2008 Stow Persons Prize

The History Department announced that Andrew Mathern is the recipient of the 2008 Stow Persons Prize for the Best Senior Thesis in History. His thesis titled "The Politics and Policy of Rural Development in Iowa: The Harold Hughes Years, 1963-68" was directed by Professor Shelton Stromquist.

Past winners of this prize include:

2007 -- Jessica Werneke, "Far From Home: Women in Soviet Prisons"

2006 -- Megan Roy, "Divis Flats: The Social Implications of a Modern Public Housing Complex in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1968-1998"

2005 -- Patrick McGonagill, " 'To Quell All Nations, Dethrone All Kings, and Plant the True Religion that was Lost at the Reformation': The Development and Legacy of Defenderism"