The following students have won department awards and scholarships for 2015-2016 and will be honored at an awards ceremony on Study Day, May 4.
Graduating Senior Awards
- William T. Beauchamp Literature Award: Jeremy Jackson
- Patricia Conrad Lindsay Memorial Award: Sean Fischer
- Calvin Israel Award in the Humanities: Britina Cheng and Harrison Hartsough
- Joseph M. O’Brien Memorial Award: Mary Auld and Christy Leigh Agrawal
- Outstanding Speech Buddy: Lauren Sarrantonio
Scholarships
- Natalie Selser Freed Memorial Scholarship: John Panus
- Rita K. Gollin Senior Year Scholarship for Excellence in American Literature: Zach Muhlbauer
- Rita K. Gollin Junior Year Scholarship for Excellence in American Literature: Amanda Wentworth
- Hans Gottschalk Award: Brendan Mahoney
- Joseph M. O’Brien Transfer Scholarship: Jeffrey Curtin
- Don Watt Memorial Scholarship: Jason Guisao
- Bonnie C Henzel Memorial Scholarship: Gabriella Garcia, Chloe Forsell, Kiaya Rose Dilsner-Lopez, and Thomas McCarthy
- Jesse M Rodgers Memorial Scholarship: Erik Mebust and Evan Goldstein
Writing Awards
Creative Non-Fiction
- First place: Jeremy A. Jackson, “To Dr. C., Ph.D.”
- Second place: Leandra Griffith, “Birthday for That Generic Someone in Your Life”
- Third place: Lauren Sarrantonio, “The Amorphous Children”
John H. Parry Award for a Critical Essay
- First place: Carrie Anne Potter, “Ahead of Their Time: Temporality and Spatiality in Two Keats Odes”
- Second place: Joshua DeJoy, “The Objective, the Subjective, and the Ugly: E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class at Fifty-Two”
- Third place: Zachary Muhlbauer, “Nietzschean Dualism in Heart of Darkness: A Structuralist Analysis”
Jérome de Romanet de Beaune Award for an Essay in Diversity Studies
- First place: Ariana DiPreta, “Subversion of Bourgeois Masculinity in Ulysses”
- Second place: Veronica Taglia, “Construction of Black Masculine Identity in African American Drama, 1959–1969”
- Third place (tied): Emily Ercolano, “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Female Form”
- Third place (tied): Joshua DeJoy, “The Dialectics of Slavery: Hegel and the Contradictions in Slavery”
Agnes Rigney Award in Drama
- Emily Warnken, “Vampires”
Irene E. Smith Award in First-Year Critical Writing: INTD 105
- First place: Isabel Owen, “Searching for Answers in Silence: The Issue of Memory in State Violence”
- Second place: George Goga, “The Dictionary, the Gummy Worms, and the Grotesque”
Lucy Harmon Award in Literary Fiction
- First place: Katie Soares, “We Buy Gold”
- Second place: Leandra Griffith, “Mary”
- Third place: Margaret Thon, “The Ballad of Summer ’72”
Mary Thomas Award in Poetry
- First place: Savannah Skinner, “A Guide To Recognizing Your Ghost”
- Second place: Cassandra Schweizer, “What I Wrote For You”
- Third place: Kallie Swyer, “Hundreds of Birds”
Research Paper
- First place: Erik Mebust, “Shakespeare’s Rising Stars”
- Second place: Jessica Heppler, “Civil Disobedience and the Rawlsian Non-Citizen: An Appeal to Political or Natural Rights?”
- Third place: Veronica Taglia, “Subversion of the American Dream: An Analysis of Arthur Miller’s Leading Protagonists.”
Africana/Black Studies
- Best Analytical Essay: Azaria Davis, “Colorblind? That Ain’t Right!”
- Best Research Paper: Kathleen O’Brien, “Would There Be Slave Resistance without Women?: The Crucial Role Women Play”
- Best Creative Work: Chloe Forsell, “Mother Tongue”