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John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
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Prize Winners Fall '08

Awards for First-Year Writing Seminar Students

Adelphic Award

Winner: Weiyan Chen (Engineering)
“Georges Sorel: Would Marx Call Him Comrade?”
Hist 1105. The Problem of Violence in Western Political Thought, 1776–2001
Instructor: Emma Kuby          

James E. Rice, Jr. Prizes

Winner: Benjamin Wadowski (CALS)
“Perversion and the Penetrative Paradigm in Dracula”
Engl 1185.117.  Writing About Literature: Death and the Modern Novel       
Instructor: Jolene Zigarovich

Honorable Mention: Lori Moshman (CALS)
“Where’d They Go? Investigations of the Primary Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder”
PlPa 1100. Liaisons with Friends and Foes: Symbiotic Associations in Nature
Instructor: Eric Nelson

Elmer Markham Johnson Prize

Winner: Haley Bergerson (A&S)
"Another Disney-Tale"
GerSt 1109.103.  From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
Instructor:  Stanka Radovic

Winner: Derek Lougee (A&S)
“The Politics of the One
Music 1701.  Sound, Sense, and Ideas: Music and Meaning from Virtue to Violence
Instructor: Ellen Lockhart

Honorable Mention : Jacqueline Liu (AAP)
“Love, Morals, and Uncertainty: The Making of the Unhappy End”
GerSt 1109.103. From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
Instructor: Douglas Brent McBride

Honorable Mention : Davis O'Connell (A&S)
“Abelard: A Heretic of a Different Nature”
Medvl 1101.104.  Aspects of Medieval Culture:  Medieval Heresy
Instructor: Eliza Buhrer

Spencer Portfolio Award

Winner: Claire Cordella , Student (A&S)
Leila Ibrahim , Instructor  (German Studies)                        
GerSt 1170. Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Gertrude Spencer Prize

Winner: Eric Rabinowitz , student (Hotel)
Rebecca Tally , Instructor (History)
“Society is Cruel! On the History of Social Implications Influencing Gender and Race”
Hist 1108. Science and the Entwined Histories of Gender and Race


Upper-Level Writing Prizes for Students

Knight Prize for Expository Writing, English 2880

Winner: Amy Maude Pape (ExMu)
“Werewolf in Sheep’s Clothing”
Instructor: Katy Gottschalk, “The Reflective Essay”

Honorable Mention : Michael Stratford (A&S)
“Free Speech and Flag Burning:  A Judicial Opinion of a Mock Flag Desecration Case”
Instructor: Nick Dorsey , “Free Speech in the 21st Century”

Writing in the Majors Award

Winner: Justin Torok (CALS)           
“The Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter SGLT1 and Its Role in Glucose-Galactose Malabsorption”
BioBM 4390. Molecular Basis of Human Disease
Instructor: William Lee Draus

Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Conlan (CALS)
“Memorandum on Bananas Genetically Engineered to Vaccinate Babies”
AEM 9451.  Contemporary Controversies in the Global Economy
Instructor: Christopher Barrett

 

Awards for Instuctors

James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prizes

Winner: Amy Levine (Anthropology)
“Campus Tour Ethnography”
Anthr 1167. Generations: Anthropological Approaches to Persons and Things
                                               
Honorable Men: Amanda Gilvin (Art History)
“Student Writing Skills: Changes and Translations”
ArtH 1127. African Personal Adornment: Changes and Translations

Knight Award for Writing Exercises

Winner: Emma Kuby (History)
An Inconvenient Truth: Counter-Evidence”                       
History 1105. The Problem of Violence in Western Political Thought, 1776-2001

Winner: Cori Winrock (English)
“The Return of the Paragraph!”
English 1187.111.  Writing About Literature: Literature and the Laboratory

Buttrick-Crippen Fellowships for 2009-2010

Winner: Danielle Haque (English)
Proposed First-Year Writing Seminar: Exposure! Stories of Epidemics and Outbreaks

Winner: Matthew Hoffberg (Sociology)
Proposed First-Year Writing Seminar:
Keeping It Real or Selling Out: The Role of Authenticity in Post-Industrial Society