Beyers Prize Winners
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The Beyers Prize recognizes Stanford students’ awareness of and interest in the university’s history, as demonstrated through the use of the University Archives, Stanford Libraries, and other sources. The society also hopes to encourage excellence in writing and research among students. Successful entries will be considered for publication in future issues of Sandstone & Tile,published three times a year by the Stanford Historical Society.
| Year | Winner | Essay Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Lydia Poon (Inaugural winner, Undergraduate Division) | The Limits of Progressive Vision: Undergraduate War Service at Stanford University, 1916-1918 |
| 2003 | Katherine Buchanan (Graduate Division) | Barbed Wire Neurosis: Education, Assimilation, and Japanese American Internment |
| Kathryn Gin (Undergraduate Division) | Nineteenth-Century Interpretations of Leland Stanford Jr.’s Death | |
| 2004 | Rebecca Freeland (Undergraduate Division) | Segment of a Larger Whole: Gender and the Sorority Debate at Stanford University |
| Tamara Venit (Graduate Division) | The Chinese Who Are Living in the Vicinity: The Chinese Students Club at Stanford University, 1916–1942 | |
| 2005 | Jane Lilly (Undergraduate Division) | “If These Walls Could Talk”: A History of Roble Halls |
| 2006 | no winner | |
| 2007 | n/a | |
| 2008 | Alice Ann Spurgin (Winner, Undergraduate Division) | The Farm behind "The Farm" |
| Alexa Merz (Honorable Mention, Undergraduate Division) | Christ and Redemption in the Death of Leland Stanford Junior | |
| 2009 | Travis Koch (Undergraduate Division) | The Broken Pillars of the Past: Religion, Family, and the Founding of Leland Stanford Junior University |
| 2010 | no winner | |
| 2011 | no winner | |
| 2012 | Barbara Wilcox (Graduate Division) | "Fremont, The Flirt": Unearthing Stanford’s World War I Battleground |
| 2013 | Cole Manley (Undergraduate Division) | Cooperative Association, the Individual, and the "Robber Baron": Leland Stanford |
| 2014 | Meredith Wheeler (Undergraduate Division) | Moral Citizens: Coeducational Transformation at Stanford, 1965-1969 |
| 2015 | Benjamin Daniel Mercer-Gold (Undergraduate Division) | From the Bushes to the Bedroom: Reframing Rape at Stanford, 1958-1992 |
| 2016 | no winner | |
| 2017 | Holly Dayton (Undergraduate Division) | Education for the Masses and for the Exceptional: On the Intersection of the History of Western Civilization and Independent Study at Stanford University, 1935-1941 |
| 2018 | Emma Joan C. Fowler (Undergraduate Division) | Aid Over Arms: Scholars Succor German-occupied Belgium in World War I |
| Sapna Marfatia (Graduate Division) | Beneath the Facade: Memorial Church's Venetian Mosaics | |
| 2019 | Lena Catherine Giger (Undergraduate Division) | The Right to Participate and the Right to Compete: Stanford Women's Athletics, 1956-1995 |
| Tom Westphal (Graduate Division) | From Stanford Law to Shanghai: The Legal Career of the Honorable Milton J. Helmick—Last Judge of the U.S. Court for China | |
| 2020 | Molly Culhane (Undergraduate Division) | A More Than Adequate Dose of Nonsense: Sex, Social Regulation, and Institutional Change in Stanford’s Allen Controversy |
| 2021 | no winner | |
| 2022 | Julia Lindsay Milani (Undergraduate Division) | Playing the Game at Your Own Risk: Dating, Sexuality, and Rape Culture at Stanford University in the 1930s |
| Jevan Bhutani Yu (Undergraduate Division) | Tainted Fruits of Labor: The Stanford Grape Controversy, 1988-2000 | |
| 2023 | no winner |