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John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
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Prize Winners Fall '07

Adelphic Award

    Winner: Maen Abou Ziki (WCMC-Qatar)
“Consanguinity and Genetic Disorders: In the Gulf:
Medical Response to a Recently Discovered Problem”
English 187: Beyond the Bones
Instructor:  Alan Weber

           
James E. Rice, Jr. Prizes

Winners: Michael Cohen (ILR)
             "The Aesthetics of Change: From Ruskin’s Gothic to
Forster’s Romantic Idealism"
English 185.02: Writing About Literature:
No Future—The Decline of the British Empire
Instructor:  David Coombs

Sheridan Reiger (HumEc)
             "Playing for Keeps: The Struggle of Naming and
Possessing the Places of  America"
Spanish Literature 113.01: Globalization and Literature
Instructor:  Zachary Zimmer

 

The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize

Winner: Lucas Ackerman (Engineering)
“Writing About Literature: “Base, Common, and Popular”—
Shakespeare in Film and Fiction”
English 105.06: Writing About Literature: “Base, Common, and Popular”—Shakespeare in Film and Fiction
Instructor: Jenny Mann

Hon Mention: Elizabeth Troyer (A&S)
"St. Thomas the Heretical and Boethius the Orthodox"
Medieval Studies 101.02: Aspects of Medieval Culture:
Nature and the Bible in the Middle Ages
Instructor:  Eliza Buhrer

 

The Gertrude Spencer Portfolio Award

Winner: Tia Plautz, Student (A&S)
Giffen Maupin, Instructor (TA, English)
“Reflections” 
English 187.01: Portraits of the Self

Hon Mention:Lesly Betancourt-Gonzalez, Student (ILR)
Zachary Zimmer, Instructor (TA, Romance Studies)
“Globalizing People”
Spanish 113.01: Globalization and Literature

 

The Knight Prize for Expository Writing, English 288

Winner: Jessica Walden, Student (A&LS)
Katy Gottschalk, Instructor (English)
“Chasing Loons”
                                   
Hon Mention: Yuzhou Zhang, Student (A&S)
Trevor Kearns, Instructor(TA, English)
“The Apocalyptic Appeal”

 

Writing in the Majors Award


Winner: Kristin Sangren, Student (A&S)
Magnus Fiskesjö, Instructor
“Uyghur Who? On American Attention to Foreign Activism
in the Cases of Tebet and Xinjiang”
Anthropology 200: Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues

Logan Skelley, Student (CALS)
Jill Anderson, Instructor
“Staphylococcus aureus: The Evolution of a Persistent Pathogen”
BioEE 278: Evolutionary Biology

Hon Mention: Sneha Sharma, Student (CALS)
Christopher Wilson, Instructor
“Postcopulatory Sexual Selection:  A Battle of the Sexes”
BioNB 221: Introduction to Behavior           

Gertrude Spencer Essay Prize

            Winners: Robert Whitten Brewer, Student (Hotel)
Sarah Ensor, Instructor (TA, English)
"The Amorphous Self and its Connection to Emotion"
English 187.04: Portraits of the Self

 

            Hon Mention:Emily Zhang, Student (A&S)
Lucia Antalova Seybert, Instructor (TA, Government)
"What’s in a Name?"
Government 100.01: Power and Politics: From Communism to Democracy—Stories from Eastern Europe

 

The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize

Winner: Alan Young-Bryant (TA, English)
Revisioning the Sentimental in Flaubert
English 111.4: Life, Death, and Desire in
Nineteenth-Century European Literature           

            Hon Mention:Julie Phillips Brown (TA, English)
Installed Poetry
English 158.05: Technologies of the Literary Imagination

 

The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises

Winners:Tad Brennan (Professor, Philosophy) and students
Student Autobiographies Modeled on Franklin’s Life
Philosophy 100:  Founders, Framers, and Philosophers

Dana Koster (TA, English)
Specificity of Language; Writing an Abstract; Thesis Proposal; Group Review
English 158.04: Capes and Capers: The Anti-hero in American Literature and Film

Zachary Zimmer (TA, Romance Studies)
"Voice and Register I Anzaldua’s Borderlands/ La Frontera” 
Spanish 113: Globalization and Literature

Hon Mention: Jennifer Williams  (TA, Theatre, Dance, and Film)
“Theoretical Glossary Entry”
Theatre 118: Body Beautiful/ Body Dangerous:
Women on the Musical Stage and Screen

 

Buttrick-Crippen Fellowships

Brian Dillon
Department of Economics
Proposed Course:  Economics for Activists or The Freadonomics of the Real World

Daniel Koltonski
Department of Philosophy
Proposed Course: The Language of Rights: Its Uses and Abuses

Madeleine Reich Casad
Department of Comparative Literature
Proposed Course: Desirable Avatars and Magic Mirrors: Gender and Video Games

Christopher Wilson
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Proposed Course:  Why are People? Understanding the Evolution of Life, Love, and Health in Humans and Other Animals