Winning Collections 2000–2010

2000–2010

2010

Senior Prize Winner
Philip Gant, Trumbull College, Class of 2010
Korea: Art, History, and Culture
Senior Prize Winner

Basie Gitlin, Davenport College, Class of 2010
Yale Bibliography: Book People and Book Places at Yale University

Senior Honorable Mention

William Alden, Pierson College, Class of 2010
American Dramatic Literature after 1962: First, Second, and Autographed Editions

Jacob Liberman, Pierson College, Class of 2010
Performance Studies

Sophomore Prize Winner
Kevin Adkisson, Morse College, Class of 2012
Yale: Collectors, Creators, and Conservators of Architecture

2009

Senior Prize Winner
Jessica Svendsen, Morse College, Class of 2009
Kara Walker; and Typography and Graphic Design (two collections)
Senior Second Prize Winner

Rebecca Dinerstein, Berkeley College, Class of 2009
Irish Poetry: Rare, Local, and Autographed

Senior Honorable Mention

Jongwook “Wookie” Kim, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2009
Tea and Coffee

Sophomore Prize Winner
George Bogden, Silliman College, Class of 2011
Visions of Statehood: The Poetry of Modern Kurdistan
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Elizabeth Palazzolo, Saybrook College, Class of 2011
Classical History, Civilization, and Literature

2008

Senior Prize Winner
John Mittermeier, Davenport College, Class of 2008
Ornithology
Senior Honorable Mention

Robert Nelb, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2008
Health studies collection

Jeffrey Tierney, Berkeley College, Class of 2008
Tolkien’s Middle Earth

Sophomore Prize Winner
Basie Bales Gitlin, Davenport College, Class of 2010
Canvassing Books: The Itinerant Book Trade and the Democratization of Book Ownership
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Kate Hawkins, Silliman College, Class of 2010
History, literature, and life for American youth

2007

Senior Prize Winner
Alexa Garvoille, Trumbull College, Class of 2007
Bilingual Beckett collection
Senior Prize Winner

Temidayo Olopade, Class of 2007
Contemporary writing of the Black Atlantic

Senior Honorable Mention

Lila Neugebauer, Pierson College, Class of 2007
Contemporary American drama

Sophomore Prize Winner
Alexandra Marraccini, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2008
Forster-Auden-Isherwood: Six Degrees of Separation
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Lee Case Klippel, Morse College, Class of 2008
General

2006

Senior Prize Winner
Emily Kopley, Branford College, Class of 2006
Virginia Woolf
Senior Second Prize Winner

Jessica Howell, Silliman College, Class of 2006
Sexuality

Chaitanya Mehra, Davenport College, Class of 2006
India

Senior Honorable Mention

Andrew Stout, Trumbull College, Class of 2006,
Comic books and graphic novels

Sophomore Prize Winner
Mark Schneider, Davenport College, Class of 2008
Presidential autographed books
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Eric Ciaramella, Trumbull College, Class of 2008
Foreign language and linguistic reference tools

Elizabeth Mata, Pierson College, Class of 2008
Understanding and Alleviating Man’s Impact on the Natural World

2005

Senior Prize Winner
Noa Wheeler, Saybrook College, Class of 2005
General library collection
Senior Second Prize Winner

Alistair Anagnostou, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2005
Adventure

William Tauxe, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2005
Science fiction and related topics

Sophomore Honorable Mention

Benjamin Siegel, Morse College, Class of 2007
Global vegetarian food

2004

Senior Prize Winner
Valerie Idehen, Saybrook College, Class of 2004
African-American literature
Senior Second Prize Winner

David Gorin, Trumbull College, Class of 2004
Contemporary American poets

Senior Honorable Mention

Samantha Culp, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2004
Twentieth-century arts and culture, both East and West

Joshua Foer, Trumbull College, Class of 2004
for his “Library of Wonders”

Sophomore Honorable Mention

Julian Darwall, Silliman College, Class of 2006
Collection on hoboes, itinerant workers, 1870 to 1940

Matthew McCarty, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2006
Classical art and archaeology

2003

Senior Prize Winner
Xin Dong, Trumbull College, Class of 2003
Buddhist scripture
Senior Honorable Mention

Drew Baldwin, Berkeley College, Class of 2003
Bartending guides

Dora Malech, Trumbull College, Class of 2003
Signed books of contemporary poetry

Sophomore Prize Winner
Jason Farago, Silliman College, Class of 2005
Contemporary art and art theory
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Pablo Landa, Berkeley College, Class of 2005
Jorges Luis Borges

2002

Senior Prize Winner
Eugenie Brinkema, Saybrook College, Class of 2002
Film criticism and theory
Senior Honorable Mention

Oana Marian, Pierson College, Class of 2002
Anglo-Irish poetry

Sophomore Prize Winner
Samantha Culp, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2004
Twentieth-century western arts and culture
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Strand Conover, Davenport College, Class of 2004
Boxing

2001

Senior Prize Winner
Pamela Bookman, Pierson College, Class of 2001
Isaac Babel
Senior Second Prize Winner

Sarah Parcak, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2001
Egyptology

Senior Honorable Mention

Robert Giampietro, Berkeley College, Class of 2001
Fine print design and typography

Isaac Meyers, Branford College, Class of 2001
Zoology

Sophomore Prize Winner
Dora Malech, Trumbull College, Class of 2003
Twentieth-century poetry

2000

Senior Prize Winner
Elizabeth Hazen, Trumbull College, Class of 2000
Poetry
Senior Second Prize Winner

Alexis Jones, Trumbull College, Class of 2000
General collection with emphasis on poetry

Senior Honorable Mention

Katherine Lister, Berkeley College, Class of 2000
Oz books

Elizabeth-Rose Tufankjian, Saybrook College, Class of 2000
Irish history and politics

Sophomore Honorable Mention

Michael Boucai, Trumbull College, Class of 2002
Ancient Egypt

Allyson Brundige, Davenport College, Class off 2002
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century children’s literature and illustration