2026 History Department Commencement Ceremony
- UR Department of History
- Jul 9
- 4 min read
Commencement Weekend took place May 15-17. Congratulations to our graduate and undergraduate degree recipients!
Commencement speaker Annie Ganem addresses the URochester Department of History's Class of 2026.
Congratulations to our 2026 Graduates
July 9th, 2026, original date of publication
Class of 2026 History Majors
Paola Almendarez
Nora C. Culver
Anna G. Eisenberg
Dania Sophia Flores Lopez
Annie Rose Ganem
John Michael Gangemi
Anika Grieve
Joshua R. Henderson
Erin Hess
Malachi Justice Horsangchai
Noah Cleighton Hubley
Joseph P. Jang
Roshele Grace Jean-Baptiste
Erin Celia Kent
Paige E. Lovelace
Yutong Lu
Chenxuan (Noel) Luo
Jacob Andrew Lytle
Annabel Louise Pulley
Aleena Sam Ressas
Alexa Maria Rosenbloom
Jonah Christopher Stapels
Daniel K. Thomas
Calvin Tongue
Diego Adrian Turner
Hanchang Wu
Shunran (Sherlock) Yang
Class of 2025 History Minors
Nathaniel W. Bogdan
Tristan A. Gamard
Dina Garber
Hannah Noelle Gentile
Yoon-Suh Amy Go
Lorelei King
Brooke Nicole Mackey
William Paine Murray
Alexandra Ng
Natalie Opdahl
Dhruv V. Patel
Trường Anh Khôi Phan
Esther D. Polyakovsky
Aleksi Seppala
Ahmed A. Shah
Thomas Walden
Qidi (Addy) Yuan
Department Graduation Photo Collection
To view the undergraduate commencement photos, taken by I. Marianetti of I. Marianetti Photo, go to our "UR History Commencement 2026" Pic-time Gallery.
Undergraduate Prizes and Awards in History
Coates Senior Honors Essay Award
To the senior who has written the best senior essay in the department this year
Chenxuan (Noel) Luo
"Rumah, 家, and the Spaces Between:
Chinese Indonesian Repatriations and the Search for Return, 1950s-1960s"
N.B. Ellison Prize
To the members of the senior class concentrating in history who has done
the best work in the department
Paola Almendarez & Chenxuan (Noel) Luo
History Seminar Prize
To the history major who has written the best HIST 300W-level seminar paper
Paige E. Lovelace
"The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Legal Exhaustion Demands Humanitarian Intervention"
Eugene H. Webb Prize
To the undergraduate student who has done the best work in a course dealing with the Black experience in America
Guillermo A. Sarah
"Legal Refuge, Frontier Obligation: Mascogo Freedom in Coahuila, 1850-1867"
Herbert Lawrence Sadinsky Memorial Prize
To the best undergraduate or graduate history paper on an aspect of World War II
William Chen
"The Differentiation Between Japanese and Chinese Men
in Second World War American Propaganda"
Christopher Lasch Fellows in History
Each year, the department invites a select group of senior History majors to become Christopher Lasch Fellows. Lasch Fellows enroll in the demanding graduate level course Problems in Historical Analysis during the fall semester of their senior year.
Erin Kent, Paige E. Lovelace, & Chenxuan (Noel) Luo
Academic Honor Society
Anika Grieve, Joseph P. Jang, Paige E. Lovelace, Trường Anh Khôi Phan
Alexa Maria Rosenbloom, Daniel K. Thomas
History Honor Society
Anna G. Eisenberg, Tristan A. Gamard, John Michael Gangemi, Dina Garber,
Yoon-Suh Amy Go, Noah Cleighton Hubley, Joseph P. Jang, Roshele Grace Jean-Baptiste, Lorelei King, Paige E. Lovelace, Chenxuan (Noel) Luo, Carolina Naranjo,
Trường Anh Khôi Phan, Esther D. Polyakovsky, Alexa Maria Rosenbloom, Ahmed A. Shah, Daniel K. Thomas, Kaitlyn Ann Yelencsics
Take Five Scholars
Nora Culver, William Murray
A very special "Thank You" to our graduating
History Department's peer advisors/office assistants!
Pictured with History Department Chair, Professor Ruben Flores from left to right:
Roshele Jean-Baptiste, Jonah Stapels, and Paola Almendarez
Congratulations to our Honors Program participants!
The Colloquium held on May 1, 2026, was the culmination of this year's Honors Program and proof of the innovative historical research being carried out by our students.
Honors Students and Papers
Paola Almendarez
"Salvadoran Motherhood and Identity Formation in Refugee Camps, 1980-1991"
Anika Grieve
"Undressing the Philharmonic:
A Transnational History of Women's Involvement in the Vienna Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra"
Chenxuan (Noel) Luo
"Rumah, 家, and the Spaces Between:
Chinese Indonesian Repatriations and the Search for Return, 1950s-1960s"
Graduate Degrees
MAs Awarded
Stephanie Drew
Walter Evans
Corey Schultz
Lindsay Tarnoff
PhDs Awarded
Jeffrey Baron
"Treasure Hunting in the Early Modern Hispanic World"
Justin Grossman
"'We Did the Best We Could with What We Had':
Identity and Sovereignty in Wampanoag Aquinnah post Termination"
Sarabeth Rambold
"The Sphere of Woman is Eminently Practical":
Women's Intellectual Labor in the American Home, 1783-1865
Graduate Prizes and Awards in History
Willson Havelock Coates Book Award
To the graduate student having among other qualifications, a conspicuous gift for historical imagination and the capacity for sustained and accurate research
(in British history, European intellectual history, or philosophy of history)
Brenna Bythewood & Claire DeVinney
Harkins Prize
A prize in memory of William F. Harkins, Jr. to a graduate student
who has written the best seminar paper
Ewa Maria White
Donald Marks 'Dexter Perkins Prize'
This prize is to perpetuate the name of Dexter Person and to encourage and assist a worthy graduate student in his/her cultural and intellectual development
Stephanie Drew, Walter Evans, & Lindsay Tarnoff
Meyers Graduate Teaching Award
To a graduate student who has excelled in teaching
Elizabeth Sapere
David Bruce Parker Memorial Prize
To the graduate student who best represents the dedication and courage which characterized David's participation in the graduate program
Mauricio Garza
Lina and A. William Salomone Prize
To the graduate student who has done outstanding work in European history
Justin Ramsey
Glyndon VanDeusen Award
To support travel and dissertation research and
writing for a fourth year history graduate student
Emmarae Stein
Aida DiPace Donald Fellowship
To support a graduate fellowship in American History
Corey Schultz & Ewa Maria White
Dr. Bruce F. Pauley Research Fellowship
To support graduate student research travel,
with preference for students pursuing archival research in Europe
Claire Becker
University Commencement
For more information on commencement, visit the University of Rochester's Commencement page
Department Graduation Photo Collection
To view the undergraduate commencement photos, taken by I. Marianetti of I. Marianetti Photo, go to our "UR History Commencement 2026" Pic-time Gallery.
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