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Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: Elizabeth Orecchia, "Stephen Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets: A Budget Analysis of Life in the Tenements at the Turn of the 19th Century"
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Daniel Westphal, "Analyzing the Constitutionality of Physician Assisted Suicide Using the Right to Privacy"
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Clara Pakman,  "Mental Domesticity vs Dwelling in Possibility"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

• Sunil Krish, "Metamorphosis as Flux: Reconciling Marxism and Postmodernism in Bong's Parasite"

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: Tooryanand Seetohul, "Let them Speak Cake"
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Hayley Piper, "Indigenous Civilizations of Latin America in Animated Film: An Analysis of Cultural Representation in The Road to El Dorado and The Emperor's New Groove"
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Felicia Ann Ragucci, "Asserting a Feminist Humanity: Nora's Deliberate Performance and Ultimate Rejection of her Gender Role in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

• Emily Sun (Yu Xin Sun), "Untitled"

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: Autumn Dinh, "Adela Quested--The 'Wrong Sort' of Anglo Indian Woman"
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Bennet Clark, "The Language of Experience of Religion in C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy"
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Shreyas Agnihotri, "Crafting a Victim-Flcused Approach to America's Death Penalty"

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: Ama Kyerewaa, "Hanuman: A Great God in Hinduism, a Demonic Beast in Christianity."
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Iris L. Wang, "Forgotten History and Erased Memories: Confronting Japanese World War II Atrocities."
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Maya Frost-Belansky, "Consensual Pregnancy: The Moral Permissibility of Abortion."

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

• Alyssa Gao, "Determining the Existence of Interdisciplinary Individuals in the Field of Environmental Studies."

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: Caleb Smith, "The Evolution of Protagonist-Zombie Interactions in American Zombie Cinema: A Mirror of Evolving Race Relations Between White and Black America"
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Margaret Cross, "Exposing the Link between Crime and Sexual Trauma"
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Wendy Kang'ethe, "The Transcendent Nature of Beauty"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

• Jon Scott, "An XL Proposal with Larger Consequences"

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: No prize awarded
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Emily Smid, "Homosocial Regionalism in Modern Country Music"
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Wendy Kang'ethe, "The Transcendent Nature of Beauty": Theo Minerva, "Too Much of a Sweet Thing: The Case for an Increased FDA Role in Reducing Sugar Consumption"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

• Alex Sclafani, "Monsanto Company: Planting Corn, but Growing Troubles"

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

• Writing 2-3 category: No prize awarded
• Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Emily Burack, "Can Soccer Help Arabs Achieve Equality in Israel?"
• First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Michelle Li, "Hope, Suffering, and a Lost Dream: The Representation of the Golden Venture Story in Wang Ping's 'Song of Calling Souls'"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

• Benjamin Prudhomme, "Orozco's Serpientes: Contextualization and Visual Analysis"