Named in honor of consummate teacher and mentor Professor Mark H. Leff, this scholarship is awarded each year to a senior student in the Honors Program. Thesis writers who wish to be considered for this scholarship must submit drafts of their projects by the deadline, which will be announced spring semester.

Recipients

• 2022: Jason Smith
• 2021: Benjamin Escobar, "A Place to Call Home: Families and Space in 1950's Suburban America"
• 2020: Broderick "Rocky" Khoshbin,"The Hidden War: Injustice in the Wake of the Philippine-American War"
• 2019: Brandon Nakashima
• 2018: Nicholas David Goodell, "The Experience of the Working Class in the German Revolution of November, 1918"
• 2017: Mindi Zhang, "The Patriots Far Away: A History of Chinese Students in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century"
  • Honorable Mention: Miguel Suárez Medina, "The Institution of the Palenque in Colonial Colombia: Military, Economic, and Political Mobilizations"
• 2016: Nicholas A. Cohen, "Let Them Produce for Themselves’: Cooperation, Ideology, and Americanism in the Great Depression Self-help Movement, 1931-1939"
  • Honorable Mention: Mackenzee Kienitz, “’The Stories of Witches and Conjurers': The Textual Objectification of African Women in Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives"
  • Honorable Mention: Jiayi Li, "Rethinking the Politics of Apolitical Intellectuals in Modern China: A Study of Two Returnee Scientists--Bao Wenkui and Tan Haosheng"
• 2015: Ryan D. Fane
• 2014: David A. Rahimi
• 2013: Peter R. Pellizzari