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Prize Winners
1998-99
Academy of American Poets Prize
- to Tera Hong '98 for "Alexiad: Theme and Variations on a Father," "Groundhog," "Self-Portrait as Eguchi," "Sentinel," and "Karaoke"
Albert Alcalay Prize
- to Yuh-Shioh Wong '99, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studio
George Plimpton Adams Prize
- to William Bracken, Ph.D. November '98, a cash prize, for his dissertation, on a subject in the field of philosophy, entitled "Becoming Subjects: The Agency of Desire in Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud"
Rudolph Arnheim Prize
- to Anne Dodge '99, a prize of Professor Arnheim's book Power of the Center, for the most outstanding project that either achieves excellence through interdisciplinary effort or demonstrates excellence in scholarly research integrated with visual communication
Baker Prize
- to Beth Ann Hoffman G3, for her essay entitled "The Two Faces of Hume's Moral Theory"
Bechtel Prize in Philosophy
- to David MacArthur, Ph.D. June '99, a cash prize, for his essay entitled "Skepticism, Certainty & Practical Insulation in Descartes' First Meditation"
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 Judith A. Richardson G7, a cash prize, for her essay
- to Jeffrey Brown Ferguson, Ph.D., a cash prize, for his thesis, "The Newest Negro: George Schuyler's Intellectual Quest in the 1920s and Beyond"
Lillian Bell Prize
- to Celia P. Whitaker '99, a cash prize, as the Radcliffe student who has written the best paper on the Holocaust or other major 20th-century event involving human tragedy
James Gordon Bennett Prize
- to John Edgar Turlais '99, income from the fund ($1,312.86), for his Senior Thesis entitled "Klanning Alone: The Transformation of the Ku Klux Klan from Brotherhood to Mailing List," as an outstanding essay on some subject of "American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest"
Philo Sherman Bennett Prize
- to Daniel Lee Tobey '99, income from the fund ($448.20), for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Actor Unwound," as an outstanding essay "discussing the principles of free government"
Bernhard Blume Award (Senior)
- to Stephen Shackelford '99, as the graduating senior concentrator in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures who has written the best honors thesis and whose performance in courses offered toward the concentration is of equal merit, for his thesis entitled "The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Holocaust Remembrance"
Bernhard Blume Award (Graduate Student)
- to Anjeana Hans G2, as the graduate student whose major field is German and who has attained an outstanding record in his/her course work
"The Bohemians" (New York Musicians Club)
- to Karim Al-Zand G6, a cash prize, for his original composition entitled Duet for Harp and Viola
Boston Ruskin Prize
- to Patrick O'Malley G7, a cash prize, for his essay entitled "Goths and Romans: Ruskin's Gothic Topographies"
Bowdoin Prize - Graduate English
- to William A. Pannapacker III G6, a prize of $3,000, for his essay entitled "Poetics, Politics, and Self-Promotion: Walt Whitman's Lincoln Lectures"
Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Natural Sciences
- to Jason Scott Felsch G5, a prize of $3,000, for his essay entitled "Drugs, Divinity, and the Discourses of Muscarinic Receptors"
Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Dissertation in Attic Greek
- to Olga Levaniouk G5, a prize of $2,000, for her original essay in Attic Greek
Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate English
- to Dunja Popovic '99, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "Escaping the Monument: Brodsky, Pushkin, and the Poet's Relationship to Society"
- to Rebecca Ulam Weiner '99, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "The City on the Hill: From Product to Process in the Making of the Atomic Bomb"
Francis Bowen Prize
- to Pamela Hieronymi G5, a cash prize, for her essay entitled "Articulating an Uncompromising Forgiveness"
Boylston Prize for Elocution
- to Amma Ghartey-Tagoe '01, first prize
- to Sarah Matteson '99, second prize
LeBaron Russell Briggs - Commencement Oration
- to Selamawi Haileab Asgedom '99, 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 Valerie Jaffee '99, a cash prize, for "Moving Back East," as the best work of prose fiction by an undergraduate during the year
Emily and Charles Carrier Prize
- to Michael Titelbaum '99, a cash prize, for his dissertation, on a subject in Social, Political, or Moral Philosophy, entitled "How to Argue with a Four-Year Old: A Kantian Solution to the Justificatory Regress"
Edward M. Chase Prize
- to Gary Jonathan Bass, Ph.D. November '98 , income from the fund ($2,677.03), for his dissertation entitled, "Judging War: The Politics of International War Crimes Tribunals," 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 Quentin Chu '99, a prize of $300, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement
John Clive English Prize
- to Sarah Pershouse '99, as a concentrator in History and Literature, for her essay entitled "The Object of My Affection: Material Possessions, Female Beauty, and Courtship in Three Nineteenth-Century British Novels," as the best honors essay on a topic in the field of Britain
Colton Prize
- to Abigail Fojas '99, a prize of $300, for excellence in the preparation of a Senior Thesis in the Department of History
James Bryant Conant Prize
- to Peter Ciganik '00, first prize ($600), 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 Thomas Saunders '00, second prize ($500)
- to Tammy Muccio '02, third prize ($400)
Coolidge Debating Prize
- to Gabriel Mendlow '01, 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 Chelsea Tanaka-Delgado '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
Edward Chandler Cumming Prize
- to Dunja Popovic '99 for her essay entitled "Brodsky vs. Pushkin: Polemical Self-Fashioning," as the best Senior Thesis by a concentrator in History and Literature
David Donald Prize
- to Marian Lee '99, a prize of $250, as a graduating senior in the Department of History whose work in American history exemplifies "the high standards of erudition, original thought, and elegant prose embodied in the career of David Herbert Donald"
- to Halbert M. Jones '99, a prize of $250, as a graduating senior in the Department of History whose work in American history exemplifies "the high standards of erudition, original thought, and elegant prose embodied in the career of David Herbert Donald"
Edward Eager Prize
- to Angma Jhala '00 for "To Halwad"
- to Ben Florman '99 for "Occupying Houses"
- to Danny Tobey '99 for "The Sick Bed and the Swan Train"
- to Elizabeth Winthrop '01 for "Burnt"
- to Josh N. Lambert '01 for "The Young Man in the Brown Overcoat"
- to Leah Altman '99 for "Paulie"
- to Meeghan Piemonte '99 for "Lovely Rita"
- to Micaela Root '00, for "Hot Town"
- to Sam Shaw '99, for "Tete-a-Tete"
- to Sara Waisbren Houghteling '99 for "The House at Cold Harbor"
Edward Eager Prize (Poetry)
- to Tera Hong '98 for "Alexiad: Theme and Variations on a Father," "Groundhog," "Self-Portrait as Eguchi," "Sentinel," and "Karaoke"
Edward Eager Prize (Nonfiction)
- to Camille Sze '99 for "Love (and a six year old orange)"
- to Rebekah Shoaf '00 for "Drag Queen: How and Why I'm a Smoker"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize
- to Nick Parrillo '00, a prize to be expended on books, as the male member of the junior class at Harvard College concentrating in the field of History and Literature who shows the greatest promise
William Scott Ferguson Prize
- to Michael Aaron Kay '99, a prize of $500, for the best essay written in Sophomore Tutorial in the Department of History
Eric Firth Prize
- to Justin Clint Danilewitz '99, income from the fund ($1,142.41), for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Transplantation of American Equal Protection Jurisprudence to Israel: The Kaadan Case and the Viability of the 'Separate but Equal' Doctrine"
William Plummer French Prize
- to Phillip Atiba Goff, a book prize awarded to the undergraduate student who has collected the best personal library focusing on some aspect of African or African-American culture and history
Sophia Freund Prize
- to Chelsea Helen Foxwell '99, 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
Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize
- to Susannah Lang Hollister '01, a prize of $650 and a silver medal, for "The Landing"
Graduate English Commencement Oration
- to Hazel Trice Edney, KSG, a prize of $300, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercises
Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics
- to Daniel Benjamin '99, income from the fund ($2,506.69), for his thesis entitled "Does 401(k) Eligibility Increase Net National Savings?: Reducing Bias in the Eligibility Effect Estimate"
Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize
- to Eric Matthew Nelson '99, income from the fund ($2,506.69), for his thesis entitled "The Reluctant Humanist: Thomas Hobbes and the Classical Historians"
- to Katherine Ruth Unterman '99, Honorable Mention, for her thesis entitled "The Evolution of the Holocaust Survivor into an American Moral Hero, 1943-1979"
Harvard College Women's Leadership Award
- to Sarah Russell '99, a stipend of $750, for a junior or senior who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and promise
- to Nicole DeBlosi '99, Honorable Mention
- to Jennifer Lee '99, Honorable Mention
Harvard Monthly Prize
- to Sam Shaw '99, income from the fund, as "that student in the most advanced courses in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise"
Roger Conant Hatch Prize
- to James Scott Fraser Wilson '00, first prize, for "Poem for Barry"
- to Jerome Martin '01, second prize, for "Le Vallon"
Lawrence J. Henderson Prize
- to Timothy Yu-Ling Tseng '99, a prize of books, for his honors thesis in Biochemical Sciences entitled "Biochemical Characterization of the Salmonella typhimurium phage SP6 DNA Primase"
Clemens Herschel Prize
- to Wendy Seider '00, for the purchase of books, as a meritorious student registered in practical hydraulics
History Prize (Junior)
for the best research papers submitted in Junior Tutorial, a prize of $100
- to Adam G. Beaver '00
- to Katherine E. Foshko '00
- to Lynsay B. Skiba '00
- to Rodrigo A. Cruz '00
History Prize (Senior)
- to Abigail Fojas '99, a prize of $100, for the best total record as a History concentrator by the end of the senior year
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (see end of list)
Charles Edmund Horman Prize
- to Michelle Young-Mee Rhee '00, income from the fund, as the 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
Howard Mumford Jones Prize
- to Nicholas Dames, Ph.D., a cash prize, for "Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia and the Evasion of Memory in British Fiction, 1810-1870," as 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 Lansing McLoskey G4, a cash prize, for his composition entitled Tinted, judged the best composition in instrumental music by any University student
Morris Kronfeld Prize
- to Benjamin Kaplan '99, a cash prize, as a graduating senior in the Department of Economics who has shown great academic improvement during his undergraduate years
Hugh F. MacColl Prize
- to Christopher Ariza '99, a cash prize, for his original music composition entitled Comma
Mill-Taylor Prize
- to Mike Passportis '01 and Hugh Liebert '01, a prize of $250 awarded for the two best Social Studies 10 essays written by any sophomore concentrating in Social Studies
Perry Miller History and Literature Senior Prize
- to Jia-Rui Chong '99 for her essay entitled "Federated Along One Keel: Race, Ethnicity, and the Alternative Spaces of Whaling Ships, 1830-1860," as an outstanding honors essay on a topic in the field of America
Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize
- to Jeffrey Weinshenker '00, 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 field of endeavor
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History
- to Abigail Fojas '99, a prize to be expended on books, as 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
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Sophomore)
- to Jenny Chou '01 for "Through Her Eyes: Chinese Perceptions of Americans in Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance," as a sophomore essay of high distinction
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Junior)
- to Catherine Taylor '00, as the Radcliffe College member of the junior class whose work in History and Literature has shown the greatest promise
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Senior)
- to Margaret Schotte '99 for her senior essay of high distinction entitled "Savages, Beasts and 'Honnêtte Gens': Collapsing Cultural Boundaries in the Work of the Baron de Lahontan"
Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies
- to Kirk Gerhard Hanson '99, first prize, for his essay entitled "Difficulties of Double-Consciousness: Confronting Anti-Semitism and the Dual Nature of Dual Anglo-Jewish Identity During the Second World War, as "the student who submits the best essay, feature article, or short story on a Jewish theme."
- to Shalom Holtz '99, second prize (tie), for his essay entitled "The Formulaic Antecedents of the Rabbinic Writ of Divorce"
- to Gil Dibner '99, second prize (tie), for his essay entitled "In the Eyes of the Heart: Jewish Particularity, History and the State of Israel"
Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Comparative Literature)
- to Jack W. Chen G3, first prize ($1,500), for his essay entitled "Foundings of Home: Poetic Gesture and Poetic Success in Du Fu's Poetry"
- to Daniel A. Fried G1, second prize ($750), for his essay entitled "Zhu Ziqing, Frantz Fanon, and the Fierce White Children"
- to Ekaterina Dianina G4, third prize ($500), for her essay entitled "Kunstkamera: Collecting Material and Literary Artifacts in Eighteenth-Century Russia"
Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Spanish Literature of the Golden Age)
- to Brendan Daly '99, first prize ($1,200), for his essay entitled "The Role of the Narrator in Lazarillo de Tormes and El Abencerraje"
- to Elena Schneider '99, second prize ($1,000), for her essay entitled "Fighting and Writing in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España"
David J. Robbins Prize
- to Carlo Mattoni G4 and Jiri Vanicek G1, 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 Anna Medvedovsky '99, first prize, for her talk "Dirichlet's Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progressions"
- to Lauren Williams '99, second prize, for his talk "Baby You Can Drive My Car: A Talk on Parking Functions"
Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics
- to Micol Christopher '99, a cash prize, as "the graduating senior with the highest grade point average in physics"
Winthrop Sargent Prize
- Ben Florman '99, a prize of $1,000, for "The Conditions and Contradictions of Kingship in Henry V"
Carl Schurz Prize
- to Zayida Baker '02, a book or books, suitably inscribed, for the "freshman not needing financial aid who achieves the highest score in the mid-year examination in elementary German and who has not studied German before enrolling in the course"
George B. Sohier Prize
- to Benjamin Barnaby Paloff '99, a prize of $250, for his thesis entitled "Divergent Narratives: Affinity and Difference in the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert and Miroslav Holub," as the "best thesis written an undergraduate presented for Honors in English or in modern literature and in certain cases History and Literature"
Barbara Miller Solomon History and Literature Senior Prize
- to Brendan Gibbon '99 for his honors thesis entitled "Civilize Them with a Krag: The Racial Attitudes of American Soldiers in the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902," as the male member of the senior class at Harvard College whose honors thesis is of high distinction
Adelbert W. Sprague Prize
- to David Taddie G7, a cash prize, for his orchestral composition entitled Composition for Chamber Orchestra & Tape
Jack Stein Teaching Fellow Prize
- to Grant H. Henley G3, as the Teaching Fellow who "conducts undergraduate sections with the highest measure of pedagogical skills, linguistic proficiency, enthusiasm, and commitment to students' learning and welfare"
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
- to Mai'a K. Davis '99, 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 Patchen P. Markell, Ph.D. March '99, income from the fund ($7,973.22), for his dissertation entitled "Bound by Recognition: The Politics of Identity After Hegel," 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 Angel Peterchev '99, a prize of $100, to the undergraduate showing excellence in Engineering Sciences
Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies
- to Chuanfei Chin '99, a prize of $500, for his thesis entitled "Embarrassing Thoughts"
- to Katherine Unterman '99, a prize of $500, for her thesis entitled "The Evolution of the Holocaust Survivor into an American Moral Hero, 1943-1979"
Toppan Prize
- to Virginia Page Fortna, Ph.D. November '98, income from the fund ($2,700.77), for her dissertation entitled "A Peace That Lasts: Agreements and the Durability of Peace"
Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
- to Trevor Cox '01, first prize ($300), for his essay entitled "Presidents (and Books) I Have Known"
- to Kristopher Michael Helgen '01, second prize ($200), for his essay describing his collection of books on mammals
Esther Sellhom Walz Prize
- to Louisa Shea G3, as the graduate student pursuing studies in German or Scandinavian language with the intention of entering the teaching field, for her essay dealing with a scholarly subject in German or Scandinavian literature and philology entitled, "Rhetoric or Communication: Defining the Nietzsche-Habermas Deadlock"
Philip Washburn Prize
- to Andrew Craig Eggers '99, a prize of $300, for "the best thesis on a historical subject presented by a successful candidate for the bachelor's degree with honors in the Department of History"
Barrett Wendell Prize
- to Seth Familian '01, as the sophomore man who has written the best essay, for his essay entitled "Individuality, the Automobile, and the American Photograph: Robert Frank and Walker Evans in Dialogue and Dissonance"
Elizabeth Wilder Prize
- to Francesca Petrosino '02, income from the fund, as the "freshman needing financial aid who achieves the highest score in the mid-year examination in elementary German and who has not studied German before enrolling in the course"
John H. Williams Prize
- to Daniel Benjamin '99, a cash prize, as the honors senior in Economics with the best overall record
The Lenore Wilson Prize
- to Carmen Cheung '99, as a student in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies who has done superior work in the area of printmaking
Wister Prize
- to Joachim Krieger '99, income from the fund ($652.49), as the Senior concentrating in Music who has the highest record in his field of concentration
Allyn A. Young Prize
- to Jordan Cooper '99, a cash prize and a book on economics to be chosen by the recipient, for his thesis entitled "Do Brokerage Research Department Recommended Lists have Investment Value?"
- to Blake Kleinman '99, a cash prize and a book on economics to be chosen by the recipient, for his thesis entitled "Owner-Occupied Housing and Labor Income as Sources of Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk and Their Impact on Optimal Portfolio Choice"
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes 1998-99
to undergraduates and their supervisors, awards for excellence in scholarly work and research
- Kevin Amer '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Mirror Images: Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio, 1963-65" -- Ms. Shirley Thompson
- Elif Batuman '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Djinn's Bottle: Readings in the Oriental, the Confined, and the Nonlinguistic" -- Dr. Ewa Badowska
- Jared H. Beck '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Friends and Enemies: The Political Philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Carl Schmitt" -- Mr. Ori I. Dasberg
- Adam Walter Bellack '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Behind the Wizards' Curtain: The Origins of Wide-Area Packet-Switched Computer Networks" -- Dr. Peter Buck
- Daniel Jacob Benjamin '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Does 401(k) Eligibility Increase Net National Savings?: Reducing Bias in the Eligibility Effect Estimate" -- Professor Donald Rubin and Professor David Laibson
- Supinda Bunyavanich '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Role of Science in Sustainable Forest Management: An Experimental Investigation of Tropical Forest Regeneration and Research Prioritization in Malaysia" -- Professor Peter S. Ashton, Professor David Baum and Professor N.M. Holbrook
- Jennifer Anne Burney '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Changing Science Here on Earth" -- Mr. David Kaiser
- Rachel Naomi Carmody '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Travel Cost of Grouping: Evidence for Compensation in the Grey-Cheeked Mangabey (Cercocebus Albigena)" -- Professor Richard W. Wrangham
- Chuanfei Chin '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Embarrassing Thoughts" -- Dr. Alan Keenan
- Olivia Choe '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'She Looked All About Her': Male Gaze, Aesthetic Innovation, and Contextualization in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady" -- Professor Jesse Matz
- Jay Hwan Chyung '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Cloning and Characterization of Chick Scleraxis and Bapx1, Potential Transcriptional Regulators of Chondrogenesis" -- Professor Andrew B. Lassar
- Heather Susan Craw '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Orchestrating Romance: Interpreting the Performance of Nineteenth-Century Romances" -- Professor Julie Buckler
- Nikki Lyn DeBlosi '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'When We Get Married, We'll Live Next Door to Each Other': Adolescence, Girl-Friends, and 'Lesbian' Desires" -- Professor Ann Pellegrini
- Hadi Nicholas Deeb '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Essentializing Armenians: Nostalgia and Identity Formation Among Armenian-Americans" -- Professor Michael Herzfeld and Dr. Thomas Malaby
- Elizabeth Drogin '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Public Transportation Takes Its Toll: The Effect of Public Transportation Use on Race-Based Occupational Segregation and Race-Based Earnings Inequality" -- Professor Barbara Reskin
- Elizabeth W. Dunn '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Dealing with Ambiguous Discrimination: Affective Forecasts and Emotional Experiences" -- Professor Daniel Gilbert
- Joshua Aaron Eisner '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "SiO Masers, H20 Masers, and Outflow in the W51-IRS2 Star Forming Region" -- Dr. Lincoln Greenhill
- Rachel Ali Farbiarz '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Making the Death Star: A Karla Faye Tucker Story" -- Mr. Joel Greifinger
- Eric Jay Feigin '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "A Case for Automatic Run-Time Code Optimization" -- Professor Michael D. Smith
- Benjamin David Florman '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Making it Human: Politics, Ideology, and the Conception of History in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, In the Skin of a Lion, and The English Patient" -- Professor Robert Kiely
- Shalimar Abigail Ordonez Fojas '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Three Florentine Madonnas: Marian Image Cults and Popular Religion in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florence" -- Professor James Hankins
- Chelsea Helen Foxwell '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Kanô Hôgai, Innovator of Japanese Painting Across Era Boundaries" -- Professor Cherie Wendelken
- Ariel Shana Frey '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Neurotransmitter Receptors in Transgenic Mouse Models of Huntington's Disease" -- Dr. Jang-Ho Cha
- Stephanie Anne Veirick Gibbs '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Heart and I: Allegories of Self and Desire in the Livre du cuer d'amours espris" -- Dr. Kathryn Karczewska
- Miriam Bayla Goldstein '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Taking Up Their Harps on Foreign Soil: The Adaptations of the Arabic Desert Ode in Andalusian Hebrew Poetry" -- Professor Bernard Septimus
- Alma Hadar '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Seamless Whole and Ragged Edges: Justice and the Democratic Rule of Law in Melville's White Jacket, Moby Dick, and Billy Budd" -- Professor Sacvan Bercovitch
- Doreen Tam Ho '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "An Exploration of Pain Insensitivity in Self-Injurious Individuals" -- Professor Jill M. Hooley
- Tera Hong '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Heirloom" -- Professor Henri Cole
- Dara Horn '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Rewriting Redemption: The Messianic Experiment in Modern Jewish Literature" -- Professor Ruth Wisse
- Katherine Reed Ives '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Ways of Wandering: Pilgrimage in Modernity" -- Dr. Matthew Potolsky
- Judson Lefren Jaffe '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "For Whom Does Pollution Prevention Pay: The Effects of Industry Structure and Firm Characteristics on the Environmental Performance of Firms" -- Professor Robert Stavins
- Karen C. Kim '98/'99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'From the Bones of Memory': Women's Stories to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission" -- Professor Mary Steedly
- Daniel Brian Kirschner '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Phantoms" -- Mr. Brad Watson
- Catherine Ann Kreindler '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Plato's Revisionism: Epic Poetry and the Poetics of Dialectic" -- Professor Gregory Nagy
- Maxwell Norman Krohn '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "On the Definitions of Cryptographic Security: Chosen Ciphertext Attack Revisited" -- Professor Michael Rabin
- Paul Lekas '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Beyond the Phallic Signifier, Ethics: Foucault and Psychoanalysis" -- Professor Duncan Kennedy
- David William Lerch '99/'00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Globalization of the Environmental Movement and the Birth of Greenpeace International" -- Professor Michael McElroy
- David Alan Lyczkowski '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Adquiéretelo: On the Acquisition of Pronominal Object Clitics in Spanish" -- Dr. Maria Babyonyshev
- Anil Samoilenko Menon '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Relationship Between Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusions and Neurotransmitter Receptor Changes in Transgenic Mouse Models of Huntington's Disease" -- Dr. Jang-Ho Cha
- Semra Aylin Mesulam '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Alzheimer's in Turkey: The Birth of a Disease" -- Mr. Bartholomew Ryan
- Eric Matthew Nelson '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Reluctant Humanist: Thomas Hobbes and the Classical Historians" -- Professor Richard Tuck
- Huyen-Lam Quang Nguyen '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Écrivains Vietnamiens d'Expression Française – Auteurs-Réclamants d'un Espace Culturel: 1921-1954" -- Professor Leo Ou-Fan Lee and Mr. Robert Chi
- Evan Lionel Richard Osnos '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "A Green Wave in China: Environmental NGOs, Civil Society, and Democratization in the People's Republic of China" -- Ms. Leslyn Hall
- Ming-e Margaret Ou '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'Beida Spirit and Tradition': Public Affirmation of an Anti-System Collective Identity at Beijing University" -- Mr. Benjamin Read
- Jay Taylor Perron '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Micromorphology of the Cactus Hill Site (44SX202), Sussex County, Virginia" -- Professor Carole Mandryk
- Joel Barry Pollak '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Barrels and Bowheads: Transculturation and 'Alternative Development' on Alaska's North Slope" -- Mr. Sven Haakanson Jr.
- Dunja Popovic '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Brodsky vs. Pushkin: Polemical Self-Fashioning"-- Professor William Todd
- Lamelle Daile Rawlins '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Let's Not Change the Subject!: Deliberation on Abortion on the Web, in the House, and in Abortion Dialogue Groups" -- Professor Jane Mansbridge
- Scott Rothkopf '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Other Sixties: The Return of Surrealism in American Art and Criticism" -- Professor Yve-Alain Bois
- Margaret Elizabeth Schotte '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Savages, Beasts and 'Honnêtte Gens': Collapsing Cultural Boundaries in the Work of the Baron de Lahontan" -- Professor Abby Zanger
- Yukiko Sekino '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Design, Synthesis, and Biochemical Evaluation of Uracil-DNA Glycosylase Inhibitors" -- Professor Gregory Verdine
- Samuel Benson Shaw '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Mysterioso" -- Mr. Brad Watson
- Lee St. Clair Shearer '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Healing Hands: Therapeutic Touch and the Negotiation for Scientific and Cultural Legitimacy" -- Ms. Rena Selya
- Hanna Rose Shell '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Soul in the Skin: William Temple Hornaday and the Construction of the Buffalo Group, 1886-1996" -- Professor Katharine Park
- Gad Soffer '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Evolution of a Neoproterozoic Continental Margin Subject to Tropical Glaciation: Tectonics, Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, and Sedimentology of the Otavi Group, NW Namibia" -- Professor Paul Hoffman
- Amy Beth Stanley '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Adultery and Punishment in Tokugawa Japan" -- Professor Harold Bolitho
- Jennifer Jean Stetzer '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "From 'Sympathizers' to Organizers: The Emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement from the New Left at Harvard-Radcliffe" -- Professor Laurel Ulrich and Dr. Caroline D. Alyea
- Emily Victoria Thornbury '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Written Image and the Vision of the Word: The Intersection of Anglo-Saxon Visual Art and Old English Poetry" -- Professor Joseph Harris
- Paul Todgham '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Show Me the Monet: Blockbuster Exhibitions and the Transformation of Museum Attendance" -- Professor Richard Zeckhauser and Professor Edward Glaeser
- Katherine Ruth Unterman '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Evolution of the Holocaust Survivor into an American Moral Hero, 1943-1979" -- Dr. Alex Sagan
- Nikhil Wagle '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Characterization of RUVBL2, A Newly Identified Eukaryotic Gene Essential for Normal S-Phase" -- Professor Anindya Dutta
- Stephen Ernest Weinberg '99, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Consumption Economics and the Impact of New Goods" -- Professor Benjamin M. Friedman
- Laura Weinrib '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Spark of Nation: Ideology and Resistance in the Zionist Underground Press" -- Professor Beatrice Hanssen
- Eijean I-Chen Wu '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Solidity of Blood: Groups, Disciplines, and Interests, 1900-1940" -- Mr. Eric D. Kupferberg
- Markella Zanni '99, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Memorial Transformations of Historical Wounds in Derek Walcott's Omeros" -- Professor Lawrence Buell
Honorable Mention
- Elizabeth Anne Buzney '99, Honorable Mention, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Myogenic Factors in a Population of Murine Muscle Stem Cells" -- Professor Louis Kunkel
- Ian Frederick Dunn '98, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "NFKB and ATF-2/Jun in the Regulation of the Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Gene" -- Professor Anne Goldfeld
- Halton Adrian Peters '99, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Empirical Case Studies of Global Ecological Change: Herbivore Response to Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, and Plant Invasion in a Tropical Rain Forest" -- Professor Fakhri Bazzaz
Revised: 9/8/00