MMW Awards
MMW Student Awards
MMW Showcase Award
Every year, the MMW Program honors the best papers written for the course. TAs who teach MMW-012 through MMW-015 and MMW-121 and MMW-122 nominate students who they think have written papers that combine excellent scholarship on important and intriguing topics with clear and engaging writing. It is an accomplishment to be a Showcase honoree: of the more than four thousand papers written every year for MMW, fewer than one hundred are selected to be Showcase honorees.
MMW Showcase Writers
2025-2026
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
MMW Impact Award
This award is for a graduating senior who manifested the positive impact and global dimension of the Making of the Modern World through research, service, and/or international (or domestic) engagement.
2024-2025 Brinda Rao
2023-2024 Lauren Edwins
2020-2023 Megha Sanjay
MMW Teaching Assistant Awards
2025-2026 Teaching Assistant Awards
Don Tuzin Teaching Excellence Award
Rachel Hennings
Christopher Moreland
Rookie of the Year Award
Camellia Azzi
David K. Jordan Purple Heart Award
Alecia Cook
Don Tuzin Teaching Excellence Award
The Teaching Excellence Award recognizes our MMW Teaching Assistants who demonstrate excellence in the classroom and a strong dedication to our students.
2025-2026
Rachel Hennings
Christopher Moreland
2024-2025
David Hollingsworth
Rebecca Shoup
2023-2024
Brianne Itaya
James Ivey
2022-2023
Patricia McMaster
Reem Hazboun Tasyakan
2021-2022
Meaghan Baril
Melissa Vipperman-Cohen
2020-2021
Joe Djordjevski
Semih Gokatalay
Branka Hrov-mihic
Ivana Polic
Reuben Silverman
Paul Tchir
Lauren Wood
2019-2020
Vanessa Bateman
Maria Carreras
Taylor Gray
Julian Haddad
Brady LIss
Emre Sunu
Teaching Excellence Award
2018-2019
Patrick Adamiak
Sky Johnston
Joel Palhegyi
Baris Tasyakan
2017-2018
Amy O'Keefe
Johanna Peterson
2016-2017
Mishal Miller-Sisson
Alex Stewart
2015-2016
Sowparnika Balaswaminathan
Logan Green
Rookie of the Year Award
This award recognizes our MMW Teaching Assistants who demonstrate excellence in the classroom and a strong dedication to our students in their first year with the MMW program.
2025-2026 Camellia Azzi
2023-2024 Megha Sanjay
2022-2023 Jasmine Moheb
2021-2022 Grace Mertz
2020-2021 Rebecca Shoup
2019-2020 Melina Economou
David K. Jordan Purple Heart Award
This award recognizes our MMW Teaching Assistants for their dedication to our students and support for teaching.
2025-2026 Alecia Cook
2024-2025 Brianne Itaya
2023-2024 Scott Howard
2022-2023 Melissa Hurt
Purple Heart Award
2021-2022 Debra Ligorsky
