Congratulations to our 2023 prize and award winners!
Spring 2023 Awards:
- The Writing in the Majors Prize honorable mention went to Noah Courtney for “Lifespan: An Overview of Contributing Factors.”
- The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Rafaella Gonzalez for “Beauty Behind Machinery: The Ascent of Formula 1 Photography as a Fine Art” and Madison Zunder for “Humanity on Display: The Politics of Looking in Tiger Bay.” Honorable mentions went to Maryam Albakry for “How the Body Measures Growth,” Landon Le for “Why Aid to Ukraine is The Deal of The Century,” and Drew Wilenzick for “Megascript: Writing About Writing About Writing.”
- The English 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Samantha Heller for “Will Prescribing Weight Loss Solve the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?” Honorable mention went to Eleanor Zweber for “Cornell’s Student-Athletes: A Mental Health Crisis, Overlooked.”
- The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Rowan Lopez, student, and Gina Goico, instructor, for “Perseverance Through Art: Identity, History and Resistance in Yelaine Rodriguez’s Mal De Ojo.”
- The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors went to Nicole Loy, student, and Sara Stamatiades, instructor, for “Gertrude Spencer Portfolio - ENGL Voices.”
- The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Rachel Horner for “Written Approaches to Festival, Ritual, and Carnival.” Honorable mention went to Asey Koh for “Learning to Close Read: Literary Analysis as Process.”
- The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Eleanor Zweber for “Legislating Morality: The Conservative Christian Effort to Ban Drag.”
- The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Tianyi Shou for “The Pros and Cons of “Cosmopolitanism”: Toward a Comparative Argumentative Essay.”
Fall 2023 Awards:
- The Adelphic Award went to Flora Meng for “The Ivory Tower: Why should we still consider a legal ivory trade for elephant conservation?” Honorable mention was awarded to Kevin Feng for “The Role of Social Media in the Development of a Social Controversy: A Case Study.”
- The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors was awarded to Evie Grossman, student, and Alexandra Cooperstock, instructor, for “The Paradox of American Meritocracy: An Exploration of Inequalities in U.S. Public Education.”
- The Writing in the Majors Prize went to Shivani Shroti for “Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Martha Van Rensselaer Commons.”
- The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Jasmine Li for “’Space Odyssey’ Made Real? Interrogating the Moral Bounds of the AI-Human Friendship through Aristotelian and Confucian Frameworks” and Mackenzie Thompson for “The PTA, Christian Education, and Parental Rights: The Historical Implications of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” 1950-2022.” Honorable mention went to Ayah El-Hardan for “The Glass Shard.”
- The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize went to Ian Branigan for “Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Annexation of Ryukyu.”
- The ENGL 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Tracy Zeng for “"Ogres of East Africa" and "DNA": Navigating Racial Identity.”
- The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Varija Mehta, student, and Maria Al-Raes, instructor, for “Family Ties Unraveled: Navigating Isolation and Responsibility in ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw.’” Honorable mention went to Krystlove Yeboah, student, and Alexandra Cooperstock, instructor, for “Unlocking Education’s Divide: Navigating the controversy of school voucher programs.”
- The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Joseph Lasky for “Cartographic Essay.”
- The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship was awarded to Francine Barchett for “How can we save our planet without preaching to the choir?” Honorable mentions went to Sophia Taborski for “Are You Not Entertained?: Gladiators in Roman and Contemporary Society” and Nora Siena for “From Boccaccio to ChatGPT: How Short Forms Influence our World.”
- The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Yiyi Wu for “The Impact of the CCP's Cultural Policies on China's Ethnic Minority Music.”
- The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Abigail Brown for “Writing in Style.”
