Paul Armstrong and Matthew Kuettel have been named winners in the History Department’s annual John Ireland Research Paper Competition.
Armstrong won for his paper in the Seminar Paper category: “The Many Faces of Germans in Colonial America.” Kuettel won for his paper in the Non-Seminar Research Paper category: “The Unassailable Church: The Negotiations between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Papal Court Leading up to the Concordat of 1801.”
The awards are given annually for the best research paper written either for a History Senior Seminar class, or for an upper-level history class. Criteria include: depth and breadth of research, organization, originality of topic, development of interpretation, quality of writing, use of evidence, and a complete bibliography of sources.
