Adlai Stevenson Global Studies Thesis Prize
This award goes to the best BA thesis on an international or global theme.
2025 winners:
Ella Tang – First Prize
- BA Title: Building on Fault Lines: Seismic Resilience and the Impact of 20th-Century Earthquakesand Housing Policy on 21st-Century Housing Affordability in San Francisco and Tokyo
Delia Acuna – Honorable Mention
- BA Title: Human Rights, a Double-Edged Sword: The Paradox of Human Rights as an Imperial and Emancipatory Political Tool
James L. Hevia Global Studies Thesis Prize
This award goes to the best BA thesis on one of the following themes: Chinese, British and Asian studies, and human interactions with animals and plants.
2025 winners:
Sonia Chang – First Prize
- BA Title: Aging Out of Place? How Aging Chinese Migrants in Chicago’s Chinatown (Re)Construct Successful Aging in the context of Transnational Migration
Henry Hong – Honorable Mention
- BA Title: In the Defense of Memory: The Jinjuseong Fortress and the Korean Nation
Best Capstone Paper Award
Aida Krzalic
- Capstone Title: Online Diaspora Portals and Economic Development: The Case ofBosnia-Herzegovina