May 2014 graduate Alec Tare was named recipient of Phi Alpha Theta’s Lynn W. Turner Prize. This is the highest national award granted by Phi Alpha Theta (the history national honor society) for a piece of undergraduate research. Alec’s paper was based on the senior thesis he wrote under the supervision of Professor Justin Behrend, entitled “Nobody Should Use Them Ill…Strike One and Strike All: Patterns of Evolving Resistance among Slave Trade Sailors during the 18th Century”. Congratulations to Alec!