Library Prize for Undergraduate Research


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2011 Prize Winners

Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Upper Division

Myer Alexander Rickless
"Protection of British Overseas Property: 1870-1914"  Submitted for publication
Honors Research Paper
Advisor: Albion Urdank

Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Lower Division

Ellen Watkins
"Sick with Fear: Popular Challenges to the Vaccine Controversies of the 21st Century"
Honors Collegium 14
Advisor: Jeffrey H. Miller

Judge's Discretionary Award

Lincoln H. Pitcher
"The Geography of Reelection: Incumbency Advantages, Redistricting, Compactness, and Electoral Responsiveness in the United States House of Representatives. 1901-2005"
Poli Sci 191H F2010 and Poli Sci 198 W2011
Advisor: Jeff Lewis

 

2010 Prize Winners

Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Upper Division

Sophia Y. Gu
"Giving Up the Ghost: The Jacobean Elizabeth in The Revenger's Tragedy and Henry VIII, or All is True"
Senior Thesis
Advisor: Gordon Kipling

Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Lower Division

Madeline Yung
"Combating Hysteria: Blacklisting in Los Angeles, California"
General Education Cluster M24: Education and Social Justice
Advisor: Zevi Gutfrend

Judge's Award

Jesse R. Erickson
"The History of the Malleus Maleficarum: A Bibliographical Study"
Senior Thesis
Advisor: Teofilo Ruiz

Honorable Mention in the Upper Division
Karen Aanensen
"A Study of Names Used in Halldór Laxness's Iceland's Bell"
Scandinavian 148: Halldór Laxness
Advisor: Kendra Willson

Honorable Mention in the Lower Division
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel
"A Fascist in the White House: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Interventionism in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America"
English 88: American Historical Novel
Advisor: Austin Graham

Special Recognition
Sam Strong
"We the Undersigned: A Basketball Team's Struggle to be Heard"
GE Cluster 60B: America in the Sixties
Advisor: Jeremy Schmidt

 

2009 Prize Winners

Ruth Simon First Place Award

Edgar Hermosillo Gaytan
"A Community of Shared Goods as Presented in the New Testament Book of Acts of the Apostles: Pre-industrial Urban Reality"
Directed Research History 199
Advisor: Scott Bartchy

Honorable Mention Award

Michaela Hulstyn
"The Algeria Syndrome, or 'Writing in Flight': Land, Language, and Self through the Autobiographical Lens of Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar"
Comparative Literature 197
Advisor: Francoise Lionnet

Judges' Discretionary Award

Elisabeth Michaels
"Undergraduate Student Work in Institutional Repositories: An Analysis and Policy Recommendation for the UC eScholarship Repository"
Information Studies 199
Advisor: Christine Borgman

Certificates of Special Recognition

Maria Abesa
"Living on a Prayer: An Oral History"
Sociology 153
Advisor: Min Zhou

Nicholas Bartesch
"Swedish Industrialization and its Preconditions in Historical Perspective"
European Studies 191
Advisor: Ivan Berend

Thomas Caldwell
"The Possibility for Life and the Implications of its Discovery on Enceladus and Europa"
Honors Collegium 35
Advisor: William Newman

Allison DePasquale
"The Human Development Effects of Economic Sanctions"
Economics 199B
Advisor: Aaron Tornell

Rene Tiongquico
"Merritt(ocracy): History of Merritt College's Student Activism, 1960-78"
History 198ABC
Advisor: Scott Brown

Kara Trowell
"French Colonial Influence on the North African Jewish Identity"
History 191L
Advisor: Sarah Abrevaya Stein