Adelphic Award
Winner:
KONSTANTIN ALEXANDROVICH SHISHKIN (AS)
“Collegiate Assessors, Noses, and Vanity”
Comparative Literature 102: Magical Realism
Instructor: Stanka Radovic
Honorable Mention:
LIP YOONG TONG (EN)
“Knowledge, Closure, and Contextualism”
Philosophy 100: Necessity and Knowledge
Instructor: Eric Gilbertson
James E. Rice, Jr. Awards
Winners:
JOSHUA GROFFMAN (AS)
“The Objectives, Methods, and Strategies of Montaillou”
Medieval Studies101: Medieval Microhistories
Instructor: Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici
SOPHIE KARTIKA (AG)
“Numerology”
Psychology 113: Why People Believe Weird things
Instructor: Joyce Ehrlinger
Honorable Mention:
ELIZABETH GALL (AS)
“Heels and Brassiers and Make-Up, Oh My!: The Dark Side of Female Fashion”
Anthropology 197: Consuming Culture—The Language of Everyday Objects
Instructor: Alexander Newell
The Elmer Markham Johnson Award
Winner:
MEGAN SLATOFF-BURKE (AS)
“The Legacy of Camera Obscura”
Science and Technology Studies 121: Communication, Technologies, Culture
Instructor: Christina Dunbar-Hester
Honorable Mention:
STEPHEN KURZ (AS)
“Groovin’ to Nothing”
Comparative Literature 126: Strange Fruit—A Practicum in Jazz Literature
Instructor: Stephen Donatelli
The Knight Prize for Writing in the Majors
Winner:
PAUL TESTA (AS)
“American Policy Toward Nuclear Proliferation in Iran”
Instructor: Seo-Hun Park, TA, WIM section, and Peter Katzenstein
Government 181/182: International Relations
Honorable Mention:
MUSHFEQ AHMED KHAN (AS)
“Can the Bug Tell Which Manifold?”
Instructor: David Henderson
Mathematics 451: Euclidean, Spherical, and Hyperbolic Geometry
The Knight Prize for Expository Writing, English 288
Winner:
LINDSAY WATKINS (AG)
“Putting Rock Climbers to Shame: The Sticky Success of Nature's Best Climbers”
Instructor: Sean Serrell, “Nature, the ‘I’ and the Object”
Honorable Mention:
DAVID GRAY (IL)
“This Just In: The Media Will Never Be Objective”
Instructor; Jami Carlacio: “Making the News”
The Spencer Portfolio Award
Winners:
ANDREA NILL, Student (AS)
SHANNON MARIOTTI, Instructor (TA, Government)
Government 100. Power and Politics: The Politics of Angst and Anxiety
Honorable Mention:
SAMEER AHMED, Student (AG)
BANU BARGU HASTURK, Instructor (TA, Government)
Government 100. Power and Politics: Theories of Hegemony
Gertrude Spencer Prize
Winners:
AMIR JOEL NADAV, student (AS)
SZE WEI ANG, instructor (English)
“Pot of Gold Beyond the Rainbow”
Comparative Literature 120. Cultural Crossings
SARA VEROSKY, student (AS)
AYSE BANU BARGU HASTURK, instructor (Government)
“Questioning Althusser’s Subject”
Government 100. Power and Politics: Theories of Hegemony
Honorable Mentions:
NISHA SUDA, student (AS)
JAMI L. CARLACIO, instructor (English)
“A True War Story is Never About War”
English 170. Linked Stories
ELIZABETH WALGENBACH, student (AS)
PETER MELVILLE, instructor (English)
“‘As I Walked Out One Evening’: The Sinister Shades of a Teacup”
English 271. Introduction to the Reading of Poetry
John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prizes
Winner:
ANDREA REHN (TA, English)
“Entering a Critical Debate”
English 105. Whose Story Is It? The Politics of Privacy
Honorable Mention:
SHANNON MARIOTTI (TA, Government)
“Brave New World and Soma”
Government 100. Power and Politics: The Politics of Angst and Anxiety
John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises
Winner:
NICHOLAS MATHEW (TA, English)
“Fanfares”
Music 111. Beethoven and Today’s Music
Honorable Mentions:
DOLORES BYRNES (Knight Institute)
“Memo: Our Next Big Thing”
Anthropology 142. Authority, Writing, and the State
SHANNON POE-KENNEDY (Anthropology)
“Speaking in Tongues”
Anthropology 161. Sex, Money, and Superhuman Strength
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