James E. Rice, Jr. Awards
Winners
ALEXANDRA FLORAS (A&S)
“Nature and Civilizlation in Octave Mirbeau’s Torture Garden”
Comparative Literature 101.02: Deadly Desire—Love and Death in Literature
Instructor: Sean Connolly
CH-YUAN KAIY QUEK (A&S)
“What is Lost in Translation? The Role of Language in Eva Hoffman’s Autobiography”
Comparative Literature 114.01: Multiple Voices--Autobiography
Instructor: Stanka Radovic
Honorable Mention
SETU MOHTA (ENG)
“Making Sense of the Environment Debate”
Biology and Society 104: Ecosystems and Ego Systems
Instructor: Mary Gilliland
Adelphic Award
Winner
ZHENG QU (ENG)
“Vietnam--Who Was Really in Charge?”
Government 100.02 Militaries and Societies
Instructor: Loren Ryter
English 289, Expository Writing Prize
Winner
HARRISON LEAVENS (A&S)
“David Lynch and a Cinema of Dreams”
Instructor: Nick Davis, “Hollywood and the Art Film in the 1990s.”
Honorable Mention
CAROLYN KAY SMITH (A&S)
“Just One”
Instructor; Sean Serrell, “The ‘I’ in Nature.”
The Knight Prize for Writing in the Majors
Winner
MATTHEW WACHS (A&S)
“Charles Babbage”
Instructor: David Henderson
Math 403, “History of Mathematics”
The Knight Sophomore Seminar Award
Winner
Kelley Hess (A&S)
“Supernovae in the Pleiades B1 Subgroup and the Origin in the Local Bubble”
Instructor: Martha Haynes
Astronomy 233, “Topics in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
From Planets to Galaxies—The Origin of Cosmic Structures”
John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prizes
Winner
JAMIE H. TRNKA (Comparative Literature)
"Imitative Style and Analysis Sequence”
Comparative Literature 108.01. Language and Politics: Translating Lives
Honorable Mention
ALEXANDER NEWELL (Anthropology)
"Constructing a Counter-Argument”
Anthropology 197. Consuming Culture: The Language of Everyday Objects
Gertrude Spencer Prize
Winners
ANGELA COLADANGELO, student (Human Ecology)
MICKEY REICH CASAD, instructor (Comparative Literature)
“Active Reading: Role of Audience as Participant in Art”
Comparative Literature 123.01. Frame Tales and Stories-within-Stories: Worlds in the World of the Text
MICHAEL EGAN, student (Engineering)
STEVE WESTON, instructor (Philosophy)
“Hearne’s Righteous Anger”
Philosophy 100.4. Knowing Others: The Problem of Other Minds
Honorable Mentions
JOSHUA GERNOLD, student (CALS)
BANU BARGU-HASTURK, instructor (Government)
“Kropotkinism Meets Global Capitalism”
Government 100.5. Critical Theories of the State
MELISSA HEINTZ, student (CALS)
JOHANNA KRAMER, instructor (Medieval Studies)
“Saint Benedict’s Rules, Steps of Leniency”
Medieval Studies 103.2. Righteous Dudes and Charming Maids: A Sampler of Ethics in Medieval Literature
Spencer Portfolio Prizes
Winners
FERNANDO M. GONZALEZ, Student (Engineering)
BANU BARGU-HASTURK, Instructor (Government)
Government 100.5: Critical Theories of the State
MATTHEW JAMES THOMAS, Student (Engineering)
CAROL KASKE, Instructor (English)
English 141: The Bible and Ancient Authors
Honorable Mention
JINGQIANG CHARLES GUO, Student (A&S)
TOM SAFFORD, Instructor (Rural Sociology)
Rural Sociology 114: Upstream-Downstream, Mainstream-Backwater
Knight Award for Writing Exercises
Winners
NADINE ATTEWELL (English)
“Question and Answer”
English 105.1. Women and Writing: Women and the City
PATRICIA CLARK (History)
“Transitions Exercise”
History 106. African Life Histories
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