Undergraduate Project Prize Winners
2018-2019 Winners
Dolores Kohl Kaplan Project Prize
Sofia Salgado — "Bernardino de Sahagún: A Different Kind of Colonizer"
Morris Kaplan Project Prize
Woojae Julia Song — "A Feature Film, featuring Real Revolutionaries!"
Alice Berline Kaplan Writing Prize
Emily Feng — "The Emergence and Theoretical Significance of Multifaceted Asexual Identities"
Marion Heltzel Seder Writing Prize
Jacob Jordan — "Puberty Suppression in Young People wth Gender Dysphoria: A Proactive Pause"
Jean Gimbel Lane Writing Prize
Megan Clare Considine — "Curatorial Responsibility and the Limits of the Archive in Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot in New Orleans at the Museum of Modern Art"
2017-2018 Winners
Dolores Kohl Kaplan Writing Prize
Tuuli Sandvold — "Picasso and Duende in The Path to Guernica"
Morry Kaplan Writing Prize
Calvin Anderson — "The Mistaken Truth-Guided Aperture of Pity and Terror"
Alice Berline Kaplan Project Prize
Seri Lee — "Transoceanic Geographies of Intimacy"
Jeff and Kathy Zukerman Writing Prize
Stacy Tsai — "Seeing Mutton Flaps: Neoliberalization of Global Health and 'New Colonialisms' in Tonga"
2016-2017 Winners
Dolores Kohl Kaplan Prize for Best History Project
Calvin Anderson — "Easy to Rule:" James Alley Blues and the Rural African-American Experience in the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
Morry Kaplan Prize for Best Paper on Politics and Culture
Libby Berry — "On the Origins of Party Polarization"
Jean Gimbel Lane Prize for Best Paper on Digital Media
Mari Morsch — "How to Use the Internet When the Clinic Doesn't Cure"
Pick Laudati Prize for Best Project in Visual and Textual Studies
Paola de Varona — "Querida America"
Marion Heltzel Seder Prize for Best Media Studies Project
Julia Popham — "Exploring the Pages of John Donne"
Alice Kaplan Prize for Best Research Paper
Margot Zuckerman — "From Countercultures to Counting Calories: The New Moosewood Cookbook and the Mainstreaming of Vegetarianism
2015-2016 Winners
Jeff and Kathy Zukerman Prize for Best Digital Humanities Project
Tanner Howard — "Traversing the Borderlands: The New Mexican Alabado and 20th Century Americanization"
Marion Heltzel Seder Prize for Best Cultures in Translation Paper
Jenna Levin — "Dissent, Discussion, and Censorship in Habima Theatre's The Merchant of Venice"
Alice Kaplan Prize for Best Global Humanities Paper
Adina Goldman — "The Oldest Dance: Movement and Gender Performance in Huapango, a Huastec Othello"
Dolores Kohl Kaplan Prize for Best Paper in Literary Criticism
Justin Farmer — "Pining for Affection"
Jean Gimbel Lane Prize for Best Digital Humanities Project
Jennifer Zhan — "The Blessings of Res Publica"
2014-2015 Winners
Marion Heltzel Seder Prize for Best Theoretical Paper
Natalie Fallert — “The State of Women According to Locke”
Dolores Kohl Kaplan Prize for Best Paper in Literary Criticism
Daniel Moynihan — “Trapped in the Cloven Pine: A Transgender Reading of the The Tempest’s Ariel"
Jean Gimbel Lane Prize for Best Visual Studies Paper
Kyle Allen-Niesen — “Globalization, Oceans, and Robert Redford: JC Chandor’s All is Lost as Allegory for the State of the American Dream”
John H. and Len Perkins Prize for Best Media Studies Paper
Linnea Hodge — “'what would i say?’ or How the Internet Tells Us What to Say”
Morry Kaplan Prize for Best Research Paper
Anastasia Misheva — “The History of Race in Physical Anthropology"