The Joseph P. Kennedy Prize

The Kennedy Prize has been given by the History Department since 1991 and is named after Fr. Joseph Kennedy, S. J. who was the first chair of the Department.  Father Kennedy was an excellent historian and teacher with a speciality in American history. The criteria for winning the prize is best overall performance on the Senior Seminar in the judgement of the history faculty: Oral performance and defense, as well as the written thesis itself.

Lacey Bonar
Class of 2012