Past Prize Winners

2024 Winners

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

  • Writing 2-3 category: Sheba Duan, "Dead Bodies Do Haunt "Lot No. 249," Just Not the Ones You Think"
  • Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Catherine Cho, "Exploring Humanity and Nature through Music in Jaws"
  • First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Rachel Senn, "Fat-Shaming, People-Blaming, and the Weight Loss Revolution"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

  • Sean Wallace, "Rebel Scream: Feminist Deconstruction in "riot grrrl" Subculture"

2023 Winners

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize:

  • Writing 2-3 category: Elliot Ecklund, Research Paper (untitled)
  • Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Shoshana Bernstein, "Pixie Dust and The Unicorn Thrust"
  • First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Paul Griffiths,  "The Fantasy of Luck: An Exploration of The Lottery in Babylon

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award:

  • Gideon Gruel,  "Doubting Milton: A Miltonic Anxiety about Anxiety in Paradise Lost"

2022 Winners

Albert I. Dickerson 1930 Freshman Writing Prize

  • Writing 2-3 category: Tristan X. Lin, "Firearm Localism: The Next Step for Second Amendment Doctrine"
  • Writing 5 / Humanities 1 category: Eliza Dunn, "Hidden Forces of Love: Jewish Mothers During the Holocaust"
  • First-year Seminar / Humanities 2 category: Alexander Zhelyazkov, "Observational Pitfalls in the Search for Life"

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Fund First Year Excellence in Writing Award

  • Jenny Oh, "Metamorphic Agency: Feminism and Pornography in The Handmaiden"