Prize Winners
2007-08
Academy of American Poets Prize
- to Margaret Ross.
Albert Alcalay Prize
- to Katharine Woodman-Maynard.
Alexis de Toqueville Prizes in Social Studies
- to Jeremy Singer-Vine, an award of $500, for his project entitled Allan Sekula, Sebastião Salgado, and the Challenges of Labor Photography
Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize
- to Siobhan Wheeler.
Barbara Miller Solomon Prize
- to Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey, class of 2008.
Barrett Wendell Prize
- to Gracye Cheng, class of 2010.
"The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club) Prize
- to Gabriele Vanoni, for her project entitled Space Oddities.
Boston Ruskin Prize
- to Amelia Klein, for her project entitled Shelley and the Music of the Mutable .
- to Maia McAleavey, for her project entitled “ As the Angels are in Heaven”: Simultaneous Remarriage in David Copperfield .
- to Timothy Michael, for his project entitled Coleridge, Hume, and the Principles of Political Knowledge.
- to Chris Van Buren, for his project entitled Orpheus and Moses: Allegory in the “Divina Commedia”.
Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Compositions in Greek
- to Timothy Barnes, an award of $5000.
Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Compositions in Latin
- to Timothy Barnes, an award of $5000.
Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the English Language
- to Phoebe Putnam, an award of $10000 for her project entitled “I Could Open Your Belly with My Claw”: Touch and the Erotic Poetics of Panorama in the Early Work of Elizabeth Bishop
Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essays in the English Language
- to Alexander Chase-Levenson, class of 2008, an award of $10000 for his project entitled Discipline and Sanitize: Quarantine, Illness, and the Imaginative Geography of Western Travel to the East, 1750-1870
- to Matthew Spellberg, class of 2009, an award of $10000 for his project entitled T he Chimeric Image: Juxtaposition and Cognition in the Later Poetry of W. B. Yeats.
Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essays in the Natural Sciences
- to Malorie Snider, class of 2009, an award of $10000 for her project entitled Racial Medicine: Justified, Just, or Just Not Good Enough?
LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize
- to Thomas Alan Dichter, an award of $1000.
David Taggart Clark Prize
- to Katherine van Schaik, calss of 2008, an award of $1000.
Charles Edmund Horman Prize
- to Sae-byok Kim.
- to Joe Quinn.
- to David Wallace.
Clemens Herschel Prize
- to Anjali Lohani, class of 2008, an award of $200.
Colton Award
- to Sakura Christmas, class of 2008, an award of $500 for her project entitled Drafting Primitivity: The Oroqen in Japanese Manchuria , 1932-1945 .
Commencement Speaker Prize (Extension)
- to Todd Fawcett.
- to Leilani Sevilla.
Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize (A Radcliffe Fund)
- to Eliza Hornig.
- to Kristen Slungaard.
David Herbert Donald Prize
- to Samuel Scott, class of 2008, an award of $500 for his project entitled The Enlightenment of Bryan Edwards: Slavery, Fear, and Historical Writing in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic .
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature
- to Elizabeth Goodwin, class of 2008.
Dean's Prize for Outstanding ALM Thesis
- to Rosemary Balfour, for her project entitled Temperature Shifts and Habitat Modification Impact the Population of Terrestrial Birds Wintering in Inland Massachusetts .
- to Steven Flanders, for his project entitled The Townscape: Consensus, Conflict, and Narrative in the Late Nineteenth-Century Town Histories of Central New England .
- to Denise Gray, for her project entitled A Model for a Student Technology Assistant Program (STAP) in Higher Education .
- to Patrick Hegarty, for his project entitled Ecosystem Response to the Invasive Ascidian, Didemnum sp. in Long Island Sound .
- to Janet Holladay, for her project entitled Right Relationships: Inter-Responsiveness of Nature and Humankind Seen in the Work of Nature Writers Annie Dillard, Helen Hoover, and Sally Carrighar.
- to Martha Lagace, for her project entitled Stealing Clothes, Inciting Murder: Rwandan Women and Their Fatal Alliances During the 1994 Genocide .
- to Beverly Neugeboren, for her project entitled Demonstrating the Fitness Costs of Generosity in the Budding Yeast "Saccharomyces cerevisiae ".
- to Sarah Powell, for her project entitled Subversion and (Un)containment: Homoeroticism in the Plays of William Shakespeare.
- to John Sipple, for his project entitled Freeview3D: A Point-Based, 3D Video Application with Image-Based Rendering .
- to Deborah Tulley, for her project entitled The Effects of Single Gender Mathematics Classrooms .
- to Sara Wiepking, for her project entitled Art Museum Multiple-Visit Programs: Addressing Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of the No Child Left Behind Act .
Derek Bok Public Service Prize
- to Pierce Durkin.
- to Roberto Guerra.
Susan C. Eaton Fellowship in Organizing, Leadership, and Social Change
- to Jesse Zwick, an award of $750, for his project entitled Growing Gardens and Communities: A Study of Urban Agriculture in New York City.
Edward Chandler Cumming Prize
- to Frederic Clark, class of 2008.
Edward Eager Memorial Fund
- to Loren Bienvenu.
- to Sara Burwell.
- to Teresa Cotsirilos.
- to Alice Cullina.
- to Jessica Estep.
- to Marta Figlerowicz.
- to Katie Fitzgerald.
- to Liza Flum.
- to Nathan Johnson.
- to Olga Kamensky.
- to Alexandra Kjuchukova.
- to Laura Kolbe.
- to Lara Markstein.
- to Emmett McDermott.
- to Patrick McKiernan.
- to Stephen Narain.
- to Alexandra Pape
- to Daniel Pearle.
- to Gabriel Rocha
- to Margaret Ross.
- to Lisa Sanchez.
- to Zachary Sniderman.
- to John Thomasson.
- to Maria Vassileva.
- to Clement Wright.
Edward M. Chase Prize
- to B. Andrew Kennedy, an award of $6000 for his project entitled Dreams Undeferred: Mao, Nehru, and the Strategic Choices of Rising Powers .
The Fireman Fellowship
- to James Benjamin Battat, an award of $1, for his project entitled Testing Fundamental Physics in the Solar System: Constraints on Lorentz Symmetry and Braneworld Gravity.
Francis Boott Prize
- to Edgar Barroso, an award of $250, for his project entitled Miserere.
George Arthur Knight Prize
- to Jean François Charles, an award of $3764.12 for his project entitled Bleu 3.
George B. Sohier Prize
- to Megan Galbreth, class of 2008, an award of $250 for her project entitled Irony, Didacticism, and the Pragmatics of Reading .
Leo Goldberg Prize in Astonomy
- to Okacey Abaraoha, class of 2008, an award of $1000 for her project entitled Identification of New YSO Member of Taurus.
- to Kimberly DeRose, class of 2009, an award of $600 for her project entitled Models for Diffuse X-ray Emission in Ophiuchus and the Galactic Center.
Graduate English Commencement Oration
- to Anthony Woods.
The Green Prize (in Music)
- to Elizabeth Lim, an award of $7595.47, for her project entitled Windfalls..
Harvard Monthly Prize
- to Jesse Barron.
- to Emily Graff.
- to Andrew Sellegen
- to Jessica Talley.
The Eugene R. Cummings Senior Thesis Prize in LGBT Studies
- to Sarah Howard, class of 2008.
Helen Choate Bell Prize - PhD
- to Peter Becker, for his project entitled The Perpetrator's Past: Consciousness and Conscience in the Historical Novel .
- to Jeff Severs, for his project entitled Reinventing Totalitarianism in the Postwar American Novel .
Helen Choate Bell Prize
- to Chinnie Ding, for her project entitled “Beyond the last thought”: The Idea of Finality in Late Stevens.
- to Marta Figlerowicz, for her project entitled “The audience is the performance and vice versa”: Allegorical Cognition in Poetry of E. E. Cummings .
History Prize (Junior)
- to Tyler Goodspeed, class of 2008, an award of $100 for his project entitled On Overcoats and Interest Rates: Keynes, Hayek, and the Riddle of the Review .
History Prize (Senior)
- to Eva Dickerman, class of 2008, an award of $100 for her project entitled Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper: Race, National Belonging and the Quest for Minority Citizenship in Post-Imperial Austria , 1920-1924.
Howard T. Fisher Prize
- to Anjali Lohani, class of 2008, for her project entitled Effects of Changes in Land Cover on Water Quality.
- to Miwa Matsuo, for her project entitled Identifying Employment Centers and Modifiable Areal Unit Problem .
- to Amos Tai, for his project entitled Regional Differences in the Effects of Climate Change on Air Quality in the United States with a Focus on Particulate Matter Concentrations .
- to Jeremy Tchou, class of 2009, for his project entitled Wind Energy in the United States: A Spatial-Economic Analysis of Wind Power .
Hugh F. MacColl Prize
- to Michael Schachter, an award of $1574.08, for his project entitled Book of Prayer.
Jane C. Grant Junior and Senior Prizes
- to Genevieve Bonadies, class of 2008.
Jane C. Grant Junior and Senior Prizes
- to Katy Mahraj, class of 2008.
John Clive Prize
- to Alexander Chase-Levenson, class of 2008.
Johnathan Fay Prize
- to Eric Kouskalis, class of 2008, an award of for project entitled Does Not Compute: The Introduction of New Technologies to South African and Namibian Classrooms.
Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction
- to Francesca Serritella.
Lillian Bell Prize in History (A Radcliffe Fund)
- to Cristina Groeger, class of 2008, an award of $100 for her project entitled Thinking the Particular: Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt on the Moral and Political Function of Thought .
Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize
- to Michael Stynes, class of 2009.
- to Ayten Tartici, class of 2008.
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
- to Bong Ihn Koh, class of 2008.
- to Elizabeth Lim, class of 2008.
Louise Donovan Award
- to David Jewett, class of 2008.
- to Kara Kaufman, class of 2008.
Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies
- to Danielle Sassoon, class of 2008, for her project entitled From Consent to Descent: Ludwig Lewisohn's Anti-Assimilationism as a Product of Historical Change .
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature Number One (1941) (A Radcliffe Fund)
- to Charles Melvoin, class of 2010.
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature Number Two (1947) (A Radcliffe Fund)
- to Olga Zhulina, class of 2009.
Perry Miller Prize
- to Ofole Mgbako, class of 2008.
Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting
- to Noah Silver, class of 2010, an award of $1000 for his project entitled Figbash and Wild Things: The Illustrations of Edward St. John Gorey and Maurice Sendak .
- to Philip Mead, an award of $2000 for his project entitled The Art of War in Revolutionary America .
Philip Washburn Prize
- to Eva Dickerman, class of 2008, an award of $500 for her project entitled Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper: Race, National Belonging and the Quest for Minority Citizenship in Post-Imperial Austria , 1920-1924 .
Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize
- to Arlo Hill, class of 2008.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize
- to Timothy Reckart, class of 2009.
Reginald H. Phelps Prize
- to Samuel DiBattista, an award of 1st Place .
- to Katrina Sylor, an award of 2nd Place .
- to John Axten, an award of 3rd Place .
Rudolf Arnheim Prize
- to Lewis Liu.
Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Honors Theses in Economics
- to Jonathan Lee, class of 2008, an award of $3,500 for his project entitled Investigating the Labor Supply Implications of Kahneman's Peak End Rule .
Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Honors Theses Social Sciences
- to Eva Dickerman, class of 2008, an award of $3,500 for her project entitled Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper: Race, National Belonging and the Quest for Minority Citizenship in Post-Imperial Austria , 1920-1924.
Sophia Freund Prize
- to Seth Herbst, class of 2008, an award of $1,000.
Albert W. Sprague Prize
- to Tolga Yayalar, an award of $1922.13 for his project entitled Three Imaginary Spaces after Hadid.
Sumner Prize
- to Katerina Linos, an award of $6000 for her project entitled Diffusion of Social Policies Across OECD Countries.
- to Aziz Rana, an award of $6000 for his project entitled Settler Empire and the Promise of American Freedom.
Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Literature and Comparative Literature
- to Anders Engberg-Pederson, an award of $2000 for his project entitled State of Exception: Literature and Cartography in the Wake of the Napoleonic Wars.
- to Christopher Van Buren, class of 2008, an award of $1250 for his project entitled Pilgrim's Shadow: Allegory in the Divine Comedy.
Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age- to Jennifer Blumberg, class of 2008, an award of $1500 for her project entitled La invención, la imitación y la narración en Don Quixote de la Mancha .
- to Monica Renta, class of 2008, an award of $1500 for her project entitled La imaginación como facultad histórica en los episodios de la Cueva de Montesinos y del viaje de Clavileño.
Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize
- to Claudia Schreier, class of 2008.
Tau Beta Pi Prize
- to Connie Cheng, class of 2008, an award of $100.
The Harold Langlois Award
- to Ana Carolina de Aguiar.
The Jonathan Levy Award
- to Sophie Kargman, class of 2008.
The Katie Y.F. Yang Prize
- to Maria Sampaio.
The Lenore Wilson Prize
- to Paul Whang.
The Oliver-Dabney Prize in History (A Radcliffe Fund)
- to Erika Solomon, class of 2008.
The Phyllis Strimling Award
- to Jacqueline Mordi.
The Santo J. Aurelio Prize
- to Ann Marie Bender.
Thomas Small Prize
- to Angela Chung.
- to Suzanne Koven.
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, Class of 1919
- to Stephen Amrock, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Globalizing Actionable Rights: The Role of Policy Elites in Health Care Reform in Chile and Bolivia, 1982-2007 .
- to Jordan Baehr, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled From Every Subtle Thing We Do: Capitalist Socialization in Communist China .
- to Marco Basile, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Zarathustra as a “Good European”: From Nietzsche's City-State to His Anti-Politics .
- to Anna Bonnell-Freidin, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Claims to Power: Virtus in Valerius Maximus' Facta et Dicta Memorabilia.
- to Katherine Brunson, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Shifting Animal Exploitation Strategies in Late Neolithic China: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Longshan Site of Taosi, Shanxi Province .
- to Robert Cecot, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled People Helping (White) People: Evidence of Racial Discrimination in Peer-to-Peer Lending .
- to Can Cenik, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Loss of Genetic Variation in Salmon and the Coalescent Effective Population Size .
- to Curtis Chan, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Being B-Boys: Style, Identity, and Respect Among New England and Miami Street Dancers .
- to Alexander Chase-Levenson, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled A Gate for the Whole Continent: Quarantine, Illness, and the Imaginative Geography of British Travel to the East 1780-1850 .
- to Sakura Christmas, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Drafting Primitivity: The Oroqen in Japanese Manchuria , 1932-1945.
- to Katie Rose Clapham, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled A Tiny Protein Links Two Morphogenetic Processes in a Bacterium.
- to Frederic Clark, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Historae Veritas and the First Historiographer: Reading Dares Phrygius in the Middle Ages .
- to Victoria Clark, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Alternative Splicing Factor Sfrs Is Required for Terminal Differentiation of Rod Photoreceptor Outer Segments in the Mouse Retina .
- to Dustin Clausen, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled The Springer Correspondence .
- to Chiara Condi, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled “ If Francis had upheld him to the last, he would have been the Luther of France ”: The Trial of Louis de Berquin 1523-1529.
- to Michael Coulter, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Slightly Salivating, Over Your Fever: Mercury in Therapeutic Medicine During the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
- to Henry Cowles, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled “ Harmless, Beautiful, or Rare”: The Origins of Wildlife Protection in Britain , 1860-1873.
- to Richard Cozzens, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled “We're not Gs--We're Arabs”: Arab Identity in the Politics and Poetics of Rap in Jordan , Syria and Palestine .
- to Abigail Darby, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled A Panel of Judges: The Response of the American Medical Profession to Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus.
- to Elizabeth David, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled History for a Changed World? Geoffrey Barraclough, the Campaign for Universal History, and the English Historical Profession in the Mid-20th Century.
- to John Davies, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Milton 's Teleological Psychology.
- to Denise Delaney, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Marginality and Violence: The Experience of Being a Desplazado in the Colombian Capital .
- to Eva Dickerman, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper: Race, National Belonging and the Quest for Minority Citizenship in Post-Imperial Austria , 1920-1924.
- to Darja Djordjevic, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Persecution and the Double Bind: An Ethnographic Study of Women Asylum Seekers and the Comité médical pour les exilés .
- to Chiazotam Ekekezie, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled “ Make Jealousy for Her”: Witchcraft, "Modernity" and Local Anxieties about Moralized Reproduction in Malawi .
- to Kevin Feeney, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Forget the Facts: Navigating Identities in David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and John Henry Days .
- to Jhoshua Friedman, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Gregory the Great and the Myth of the Gregorian Chant .
- to Masha Godina, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Giving What They Deserve: The Case Against Desert as a Reason for Action.
- to Tyler Goodspeed, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection .
- to Adam Guren, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled The Marriage Market Returns to College Quality .
- to Mishy Harman, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Blurred Binarism: Jewish Identity in the Case of the Falash Mura .
- to Nicholas Hayes, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled From Reverence to Reconciliation: The Kantian Genesis of Hegel's Conception of Freedom.
- to Erika Helgen, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled A Polish Pope in Puebla : Liberation Theology, Ecclesiology, and the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate.
- to Seth Herbst, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Two Dramas Both Alike: Words, Music, and Imagination in Shakespeare's and Prokofiev's Versions of Romeo and Juliet .
- to Miriam Hinman, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Degradation Patterns in Subfossil Collagen on Archaeological Sites: New Evidence from Pyrolysis GC-MS and Solid State 13C NMR .
- to Brandon Imber, class of 2007, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Rational Design, Chemical Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of a Small Molecule Library Targeting Histone Demthylases.
- to Roumiana Ivanova, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Europe's Soft Power: Limits and Possibilities .
- to Mollie Margaret Kirk, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Nationalism for Sale: The Commoditization of History and Collective Memory in China's Red Tourism .
- to Ivan Kotchetkov, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Developmental Anatomy and Molecular Identity of Intra-Telencephalic Corticostriatal Projection Neurons.
- to Eric Kouskalis, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Does Not Compute: The Introduction of New Technologies to South African and Namibian Classrooms.
- to Ajay Kumar, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Driving to God: Ohio and Social Density Theory of Religiosity.
- to Roland Lamb, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled This, That, and the Other: Zhuangzi's Sotto Voce Ontology.
- to Matthew Lebowitz, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Consumption of Science and Its Effects on Attitudes .
- to Johnathan Lee, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Investigating the Labor Supply Implications of Kahneman's Peak End Rule .
- to Jordan Lee , class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled In Search of an Alternative: Negotiating Legitimacy in Reform Era China .
- to Rachel Lefebvre, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Molecular Dissection of TGF-B Induced Signal Transduction Pathways Controlling T-cell Differentiation.
- to Paul Linden-Retek, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Public Responsibility, Solidarity, and Citzenship: Václav Havel and Jürgen Habermas on Morality and Democratic Politics.
- to W. Hugh Malone, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled “I Think What I See”: A.R. Ammons' Poetics of the Real.
- to Elizabeth McKenna, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled To Be Human Is to Be a Capitalist: A Discursive Critique of Microfinance with a Case Study of Poverty, Power, and Change in Brazil's Favelas.
- to Sophia McKinley, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Sleep, Learning, and Memory in the Elderly.
- to Luke Messac, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Lazarus at America 's Doorstep: Elites and Framing in Federal Appropriations for Global AIDS Relief.
- to Alison Miller, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Explicit Class Field Theory in Function Fields: Gross-Stark Units and Drinfeld Modules .
- to Danny Mou, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Edgetic-Profiling of Disease-Associated TP73L Mutant Proteins.
- to David Mou, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Improving the “Brainbow” System for Multi-color Cellular Labeling using Epitope-Tags and Antibodies.
- to Evan O'Donnell, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Geometric Core Knowledge: Partial Maps, Length, and Angle .
- to Endria Richardson, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Lullwater .
- to Ari Ruben, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Testing Suffrage: Literacy and the Right to Vote in New York, 1915-1975.
- to Xianpeng (Adam) Sang, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Zebrafish Primordial Germ Cells Require Insulin-Like Growth Factor Signaling for Directional Migration .
- to Caroline Schopp, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Monument and Counter-Monument: The Sculptural Libraries of Anselm Kiefer, Micha Ullman, and Rachel Whiteread .
- to Samuel Conrad Scott, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled The Enlightenment of Bryan Edwards .
- to Francesca Serritella, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled White Snakeroot and Other Summer Wildflowers .
- to Jonathan Siegel, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled The Local Impact of Interstates: Assessing the Effect of Highway Construction on Surrounding Neighborhoods.
- to Jeremy Singer-Vine, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Allan Sekula, Sebastiao Salgado, and the Challenges of Labor Photography.
- to Cecilia Soler, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled The Divine Parody: Camus' La Chute in the Words of Dante.
- to Hummy Song , class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Beyond the Pale: Rethinking American Concepts of Whiteness through Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922).
- to Jackie Stenson, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Appropriate Rondaval Chimney: Reducing Indoor Air Pollution in Rural Southern Africa .
- to Michelle Steward, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Not in My Front Yard: The Use of Neighborhood Appearance in the Construction of Moral Boundaries.
- to Daniel Stolper, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Constraining the Physiological Activity of Deep-Sea Sedimentary Microbial Communities .
- to Jie Tang, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Informativeness and Incentive-Compatability for Reputation Systems.
- to Elina Tetelbaum, class of 2007, an award of $3500 for her project entitled A Sobering Look at How Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws Affect Traffic Fatalities.
- to Adaner Usmani, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Reimagining the Revolutionary Vanguard: Frantz Fanon and the Task of the Intellectual .
- to Katherine Van Schaik, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled The Multiplication of Meaning: The Identification and Characterization of the San Callisto Banquet Images .
- to Beatrice Viramontes, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Journeys to Aztlán: The (Re)creation of Pre-Columbian Forms in the Contemporary Chicano Murals of Los Angeles .
- to Anh-Thu Elaine Vo, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Mercury Exposure and Evolutionary Genetics of Heavy Metal Regulation in Black-Footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes).
- to Ana Vollmar, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Whose Voice? Whose History? Human Representation in Edward Palmer's Ethnobotanical Collections, 1869-1896.
- to Peter Wang, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Identifying Novel Genes Involved in Sensory Neuron Function.
- to William Werbel, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Shoes: the Arch Enemy? Contrasting the Kinetics and Kinematics of Habitually Shod and Habitually Barefoot Runners.
- to Rachel Whitaker, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Beyond Books: Film Production and Distribution at the Grove Press Publishing House .
- to Clement Wood, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Horatius de Amicitia: Maecenas and the Discourse of Friendship in the Poetry of Horace.
- to Bobby Xu, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled The Effect of Relationships on Contract Choice: A Theoretical Approach.
- to Yoshitaka Yamamoto, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for his project entitled Flash, Roar, Dream: A Reading of the Dream Imagery in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Testimonial Literature Alongside Freud, Lacan and Coleridge.
- to Crystal Yang, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled An Empirical Analysis of Rape Shield Legislation.
- to Elisa Zhang, class of 2008, an award of $3500 for her project entitled Distinct Sets of mRNA Target Exhibit Differential miRNA Dose Responses.
Toppan Prize
- to Daniel Hopkins, an award of $5500 for project entitled When Differences Divide: How National Influences and Local Demographics Shape Politics Between Ethnic Groups.
Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting
- to Trisha Pasricha, class of 2011, an award of $1000.
- to Gregory Scruggs, class of 2008, an award of $1500.
- to Ming Vandenberg, class of 2008, an award of $750.
William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize
- to Hannah Sullivan, for her project entitled Textual Waste and “The Waste Land ”.
Winthrop Sargent Prize
- to Suparna Roychoudhury, for her project entitled Sickness and Subjectivity, or, The Anatomy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 147.
- to Matthew Spellberg, for his project entitled Pressing Fantasies: Feeling Dreams in Romeo and Juliet .
Wister Prize in Mathematics or Music
- to Seth Herbst, class of 2008, an award of $1,300.
James D. Woods Memorial Fellowship
- to Ralph Paone, an award of $800, for his project enttitled The Terrain of Warp-Speed: Subways, Temporality, and Urban Subjectivity.
- to Catherine Bevilaqua, an award of $400, for her project entitled Indian Outcaste Women and the Outcaste Human Rights Movement.
- to Yi Chen, an award of $400, for her project entitled The Economic and Social Sustainability of Microfinance in Latin America: A Study on Bolivia.Revised 6/16/2008