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John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
101 McGraw Hall • Cornell University • Ithaca, NY 14853 • 607-255-4061

Prize Winners Spring '04

James E. Rice, Jr. Awards

Winner
WAYNE HUANG (A&S)
The Death Railway: Semblances of Modernity”
History 100.25. World War II in the Pacific Theatre through Fiction, Film, and Memoir”
Instructor: Marcia Butler

Honorable Mention
KRISTEN ALIANO (A&S)
“The Vial Containers That Helped to Save France: The Memoir of Monique de Laperouse”
History 113: Women, War, and Resistance
Instructor: Jomarie Alano

Adelphic Award

Winner
ANASTASIA POUSHKAREVA (Arts)
Genealogy of the Third Reich: The Connection between Nietzschean and Nazi ideas”
German Stuides 170: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
Instructor: Cassandra Campbell

The Knight Prize for Writing in the Majors

Winner
PAUL HINE (A&S)
"Musical Sound Beneath the Waves"
Instructor: Kathy Selby
Physics 204, Physics of Musical Sound

Honorable Mention
DANIEL SCHIFF (A&S)
“Extending Thomas Friedman’s ‘Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention: McDonald’s Menu Variance and Peace”
Instructor: Allen Carlson
Government 493, Studying Poitics: The Junior Honors Seminar

John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prizes

Winner
NICHOLAS MATHEW (Music)
Music 111.2. Beethhoven and Today’s Music

Gertrude Spencer Prize

Winner
LAUREN PEARSON, student (Engineering)
MARCIA BUTLER, instructor (History)
“Burma-Siam Railroad to Freedom”
History 100.25. World War II in the Pacific Theatre through Fiction, Film, and Memoir”

Honorable Mentions
MOLLY LEBOWITZ, student (CALS)
ERIK HARMS, instructor (Anthropology)
Talk This Way: The Effects of Technological Communication
Anthropology 183: Freedom and Control

JULIANA GERRICK, student (A&S)
KIM ZARINS, instructor (English)
“The Seven Commandments as a Definitive Instrument of Control in Orwell’s Animal Farm”
English 185. Writing about Literature: Talking Animals from Aesop to Asian

Spencer Portfolio Prizes

Winners
MATTHEW TUCKER, Student (Arts)
BANU BARGU-HASTURK, Instructor (Government)
“A Student Examination of Citizenship”
Government 100.1: Power and Politics: The State, the Citizen, and their Critics

Knight Award for Writing Exercises

Winner

ERIK HARMS
“Passing Out to the Sound of the Passive Voice
Anthropology 183. Freedom and Control

Recognition of Achievement in Teaching Award

Winner
MAGDALENA ROMANSKA
Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance