A series of awards established by an endowment from the Hearst Foundation to recognize and encourage the achievement of the highest standards of excellence in writing. The endowment provides for 10 annual awards in the following categories: humanities, including the fine arts; social sciences; natural sciences; Connections core; first-year seminar; graduate programs; and race and pedagogy.

2021

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Dana Levy
“WE ARE EVER NEW: ‘Transing’ the time of music through the life and works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland”
Gender and Queer Studies 494 – Gender Research Seminar
Greta Austin, Religious Studies and Gender and Queer Studies

Maia Nilsson
“Standing Water”
Humanities 200 – Homer to Hitchcock: the History of Ideas in the Arts
George Erving, Honors, Humanities, and English

 

CONNECTIONS CORE

Lilly Kelly
“To Hell and Back: Portrayal of PTSD in Supernatural and Its Potential for Use in Television-Based Therapeutic Practice”
Connections 377 Caesar in Vietnam – PTSD in the Ancient World?
Aislinn Melchior, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Honors

 

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Hannah Yu
“The Korean American Dream”
Occupational Therapy 602 – Health and Occupation Across Diverse Populations
Kirsten Wilbur, School of Occupational Therapy

 

NATURAL SCIENCES

Bethany Llewellyn
“Using Behavior and Demographics to More Accurately Model Habitat Selection in Bighorn Sheep, with Implications for Conservation Corridors”
Biology 472 – Animal Behavior
Stacey Weiss, Biology

 

RACE AND PEDAGOGY

Zeno Deleon Guerrero Jr.
“The Story of Slow Violence”
English 374 – Literature and the Environment
William Kupinse, English

 

SEMINARS IN SCHOLARLY INQUIRY

Moira Gaffney
“Acidic Relationship--Catostylus mosaicus and Trachurus novaezelandiae”
Seminar in Scholarly Inquiry 1 165 – Never Really Alone: Symbiosis and Parasitism Around and Within Us
Mark Martin, Biology

Rachel Visick
“Postmodern Bearings on Environmentalism”
Seminar in Scholarly Inquiry 2 196 – Postmodernism and the Challenge of Belief
John Wesley, English

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Juliano Estrada Donatelli
“Traveling Desires: Enlightenment, Commodification and the Imperial Limits of Representation”
International Political Economy/Sociology and Anthropology 323 – The Political, Economic, and Social Context of International Tourism
Nick Kontogeorgopoulos, Asian Studies and Global Development Studies

Ella Frazee
“The Lives and Stories of Celiac Disease”
Sociology and Anthropology 370 – Disability, Identity, and Power
Margi Nowak, Emerita, Sociology and Anthropology

 

Honorable Mention in Arts and Humanities

Lukas Karoly
“Ein Nues Tier”
German 480 – Seminar in German Literature
Justin Mohler, German Studies  

 

Honorable Mention in Graduate Programs

Samantha Reed
“Becoming More Actively Anti-Racist”
Occupational Therapy 602 – Health and Occupation Across Diverse Populations
Kirsten Wilbur, School of Occupational Therapy