Adelphic Award
Winner: YUE (SANDY) XU (ARTS)
“Christina Aguilera: Genie No More!”
Science and Technology Studies 123
Technology and Society: From Gutenberg to Blogs—
A Short History of Writing
Instructor: Shay David
James E. Rice, Jr. Prizes
Winner: MONIKA MARIE DERRIEN (ARTS)
“Self-Help: The Past and Future”
Government 100.3
Power and Politics: Disenchantment in Modernity
Instructor: Shannon Mariotti
Winner: ANEESHA DHARWADKER (AAP)
“The Nature of Truth and Time”
Comparative Literature 123.01
Mapping Literary Spaces: Fictional Footprints of the Medieval
Instructor: Patricia Har
Honorable Mention: AIMEE CLARK (ARTS)
“Absalom’s Pillar: Character and the Defeat of
Genealogy in 2 Samuel”
English 141
Heroes, Gods, and Legends: The Creation of History
Instructor: Andrew Galloway
Gertrude Spencer Essay Prize
Winners: EMILY SILVERSTEIN, student (HUM EC)
WYATT BONIKOWSKI, instructor (English)
“Great Expectations: The Challenge to Stereotypes in
‘Kew Gardens’ by Virginia Woolf”
English 270.04
The Reading of Fiction
Honorable Mentions: DORANN BROWN, student (ARTS)
BRENDA MAIALE, instructor (Anthropology)
“Portrayal of Identity in The Crying Game and its Implications:
Is It a Question of Taking Away Gendered Bias?”
Anthropology 141
Alternative Genders, Alternative Sexualities
Honorable Mentions: DANIEL MACAYA, student (ENGR)
MARY GAYNE, instructor (History)
“Hip Hop: The News Channel of Black Urban Life”
History 100.29
Hair, Skin, Nails, and Muscles: Historical Encounters
with the Social Body
Gertrude Spencer Portfolio Award
Winners: ALEXANDRA P. BUERKLE, student (ARTS)
BRENDA MAIALE, instructor (Anthropology)
Anthropology 141
Alternative Genders, Alternative Sexualities
Honorable Mentions: ELLIOT SINGER, student (ARTS)
SHANNON MARIOTTI, instructor
Government 100.3
Power and Politics: Disenchantment in Modernity
John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prizes
Winner: RICHARD BOWNAS (Government)
“Civil Wars and Their Transnational Connections”
Government 100.04
Power and Politics: Global Chaos or New World Order? The Future of War in a Globalizing World
Winner: BRIAN HOLMES (Theatre, Film, and Dance)
“Survey of One-Act Plays Assignments”
Theatre, Film, and Dance 163
American Drama in Sixty Minutes or Less:
A Survey of One-Act Plays
Honorable Mention: TANYA L. MATTHEWS (Linguistics)
“F-Word Project”
Linguistics 100.03
Language, Thought, and Reality: Like, Slang 101—
Teens as Linguistic Innovators
Knight Award For Writing Exercises
Winner: MIRANDA CADY HALLETT
“Three Introductions”
Anthropology 148
Common Places: Cultural Sites of Memory and Meaning
Honorable Mention: SHANNON MARIOTTI
“Motive and Argument”
Government 100.3
Power and Politics: Disenchantment in Modernity
The Knight Prize For Expository Writing, ENGLISH 289
Winner: ADAM SASIADEK (ILR)
“Cultural Warriors: The Old South, Nostalgia without Memory, and the Formation of Contemporary Conservatism”
Instructor: Angela Naimou
English 289, Media Worlds
Honorable Mention: JOSHUA WILSON (ARTS)
“A Conversation with My Parents
Instructor: Amy Ely
English 289, Finding Justice in the Law
Honorable Mention: SARAH BRUBAKER (ARTS)
“Kepputch and Cold Bay”
Instructor: Siobhan Adcock
English 289, The Reflective Essay
Writing In The Majors Award
Winner: HENG DU (ARTS)
“Songs of Lazarus: Chime Bells of Marquis Yi and Acoustics of Bronze Age China”
Instructor: Katherine Selby
Physics 204, The Physics of Musical Sound
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