compare favorably with graduate theses. It has been a pleasure this year to teach all thirty-two of them in our department’s Senior Thesis seminar.
Today the Secretary of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the 83 winners of this year’s Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, which recognizes outstanding undergraduate research projects. (The majority of Hoopes Prizes go, as one might imagine, to Senior Theses.) I’m thrilled to report that nine of our thirty-two thesis writers have won! I congratulate all of them.
For a complete list of Hoopes Prize recipients, click here (PDF).