Academic Prizes Awarded to Students by Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The following student prizes were awarded and have been entered into the permanent record by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences:

William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize -- William Pannapacker '98, a prize of $500, for "an understanding essay on the true spirit of book collecting."

Jeremy Belknap Prize -- Chad Denton '01, a prize of $1,279.07, for the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College.

Helen Choate Bell Essay Prize -- Charles Savage '98, an honorable mention prize of $1,000, for competition in the essay prize.

Helen Choate Bell Essay Prize -- James Michael Cocola '98, a prize of $2,500, for competition entry.

Helen Choate Bell Essay Prize -- Leslie Eckel '98, a prize of $2,500, for an essay.

Helen Choate Bell Essay Prize -- William Pannapacker '98, two prizes of $2,500, for two essays.

James Gordon Bennett Prize -- Arkadi Gerney '98, a prize of $1,215.72, for senior thesis entitled "The Rise of the Promise Keepers: A Christian Men's Movement, and Its Implications for American Civic Engagement," as an outstanding essay on some subject of "American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest."

Philo Sherman Bennett Prize -- Ellen Shustorovich '98, a prize of $448.38, for senior thesis entitled "Domestic Politics in International Trade: France's Defense of Culture and Agriculture, 1993," as an outstanding essay "discussing the principles of free government."

LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize -- David Brunton '98, a prize of $300, for the member of the graduating class of Harvard College who will deliver the undergraduate English dissertation at the Commencement Exercises.

LeBaron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize -- Leora Bersohn '98, a second prize of $100, for fiction competition.

Bowdoin Graduate Prize for Essays in the Natural Sciences -- graduate student Frank Ellis McKenzie, a prize of $3,000, for an essay entitled "The Microbial Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases."

Bowdoin Undergraduate Prize for Dissertations in English -- Emily Katherine Hobson '98, a prize of $3,000, for an essay entitled "More Than Just Spectators: Race, Class and Uses of History at the Newport Folk Festival."

Bowdoin Undergraduate Prize for Dissertations in English -- Owen Scott Wozniak '98, a prize of $3,000, for an essay entitled "The Rhetorical Fate of the American Revolution in Three Orations by the Reverend Enos Hitchcock."

Bowdoin Undergraduate Greek Prize -- David Petrain '98, a prize of $1,000, for translation into Attic Greek.

Bowdoin Undergraduate Latin Prize -- David Petrain '98, a prize of $1,000, for translation into Latin.

Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Student Essays in the Natural Sciences -- Sonali Bose '98, a prize of $3,000, for an essay entitled "Evil Twins in Biology--Prions and Their Innocent Doppelgangers."

Bowdoin Greek Graduate Prize -- graduate student Olga Levaniouk, a prize of $2,000, for an original essay in Greek.

Bowdoin Latin Graduate Prize -- graduate student Olga Levaniouk, a prize of $2,000, for an original essay in Latin.

Edward M. Chase -- Stewart Wood '98, a prize of $2,500.52, for a dissertation entitled "Capitalist Constitutions: Supply-Side Reform in Britain and West Germany, 1960-1990."

David Taggart Clark Prize -- Lisa Marie Mignone '98, a prize of $300, for the student selected to make the Latin Oration at the Commencement Exercises.

James Bryant Conant Prize -- Christina Henry '98, a second prize of $500, for an essay entitled "Asthma and Exercise."

James Bryant Conant Prize -- Jeremy Kleiner '98, a first prize of $750, for an essay entitled "Darwin and Nietzsche: Progress, Morality, and a World Without End."

Coolidge Debating Prize -- Eric D. Albert '98, a prize of $1,435.45, for one of the two best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates.

Coolidge Debating Prize -- Justin D. Osofsky '98, a prize of $1,435.45, for one of the two best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize -- William Triant '99, a prize of $75 to be used within a year for the purchase of books of any description except current fiction, for the male member of the Junior class showing the greatest promise among undergraduates in Harvard College concentrating in History and Literature.

Eric Firth Prize -- Richard John Daly Hughes '98, a prize of $1,057.89, for senior thesis entitled "Farmers versus Landlords: The Disintegration of the Landed Interest and the Repeal of the Corn Laws," as an outstanding essay of the subject of "the ideals of democracy."

Albert M. Fulton Prize -- Jenny Drake Berrien '98, a prize of $759.11, for an essay entitled "The Boston Miracle: The Emergence of New Institutional Structures in the Absence of Rational Planning," judged as the best thesis in the field of sociology.

Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize -- James Wilson '98, a prize of $650 and a silver medal, for poems.

Graduate English Commencement Oration Prize -- graduate student William Seaton Griffin, a prize of $300, for a candidate for a graduate degree who will deliver the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercises.

Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize -- Alex Zakaras '98, an honorable mention prize, for a thesis entitled "Composing the Self: Edmund Burke and the Ethics of Interpretation."

Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize in Economics -- Gopal Garuda '98, a prize of $2,379.16, for a thesis entitled "The Distributional Effects of IMF Programs: A Cross-Country Analysis."

Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize -- Kelsey Williams McNiff '98, a prize of $2,379.16, for a thesis entitled "Confronting the Whirlwind: How a Group of Young Protestants Became Resisters in Vichy France."

Harvard Monthly Prize -- Agbanyero Ghukwudebe '98, a prize of $527.89, for the student in the most advanced courses in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise.

Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry -- Katie Sigelman '98, a first prize of $50, for an entry as the best lyric poem by an undergraduate.

Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry -- Mia Alvar '98, a prize second prize of $25, for competition.

Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Romance Languages -- Kevin Murphy '98, a first prize of $1,455, for a competition in romance languages.

Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Romance Languages -- Magdalena Edwards '98, a second prize of $700, for a competition in romance languages.

Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize -- Jacob Alexander Lurie '98, a prize of $154.52, for a presentation entitled "Quadratic Reciprocity over Finite Fields" before the Mathematics Table this year.

Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize -- Samit Dasgupta '98, a prize of $309.04, for a presentation entitled "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and Extensions" as the best presentation before the Mathematics Table this year.

Sales Prize -- Jason Veysey '98, a prize of $1,601.87, for the best scholar in Spanish "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition."

John Osborne Sargent Prize for the Translation of a Lyric Poem of Horace -- Hsuan Hsu '98, a prize of $300, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace.

Winthrop Sargent Prize -- Charles Savage '98, a prize of $1,000, for an essay.

George B. Sohier Prize -- Justin Kestler '98, a prize of $250, for thesis entitled "Exquisite Contrast: Words and Music in the 'Sirens' Chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses," as the "best thesis written by an undergraduate presented for Honors in English or in modern literature and in certain cases History and Literature."

Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts -- Sybil-Catherine Watkins '98, a prize of $1,000, honoring the sum of a student's activities in the arts at Harvard and Radcliffe.

Sumner Prize -- Sharon Krause '98, a prize of $7,440.60, for a dissertation entitled "The Politics of Distinction and Disobedience: Honor and the Defense of Liberty in Montesquieu," as the best dissertation written by any student in the University from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace.

Toppan Prize -- Claudine Gay '98, a prize of $2,508.09, for a dissertation entitled "Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics."

Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting -- Alice Lewis '98, a first prize of $300, for an essay entitled "Select Bibliography of My Collection of Books Relating to Sequential Art."

Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting -- Mary Patty Murphy '98, a third prize of $100, for an essay entitled "Reference Books: A Multi-Purpose Collection."

Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting -- Trevor Stephen Cox '98, an honorable mention prize, for a submission entitled "Essay on Book-Collecting and a Bibliography of Presidential Items."

Allyn A. Young Prize -- Cristian Pop-Eleches '98, a prize of $400 and a book on economics, properly inscribed, to be chosen by the recipient, for an honors thesis entitled "Transition in Romania: Three Essays on Private Sector Development."