Winning Collections 2021-2030

2021-2030

2025

Senior Prize Winner
Jacquelyn Dye, Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2025
Science and Medicine (Including the Brain and Mind) from the 16th through the 20th Centuries
Senior Honorable Mention

Bluebelle Carroll, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2025
Grief and Genre in Subversive Children’s Literature

Netanel Crispe, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2025 
Ezra Stiles: The Head of the Yale Yeshiva

Sophomore Prize Winner
Hailey Talbert, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2027
Almost Maine; Literary, Artistic, and Ecological Topographies of the Pine Tree State
Sophomore Honorable Mention

William Bramwell, Davenport College, Class of 2027
The History of Economic Thought

2024

Senior Prize Winner
Bilal Moin, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2024
Nehru, Nehruvianism, Nehrumania
Senior Second Prize Winner

Hillary Warolin, Trumbull College, Class of 2024
Melville and the Maritime World

Senior Honorable Mention

Jacob Eldred, Morse College, Class of 2024
Small Ponds of Varying Depths

Laurel Turner, Silliman College, Class of 2024
Contemporary Trans Literature

Sophomore Prize Winner
Andrew Maglio, Saybrook College, Class of 2026
Towards a New Paradigm in Science (Policy): 20th-Century Epistemic, Environmental, and Nuclear Weapons Debates
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Felse Kyle, Branford College, Class of 2024
Out of The Darkness, Holocaust Stories of Survival, Triumph and Love

Megan Wright, Ezra Stiles College, Class of 2024
Political Thought and the Performing Arts

2023

Senior Prize Winner
Enrique Vazquez, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2023
Tales of the Midwestern Northwoods
Senior Second Prize Winner

Michael Chen, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2023
The Experiments of Literature: Focusing on Post-Modern Experimentalism, International Science Fiction, and the Oulipo

Senior Honorable Mention

Joaquín Lara Midkiff, Saybrook College, Class of 2024
Conversations Through the Centuries: Indigenous Poetics, Revivance and Histories, Pre-contact to Today 

Calista Washburn, Pauli Murray College, Class of 2024
Wooden Spoon Carving (1990 to Now)

Sophomore Prize Winner
Bluebelle Carroll, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2025
A Compendium of the Allusions of Lemony Snicket
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Netanel Crispe, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2025
A Day in the Life in the 18th Century

2022

Senior Prize Winner
William Twomey, Silliman College, Class of 2022
American 20th-Century Military History
Senior Prize Winner

Alex McGrath, Branford College, Class of 2022
National and Subnational Legislatures

Senior Honorable Mention

Gabrielle Colangelo, Branford College, Class of 2022
Lesbian Life Writing in Theory and Practice

Ryan Sandler, Jonathan Edwards, Class of 2022
Strengthening American Education

Sophomore Prize Winner
Charnice Hoegnifioh, Benjamin Franklin College, Class of 2024
The Paradigms of American Girlhood throughout United States History

Bilal Moin, Grace Hopper College, Class of 2024
Sovereignty, Subterfuge, and the Indian Statesperson

Sophomore Second Prize

Awuor Onguru, Berkeley College, Class of 2024
African Writing, Writing Africa: A Survey of Continental Post-colonial Literature

Sophomore Honorable Mention

Jacob Eldred, Morse College, Class of 2024
Railways in the Landscape and Imagination

Yuhan Kim, Berkeley College, Class of 2024
Military History with a focus on the Napoleonic Wars

Alice Mao, Morse College, Class of 2024
Beauty in Form and Content: Artist Books, Indie Zines, and Miniature Notebooks

2021

Senior Prize Winner
Al Larriva-Latt, Branford College, Class of 2021
Towards Liberation: Intersectional Queer Literature
Senior Second Prize Winner

Nicholas Ruiz-Huidobro Magdits, Class of 2021
General library with a focus on Psychological and Brain Sciences

Irene Vázquez, Class of 2021
This That Black Abundance: A Collection of 20th/21st-Century Black Poetics

Senior Honorable Mention

Emma Brodey, Class of 2021
Pride and Prejudice and Publication

Jacqueline Hayre-Pérez, Class of 2021
Hometown in Boston: Mine and the Nation’s

Sophomore Prize Winner
Seyma Kaya, Jonathan Edwards College, Class of 2023
Tales of a City—Istanbul, Fiction and Nonfiction
Sophomore Honorable Mention

Aaron Magloire, Class of 2023
Poetry by Contemporary Black Poets

Emily Tian, Class of 2023
Living English-Language Poets

Giovanna Truong, Class of 2023
The Conception of Science