Past Recipients
Please join us in congratulating the past recipients of the Cox-Just Prize.
2015 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Jaime Sánchez, Jr. | Thesis Title: "Contested Constituency: Latino Politics and Panethnic Identity Formation in the 1983 Chicago Mayoral Election of Harold Washington" |
Department: History |
Nominators: Ramon Gutierrez, Susan Gzesh, (Lecturer), Maria Balandran-Castillo (Preceptor), Ashley Finnigan, (Preceptor) |
2014 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Karim Pirani |
Thesis Title: "Nascent Activism in a New Asian American Landscape: Gender, Media, and Politics after Vincent Chin" |
Department: History and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies |
Nominators: Matthew Briones and Jaclyn Sumner (Preceptor) |
2013 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Amber Bailey |
Thesis Title: "Chicago's Engine Company 21: An Experiment with Interracial Democracy" |
Department: History |
Nominators: |
2012 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Santiago J. Molina |
Thesis Title: "Genomic 'Soft'-Realism: Entrenching Culture and Obscuring Interests" |
Department: History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HiPSS) |
Nominator: Robert J. Richards Thesis Advisors: William Wimsatt Beckett Sterner |
2011 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Hoda Hassan |
Thesis Title: "Double Discrimination: Perspectives On Disability and Gender in Kenya" |
Department: Anthropology |
Nominator: Michael Dietler |
2010 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Liliana Zaragoza |
Thesis Title: "The Age of Detention: U.S. Nativism and De Facto Immigrant Criminalization on the 1990s" |
Department: International Studies |
Nominator: Susan Gzech |
2009 Cox-Just Prize Recipient
Julia Coburn |
Thesis Title: "Documenting Rightlessness: Theoretical Perspectives on Mexican Illegality within the United States' H-2 Guestworker Program" |
Department: Anthropology |
Nominator: Jeremy Walton |
The Cox-Just Just Prize is made possible through a generous donation from Edouard Maciejewski.