Winning Collections 2011–2020

2011–2020

2020

Senior Prize Winner

Finalists
James Barringer, Silliman College, Class of 2022    
The Supreme Court of the United States

Rachel Chew Min Qi, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2020    
Approaching Experimental Ethnography 

Cathy Duong, Morse College, Class of 2022    
Vietnamese-American Literature: “The Ghosts Who Refuse Resurrection”

Rudd Fawcett, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2022          
Graphic Design and Typography: History, Theory, and Practice

David Hurtado, Benjamin Franklin College, Class of 2020    
Entorno: Explorations in Landscape and Environment

Christina Pao, Branford College, Class of 2020
Institutions: Their Construction and Deconstruction

Adrian Rivera, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2020
Writing about Writing

Adam Shaw, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2020    
Toward a Rational Society: Two Centuries of German Social Thought, from Hegel to Habermas, Through an Inclusive Lens

Kellen Silver, Pierson College, Class of 2020    
Agapē Agape: Reconsidering “Love Literature”

Adrian Wong-Valle, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2020    
Artists and Experts: The History, Theory, and Practice of Bartending and Mixology

2019

Senior Prize Winner
Zeshan Gondal, Trumbull College, Class of 2019
The Religious Sciences of Islam
Senior Second Prize Winner

Will Kortum, Grace Hopper College, Class of  2019
Book as Reference: A collection of graphic, photographic, and historical inspiration

Senior Honorable Mention

Bix Archer, Berkeley College, Class of 2019
Self-published or small-run artists’ books and zines

Sophomore Prize Winner
Vincent Gleizer, Trumbull College, Class of 2021
Comics and Graphic Novels, with special attention to LGBTQ+ content, characters, and creators
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Jacqueline Hayre-Perez, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2021
WWII: An American Paper Trail

Nicholas Ruiz-Huidobro Magdits, Trumbull College, Class of 2021
Peru: Literature, Politics, and Culture of the Land of the Sun

2018

Senior Prize Winner
Suh Young Kim (Sunnie Kim), Saybrook College, Class of 2018
Contemporary Voices of South Korean Women in Light of the Recent Popularization of Feminism in South Korea
Senior Second Prize Winner

Noah Stevens-Stein, Trumbull College, Class of 2018
Auction Catalogs and Art Collecting

Sophomore Prize Winner
Nathaniel Kerman, Pauli Murray College, Class of 2020
Physics, Astronomy, and Photography: Revealing the Hidden through Sight and Insight
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Catherine Lee, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2020
Literature through the Ages

2017

Senior Prize Winner
Alexander Jacobson, Saybrook College, Class of 2017
The Soviet Experience: Printed Artifacts of the Former USSR
Senior Second Prize Winner

Jacob Reed, Branford College, Class of  2017
Western Music in Its Cultural Contexts

Senior Honorable Mention

Tess Hamilton, Pierson College, Class of 2017
Photography

Sergio Lopez, Berkeley College, Class of 2018
American Politics

Emily Yankowitz, Pierson College, Class of 2017
History of the American Revolution and the Founding Era

Sophomore Prize Winner
Alexa Derman, Berkeley College, Class of 2019
Plays That Yale Undergrads Really Ought to Produce: 100+ Excellent Contemporary Plays
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Dante de Blasio, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2019
Political Theory

Jackson Leipzig, Silliman College, Class of 2019
Sailing and the Sea

2016

Senior Prize Winner
Dan Rubins, Pierson College, Class of 2016
Musical Theatre Scores and Libretti: A Practitioner's Selection
Senior Second Prize Winner

Alexa Little, Morse College,  Class of 2016
Languages of the World

Senior Honorable Mention

Annemarie McDaniel, Trumbull College, Class of 2016
Insights on youth: autographed and personalized notes in modern novels on coming-of-age and identity

Jason Parisi, Pierson College, Class of 2016
Chinese Theoretical Physics

Cristóbal Trujillo, Saybrook College, Class of 2016
Aztec and Maya Philology

Sophomore Prize Winner
Jack A. Taperell, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2019
The Theory and Performance of Magic
Sophomore Second Prize

Simon Horn, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2018
General library, including a collection of Shakespeare’s works

Sophomore Honorable Mention

Hopewell Rogers, Davenport College, Class of 2018
Traumatic effects of the First World War on individuals and societies

2015

Senior Prize Winner
Anthony Gareth Imparato, Silliman College, Class of 2015
The Death of the Novel? Rare and First Editions of Post-Modernist Literature
Senior Second Prize Winner

Eric Sirakian, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2015
Theater Craft

Senior Honorable Mention

Mason Shefa, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2015
Christian Communal Theology as Expressed through Prayer and Song

Eric Willett, Trumbull College, Class of 2015
Architecture and Urbanism: A Textual Exploration of the Built Environment

Sophomore Prize Winner
Alexander Jacobson, Saybrook College, Class of 2017
Soviet and Marxist-Leninist History
Sophomore Second Prize

Eric De Villiers, Morse College, Class of 2017
Theology, Philosophy, and History of Catholicism

Sophomore Honorable Mention

Jacob Reed, Branford College, Class of 2017
The Baroque and Bach

Emily Yankowitz, Pierson College, Class of 2017
The Role of Westchester County, New York, in the Early Republic

2014

Senior Prize Winner
Austin Jung, Saybrook College, Class of 2014
Esperanto language
Senior Second Prize Winner

Solene Goycochea, Morse College, Class of 2014
Basque history

Senior Honorable Mention

Sarah Maslin, Trumbull College, Class of 2014
Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in Latin America

Sophomore Prize Winner
Andrew Koenig, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2016
Modernism in Literature
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Katharine Spooner, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2016
Metropolitan History of London

Cristóbal Trujillo, Saybrook College, Class of 2016
Foreign Literature and Philosophy

2013

Senior Prize Winner
Thomas Burns, Morse College, Class of 2013
A Collection of Collections: The Changing Tastes, Objects, History, Figures, and Ways of Displaying a Collection
Senior Second Prize Winner

Max de La Bruyere, Davenport College, Class of 2013
The History of the Soviet Union

Sophomore Prize Winner
William Freedberg, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2015
Natural History, with a Strong Focus on Ornithology
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Viveca Morris, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2015
The Rise of, Impacts of, and Efforts to Reform U.S. Factory Farms

Sarah Norvell, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2015
“Quires and Places Where They Sing”: English Cathedral Music and Architecture

2012

Senior Prize Winner
Peter Beck, Morse College, Class of 2012
Food Writing: Cooking and Far
Senior Second Prize Winner

Kevin Adkisson, Morse College, Class of 2012
Pop! Postmodernism, Architecture, and Pop-up Books

Senior Honorable Mention

Sophia Walder-Hoge, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2012
Baron Alexander von Humboldt and His Legacy

Sophomore Prize Winner
Solene Goycochea, Morse College, Class of 2014
Boom, Magical Realism, and Caribbean Literature

2011

Senior Prize Winner
Austin Shiner, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2011
Food Writing
Sophomore Prize Winner
Matthew Dernbach, Trumbull College, Class of 2013
The Experiences of War
Sophomore Second Prize

Thomas Burns, Morse College, Class of 2013
The Spark of Imagination