2008 CBS Award
Winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following
awards and fellowships. Congratulations!
Dissertation Grant, awarded to Grahame Foreman (History), "The Manchester School and the British Anthropology of Modernity;" and Ruth Baldwin (English), "Imagining Criminality: The Figure of the Criminal in the 19th-Century British Novel"

Pre-Dissertation Grant, awarded to Mona Damluji (Architecture), "Baghdad on the Big Screen: Iraq's urban history through the lens of British Newsreels from the 1920s to the 1950s;" and Radhika Natarajan (History), "Teddy Girls at work and play, 1950-1958"

Anglo-California Foundation Scholarship, awarded to Joseph Brien O'Connell (UC Santa Cruz, History), “English Purchasing Power: Agrarian Change and the Rise of Consumerism in Rural England, 1660-1710," and Susanne Cowan (History), "Planning to the People - Reconstructing Community in Britain, 1939-1951"

Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Graduate Paper
awarded to John Lurz for his paper, "Pro-visional Reading: Seeing Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian"
Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper
awarded to Jesse King for his paper, "Avoiding a British Harlem: British Race Relations Discourse 1948-1968"
Travel/Conference Grants (Graduate and Undergraduate)