2021-2022 Writing Prize Winners
View PDF versions of the Excellence in First-Year Writing Prize Book and the Excellence in Upper-Level Writing Prize Book.
First-Year Writing Prizes
Matt Kelley Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing
Georgie Correa, Hating Being a Girl
Nominated by Ali Shapiro, ARTDES 129
Dane Wilson Page, Captive Audiences: The Effects of Performance on the Institutionalized
Nominated by Mari Stanev, CL 141 Great Performances
Excellence in Multilingual Writing
Muhammad Arif Bin Mohamad Ghazaly, Wristwatch in Modern Society: how this timepiece travel back through time, masking a problem of inequality
Nominated by Scott Beal, WRITING 120
An Hoang Nguyen, The Visits
Nominated by Scott Beal, WRITING 120
Excellence in the Practice of Writing
Colin Hunter, Remediation Project
Nominated by Allie Piippo, WRITING 100
Ngoc Nguyen, More Than Words Instagram Challenge
Nominated by Raymond McDaniel, WRITING 100
Upper-Level Writing Prizes
Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Social Sciences)
Grey Weinstein, Thesis Proposal: Abolition, Mutual Aid, and the Policing of Transgender Communities
Nominated by Nancy Burns and Erin Cikanek, POLSCI 381
Ethan VanValkenburg, Maintaining Peace and Biodiversity in Colombia
Nominated by Omolade Adunbi, AAS 322/ENVIRON 355: Introduction to Environmental Politics: Race, Class and Gender
Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Sciences)
Josephine Schmidt, The Grandmother Hypothesis
Nominated by Stacy Rosenbaum, ANTHRBIO 368
Ella Olesen, Growing Plants with Pee: It Works
Nominated by Emilia Askari, ENVIRON 320
Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Humanities)
Anastasia Warner, Progress in Explainable AI for Deep Neural Nets
Nominated by Jimmy Brancho, WRITING 400: Writing and Research in the Sciences
Gabriel Consiglio, The Taste of Words Once Forgotten: Multi-Hyphenate Mediterraneanism and the Universal Language of the Kitchen
Nominated by Jennifer Metsker, ARTDES 399: Writing in Art and Design