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Faculty of Arts and Sciences

2012–2013 Student Prize Recipients

Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize

• to Caitlin Elizabeth Andrews, class of 2016

• to Wanjiku Mungai, class of 2014

Matthew Abramson Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Fine Arts

• to Kristie Tuong La, class of 2013, for her project entitled “‘Enlightenment, Advertising, Education, etc.’: Herbert Bayer and The Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Road to Victory’”

Academy of American Poets Prize

• to Julian Baird Gewirtz, class of 2013

• to Charlotte Annie Lieberman, class of 2013

George Plimpton Adams Prize

• to Ketan Ramakrishnan, class of 2013, for his project entitled “Causation, Culpability, and Liability to Harm”

Ana Aguado Prize for Best Doctoral Student Paper

• to Steven Joseph Cicala, a prize of $2,000 for his project entitled “When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation”

Albert Alcalay Prize

• to Kayla Ann Escobedo, class of 2013

• to Sally Kenner Scopa, class of 2013

Herb Alexander Award

• to Ben Adlam, class of 2013, a prize of $500


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Richard Glover Ames and Henry Russell Ames Award

• to Victor Manuel Flores, class of 2013

• to Sara Sophia Lytle, class of 2013

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Prize

• to Scott Randolph Johnston, class of 2014, a prize of $200 for his project entitled “Transições em Os Maias”

Kwame Anthony Appiah Prize

• to Bradley Lynn Craig, class of 2013, for his project entitled “Inside the Master’s House: Gender, Sexuality, and the ‘Impossible’ History of Slavery in Jamaica, 1753–1786”

Rudolf Arnheim Prize

• to Abby Peihe Sun, class of 2013

Santo J. Aurelio Prize

• to Nancy B. Gilliatt, a prize of $2,000

Joseph L. Barrett Award

• to Ruth Walker Goins, class of 2013

• to Yanick Kabungo Mulumba, class of 2015

Bechtel Prize in Philosophy

• to Elizabeth Louise Miller, for her project entitled “Quantum Entanglement, Bohmian Mechanics, and Humean Supervenience”

Jeremy Belknap Prize

• to Angie Heeyoung Jo, class of 2016, a prize of $500 for her project entitled “Ce que la peur enseigne”

Helen Choate Bell Prize

• to Hana Bajramovic, class of 2013

• to Alexander Carson Nunnelly, class of 2013


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Lillian Bell Prize in History

• to Thomas Snyder, class of 2013, a prize of $500 for his project entitled “Against the Peace of the World: Soviet Influence in the Creation of the Nuremberg Trial and the German Response”

James Gordon Bennett Prize

• to Sophie Alexandra Fry, class of 2013, a prize of $1,200 for her project entitled “Divisive Primaries and their Effect on Independent Voters”

• to William Paul Grogan, class of 2013, a prize of $1,200 for his project entitled “‘They Were Plenty Brave’: Examining the Recruitment, Unit Cohesion, and Efficacy of Iraq’s Police Forces”

Philo Sherman Bennett Prize

• to Ananda Marie Martin-Caughey, class of 2013, a prize of $450 for her project entitled “Social Development through Civic Engagement: A Municipal-Level View from Brazil”

• to Nicholas Kyaw Kyaw Oo, class of 2013, a prize of $450 for his project entitled “Central Bankers under Pressure: How the Political Environment Influences Central Bank Cooperation with the Government”

Bernhard Blume Award–First Year Graduate Study

• to Steven Patrick Lydon

Bernhard Blume Award–Second Year Graduate Study

• to Seth Edward Lafond Peabody

Bernhard Blume Award–Graduating Senior

• to Michael Ardeljan, class of 2013

“The Bohemians” (New York Musicians Club) Prize in Composition

• to Marta Gentilucci, a prize of $3,643.65 for her project entitled “ … tutt’ occhi”

Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates

• to Trevor Bača, a prize of $1,000

• to Erika Loic, a prize of $1,000

• to Ainsley Elizabeth Morse, a prize of $1,000

• to Kevin Rader, a prize of $1,000

• to Jacob Nathan Sanders, a prize of $1,000


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Arthur L. Boland Prize

• to Sarah Mumanachit, class of 2013

Francis Boott Prize

• to Kyle Courtland Randall, class of 2013, a prize of $250 for his project entitled “When You Are Old”

Boston Ruskin Club Prize

• to Daniel Benjamin Williams

Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the English Language

• to Lesley Goodman, a prize of $10,000 for her project entitled “Poetic Injustice: Plot and Indignant Reading”

Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Composition in Greek

• to Thomas John Keeline, a prize of $5,000 for his project entitled “The Lost Source of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”

Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Composition in Latin

• to Thomas John Keeline, a prize of $2,500 for his project entitled “Pro Alfredo Eduardo Housman Oratiuncula”

• to Julia C. Scarborough, a prize of $2,500 for her project entitled “Cena bucolica”

Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in the Natural Sciences

• to Nathan Edward Sanders, a prize of $10,000 for his project entitled “Observing the Twenty-First-Century Sky and Understanding the Universe”

Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essays in the English Language

• to Mengruo Yang, class of 2013, a prize of $10,000 for her project entitled “War in Canton: The Empress of China from Orientalist Fantasy to Medium of Contestation”

Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Translation into Latin

• to Michael Cowett, class of 2013, a prize of $2,500

Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the Natural Sciences

• to Katherine Shaohua Xue, class of 2013, a prize of $10,000 for her project entitled “Polyploidy in Arabidopsis arenosa: A Case Study in the Evolutionary History of Natural Variation”


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Francis Bowen Prize

• to David Joseph Langlois, for his project entitled “The General Requirement of Structural Rationality”

Boylston Prizes for Elocution

• to Margaret Cameron Kerr, class of 2013

• to Joshua Graham Wilson, class of 2013

Le Baron Russell Briggs Commencement Prize

• to Félix de Rosen, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize

• to Adam Tyler Horn, class of 2013

• to Max Elias Schulman, class of 2013

Francis H. Burr, 1909, Fund

• to Joshua Alan Cahill Hicks, class of 2013

• to Victoria Brianne Lippert, class of 2013

Emily and Charles Carrier Prize

• to Paul Edward Schofield, for his project entitled “The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will”

Edward M. Chase Prize

• to Kris-Stella Trump, for her project entitled “The Status Quo and Perceptions of Fairness: How Income Inequality Influences Public Opinion”

David Taggart Clark Prize for the Undergraduate Latin Commencement Oration

• to Fanaye Solomon Yirga, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

John Clive Prize

• to Jessica Erin Stein, class of 2013


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Colton Award

• to Aditya Balasubramanian, class of 2013, a prize of $250 for his project entitled “From Socialism to Swatantra: Market Liberalism in India, 1943–1970”

• to Samuel Evan Milner, class of 2013, a prize of $250 for his project entitled “Tailored Regulations: Apparel Price Control during World War II”

James Bryant Conant Prize

• to Matthew Patrick Sheets, class of 2015, for his project entitled “Seeing Sound: A Visual Approach to Understanding the Effectivity of Acoustic Treatment in a Studio Environment”

• to Mengruo Yang, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Longitude, Lunar Method, and Cook’s First Voyage”

Coolidge Debating Prize

• to Coulter P. King, class of 2013, a prize of $3,000

• to Joshua Zoffer, class of 2014, a prize of $3,000

Council Prize in Visual Arts

• to Madelynne Ann Hays, class of 2013

• to Oliver Yuanjian Luo, class of 2013

Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize

• to Veronica M. Brandstrader, a first prize of $1,000

• to Lena Rosario Sheehan, a second prize of $500

Gerda Richards Crosby Prize in Government

• to Andrew Shindi, class of 2013, a prize of $500 for his project entitled “The Inadvertent Inheritors of the Moon and Stars: Accidental Presidents and the Vice Presidency”

Edward Chandler Cumming Prize

• to Mary Jane Sakellariadis, class of 2013

Eugene R. Cummings Senior Thesis Prize in LGBT Studies

• to Lucia Marie Carver, class of 2013, for her project entitled “On Being ‘Lesbian’: Kakefuda Hiroko’s ‘Rezubian’ de aru, to iu koto, Translated and In Context”


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Louis Curtis Prize

• to Fanaye Solomon Yirga, class of 2013

• to Alexa Katherine Zahl, class of 2013

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature

• to Julia Morse Leitner, class of 2013

Mack I. Davis II Harvard College Prize

• to Alexander Diaz, class of 2014

Davison Fellowship for Travel in Music

• to Kyra Anwi Atekwana, class of 2014, a prize of $3,685

• to Kathryn Gabrielle Walsh, class of 2014, a prize of $1,315

Dean’s Prize for Outstanding A.L.M. Capstone Project

• to Sheila Caroline Barry, a prize of $1,000

• to Timothy Brian Masters, a prize of $1,000

Dean’s Prize for Outstanding A.L.M. Thesis

• to Nicholas Brandaleone, a prize of $500

• to Mohamed Elsaid, a prize of $500

• to Kimberly Anne Goodman, a prize of $1,000

• to Mohammad Viqar Hussain, a prize of $500

• to Stephen Justin Kobialka, a prize of $500

• to David Eric Lauterbach, a prize of $500

• to Blake Stewart Maddux, a prize of $1,000

• to Stuart Alan Meyers, a prize of $1,000

• to Teresa Isabel Morales, a prize of $1,000

• to Yaniv Pessach, a prize of $500

• to Katherine Maria Schlatter, a prize of $1,000


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• to Suneil Seetharam, a prize of $500

• to Ronald Wayne Sentman, a prize of $500

• to Elizabeth Ann Slavkovsky, a prize of $500

• to John Ashley Stephenson, a prize of $500

• to Joyce Paula Van Alstyne, a prize of $1,000

Arthur P. Dempster Award

• to Bo Jiang

David Herbert Donald Prize

• to Laura Savarese, class of 2013, a prize of $500 for her project entitled “Slavery’s Battleground: Contesting the Status of Enslaved and Free Blacks in St. Louis, from Statehood to the Civil War”

Louise Donovan Award

• to Xi Yu, class of 2013

W. E. B. Du Bois Award

• to Desta Salem Lissanu, class of 2013

John Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government

• to Andrew Cohen, class of 2013, for his project entitled “The Shale Gas Paradox: Assessing the Impacts of the Shale Gas Revolution on Electricity Markets and Climate Change”

• to Lauren Dai, class of 2013, for her project entitled “The Comparative Advantage of Nations: How Global Supply Chains Change Our Understanding of Comparative Advantage”

Dunster House Fiftieth Anniversary Prize

• to Alissa Nicole Changala, class of 2013

• to Han Yan, class of 2013

Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Dunster House Prize

• to Ann Maurine Morgan, class of 2013

• to Adam Benjamin Gelernter Sealfon, class of 2013


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Sally and Cresap Moore Prize

• to Andrew Quinn Blinkinsop, class of 2013

• to Katherine Elida Warren, class of 2013

Roger and Ann Porter Prize

• to Ann Maurine Morgan, class of 2013

• to Molly Ann Wehlage, class of 2013

Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize

• to Christopher Alessandrini, class of 2015, for his project entitled “Queenie’s on the Strip”

• to Rumur James Harley Dowling, class of 2014, for his project entitled “In the Clear”

• to Julian Baird Gewirtz, class of 2013

• to Stephanie Leah Newman, class of 2013

• to Georgina Beth Parfitt, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Skinny and Cold Water”

• to Joshua Graham Wilson, class of 2013

Susan C. Eaton Fellowship in Organizing, Leadership, and Social Change

• to Samuel Funch Wohns, class of 2014, a prize of $750

Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize

• to Haley Bowen, class of 2014

Enel Endowment Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper or Senior Thesis

• to Hee Kwon Seo, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000 for his project entitled “Can Behavioral Biases Explain Demand for a Harmful Pesticide? Evidence from India”

Ethnic Studies Thesis Prize

• to Annemarie Elise Ryu, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Culture in the Clinic: Hmong Americans’ Experiences Navigating Conflicting Prescriptions”

• to Katherine Elida Warren, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Coming of Age in the Epidemic: Suicide and Adolescence in a Tribal Nation”

• to Gabrielle McClelland Tandet, class of 2013, an honorable mention for her project entitled “Negation and Negative Pronouns in Chontal Mayan”


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Extension School Commencement Speaker Prize

• to James Gregory Ashe, a prize of $1,000

• to Marlon Robert Banta, a prize of $1,000

• to Alysa Marie Morse, a prize of $1,000

• to Michael Vincent Woodward, a prize of $1,000

Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize

• to Irineo Charles Cabreros, class of 2013

• to Shayna Robin Marie Skal, class of 2013

Captain Jonathan Fay Prize

• to Ashok Krishnan Cutkosky, class of 2013, for his project entitled “Polymer Simulations and DNA Topology”

• to Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, class of 2013, for his project entitled “The Electrified Fable: Radio Experimentation, Interwar Social Psychology, and Imagined Invasion in The War of the Worlds”

• to Laura Savarese, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Slavery’s Battleground: Contesting the Status of Enslaved and Free Blacks in St. Louis, from Statehood to the Civil War”

William Scott Ferguson Prize

• to Nathaniel Shaw Hay, class of 2015, a prize of $500 for his project entitled “Trampling One Another Down: The Fall of Constantinople”

Edward L. Fireman Award

• to Rebekah Ilene Dawson

Eric Firth Prize

• to Madeline Magnuson, class of 2013, a prize of $580 for her project entitled “Islamic Ethical Perspectives on Nuclear Weapons: Pacifist, Extremist, and Moderate”

• to Spencer Lee Todd, class of 2013, a prize of $580 for his project entitled “Rights and Remedies: Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa and India”

Howard T. Fisher Prize

• to Holly Lynn Masek

• to Tanya Nicole Petach, class of 2015


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William Plummer French Prize

• to Laura Elizabeth D’Asaro, class of 2013

Sophia Freund Prize

• to Jessica Hwang, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

• to Ethel Louise Hylton, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

• to Gregory Bruce Johnston, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

• to Keli Liu, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

• to Annemarie Elise Ryu, class of 2013, a prize of $1,000

Friends Prize

• to Eric Kerner Larson, class of 2013, a first prize of $1,000

• to Tony L. Feng, class of 2013, a second prize of $500

Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship Prize

• to Nadia Laura Farjood, class of 2013

Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897, Prize

• to Ethel Louise Hylton, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Bridging the Gap: Social Integration and Academic Achievement in the Desegregated Public High School”

Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize

• to Charlotte Annie Lieberman, class of 2013

Leo Goldberg Prize in Astronomy

• to Caroline De Huang, class of 2013

• to Jamie Alexander Law-Smith, class of 2014

• to Diana Kathryn Powell, class of 2014

Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize

• to Nicholas Benjamin Schade

• to Norman Yao


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Reverend Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity

• to Desta Salem Lissanu, class of 2013

Graduate English Commencement Oration

• to Jonathan Charles Murad

Jane C. Grant Senior Prize

• to Bradley Lynn Craig, class of 2013

John Green Prize

• to Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer, a prize of $8,981.02

Kate and Max Greenman Prize

• to Julia Birgit Clark, class of 2014

• to Julia Geiger, class of 2016

• to Martin Kiik, class of 2015

• to Coulter P. King, class of 2013

• to Indira Puri, class of 2016

• to Joshua Zoffer, class of 2014

Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Honors Thesis in Economics

• to Alice Xiang, class of 2013, a prize of $3,500 for her project entitled “Assessing the Potential Impact of a Nationwide Class-Based Affirmative Action System”

Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for Honors Thesis in the Social Sciences

• to Benjamin B. Wilcox, class of 2013, a prize of $3,500 for his project entitled “Is This Science? Louis Agassiz and the Thayer Expedition in Brazilian Thought, 1865–1876”

Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award

• to Lena Khaled Awwad, class of 2013

Harvard Monthly Prize

• to Katherine Carol Van Damm, class of 2013


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Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women’s Athletics Award

• to Veronique Tara Irwin, class of 2013

Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry

• to Katharine Helen Victoria Vidt, class of 2013

Lawrence J. Henderson Prize

• to James Meixiong, class of 2013, for his project entitled “The critical role of host lipid metabolism in determining the infectivity of Hepatitis C virus”

Department of History Prize

• to Benjamin B. Wilcox, class of 2013, a prize of $100

Department of History Undergraduate Essay Prize

• to Michael Franklin Cotter, class of 2014, a prize of $100 for his project entitled “Restoring the Orderly Exchange: The Agricultural Adjustment Administration and Central Economic Planning”

Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art

• to Matthew Thomas Gin, a first prize of $2,000 for his project entitled “Between West Germany and the World: Design at the 1972 Munich Olympics”

• to Margot Jacqueline Malebo Leger, class of 2013, a second prize of $1,000 for her project entitled “Rediscovering the Classic: South African Literary Magazines of the 1960s”

• to Samuel Evan Milner, class of 2013, a second prize of $1,000 for his project entitled “The Cleveland School: Then and Now”

• to Matthew Issac Alpert, class of 2013, a third prize of $500 for his project entitled “What is a Computer? What is Consciousness? What is Reality?”

• to Martin Thomas Greenup, a third prize of $500 for his project entitled “‘My Wars Are Laid Away in Books’: Emily Dickinson in Print”

Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize

• to Christian Coolidge Anderson, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Defining physics at imaginary time: reflection positivity for certain Riemannian manifolds”

• to Hana Bajramovic, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “But I Was Going to Say When Truth Broke In: The Cognitive Effects of the Unreliable Narrator Based on Moments of Realization”


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• to Aditya Balasubramanian, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “From Socialism to Swatantra: Market Liberalism in India, 1943–1970”

• to Devin Ralph Bean, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “From Lineage Organization to Lineage Net: The Post-Cultural Revolution Re-Imagining of Chinese Lineage Community”

• to Zachary Nathaniel Bernstein, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Monument or Memorial? Art and Automobiles in Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals”

• to Raj Anand Bhuptani, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Yelping for Help and Helping Yelp”

• to Nicholas Ford Brazeau, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Growing Up Chimpanzee: A Study of Body Size and Growth Patterns in Pan troglodytes”

• to Seth Cassel, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Old cells have new tricks: Nestin + neural progenitor cells in SOD1G93A-Tg disease model mice do not respond to neurodegeneration in the SVZ or in adjacent brain regions but proliferate and differentiate down astrocyte and oligodendrocyte lineages in the spinal cords of diseased mice”

• to Yi Jean Chow, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “‘Rerepeated with Error’: Scientific Temperament and the Reader in Ulysses”

• to Andrew Cohen, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The Shale Gas Paradox: Assessing the Impacts of the Shale Gas Revolution on Electricity Markets and Climate Change”

• to Bradley Lynn Craig, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Inside the Master’s House: Gender, Sexuality, and the ‘Impossible’ History of Slavery in Jamaica, 1753–1786”

• to Ashok Krishnan Cutkosky, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Polymer Simulations and DNA Topology”

• to Carl Daher, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Facility Location Problem in Service Networks with Self-Routing Users”

• to Lauren Dai, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “The Comparative Advantage of Nations: How Global Supply Chains Change Our Understanding of Comparative Advantage”

• to Andres Adolfo de la Llera Kurth, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Capzzular: Low-Cost Medical Device for Capsular Access in Cataract Surgery”

• to Aaron Jonathan Deutsch, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Modification of Stress Granule Assembly during Caspase-Mediated Apoptosis”

• to Christopher Devine, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Investigating the fidelity of axolotl forebrain regeneration”

• to Louis Robert Evans, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Never Completed, Only Abandoned: Decidability and Time Use in Moral Decision-Making”


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• to John Lunder Ezekowitz, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The Eyes’ Deception: The Salience of Availability in NBA Free Agent Contracts”

• to Meghan Lorine Ferreira, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Ingroup Love versus Outgroup Hate: Attitudes among Members of Competitive Intergroup Rivalries”

• to Daniel Joseph Frim, class of 2014, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “‘And It Was in the Dwelling of Rabbi Joshua bar Perahiah’: Notes on the Anti-Demonic Get, a Mythological Motif in the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Incantation Bowls”

• to Katie L. Gallogly-Swan, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “‘Real’ Scottish: Emergent Voices in a Musical Community in Glasgow”

• to Julian Baird Gewirtz, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “River Crossings: The Influence of Western Economists on Chinese Reform, 1978–1988”

• to Noah Stephen Guiney, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Sounds of the Iranian Diaspora: Fusion Music and Exclusionary Practice in Canada’s City of Diversity”

• to James Benjamin Gusberg, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger? An Economic Challenge to the Strength Model of Self-Control”

• to Layla Hazemi, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Juliet’s Boyfriends: Japan, Pop Culture, and the Takarazuka Revue”

• to Samuel Himel, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Have U.S. Drone Strikes Exacerbated Anti-American Sentiment in Pakistan? Using A New Proxy from Google Trends to Measure Attitudes towards America Abroad”

• to Julia Hu, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “A Defense of State-Initiated Criminal Protection Orders in Domestic Violence”

• to Jessica Hwang, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Probability”

• to Ethel Louise Hylton, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Bridging the Gap: Social Integration and Academic Achievement in the Desegregated Public High School”

• to Jillian Jacob Jordan, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “The Development of Third-Party Punishment of Cooperative Norm Violations”

• to Laila Kasuri, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Making Room for the River: A Decision Support System for Flood Risk Reduction in the Indus Basin”

• to Adam Burchfield Kern, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “From the Ground Up: A Contractualist Theory of Moral Inquiry”

• to Seungsoo Kim, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Alternating Antibiotic Therapy Can Slow the Evolution of Resistance through Negative Cross-Resistance”


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• to Kristie Tuong La, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “‘Enlightenment, Advertising, Education, etc.’: Herbert Bayer and The Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Road to Victory’”

• to Adam Lam, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Tracheal Organoid Culture: Migration and Regeneration of an Airway Epithelium”

• to Keli Liu, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Objective Bayes: Neither Objective nor Bayesian”

• to Sara Sophia Lytle, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Walking the Path Together, Crossing Alone: The Practice of Care in Buddhist Hospices”

• to Julia Grace Mason, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Oyster and Seaweed Farming to Improve Coastal Water Quality: Waquoit Bay as a Case Study”

• to Bay Billings McCulloch, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Taking One for the Team: Changing Group Membership Decreases Intertemporal Altruism”

• to Sarah Lynn McCuskee, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Practicing Literature and Reading Medicine in Guadeloupe: An Approach to Ethics”

• to James Meixiong, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The critical role of host lipid metabolism in determining the infectivity of Hepatitis C virus”

• to Adam Kelby Mitchell, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The Elusive Turning Point: Problematizing Narratives of Late Imperial Developmental Inflection”

• to Ann Maurine Morgan, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Pigmentation and Drug Resistance in BRAF(V600E) Melanoma”

• to Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The Electrified Fable: Radio Experimentation, Interwar Social Psychology, and Imagined Invasion in The War of the Worlds”

• to Kelsey Haruko Natsuhara, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Investigating the Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development and Marrow Injury in Zebrafish”

• to Nicole Paulet Piedra, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Legislative Hurdles to Agrarian Reform: The Role of the Bancada Ruralista in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, 1995–2006”

• to MaryGabrielle Prezioso, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “There and Back Again: Edwardian Children’s Literature and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”

• to William Minot Rafey, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Visions and Models in South Africa: Balancing Energy Development with Global Climate Change”

• to Brianna Elaine Rennix, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Chamber of Compromise: The Creation and Demise of the First Irish Senate, 1912–1936”


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• to Vaida Rimeikyte, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Affect Unbound: The Dissociability of Arousal and Valence in Early Emotion Processing”

• to Christian Bade Ronald, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Producing a Public: 1935, The Living Newspaper, and Public Opinion in Depression-Age America”

• to Ryan McGivern Rossner, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Medicine on Trial: Professional Expertise and Medical Malpractice in Republican China, 1912–1937”

• to Ariel Lidawer Rubin, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Breaking Down Borders: Multiple Perspectives on Land Transactions in Mandatory Palestine—A Case Study of the Wadi Hawarith Affair”

• to Alexander Laurence Sahn, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Mainstream Party Convergence and the Radical Right: Anti-Immigration and Protest Voting in Context”

• to Mary Jane Sakellariadis, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “‘In the Hated Prison Walls . . . Lo! My Bleeding Country Calls’: Confederate Nationalism in Fort Warren Prisoner Autograph Albums”

• to Laura Savarese, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Slavery’s Battleground: Contesting the Status of Enslaved and Free Blacks in St. Louis, from Statehood to the Civil War”

• to Leeann Saw, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “‘No Nook of English Ground Secure’: British Railways and Land Expropriation, 1825–1850”

• to Zachary Sheets, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “‘You alone are stranger here’ [A concert-opera in one act for singers and chamber orchestra and accompanying paper]”

• to Andrew Shindi, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The Inadvertent Inheritors of the Moon and Stars: Accidental Presidents and the Vice Presidency”

• to Alicia Caitlin Smart, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Identification of CEP-701 as a Small Molecule Regulator of Satellite Cell Proliferation through High-Content Screening”

• to Thomas Snyder, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Against the Peace of the World: Soviet Influence in the Creation of the Nuremberg Trial and the German Response”

• to Georgia Vasiliki Stasinopoulos, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Harm, Damages, and Apologies: Civilian Compensation in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Foreign Claims Act”

• to Sarah Caterina Stein Lubrano, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Contradiction Incarnate: Lou Andreas-Salomé and the Challenges of Feminist Historiography”

• to Elliot Joshua Stein, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The transcription factor BATF3 may be a novel regulator of angiogenesis and breast cancer progression: An in vitro and in vivo study”

• to Abby Peihe Sun, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Alone with All the Road Ahead”


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• to Gabrielle McClelland Tandet, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Negation and Negative Pronouns in Chontal Mayan”

• to Aparajita Tripathi, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Uncovering a Socratic Phenomenology of Dissent: Jan Patocka on Moral Responsibility”

• to Emily Sarah Unger, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Reconstructing the RNA World: A Study of Primerless Non-Enzymatic RNA Replication”

• to Sezen Unluonen, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Manners, Power, and Ethics in Medieval Romance”

• to Gili Vidan, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Fog of Code: Cybersecurity, International Relations, and Sovereign-Subject Ties in Cyberspace”

• to Katherine Elida Warren, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Coming of Age in the Epidemic: Suicide and Adolescence in a Tribal Nation”

• to Mark Warren, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “From the Cell to the City: The Early Housing Designs and Urbanism of Ricardo Bofill and the Taller de Arquitectura, 1960–1975”

• to Olivia Grace Weeks, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “The Molecular Basis of Dental Development in A. mississippiensis, the American Alligator”

• to Zoe Anna Yoshii Weinberg, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “The Blonde, Blue-Eyed Slave: Alexina Morrison and the Legal and Scientific Construction of Race in Louisiana, 1857–1862”

• to Benjamin B. Wilcox, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “Is This Science? Louis Agassiz and the Thayer Expedition in Brazilian Thought, 1865–1876”

• to Frankie Kin San Wong, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “The Effect of Macrophage Soluble Factors in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche”

• to Alice Xiang, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Assessing the Potential Impact of a Nationwide Class-Based Affirmative Action System”

• to Alexa Katherine Zahl, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Resonant Rhetoric and Unheard Melodies: Roman Imperial Oratory in Text and Art”

• to Michele Sasha Zemplenyi, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for her project entitled “Design and Analysis of a Fractional Factorial Screening Experiment to Identify Small Molecule Inducers of Pancreatic Beta Cells”

• to George Wayne Zuo, class of 2013, a prize of $4,000 for his project entitled “A Better Way to Fail: An Economic Comparison of Grades and Test Scores in Motivating Grade Retention Decisions”


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Charles Edmund Horman Prize

• to Avia Tadmor, class of 2014

Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize

• to Laura Savarese, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Slavery’s Battleground: Contesting the Status of Enslaved and Free Blacks in St. Louis, from Statehood to the Civil War”

• to Zoe Anna Yoshii Weinberg, class of 2013, for her project entitled “The Blonde, Blue-Eyed Slave: Alexina Morrison and the Legal and Scientific Construction of Race in Louisiana, 1857–1862”

Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology Outstanding Thesis Award

• to Brandon Matravers Law, class of 2013, for his project entitled “The role of Notch signaling in tracheal epithelial cell fate”

Intellectual Architecture Award

• to Sydney Anne Helena Sawyier, class of 2013

Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African Studies


Barbara Johnson Memorial Prize in Literature

• to Rebecca Fairclough Elliott, class of 2014, for her project entitled “The Political as Work of Art in Roberto Bolanõs’s Chilean Narratives”

Klein Family History Prize

• to Mark Christian Wilkins, a prize of $1,000

George Arthur Knight Prize

• to Justin Michael Hoke, a prize of $4,592.53 for his project entitled “Smothered Bodies, Slender Bodies”

Morris Kronfeld Prize

• to Bookang Seol, class of 2013

Lawrence Lader Prize in Expository Writing

• to Jacob Moscona, class of 2016, for his project entitled “Cloak of Meritocracy: Harvard’s ‘New Plan’ of Admissions and the ‘Jewish Problem’”


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Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship

• to Jose Antonio Bengochea, class of 2013

• to Christopher John Londa, class of 2013

• to Ketan Ramakrishnan, class of 2013

Harold Langlois Outstanding Scholar Award

• to Peter L. Baskette, a prize of $1,000

Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize

• to Travis Curtis Anderson-Hamilton, class of 2013, for his project entitled “Freedom’s Price: An Analysis of the Black Antagonist”

Doris Cohen Levi Prize

• to Benjamin Kennedy Moss, class of 2013

Robert E. Levi Prize

• to Eleanor Thames Regan, class of 2013

Jonathan M. Levin Prize for Teaching and Social Justice

• to Denitra Jenise Wansley, class of 2013

Jonathan Levy Award

• to Emily Bentley Hyman, class of 2013

Alain LeRoy Locke Prize for Academic Excellence

• to Julia Rose Jeffries, class of 2013

Hugh F. MacColl Prize

• to Lydia Winsor Brindamour, class of 2013, a prize of $1,866 for her project entitled “not, as yet … ”

Maurice Sedwell Ltd. Prize



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Cecília Meireles Prize

• to Jared Dustin Martin, class of 2013, a prize of $200 for his project entitled “A Tela das Sensaçoes: Uma Inversão da Tradição Lirica em Armando Feitas Filho”

Mill-Taylor Prize

• to Edward Daniel Horgan, class of 2014, a prize of $250

• to Michael Evan Mitchell, class of 2015, a prize of $250

Perry Miller Prize

• to Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, class of 2013

Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize

• to Tatyana Vitalyevna Avilova, class of 2013, a prize of $2,000

• to Marissa Anne McGarry, class of 2014, a prize of $2,000

Mossavar-Rahmani Center Prize for Best Master’s Student Paper

• to William Radford Talbott, a prize of $1,500 for his project entitled “Lighting the Way: Unlocking Performance Gains in Electricity Distribution and Retailing in India”

David B. Mumford Undergraduate Mathematics Prize

• to Eric Kerner Larson, class of 2013, a prize of $800

Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (for junior essay)

• to Victoria Rachel Black, class of 2014

Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (for senior essay)

• to Travis Curtis Anderson-Hamilton, class of 2013

Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (for sophomore essay)

• to Debbie Nnenna Ama Onuoha, class of 2015

Joseph Garrison Parker Prize

• to Annemarie Elise Ryu, class of 2013


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Lucy Allen Paton Prize in the Humanities

• to Rainer Crosett, class of 2014, a prize of $500

• to Joshua Graham Wilson, class of 2013, a prize of $500

Lee Patrick Award in Drama

• to Joshua Robbie McTaggart, class of 2013

Pease Thesis Prize

• to Michael Cowett, class of 2013, for his project entitled “Res Olim Dissociabiles: Praise and Censure in Tacitus’ Agricola”

• to Fanaye Solomon Yirga, class of 2013, for her project entitled “The Metrical Function of the Personal Name in Martial’s Epigrams”

Reginald H. Phelps Prize

• to Scott B. Wilson, a first prize of $2,500

• to Su Zhen Joanne Wong, a second prize of $2,000

• to Leslie Boisset-Dell’Elce, a third prize of $750

• to Michael Avery Lackner, a third prize of $750

Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship Prize

• to Bradley Bolman, class of 2015

Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies

• to Joshua Lipson, class of 2014, for his project entitled “Origins, Myth, and Religious Sociology of the Igbo Jews”

Susan Anthony Potter Prize

• to Lioudmila Alexeevna Zaitseva, a prize of $2,000 for her project entitled “Too Far and Back Again: The Text and the Making of the Medieval Hero in La Chanson de Roland, Le Charroi de Nines, and La Vie de Saint Alexis”


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Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age

• to Victoria Ann Baena, class of 2014, a first prize of $2,000 for her project entitled “Verdad, Ficción, y Verosimilitud en las Novelas Intercaladas del Quijote: El Ejemplode El Curioso Impertinente y la Historia del Cautivo”

• to Edith Benavides, class of 2014, a second prize of $1,250 for her project entitled “Ambiciones celestinas: Lodivino, lo secular, y la ambivalencia interpretativa en La Celestina”

Susan Anthony Potter Undergraduate Prize

• to Kevin M. Stone, class of 2013, a prize of $1,250 for his project entitled “Truth as ‘Mobile Equilibrium’: Preface to a Translation of Die Vollendung der Liebe”

John P. Reardon, Jr., Award

• to Walter Charles Peppelman, class of 2013

William King Richardson Bequest

• to Michael Cowett, class of 2013

• to Christopher John Londa, class of 2013

Robert and Maurine Rothschild Prize

• to Alyssa Botelho, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Hearing Life’s Engineers: The 1976 Cambridge Recombinant DNA Controversy”

Francis Sales Prize

• to Annika Joy Nielsen, class of 2015, a prize of $500

Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize

• to Amanda Isabel Morejon, class of 2013

Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics

• to Jason Wien, class of 2013

John Osbourne Sargent Prize for a Latin Translation

• to Forrester Campbell Hammer, class of 2015

Winthrop Sargent Prize

• to Layla Hazemi, class of 2013


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Thomas Small Prizes

• to Jill Kathleen Shriver, a prize of $2,000

George B. Sohier Prize

• to Layla Hazemi, class of 2013, a prize of $250 for her project entitled “Juliet’s Boyfriends: Japan, Pop Culture, and the Takarazuka Revue”

Barbara Miller Solomon Prize

• to Margot Jacqueline Malebo Leger, class of 2013

Sosland Prize in Expository Writing

• to Olivier Simon, class of 2016, for his project entitled “An Unsuspected Ideal: Reassessing the Treatment of Representational Art in Jose Ortega y Gasset’s The Dehumanization of Art”

Adelbert W. Sprague Prize

• to Ann Bridget Cleare, a prize of $2,261.66 for her project entitled “To another of that other”

Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in Germanic Languages

• to Arndt Lümers

Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts

• to Keir David Gogwilt, class of 2013

Charles Sumner Prize

• to Janet Ingram Lewis, for her project entitled “How Rebellion Begins: Insurgent Group Formation and Viability in Uganda”

• to Iain Guthrie Osgood, for his project entitled “Differentiated Products, Divided Industries: Firms and the Politics of Intra-Industry Trade”

Alan Symonds Award

• to Matthew Gordineer Warner, class of 2013

Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies

• to William Minot Rafey, class of 2013, a prize of $500 for his project entitled “Visions and Models in South Africa: Balancing Energy Development with Global Climate Change”


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Robert N. Toppan Prize

• to Daniela Louise Cammack, for her project entitled “Rethinking Athenian Democracy”

Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize

• to Lauren Elaine Fields, class of 2014

• to Amanda Beth Peery, class of 2014

Luisa Vidal de Villasante Award

• to Juan Manuel Torbidoni, for his project entitled “Limitando la Eternidad: Visón y Lenguaje en El Aleph de Jorge Luis Borges”

Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting

• to Catherine Grace Katz, class of 2013, a first prize of $1,500 for her project entitled “My Grandmother’s Childhood Library: Collecting Early-Twentieth Century Stratemeyer Syndicate Children’s Series”

• to Allison Gofman, class of 2014, a second prize of $1,000 for her project entitled “Tangible Flights of Imagination: Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy as Physical Objects”

• to Victoria Ann Baena, class of 2014, a third prize of $750 for her project entitled “An Innocent Abroad: Tales of the Foreigner”

Esther Sellholm Walz Prize

• to Miriam Annabelle Wray, for her project entitled “Adelbert von Chamisso und Hans Christian Andersen im Dialog: Medienschwellen in Adelbert von Chamissos Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte und Hans Christian Andersens Skyggen”

Philippe Wamba Prize

• to Cerianne Parish Robertson, class of 2013, for her project entitled “‘Professors of Our Own Poverty’: Intellectual Practices of Poor People’s Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

Philippe Wamba Summer Research Travel Grant

• to Lowell Brower

• to Kristina Tester, class of 2014

• to Alec Dah-Wei Yeh, class of 2014


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Philip Washburn Prize

• to Julian Baird Gewirtz, class of 2013, a prize of $250 for his project entitled “River Crossings: The Influence of Western Economists on Chinese Reform, 1978–1988”

• to Ryan McGivern Rossner, class of 2013, a prize of $250 for his project entitled “Medicine On Trial: Professional Expertise and Medical Malpractice in Republican China, 1912–1937”

Selma and Lewis H. Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies

• to Daniel Joseph Frim, class of 2014, for his project entitled “‘And It Was in the Dwelling of Rabbi Joshua bar Perahiah’: Notes on the Anti-Demonic Get, a Mythological Motif in the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Incantation Bowls”

• to Leah Reis-Dennis, class of 2013, for her project entitled “New York’s ‘Bad Girl Problem’: Dear and Reform on the Jewish East Side”

Barrett Wendell Prize

• to Kristin Cooper Holladay, class of 2015

Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize

• to Julian Lucas, class of 2015, a prize of $17,000

Cornel West Prize

• to Noni Denise Carter, class of 2013, for her project entitled “Maryse Condé’s Mobile Caribbean: Migration, Resurrection, and Agency in Segu, Moi, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, and Crossing the Mangrove”

Elizabeth Wilder Prize

• to Dianisbeth Acquie, class of 2016

John H. Williams Prize

• to Lauren Dai, class of 2013

Sydney M. Williams, Jr. Traveling Fellowship for the Visual Arts

• to Mateus Cesca Falci, class of 2014

Wister Prize in Mathematics or Music

• to Tony L. Feng, class of 2013, a prize of $1,300


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Thomas Wood Award in Journalism

• to Thomas Nuocheng Dai, class of 2014

James D. Woods Memorial Fellowship

• to Meghan M. Brockmeyer, class of 2014, a prize of $800

• to Kathryn Gabrielle Walsh, class of 2014, a prize of $800

Katie Y. F. Yang Prize

• to Vanessa Moungar, a prize of $1,000

Allyn Young Prize

• to John Lunder Ezekowitz, class of 2013, for his project entitled “The Eyes’ Deception: The Salience of Availability in NBA Free Agent Contracts”

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