| Finalists | |
|---|---|
| James Barringer (SM ’22) The Supreme Court of the United States |
Christina Pao (BR ’20) Institutions: Their Construction and Deconstruction |
| Rachel Chew Min Qi (ES ’20) Approaching Experimental Ethnography |
Adrian Rivera (JE ’20) Writing about Writing |
| Cathy Duong (MC ’22) Vietnamese-American Literature: ‘The Ghosts Who Refuse Resurrection’ |
Adam Shaw (TD ’20) Toward a Rational Society: Two Centuries of German Social Thought, from Hegel to Habermas, Through an Inclusive Lens |
| Rudd Fawcett (JE ’22) Graphic Design and Typography: History, Theory, and Practice |
Kellen Silver (PC ’20) Agapē Agape: Reconsidering ‘Love Literature’ |
| David Hurtado (BF ’20) Entorno: Explorations in Landscape and Environment |
Adrian Wong-Valle (GH ’20) Artists and Experts: The History, Theory, and Practice of Bartending and Mixology |
2019
Senior Prize
Zeshan Gondal (TC ’19)
The Religious Sciences of Islam
Senior Second Prize
Will Kortum (GH ’19)
Book as Reference: A collection of graphic, photographic, and historical inspiration
Senior Honorable Mention
Bix Archer (BK ’19)
Self-published or small-run artists’ books and zines
Sophomore Prize
Vincent Gleizer (TC ’21)
Comics and Graphic Novels, with special attention to LGBTQ+ content, characters, and creators
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Jacqueline Hayre-Perez (ES ’21)
WWII: An American Paper Trail
Nicholas Ruiz-Huidobro Magdits (TC ’21)
Peru: Literature, Politics, and Culture of the Land of the Sun
2018
Senior Prize
Suh Young Kim (Sunnie Kim) (SY ’18)
Contemporary Voices of South Korean Women in Light of the Recent Popularization of Feminism in South Korea
Senior Second Prize
Noah Stevens-Stein (TC ’18)
Auction Catalogs and Art Collecting
Sophomore Prize
Nathaniel Kerman (MY ’20)
Physics, Astronomy, and Photography: Revealing the Hidden through Sight and Insight
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Catherine Lee (GH ’20)
Literature through the Ages
2017
Senior Prize
Alexander Jacobson (SY ’17)
The Soviet Experience: Printed Artifacts of the Former USSR
Senior Second Prize
Jacob Reed (BR ’17)
Western Music in Its Cultural Contexts
Senior Honorable Mentions
Tess Hamilton (PC ’17)
Photography
Sergio Lopez (BK ’18)
American Politics
Emily Yankowitz (PC ’17)
History of the American Revolution and the Founding Era
Sophomore Prize
Alexa Derman (BK ’19)
Plays That Yale Undergrads Really Ought to Produce: 100+ Excellent Contemporary Plays
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Dante de Blasio (GH ’19)
Political Theory
Jackson Leipzig (SM ’19)
Sailing and the Sea
2016
Senior Prize
Dan Rubins (PC ’16)
Musical Theatre Scores and Libretti: A Practitioner’s Selection
Senior Second Prize
Alexa Little (MC ’16)
Languages of the World
Senior Honorable Mentions
Annemarie McDaniel (TC ’16)
Insights on youth: autographed and personalized notes in modern novels on coming-of-age and identity
Jason Parisi (PC ’16)
Chinese Theoretical Physics
Cristóbal Trujillo (SY ’16)
Aztec and Maya Philology
Sophomore Prize
Jack A. Taperell (GH ’19)
The Theory and Performance of Magic
Sophomore Second Prize
Simon Horn (JE ’18)
General library, including a collection of Shakespeare’s works
Sophomore Honorable Mention
Hopewell Rogers (DC ’18)
Traumatic effects of the First World War on individuals and societies
2015
Senior Prize
Anthony Gareth Imparato (SM ’15)
The Death of the Novel? Rare and First Editions of Post-Modernist Literature
Senior Second Prize
Eric Sirakian (JE ’15)
Theater Craft
Senior Honorable Mentions
Mason Shefa (JE ’15)
Christian Communal Theology as Expressed through Prayer and Song
Eric Willett (TC ’15)
Architecture and Urbanism: A Textual Exploration of the Built Environment
Sophomore Prize
Alexander Jacobson (SY ’17)
Soviet and Marxist-Leninist History
Sophomore Second Prize
Eric De Villiers (MC ’17)
Theology, Philosophy, and History of Catholicism
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Jacob Reed (BR ’17)
The Baroque and Bach
Emily Yankowitz (PC ’17)
The Role of Westchester County, New York, in the Early Republic
2014
Senior Prize
Austin Jung (SY ’14)
Esperanto language
Senior Second Prize
Solene Goycochea (MC ’14)
Basque history
Senior Honorable Mention
Sarah Maslin (TC ’14)
Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in Latin America
Sophomore Prize
Andrew Koenig (JE ’16)
Modernism in Literature
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Katharine Spooner (TD ’16)
Metropolitan History of London
Cristóbal Trujillo (SY ’16)
Foreign Literature and Philosophy
2013
Senior Prize
Thomas Burns (MC ’13)
A Collection of Collections: The Changing Tastes, Objects, History, Figures, and Ways of Displaying a Collection
Senior Second Prize
Max de La Bruyere (DC ’13)
The History of the Soviet Union
Sophomore Prize
William Freedberg (ES ’15)
Natural History, with a Strong Focus on Ornithology
Sophomore Honorable Mentions
Viveca Morris (ES ’15)
The Rise of, Impacts of, and Efforts to Reform U.S. Factory Farms
Sarah Norvell (JE ’15)
‘Quires and Places Where They Sing’: English Cathedral Music and Architecture
2012
Senior Prize
Peter Beck (MC ’12)
Food Writing: Cooking and Far
Senior Second Prize
Kevin Adkisson (MC ’12)
Pop! Postmodernism, Architecture, and Pop-up Books
Senior Honorable Mention
Sophia Walder-Hoge (JE ’12)
Baron Alexander von Humboldt and His Legacy
Sophomore Prize
Solene Goycochea (MC ’14)
Boom, Magical Realism, and Caribbean Literature
2011
Senior Prize
Austin Shiner (ES ’11)
Food Writing
Sophomore Prize
Matthew Dernbach (TC ’13)
The Experiences of War
Sophomore Second Prize
Thomas Burns (MC ’13)
The Spark of Imagination