2010
Senior Prize
Philip Gant (TC ’10)
Korea: Art, History, and Culture
Basie Gitlin (DC ’10)
Yale Bibliography: Book People and Book Places at Yale University
Senior Honorable Mentions
William Alden (PC ’10)
American Dramatic Literature after 1962: First, Second, and Autographed Editions
Jacob Liberman (PC ’10)
Performance Studies
Sophomore Prize
Kevin Adkisson (MC ’12)
Yale: Collectors, Creators, and Conservators of Architecture
2009
Senior Prize
Jessica Svendsen (MC ’09)
Kara Walker; and Typography and Graphic Design (two collections)
Senior Second Prize
Rebecca Dinerstein (BK ’09)
Irish Poetry: Rare, Local, and Autographed
Senior Honorable Mention
Jongwook “Wookie” Kim (ES ’09)
Tea and Coffee
Sophomore Prize
George Bogden (SM ’11)
Visions of Statehood: The Poetry of Modern Kurdistan
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Elizabeth Palazzolo (SY ’11)
Classical History, Civilization, and Literature
2008
Senior Prize
John Mittermeier (DC ’08)
Ornithology
Senior Honorable Mentions
Robert Nelb (TD ’08)
Health studies collection
Jeffrey Tierney (BK ’08)
Tolkien’s Middle Earth
Sophomore Prize
Basie Bales Gitlin (DC ’10)
Canvassing Books: The Itinerant Book Trade and the Democratization of Book Ownership
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Kate Hawkins (SM ’10)
History, literature, and life for American youth
2007
Senior Prize
Alexa Garvoille (TC ’07)
Bilingual Beckett collection
Temidayo Olopade (BK ’07)
Contemporary writing of the Black Atlantic
Senior Honorable Mention
Lila Neugebauer (PC ’07)
Contemporary American drama
Sophomore Prize
Alexandra Marraccini (TD ’08)
Forster-Auden-Isherwood: Six Degrees of Separation
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Lee Case Klippel (MC ’08)
General
2006
Senior Prize
Emily Kopley (BR ’06)
Virginia Woolf
Senior Second Prize
Jessica Howell (SM ’06)
Sexuality
Chaitanya Mehra (DC ’06)
India
Senior Honorable Mention
Andrew Stout (TC ’06)
Comic books and graphic novels
Sophomore Prize
Mark Schneider (DC ’08)
Presidential autographed books
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Eric Ciaramella (TC ’08)
Foreign language and linguistic reference tools
Elizabeth Mata (PC ’08)
Understanding and Alleviating Man’s Impact on the Natural World
2005
Senior Prize
Noa Wheeler (SY ’05)
General library collection
Senior Second Prize
Alistair Anagnostou (TD ’05)
Adventure
William Tauxe (ES ’05)
Science fiction and related topics
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Benjamin Siegel (MC ’07)
Global vegetarian food
2004
Senior Prize
Valerie Idehen (SY ’04)
African-American literature
Senior Second Prize
David Gorin (TC ’04)
Contemporary American poets
Senior Honorable Mentions
Samantha Culp (TD ’04)
Twentieth-century arts and culture, both East and West
Joshua Foer (TC ’04)
for his “Library of Wonders”
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Julian Darwall (SM ’06)
Collection on hoboes, itinerant workers, 1870 to 1940
Matthew McCarty (ES ’06)
Classical art and archaeology
2003
Senior Prize
Xin Dong (TC ’03)
Buddhist scripture
Senior Honorable Mentions
Drew Baldwin (BK ’03)
Bartending guides
Dora Malech (TC ’03)
Signed books of contemporary poetry
Sophomore Prize
Jason Farago (SM ’05)
Contemporary art and art theory
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Pablo Landa (BK ’05)
Jorges Luis Borges
2002
Senior Prize
Eugenie Brinkema (SY ’02)
Film criticism and theory
Senior Honorable Mention
Oana Marian (PC ’02)
Anglo-Irish poetry
Sophomore Prize
Samantha Culp (TD ’04)
Twentieth-century western arts and culture
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Strand Conover (DC ’04)
Boxing
2001
Senior Prize
Pamela Bookman (PC ’01)
Isaac Babel
Senior Second Prize
Sarah Parcak (TD ’01)
Egyptology
Senior Honorable Mentions
Robert Giampietro (BK ’01)
Fine print design and typography
Isaac Meyers (BR ’01)
Zoology
Sophomore Prize
Dora Malech (TC ’03)
Twentieth-century poetry
2000
Senior Prize
Elizabeth Hazen (TC ’00)
Poetry
Senior Second Prize
Alexis Jones (TC ’00)
General collection with emphasis on poetry
Senior Honorable Mentions
Katherine Lister (BK ’00)
Oz books
Elizabeth-Rose Tufankjian (SY ’00)
Irish history and politics
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Michael Boucai (TC ’02)
Ancient Egypt
Allyson Brundige (DC ’02)
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century children’s literature and illustration