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Prize Winners
1997-98
Academy of American Poets Award
- to Chris Hosea '98, first prize, for "Nairobi Spring, 1993"
- to Kendra Lider-Johnson '98, honorable mention, for a group of poems
George Plimpton Adams Prize
-to William Bristow, Ph.D. Nov. '97, for his dissertation on a subject in the field of philosophy entitled "Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique"
Albert Alcalay Prize
- to Jennifer Mergel '98, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studio
Rudolph Arnheim Prize
- to Derek McKee '98, a prize of Professor Arnheim's book Power of the Center, for the most outstanding project that achieves excellence through interdisciplinary effort or which demonstrates excellence in scholarly research integrated with visual communication
William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize
for "an understanding essay on the true spirit of book collecting." - to William Pannapacker G5, a prize of $500, for his essay
Santo J. Aurelio Prize
- to Sarabelle Anneberg, ALB '97, a prize of $300, for academic achievement and character as an ALB degree recipient in Extension School Studies who is more than 50 years of age
Bechtel Prize in Philosophy
- to Sean Greenberg G4, income from the fund ($1,934.09), for his essay entitled "Confusion and Obscurity and the Function of the Passions in Descartes' Passions of the Soul"
Jeremy Belknap Prize
- to Chad Denton '01, income from the fund ($1,279.07), for his composition entitled "Nenana: Un recuel de souvenirs d'enfance," the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College
Helen Choate Bell Essay Prize
a prize for the best essay of from 5,000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American Literature
- to William Pannapacker G5, two prizes of $2,500 each, for his essays
- to James Michael Cocola '98, a prize of $2,500, for his essay
- to Leslie Eckel '98, a prize of $2,500, for her essay
- to Charles Savage '98, Honorable Mention and a prize of $1,000, for his essay
Lillian Bell Prize
- to Kelsey Williams McNiff '98, for her essay entitled "Confronting the Whirlwind: How a Group of Young Protestants Became Resisters in Vichy France – The History of CIMADE, 1939-1945" which was judged the best paper written by a Radcliffe student on the Holocaust or other major 20th-century event involving human tragedy
James Gordon Bennett Prize
- to Arkadi Gerney '98, income from the fund ($1,215.72), for his senior thesis entitled "The Rise of the Promise Keepers: A Christian Men's Movement, and Its Implications for American Civic Engagement," as an outstanding essay on some subject of "American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest"
Philo Sherman Bennett Prize
- to Ellen Shustorovich '98, income from the fund ($448.38), for her senior thesis entitled "Domestic Politics in International Trade: France's Defense of Culture and Agriculture," as an outstanding essay "discussing the principles of free government"
"The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club)
- to Kurt Stallman G5, income from the fund ($1,316.97) for his original composition entitled "Fantasy"
Derek Bok Public Service Prize
a prize of $500 each, recognizing creative initiative in community service or a long-standing record of civic achievement by an Extension School student
- to Karen Dechman
- to Michael J. Dwyer
Francis Boott Prize
- to Elliott Gyger G2, a prize of $250, for his composition in concerted vocal music entitled "And I heard a voice out of heaven"
Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Natural Sciences
- to Sonali Bose '99, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "Evil Twins in Biology – Prions and Their Innocent Doppelgangers"
Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Natural Sciences
- to Frank Ellis McKenzie G7, a prize of $3,000, for his essay entitled "The Microbial Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases"
Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate English
- to Owen Scott Wozniak '98, a prize of $3,000, for his essay entitled "The Rhetorical Fate of the American Revolution in Three Orations by the Reverend Enos Hitchcock"
- to Elizabeth Katherine Hobson '98, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "More Than Just Spectators: Race, Class and the Uses of History at the Newport Folk Festival"
Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Translation into Attic Greek
- to David Petrain '98, a prize of $1,000, for his translation into Attic Greek
Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Translation into Latin
- to David Petrain '98, a prize of $1,000, for his translation into Latin
Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Dissertation in Attic Greek
- to Olga Levaniouk G4, a prize of $2,000, for an original essay in Attic Greek
Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Dissertation in Latin
- to Olga Levaniouk G4, a prize of $2,000, for an original essay in Latin
Boylston Prize for Elocution
- to Marian Hennessey-Fiske '99, first prize
- to Stephanie Gibbs '99, second prize
LeBaron Russell Briggs - Commencement Oration
- to David Brunton '98, a prize of $300, as the member of the graduating class of Harvard College who will deliver the undergraduate English dissertation at the Commencement Exercises
LeBaron Russell Briggs – Fiction Prize
- to Wendy Cheng '98, a first prize of $200, for "A Wedding," as the best work of prose fiction by an undergraduate during the year
- to Leora Bersohn '99, a second prize of $100, for "Severance"
LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize – Senior Thesis
- to Amanda Fortini '98
- to Justin Kestler '98
- to Charles Savage '98
- to Melissa Swift '98
LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize – Traveling Fellowship
an award toward the expenses of a year of literary studies abroad to seniors in the English Department selected by the Honors Committee of the English Department on the basis of the whole performance in the English concentration, including the honors thesis, general examination, courses, and tutorial
- to YiLing Chen-Josephson '98
- to Leslie Eckel '98
- to Kenda Lider-Johnson '98
- to Marie Mackey '98
Emily and Charles Carrier Prize
- to Tamar Schapiro, Ph.D. Nov. '97, a prize of $1,912.01, for her dissertation on a subject in Social, Political, or Moral Philosophy entitled "CARING FOR OUR PRINCIPLES: Action Under Non-ideal Conditions"
Edward M. Chase Prize
- to Stewart Wood, income from the fund ($2,500.52), for his dissertation entitled, "Capitalist Constitutions: Supply-Side Reform in Britain and West Germany, 1960-1990," as the best essay on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace by any student in the University
David Taggart Clark Prize - Latin Oration
- to Lisa Marie Mignone '98, a prize of $300, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement
John Clive Prize
- to Sarah Corbett '98, a gift certificate for books, as a concentrator in History and Literature for an outstanding thesis on a topic in British history or literature entitled "'Sons, Be Welded Each and All': Interpretations of Patriotism and Empire in British Adolescent Literature"
Colton Prize
- to Scott Bradford Simpson '98, a prize of $300, for excellence in the preparation of a senior thesis in the Department of History
James Bryant Conant Prize
- to Jeremy Kleiner '98, a first prize of $750, as the student who, as part of the regularly assigned work in elementary General Education and Core Program Courses in any of the natural sciences, submits one of the best essays on a subject of scientific interest
- to Christina Henry '00, a second prize of $500
Coolidge Debating Prize
- to Eric D. Albert '98, one-half the income from the fund, as one of the best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates
- to Justin D. Osofsky '99, one-half the income from the fund, as one of the best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates
Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize
to Extension School Degree recipients who demonstrate singular dedication to learning and the arts
- to Betsey Sandra Glaser, a first prize of $500
- to Jill G. Brown, a second prize of $400
Edward Chandler Cumming Prize
- to Dana Goldblatt '98, for her essay entitled "Mobility, Identity, and the Problem of Poetry in Piers Plowman," as the best senior thesis by a concentrator in History and Literature
Luisa Vidal de Villasante Prize
- to Mark K. Burns G7, for an essay entitled "Contrapunteo americano: Comparative Literature and Fernando Ortiz"
David Donald Prize
- to Bradley Cohen '98, a prize of $300, for the graduating senior in the Department of History whose work in American history best exemplifies "the high standards of erudition, original thought, and elegant prose embodied in the career of David Herbert Donald"
Louise Donovan Award
- to Helen Shaw '98, a prize of $500, for the Harvard-Radcliffe student who was worked behind the scenes in the arts – for example, as director, producer, or accompanist – contributing most to the success of a production and the opportunity for others to shine.
Edward Eager Memorial Fund
- to Leora Bersohn '98 for "Severance," and "Decorating Advice"
- to Elizabeth Winthrop '01 for "Cleaning Up"
- to Daniel Kirschner '99 for "Easy Enough"
- to Sara Houghteling '99 for "Thin Walls"
- to Daley Haggar '98 for "Black Box"
- to Angma Jhala '00, for "Island," "Yajna, The Sacrifice," and "The Mistress"
- to Kendra Lider-Johnson '98, for "Learning New Tricks"
- to Camille Sze '99, for "A Selection of Creative Essays"
- to Diana Adair '98, for "The Other Side of the River"
- to Caitlin Roxby '98, for "All this Useful Beauty"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize
- to William Triant '99, a prize of $75, as the male member of the junior class at Harvard College concentrating in the field of History and Literature who shows the greatest promise
Extension School Commencement Speaker Prize
- to Genghis Paul Robert Lapointe, ALB cum laude '98, a prize of $300
Extension School Dean's Prize for Outstanding ALM Thesis
- to Joan P. Mather, ALM '98, a prize of $500 (Humanities)
- to Dennis M. Pricolo, ALM '98, a prize of $500 (Social Sciences)
- to Robert H. Briggs, Jr., ALM '98, a prize of $500 (Behavioral Sciences)
- to Demetra D. Pappas, ALM '98, a prize of $500 (Biological Sciences)
William Scott Ferguson Prize
- to Charles Grant Kels '00, a prize of $500, for the best essay written in sophomore tutorial in the Department of History
Eric Firth Prize
- to Richard Hughes '98, income from the fund ($1,057.89), for his senior thesis entitled "Farmers versus Landlords: The Disintegration of the Landed Interest and the Repeal of the Corn Laws"
William Plummer French Prize
- to Kevin Matthew Burke '98, a prize of a book, as the undergraduate student who is judged by the Department of Afro-American Studies to have collected the best personal library focusing on some aspect of African or African American culture and history
Sophia Freund Prize
- to Daniel Philippe Mason '98, a prize of $1,000, as the student in the senior class of Harvard College who is graduating summa cum laude with the highest grade point average
Paul Revere Frothingham Fund
- to Ahmed el-Gaili '98, income from the fund ($4,843.26), as "that member of the Senior Class in Harvard who best exemplifies the qualities of excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University"
Albert M. Fulton Prize
- to Jenny Drake Berrien '98, income from the fund ($759.11), for her thesis entitled "The Boston Miracle: The Emergence of New Institutional Structures in the Absence of Rational Planning," awarded annually to the senior who submits the best thesis in the field of sociology
Lloyd McKim Garrison
- to James Wilson '00, a prize of $650 and a silver medal, for "Constellation"
Graduate English Commencement Oration
- to William Seaton Griffin, a prize of $300, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercises
Kate and Max Greenman Prize
- to Eric D. Albert '98, Michael W. Bodell '00, Justin D. Osofsky '99, Christopher Lim Park '01, Kaustuv Sen '99, Daniel L. Tobey '99, medals awarded to those students in Harvard College who participated in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debates
Seymour and Ruth Harris Prizes
- to Kelsey Williams McNiff '98, income from the fund ($2,379.16), for her thesis entitled "Confronting the Whirlwind: How a Group of Young Protestants Became Resisters in Vichy France"
- to Alex Zakaras '98, Honorable Mention, for his thesis entitled "Composing the Self: Edmund Burke and the Ethics of Interpretation"
Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics
- to Gopal Garuda '98, income from the fund ($2,379.16), for his thesis entitled "The Distributional Effects of IMF Programs: A Cross-Country Analysis"
Harvard College Women's Leadership Award
- to Valerie J. MacMillan '98, a stipend of $750, for a junior or senior woman who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and promise
- to Nana E. Coleman '98, Honorable Mention
- to Kavita Kacholia '98, Honorable Mention
- to Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, Honorable Mention
Harvard Monthly Prize
- to Agbanyero Ghukwudebe, income from the fund ($527.89), as "that student in the most advanced courses in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise"
Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry
- to Katie Sigelman '99, a first prize of $50, for "Conceit"
- to Mia Alvar '99, a second prize of $25, for "Diver"
Lawrence J. Henderson Prize
- to Aurelio A. Teleman '98, a prize of books, for his honors thesis in Biochemical Sciences entitled "Studies on the Segregation and Architecture of the Bacterial Chromosome"
Clemens Herschel Prize
- to Ehab Goldstein '98, for the purchase of books, for meritorious students registered in practical hydraulics
History Prize (Junior)
for the best research papers submitted in Junior Tutorial
- to Andrew Eggers '99, a prize of $100, for his essay entitled "The Boston Chinatown Raid of 1903 and the Chinese Anti-American Boycott of 1905: A Study in Public Opinion and Exceptionality"
- to Sarah Clark Schmidt '99, a prize of $100, for her essay entitled "The Puritan Paradox: Making Englishmen at the Harvard Indian College"
- to Eric Nelson '99, a prize of $100, for his essay entitled "From Football to Foreign Policy: Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Eliot and the Nature of 'Manliness'"
- to Ken Haig '99, a prize of $100, for his essay entitled "The Hawaiian Club of Boston, 1868-1869: A Case Study of Informal Empire in America"
History Prize (Senior)
- to Shirin Abbas Sinnar '98, a prize of $100, for the best total record as a history concentrator by the end of the senior year
Hoopes Prizes - see end of list
Charles Edmund Horman Prize
- to Scott Seider '99 and Mulaika Hijjas '99, income from the fund ($881.32 each), awarded to a junior who excels in creative writing and who best personifies the ideals and sense of values held by Charles Edmund Horman, to provide financial assistance in the senior year
Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize
- to Felicia Gordon '98, a prize of $1,000, for her outstanding undergraduate thesis on a topic relating to Afro-American life, history, or culture entitled "Art or Propaganda?: Defining the Literary Canon During the Harlem Renaissance"
Howard Mumford Jones Prize
- to Noah Heringman G6, income from the fund ($2,377.06), for the "best doctoral dissertation concerning some aspect of British or American Literature or literary history in the Nineteenth Century" submitted to the Department of English and American Literature and Language.
George Arthur Knight Prize
- to Christoph Neidhofer G6, income from the fund ($1,659.99), for his composition entitled Nach Innen, judged the best composition in instrumental music by any University student
Morris Kronfeld Prize
- to Kaniaru Wacieni '98, a cash prize, as a graduating senior in the Department of Economics who has shown great academic improvement during his undergraduate years
Doris Cohen Levi Prize
- to Catherine Ingman '98, a prize of $500 and a certificate, to the "undergraduate woman with the most talent and energy for musical theater and for Radcliffe"
Jonathan Levy Prize
- to Paul Siemens '98, a prize of $250, as the most promising actor in the College
Wolf Lewkowicz Prize in Yiddish Studies
- to Tamar Katz '01 and Bradley Nash '99, a cash prize, for the student or concentrator in Yiddish Studies "who shows the greatest promise in the study of Yiddish language, literature, and/or history"
Alain LeRoy Locke Prize
- to Kevin Matthew Burke '98, a prize of $1000, as the graduating Afro-American Studies concentrator with the highest grade point average
Hugh F. MacColl Prize
- to Matthew Lima '98, income from the fund ($688.80), for his original music composition entitled "Theurgy"
Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize
- to Andrew Eggers '99, a prize of approximately $1000 to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated both past meritorious achievement in the study of Japanese and the strong potential for future achievement in and significant contributions to a Japan-related endeavor
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History
- to Shirin Abbas Sinnar '98, a prize to be expended on books, to the Radcliffe student who, at the end of her senior year, is judged by the Department of History to have made the best total record as a History honors student
Reginald H. Phelps Prize
awarded to graduating students receiving Bachelor's Degrees in Extension Studies on the basis of "academic achievement and character"
- to Richard Martin Mitchell, a first prize of $500
- to Jolanta Malgorzata Davis, a second prize of $400
- to Erin Elizabeth Howlette, a third prize of $300
Normal Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies
- to David Lambert '98, a prize of $2,000, for the student who submits the best essay, feature article, or short story on a Jewish theme.
Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Comparative Literature)
- to Elio Brancaforte G7, a first prize of $1,455.00, for his essay entitled "The Emblematic Tradition in Calderon's El principe constante"
Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Spanish Literature of the Golden Age)
- to Kevin Murphy '99, first prize of $1,455, for his essay entitled "When 'When' Matters"
- to Magdalena Edwards '99, second prize of $700, for her essay entitled "Fortune, Providence, and Virtue"
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
- to Samuel Grushevsky '98, Dragos N. Oprea '00, and Stephen S. Wang '98, $25,000 collectively as the first-ranked winning team and $1,000 each, as the members of the winning team in the Putnam Mathematical competition.
- to Patrick K. Corn '98, a prize of $2,500, as one of the six highest-ranking entrants
- to Mike L. Develin '00, a prize of $2,500, as one of the six highest-ranking entrants
- to Samuel Grushevsky '98, a prize of $2,500, as one of the six highest-ranking entrants
- to Ciprian Manolescu '01, a prize of $2,500, as one of the six highest-ranking entrants
- to Li-Chung Chen '01, a prize of $1,000, as one of the fifteen highest-ranking entrants
- to Dragos N. Oprea '00, a prize of $1,000, as one of the fifteen highest-ranking entrants
- to Stephen S. Wang '98, a prize of $1,000, as one of the fifteen highest-ranking entrants
- to Davesh Maulik '01, a prize of $250, as one of the twenty-five highest-ranking entrants
- to Chung-Chieh Shan '99, a prize of $250, as one of the twenty-five highest-ranking entrants
- to Carleton J. Bosley '01, Honorable Mention
- to Samit Dasgupta '98, Honorable Mention
- to Andrei C. Gnepp '98, Honorable Mention
- to Robert Ribciuc '99, Honorable Mention
- to Alexander Saltman '99, Honorable Mention
David J. Robbins Prize
- to Daniel Kim G3 and Charles Coldwell G2, a cash prize, which represents one-half the income from the fund, as two needy students, preferably graduates of Harvard College or Radcliffe College, who are students in physics in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to provide the recipients with the means for cultural activities and recreation.
Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize
for the best presentations before the Mathematics Table
- to Samit Dasgupta '98, a first prize of $309.04 for his talk "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and Extensions"
- to Jacob Alexander Lurie '99, a second prize of $154.52 for his talk "Quadratic Reciprocity over Finite Fields"
Sales Prize
- to Jason Veysey '98, income from the fund ($1,601.87), for the best undergraduate scholar in Spanish, "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish Composition"
Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics
- to Charlene Ahn '98, a cash prize, as "the graduating senior with the highest grade point average in physics"
John Osborne Sargent Prize
- to Hsuan L. Hsu '98, for the best Latin translation of a lyric poem of Horace
Winthrop Sargent Prize
- Charles Savage '98, a prize of $1,000, for "The Trans-Cultural Storm"
Carl Schurz Prize
- to Serena Tan '01, a book, or books, suitably inscribed, for the Freshman in German A, not on financial aid, who passes the highest examination in elementary German at the midyear examination
Thomas Small Prize
awarded on the basis of "academic achievement and character" to outstanding Master of Liberal Arts degree recipients in Extension Studies
- to Fatema H. Aziz, ALM '98, a first prize of $500
- to Luanne Elizabeth Wilcynski, ALM '98, a second prize (tie) of $100
- to Jill G. Brown, ALM '98, a second prize (tie) of $100
George B. Sohier Prize
- to Justin Kestler '98, a prize of $250, for his thesis entitled "Exquisite Contrast: Words and Music to the 'Sirens' Chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses" as the "best thesis written an undergraduate presented for Honors in English or in modern literature and in certain cases History and Literature"
- to Toma Tasovac '98, Honorable Mention, for his thesis entitled "Negation as the Presence of Absence in the Works of Ivo Andric"
Barbara Miller Solomon History and Literature Senior Prize
- to Gonzalo Martinez '98, a cash prize, as the male member of the senior class at Harvard College whose honors thesis entitled "Questioning a Canonical Chicano Experience: Writing Against Prevailing Notions of Chicanismo in Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, and Moraga's Loving in the War Years," is, in the judgment of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, of high distinction
Adelbert W. Sprague Prize
- to Elliott Gyger G2, a prize of $877.26, for his orchestral composition entitled "Crossbow"
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
- to Sybil-Catherine Watkins '98, a prize of $1,000, in honor of the sum of activities of a graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts
Sumner Prize
- to Sharon Krause G5, income from the fund ($7,440.60), for her dissertation entitled "The Politics of Distinction and Disobedience: Honor and the Defense of Liberty in Montesquieu," for the best dissertation written by any student in the University from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace
Tau Beta Pi Prize
- to Fontini Katopodas '98, a prize of $100, to the undergraduate showing excellence in Engineering Sciences
Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies
- to Andrew Davis '98, a prize of $500, for his thesis entitled "Contesting the Homosexual: The Mattachine Society in Social Historical Context, 1950-1953"
- to Sonja Starr '98, a prize of $500, for her thesis entitled "Unity in Diversity: Coalition- Building in the Environmental Justice Movement"
Toppan Prize
- to Claudine Gay, income from the fund ($2,508.09), for her dissertation entitled "Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics"
Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
- to Alice Lewis '01, a first prize of $300, for her Select Bibliography of My Collection of Books Relating to Sequential Art
- to Mary Murphy '99, a third prize of $100, for her Reference Books: A Multi-Purpose Collection
- to Trevor Cox '01, Honorable Mention, for his Essay on Book-Collecting and a Bibliography of Presidential Items
Philip Washburn Prize
- to Shirin Abbas Sinnar '98, a prize of $300, for her honors thesis entitled "Culture and Human Rights: A Historical Inquiry into the Context of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1945-1950"
Barrett Wendell Senior Prize
- to Abigail Rezneck '98, for her essay entitled "Desegregating a Canon, City, and a Country: The Struggles for Membership and Leadership in Washington, D.C., 1944-1954"
Barrett Wendell Sophomore Prize
- to John Coyle '00, for his essay entitled "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of It All: Undine Spragg and the Press in The Custom of the Country"
Harold T. White Jr. Award
for "a non-tenure teacher who achieves the highest level of teaching excellence in the introductory courses in physics or applied physics"
- to Allan Adams
- to Jonathan Ashcom
- to Stephen Bailey
- to Meredith Betterton
- to Marc Humphrey
- to Ila Prasad
- to Denis Yu
Elizabeth Wilder Prize
- to Chris Hans '01, income from the fund, as the "Freshman needing financial aid who passed the highest examination in elementary German at the midyear examination"
John H. Williams Prize
- to Bradley Whitman '98, a cash prize, as the honors senior in Economics with the best overall record
The Lenore Wilson Prize
- to Nora Lehman '00, as a student in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies who has done superior work in the area of printmaking
Wister Prize
- to Sami Shumays '98, income from the fund ($604.21), as the Senior concentrating in Music who has the highest record in his field of concentration
Judith Wood Memorial Prize
- to Alexander G. Sperry, ALB '98, a prize of $300
The Katie Y.F. Yang Prize
established by Katie Y.F. Yang, CSS '90, this prize is awarded annually to the international graduate with the most outstanding academic record
- to Sara Lomelin Velten, a prize of $500
Allyn A. Young Prize
- to Cristian Pop-Eleches '98, a prize of $400 and a book on economics to be chosen by the recipient, for his thesis entitled "Transition in Romania: Three Essays on Private Sector Development"
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes 1997-98
to undergraduates and their supervisors, awards for excellence in scholarly work and research
- to Derrick N. Ashong '97-98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Songs We Can't Sing" -- Ms. Penny Tucker
- to Jenny Drake Berrien '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Boston Miracle: The Emergence of New Institutional Structures in the Absence of Rational Planning" -- Professor Christopher Winship
- to Lucy Rake Bisognano '97-98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'What's Wrong With It?' and Other Lessons from the Living Artist: Minimal Intervention, Acceptable Deterioration, and Conservation Ethics for the Treatment of Contemporary Art" -- Professor John Shearman
- to Daniel Kalman Biss '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Homotopy Theory with a View Toward Stable Computations" -- Professor Raoul Bott
- to Jennifer Louise Burns '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Pregnant with Evil: The Aesthetics of Boston's Church of the Advent" -- Mr. Brett Flehinger
- to Kirsten Valentine Cadieux '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Perceptions of Vernacular New England: A Photographic Inquiry into the Making of Landscape" -- Professor Ellen Phelan
- to Chen-chen Cecilia Chang '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Radicalizing Doubt: The Postmodern Contingencies of Burke, Nietzsche, and Mill" -- Dr. Stanley N. Kurtz
- to YiLing Livia Chen-Josephson '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "A Catching of Happiness: The Structure of Epiphanies in the Poems of Philip Larkin and Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse" -- Mr. Michael Soto
- to James Choi '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Value Line Enigma: The Sum of Known Parts?" -- Professor Andrew Metrick
- to Joshua Adam Corngold '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Traveling Salesman in Modern Jewish Literature" -- Mr. Stephen Shoemaker
- to Michael Scott Cuthbert '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Fragments of Polyphonic Music from the Abbey of S. Giustina: Codices, Composers, and Context in Late Medieval Padua" -- Professor Reinhold Brinkmann and Professor Thomas Kelly
- to Max Diehn '97, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Identification of ITK Interacting Proteins and Domains Required for ITK Tyrosine Phosphorylation" -- Professor Leslie Berg
- to Dina Dudkin '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Gait Differences and Sexual Orientation: Evidence From Dynamic Point Light Displays" -- Professor Nalini Ambady
- to David Franklin Elmer '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Logos as Eikon: Vision and the Written Word in Isocrates" -- Professor Gregory Nagy
- to Daniel Mark Engber '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Slips of Grace, or Dan Engber's Coup de Grace" -- Ms. Melissa Feuerstein
- to Mark Joseph Engler '98-99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Rights of the Poor, Rites of Liberation: Liberation Theology, Human Rights, and the Struggle in El Salvador" -- Mr. Douglas Hicks
- to Amanda Patricia Fortini '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Rewriting Hysteria: Shell-Shock in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Pat Barker's Regeneration" -- Professor Leo Damrosch
- to Elizabeth Ann Foster '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Creating a Plus grande France: The Exposition coloniale internationale, Paris, 1931" -- Professor Ann Blair
- to Gopal Garuda '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Distributional Effects of IMF Programs: A Cross-Country Analysis" -- Dr. Steve Radelet
- to Ehab Alfred Goldstein '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "An Improved Prosthetic ElectroLarynx Controlled by Pressure Variations and Electromyographic Signals" -- Professor Thomas A. McMahon
- to Anna Greka '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "From Molecular Cloning to Functional Expression: A Study of Recombinant GABAc Receptors" -- Dr. Stuart A. Lipton and Professor John Dowling
- to David Singh Grewal '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Optimality and Evolution in Economics: Darwinism in the Study of Firms and Institutions" -- Professor Stephen Marglin
- to Daley Christie Haggar '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Subplots: A Novella and Two Stories" -- Mr. Brad Watson
- to Hsuan Lin Hsu '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Frontier Negotiations: Ideology and Practice Along Buena Park's Entertainment Corridor" -- Professor William R. Handley
- to Sarah Elizabeth Jackson '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Ahk'uhun of Copan: A Study of the Non-Royal Elite and Their Inscriptions" -- Professor William L. Fash and Dr. David Stuart
- to Elizabeth Ann Kensinger '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Effect of Repeated Study/Test Trials on False Memories: An Investigation of College-Age And Elderly Adults" -- Professor Daniel Schacter
- to Justin Charles Kestler '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Exquisite Contrast: Words and Music in the 'Sirens' Chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses" -- Professor Jonah Siegel
- to Jeremy Kleiner '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Spectacles: Transparency, Representation and Politics in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Revolution, Situationism, and Postmodern Thought" -- Professor Patrice Higonnet
- to Iris Lan '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Finding Choreography for Igor Stravinsky's Tango (1940)" -- Professor David E. Cohen
- to Rern Tze Lau '96-97, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Understanding Central and Peripheral Autonomic Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Control During REM Sleep" -- Dr. James Quattrochi
- to Adam Jeremiah Levitin '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Mi Yimalel - Who Will Retell? Zionist Conceptions of Jewish History and the Ideal of the New Hebrew" -- Professor Jay Harris
- to Daniel Phillippe Mason '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Population Dynamics of Mixed-Species Plasmodium Falciparum-Plasmodium Malariae Blood-Stage Malaria Infections in Humans" -- Professor William Bossert
- to Peter Biek McIntyre '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Effects of Brook Trout on Mid-Appalachian Stream Communities" -- Professor John Cadle and Professor Henry Wilbur
- to Kelsey Williams McNiff '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Confronting the Whirlwind: How a Group of Young Protestants Became Resisters in Vichy France" -- Professor David Blackbourn
- to Nina Ariel Mitchell '97-98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Patriot Movement and the Quest for Legitimacy" -- Professor Timothy Alborn
- to Timothy Mueller '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Development and Application of a Computationally Efficient Method for the Generation of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images" -- Professor Cynthia M. Friend
- to Cristian Pop-Eleches '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Transition in Romania: Three Essays on Private Sector Development" -- Professor Andrei Shleifer
- to Judith Quinones '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Irish Pub Sessions: Let's See What the Craic Is" -- Professor Carol M. Babiracki
- to Julia Raiskin '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Rushing to be Russian: Psychotherapy in a Transforming Moscow" -- Professor Arthur Kleinman
- to Abigail Rebecca Rezneck '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Desegregating a Canon, a City, and a Country: The Struggles for Membership and Leadership in Washington, D.C., 1944-1954" -- Ms. Linda Elizabeth Prince
- to Youngju Ryu '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Home at Last: Incest and Spatial Systems in Edith Wharton's Summer and Henry James's Watch & Ward" -- Ms. Sophia Padnos
- to Abhinav Seth '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Development of a Calcineurin-Mediated Protein Dimerization System" -- Professor Stuart L. Schreiber
- to Ellen Rachel Shustorovich '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Domestic Politics in International Trade: France's Defense of Culture and Agriculture" -- Dr. Judith Vichniac
- to Jennifer M. Soriano '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Matrix of Modernization: The IUD and The Evolution of Philippine Family Planning" -- Mr. Eric D. Kupferberg
- to Nara Chi Sun '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Metabolic Activity of Chemoautotrophic Bacteria in the Intact Symbiosis of Riftia pachyptila, the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm" -- Professor Colleen Cavanaugh
- to Toma Tasovac '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Negation as the Presence of Absence in the Works of Ivo Andric" -- Professor Julie Buckler
- to Aurelio Amilcare Teleman '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Studies on the Segregation and Architecture of the Bacterial Chromosome" -- Professor Richard Losick
- to Jonathan Thierman '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Surgical Probe for the Detection of Pulsing Blood Vessels and Embedded Lesions" -- Professor Roger Brockett
- to Dustin Elliott Thomason '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "'That's the Way it is When You Got Nothin': Fighting Structural Violence among Women with HIV" -- Ms. Amy Farber
- to Julianna Sophia Tymoczko '97-98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The p-Components of the Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres" -- Professor Joseph D. Harris
- to Cristina Laura Vatulescu '98, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Museum of Arrested Thought: Metamorphoses of Censorship and Prison in Bulgarov, Steinhardt, and Beyond" -- Professor Svetlana Boym and Dr. John Henriksen
- to Bradley Luckard Whitman '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "What Might Have Been: How Lower Foreign Tariffs Would Have Prevented the Decline of Victorian Britain" -- Professor Jeffrey G. Williamson
- to Patrick Joseph Wrinn '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "'Time-Share' Units in the Paleolithic: Faunal Evidence for Hominid Subsistence and Carnivore Activity at Mugharet el 'Aliya, Tangier, Morocco" -- Professor Ofer Bar-Yosef and Dr. Richard Meadow
- to Benjamin Frederick Zaitchik '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Evolutionary Studies in the Poaceae" -- Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg
- to Alex Zakaras '98, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Composing the Self: Edmund Burke and the Ethics of Interpretation" -- Professor Pratap Mehta
Honorable Mention
- to Curtis Robert Chong '98, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Catalytic Chelators: Mechanism and Implications for Drug Design" -- Professor David S. Auld
- to Omri Traub '98, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Quality and Speed in Linear-Scan Register Allocation" -- Professor Michael D. Smith
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