James E. Rice, Jr. Awards
Winners
Simon Leet
"I’ll See It When I Believe It"
English 132
The Personal Essay
Instructor: Jasper Barnes
John O’Reilly
"Interpretations of St. Bartholomew in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment"
History of Art 112
Storytelling in Art: Virgins, Saints, and Martyrs–Stories of the Christian Faith
Instructor: Richard Gay
Honorable Mention
Sabrina macedo-Moran
"Inside and Outside: The Things They Carried"
English 270
The Reading of Fiction
Instructor: Maureen McCoy
The Elmer Markham Johnson Award
Winner
Amy Stutius
"The Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles"
History 100
Suffering Until Suffrage: Women and American Politics, 1760—1920
Instructor: Laura Free
Honorable Mention
Mark James Adams
"The New Ducks of Cayuga Lake"
Music 111
Sound, Sense, and Ideas: What to Listen for in Music
Instructor: Ann McCutchan
The Adelphic Award
Winner
Luis Garcia
"Bilingual Education"
Spanish Literature 110
Crossing Borders/Rites of Passage
Instructor: Angélica Lozano-Alonso
Honorable Mention
Atanas Tzenev
"Northern Ireland: Searching for the Elusive Solution"
Government 100
Power and Politics: Identity and Nationalism in Britain
Instructor: Sydney A.Van Atta
The Knight Prize for Writing in the Majors
Winner
Jeremy Schwartz
"The Wonders of Biology: Intelligent Design 101 or Intro to Randomness"
BioES 278 Evolutionary Biology
Instructors: Monica Gebe, Ruth Hufbauer
The Knight Prizes for Expository Writing
Winners
Matthew Niva and Alix Morse
"Advertising and the Media: Hiding the Truth of Psychotropic Drugs"
English 288 Reading the News, Understanding the Media
Instructor: Gregory Umbach
Homa Zarghamee
"How We Played Pretend"
English 288 Body Politics
Instructor: Sarah Jefferis
Honorable Mention
Helen Hsi
"East of Liberty"
English 288 Into the Wild
Instructor: Justine Dougherty
John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prizes
Winners
Zubair S. Amir
"Twice-Telling The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Guiding Student Writing on Coleridge" English 185 Writing About Literature: Twice-Told Tales
Margaret A. Weitekamp
"Murder Board" Sequence
History 100
Gender, Race, Society, and Space: Space History, Science Fiction, and American Society
Honorable Mention
Matthew Evangelista
"How Political Scientists Write About Separatism"
Government 100 Power and Politics: Separatism
Gertrude Spencer Prizes
Winners
E. Casey Becker, student
Paul Hecht, instructor
"Obscurity-Clarity Spectrum"
English 185
Writing About Literature: Poetry via Peformance and Practice
Katrina Becker, student
Mindy Peden, instructor
"The Inherent Inequality of Segregation"
Government 100
Power and Politics: Racism, Segregation, and Apartheid
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