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Prizes by School, House, and Academic Area
Classifications are listed first in bold, followed by the names of individual prizes.
To view the descriptions of specific prizes, please click here.
For prizes marked with an asterisk (*), eligible students or work will be considered automatically; no application is required.
Please check with the office administering the prize or the Prize Office should questions arise.
Harvard College and Harvard College House Specific Prizes
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Prizes
Extension School Prizes
Other Graduate and Professional School PrizesTo view the descriptions of specific prizes, please click here.
Academic Achievement and Character - Richard Glover and Henry Russell Ames Prize*; Captain Jonathan Fay Prize*; Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship; Goldman Sachs Global Leader Program; Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize
Academic Standing - Deturs Prize*; Sophia Freund Prize*; Alain LeRoy Locke Prize for Academic Excellence*; Palfrey Exhibition*; Lucy Allen Paton Prize*
American or British History and Government - De Lancey K. Jay Prize
Afro-American Studies - William Plummer French Prize; The Reverend Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity; Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize; Jonathan M. Levin Prize for Teaching and Social Justice; Alain LeRoy Locke Prize for Academic Excellence*
Arts - Albert Alcalay Prize*; Rudolf Arnheim Prize*; Louise Donovan Award*; Doris Cohen Levi Prize*; Jonathan Levy Award*; David McCord Prizes*; Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts*; Lenore Wilson Prize*
Astronomy - Leo Goldberg Prize in Astronomy*
Athletics - William J. Bingham, '16 Award*; Francis H. Burr, 1909, Fund; John P. Fadden Award*; Carroll F. Getchell Manager's Award*; Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics Award*; Mary G. Paget Prize*; Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Award*; John P. Reardon, Jr. Award*Business - John Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Economics
Book/Art Collecting - William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize; William Plummer French Prize; Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting; Visiting Committee Book Prize
Classics - Bowdoin Prize for an Undergraduate Translation into Latin; Bowdoin Prize for an Undergraduate Translation into Greek; Classics Department Prize; Louis Curtis Prize*; George Emerson Lowell Scholarship Prize; William King Richardson Bequest; John Osborne Sargent Prize for a Latin Translation
Commencement Orations - Le Baron Russell Briggs Commencement Prize; David Taggart Clark Prize
Comparative Literature - Susan Anthony Potter Prize; Luisa Vidal de Villasante Award
Creative Writing - Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize; Louis Begley Prize; Edward Eager Memorial Fund; David Rice Ecker Short Story Prize for Freshman; Charles Edmund Horman Prize*; Dana Reed Prize*
Dance - Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize
Drama - Phyllis Anderson Prize Play; Jonathan Levy Award*
East Asia - Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize*, Taiwan Studies Essay Prize
Economics - Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Honors Theses in Economics*; Morris Kronfeld Prize*, Schumpeter Prize*, David A. Wells Prize in Economics, John H. Williams Prize*, Allyn A. Young Prize*
Engineering - Clemens Herschel Prize*, Reinhold Rudenberg Prize*, Tau Beta Pi Prize*
English and American Literature - Phyllis Anderson Prize Play; Le Baron Russell Briggs Honors Thesis in English; Le Baron Russell Briggs English Study Abroad; Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction; Helen Choate Bell Prize; Boston Ruskin Prize; Harvard Monthly Prize*; Winthrop Sargent Prize; George B. Sohier Prize
English Compositon - Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essays in the English Language
Environmental Science and Public Policy - Laurance S. Rockefeller Thesis Prize
Excellence in Undergraduate Work - Thomas T. Hoopes Prize
Expository Writing - Lawrence Lader Prize in Writing
Geographic Information Science - Howard T. Fisher Prize
Germanic Languages and Literatures - Bernhard Blume Award*; Carl Schurz Prize*; Elizabeth Wilder Prize*
Government - James Gordon Bennett Prize; Philo Sherman Bennett Prize; C. J. Bonaparte Scholarship*; Edward M. Chase Prize; Gerda Richards Crosby Prize in Government*; John Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Economics, Eric Firth Prize; Goldman Sachs Leader Program; Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship*; Sumner Prize; Toppan Prize
History - Lillian Bell Prize in History (A Radcliffe Fund)*; Colton Award; David Herbert Donald Prize*; William Scott Ferguson*; History Prize (Junior); History Prize (Senior); The Oliver-Dabney Prize in History; Philip Washburn Prize*
History and Literature - John Clive Prize; Edward Chandler Cumming Prize*; Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize*; Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature - juniors; Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature - sophomores; History and Literature Thesis Prize*; History Prize(Junior)*; History Prize(Senior)*; Perry Miller Prize*; Barbara Miller Solomon Prize*; Barrett Wendell Prize
History of Science - The Robert and Maurine Rothschild Prize*
Latino Studies - Brazilian Studies Thesis Prize; Latino Studies Thesis Prize
Jewish and Hebrew Studies - Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies; Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies - Undergraduate; Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies - Best Published Work; Wolf Lewkowicz Prize in Yiddish Studies
Mathematics - David Mumford Undergraduate Mathematics Prize; William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize; Wister Prize (awarded in alternate years by Music)*
Music - "The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club) Prize; Francis Boott Prize; George Arthur Knight Prize; Hugh F. MacColl Prizes; Wister Prize (awarded in alternate years by Mathematics)*
Natural Sciences - Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essays in the Natural Sciences; L. J. Henderson Prize*
Philosophy - George Plimpton Adams Prize*; Bechtel Prize in Philosophy; Francis Bowen Prize; Emily and Charles Carrier Prize*
Physical Sciences - James Bryant Conant Prizes
Physics - Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize; Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize*
Poetry - Academy of American Poets Prize, Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry, Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize
Public Service - Stride Rite Public Service Prize
Public Speaking and Debating - Boylston Prizes for Elocution; Coolidge Debating Prize*; Kate and Max Greenman Prize*; Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship*
Romance Languages and Literatures - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Prize, Jeremy Belknap Prize; The Dante Society of America Prize; Dressler Traveling Grant; James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Prize*; Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies, Ceclia Meireles Prize, Susan Anthony Potter Undergraduate Prize; Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age; Sales Prize
Scandinavian Studies - Einar and Eva Haugen Prize
Slavic - Russian Studies Award*; Russian Literature and Culture Award*; V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize
Social Sciences - Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Honors Theses in Social Sciences*
Social Studies - Mill-Taylor Prize*; Susan C. Eaton Fellowship in Organizing, Leadership, and Social Change; Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies*, James D. Woods Memorial Fellowship
Sociology - Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897, Prize*
Special - Joseph L. Barrett Award*; Center for International Development Prize; Harvard College Women's Leadership Award; Joseph Garrison Parker Prize*; Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize*; Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics; Peter H. Wilson Memorial Fund*
Statistics - William Gemmell Cochran Prize*
Women's Studies - Jane C. Grant Junior and Senior Thesis Prizes*, Eugene R. Cummings Senior Thesis Prize in LGBT Studies
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Afro-American Studies - Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity
American or British History and Government - De Lancey K. Jay Prize
Arts - Lenore Wilson Prize*
Book/Art Collecting - William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize; Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting
Classics - Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Compositions in Latin; Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Compositions in Greek
Commencement Orations - Graduate English Commencement Oration Prize
Compatarive Literature - Luisa Vidal de Villasante Prize
Drama - Phyllis Anderson Play Prize
East Asia - John K. and Wilma C. Fairbank; Yong K. Kim '95; Taiwan Studies Essay
Economics - Danielian Award in International Economics*; Schumpeter Prize*; David A. Wells Prize in Economics
Engineering - Reinhold Rudenberg Prize*
English and American Literature - Phyllis Anderson Prize Play, Helen Choate Bell Prize; Boston Ruskin Prize; Howard Mumford Jones Prize; Winthrop Sargent Prize
English Composition - Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the English Language
Geographic Information Science - Howard T. Fisher Prize
Germanic Languages and Literatures - Bernhard Blume Award - First Year Graduate Study; Bernhard Blume Award - Second Year Graduate Study; Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in German*
Government - Edward M. Chase Prize; Sumner Prize;
History - Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize*
History of Science - Matthew Strominger Prize*
Jewish and Hebrew Studies - Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies - Graduate; Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies - Best Published Work
Music - "The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club) Prize; Francis Boott Prize; George Arthur Knight Prize; Adelbert W. Sprague Prize
Natural Sciences - Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the Natural Sciences
Philosophy - George Plimpton Adams Prize*; Bechtel Prize in Philosophy; Francis Bowen Prize; Emily and Charles Carrier Prize*
Physics - Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize; David J. Robbins Prize*
Romance Languages and Literatures - Dante Society of America Prize; Charles Hall Grandgent Prize; Susan Anthony Potter Graduate Prize
Scandinavian Studies - Einar and Eva Haugen Prize, Esther Sellholm Walz Prize
Slavic Studies - V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize
Statistics - William Gemmell Cochran Prize*
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Academic Achievement and Character - Santo J. Aurelio Prize*; Dean's Prize for Outstanding ALM Thesis; Reginald H. Phelps Prize*; Thomas Small Prizes; The Phyllis Strimling Award; Judith Wood Memorial Prize*; Katie Y.F. Yang Prize*
Afro-American Studies - Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity
American or British History and Gorvernment - De Lancey K. Jay Prize
Arts - Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize*
Business Management - Harold Langlois Award
Classics - John Osborne Sargent Prize for a Latin Translation
Commencement Orations - Commencement Speaker Prize (Extension); Graduate English Commencement Oration Prize
Comparative Literature - Luisa Vidal de Villasante Prize
East Asia - Taiwan Studies Essay Prize
Economics - Schumpeter Prize; David A. Wells Prize in Economics
English and American Literature - Helen Choate Bell Prize; Boston Ruskin Prize; Winthrop Sargent Prize
English Studies Program - Emanuel and Lilly Shinagel Prize Fund
Geographic Information Science - Howard T. Fisher rize
Government - Edward M. Chase Prize, Sumner Prize
Music - "The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club) Prize; Francis Boott Prize; George Arthur Knight Prize
Poetry - Academy of American Poets (ALB candidates only) Prize
Public Service - Derek Bok Public Service Prize
Romance Languages and Literatures - Dante Society of America Prize; Charles Hall Grandgent Prize
Other Graduate and Professional Schools
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Afro-American Studies - Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity
American or British History and Government - De Lancey K. Jay Prize
Book/Art Collecting - Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting
Commencement Orations - Graduate English Commencement Oration Prize
Comparative Literature - Luisa Vidal de Villasante Prize
East Asia - John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Prize; Yong K. Kim '95 Memorial Prize; Taiwan Studies Essay Prize
Economics - Schumpeter Prize*; David A. Wells Prize in Economics
English and American Literature - Helen Choate Bell Prize; Boston Ruskin Prize; Winthrop Sargent Prize
Geographic Information Science - Howard T. Fisher Prize
Government - Edward M. Chase Prize; Sumner Prize
Music - "The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club) Prize; Francis Boott Prize; Albebert W. Sprague Prize; George Arthur Knight Prize
Romance Languages and Literatures - Dante Society of America Prize; Charles Hall Grandgent Prize
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Adams - David S. Braverman Prize*, Reuben A. Brower Memorial Fund*, Timothy Faron Memorial Fund for Music*, David Mason Little '18 Prize*, Marshall Tankard*, Lisa Schnitzer Prize*, Benjamin Teel Memorial Prize*
Dudley - Dudley House Book Prize*
Dunster - Dunster House Fiftieth Anniversary Prize*, Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Academics*, Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Combined Achievement*, Sally and Cresap Moore Prize*
Eliot - Robert T. Benjamin Prize Eliot House*, John B. Imrie Memorial Award*, Edward H. Potter Prize Fund*
Kirkland - George Caspar Homans Prize*, Kirkland House Arts Award*, Kirkland Masters' Award*, Arthur Smithies Prize*, Spirit of Kirkland House Prize*
Lowell - John Peterson Elder Prize*, Franklin Ford Award*, Intramural Athletics Award*, John V. Kelleher Prize*, Korean War Memorial*, Patrick C. Melendez Award*, James Buell Munn Book Prize*, Elliott and Mary Perkins Prize*, Senior Tutor's Award*, Zeph and Diana Stewart Prize*, Jane Coolidge and Walter Muir Whitehill Prize*, B. J. Whiting Book Prize*, Judge Charles Wyzanski Prize*
Winthrop - Richard Harris Gottesman Award*, David J. Hanson Award*, Winthrop House Public Service Award*