Boothe Prize Essays

Booth Prize essays for 2013-2014

PWR Winners for 2013-14

Booth Prize essays for 2012-2013

PWR Winners for 2012-13

Boothe Prize essays for 2011-2012

PWR Winners for 2011-2012

Boothe Prize essays for 2010-2011

PWR Winners for 2010-2011

IHUM Winners for 2010-2011

Boothe Prize essays for 2009-2010

PWR Winners for 2009-2010

IHUM Winners for 2009-2010

  • Fiona Hinze (Spring 2009 Winner): "An Encounter with Angel Island"
  • Mia Newman (Spring 2009 Honorable Mention): "Under the Yoke: The Institution of Marriage in Middlemarch"
  • Alex Hertz (Fall 2009 Winner): "A Challenging Invitation to Faith"
  • Ben Pittenger (Fall 2009 Honorable Mention): "Trains, Pains, and Automobiles: The Liminal Trek beyond Survival in The Piano Lesson and Maus I"
  • Kelly Vicars (Winter 2010 Winner): "Intertwining Art"
  • Evan Storms (Winter 2010 Honorable Mention): "Antigone and the Social Contract Theory of the Crito"

Boothe Prize essays for 2008-2009

PWR Winners for 2008-2009

IHUM Winners for 2008-2009

  • Sarrah Nomanbhoy (Spring 2008 Winner): "Embracing Ambiguity in 'Bartleby the Scrivener'"
  • Nicole Gordon (Spring 2008 Honorable Mention): "When a Silent Killer Confronts a Silent Society: Stanford University's Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic from 1980-1989"
  • Adam Adler (Fall 2008 Winner): "Wisconsin v. Yoder: Maximizing Religious Choice"
  • Rachel Kolb (Winter 2009 Winner): "Thought Aids Acting, Not Action: Laurence Olivier's and Franco Zeffirelli's Versions of Hamlet"
  • Jacob Vandermeer (Winter 2009 Honorable Mention): "Identity Manipulation in Candide andThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano as Model for the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"

Boothe Prize essays for 2007-2008

PWR Winners for 2007-2008

Boothe Prize essays for 2006-2007

PWR Winners for 2006-2007

Boothe Prize essays for 2005-2006

PWR Winners for 2005-2006

IHUM Winners for 2005-2006

  • Jessica Lee (Spring 2005 Winner): "Death of the Faces of God"
  • Julie Byren (Spring 2005 Honorable Mention): "If You're Lost Enough to Find Yourself: Unveiling Nature's Secrets in Robert Frost's 'October' and 'Directive'"
  • Patrick Leahy (Fall 2005 Winner): "The Three Furies of Dublin"
  • Nathan Pflueger (Fall 2005 Honorable Mention): "Hamlet's Imagined Filial Love"
  • Sarah Johnson (Winter 2006 Winner): "Breaking the Watch Along With the Wedding Glass: Conceptions of Time in the Transition from Biblical to Rabbinic Judaism" 
  • Jason Dunford (Winter 2006 Honorable Mention): "Empowering the Oppressed: The Role of Language in the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa"

Boothe Prize essays for 2004-2005

PWR Winners for 2004-2005

IHUM Winners for 2004-2005

  • Wendy Hagenmaier (Spring 2004 Winner): “‘To render it:’ Acts of Structural Passion in Levertov’s ‘An English Field in the Nuclear Age’.”
  • Lia Hardin (Spring 2004 Honorable Mention): “Hear the Thunder: Isolation and Emotional Power in Kafka and Eliot.”
  • Salvatore Bonaccorso (Fall 2004 Winner): “Self-Discovery through Language in Omeros andWalden.”
  • Anne Wyman (Fall 2004 Honorable Mention): “Art Refracts Life.”
  • Yun Chu (Winter 2005 Winner): “The Analysis of Rational Violence in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Goethe’s Faust across Three Mediums: Literature, Music, and Art.”
  • Emily Dalton (Winter 2005 Honorable Mention): “Poetic Justice, Memory As A Moral Force."

Boothe Prize essays for 2003-2004

PWR Winners for 2003-2004

  • Joshua Smith (Spring 2003 Winner), "Conflict Diamonds: Resolving Africa's Worst Resource Wars."
  • Jennifer Cribbs (Spring 2003 Honorable Mention), "Darkness in the Vicious Kitchen: An Analysis of Feminist Themes and Suicidal Imagery in Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's Poetry."
  • Rui Xiong Kee (Fall 2003 Winner), "Exploring the 'Communist' in the Communist Insurrection in Malaya."
  • Jasmine Hanifi (Fall 2003 Honorable Mention), "Belonging to America: Rhetoric of the Second Generation"
  • Andrew Leifer (Winter 2004 Winner), "Harry Potter and the Battle of International Copyright Law."
  • Hammad Ahmed (Winter 2004 Honorable Mention), "Grafting Cuba Onto the American Body Politic: The Intersection of Natural Science and Foreign Policy in the Annexationist Era."

IHUM Winners for 2003-2004

  • Steph Abegg (Spring 2003 Winner), "Rome: The City of Gods."
  • Gloria Nguyen (Spring 2003 Honorable Mention), "In Search of the Perfect Love."
  • Anne Kalt (Fall 2003 Winner), "Perspectives on the Human Good."
  • Bob Hough (Fall 2003 Honorable Mention), "Faith in Death."
  • Patrick R. Callier (Winter 2004 Winner), "Matter, Systems, and Alternatives from the Americas by Borges."
  • Annie Kalt (Winter 2004 Honorable Mention), "Male and Female Love Worlds: Inherently Separate Landscapes?"

Boothe Prize essays for 2002-2003

PWR Winners for 2002-2003

  • Mari Hayman (Spring 2002 Honorable Mention), “Adoption Issues in Latin America: Behind the Silence and the Secrets.” Instructor: Carolyn Ross.
  • Jennifer Kong (Spring 2002 Honorable Mention), “Fulfilling Stanford's Commitment to Diversity: Eliminating Gender Bias and Increasing the Number of Tenured Women Faculty.”
  • Prabhu Balasubramanian (Fall 2002 Winner), “Pharmaceutical Patents: Life Savers or Profit Makers?"
  • Andre de Alencar Lyon (Fall 2002 Honorable Mention), “The Question of Textual Ideology in Changing Lanes.”
  • Eric Adamson (Winter 2003 Winner), “Malleability, Misrepresentation, Manipulation: The Rhetoric of Images in Economic Forecasting.”
  • David Craig (Winter 2003 Honorable Mention),“Instant Messaging: The Language of YouthLiteracy.”

IHUM Winners for 2002-2003

  • Heather MacKintosh Sims (Spring 2002 Winner), "Reflections of an Empire: The British Celts as Indicators of Roman Self-Perception."
  • Jason Glick (Spring 2002 Honorable Mention), "Trading Land for Cultural Power: Anazaldua's and Cardenal's (Re)constructions of Mestiza Identity." 
  • Andre de Alencar Lyon (Fall 2002 Winner), “Traversing the Gap Between Reality and the Individual in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse”
  • Liang Dong (Fall 2002 Honorable Mention), “State and Empire: (De)Construction of the National Identity.”
  • Luke Lindley (Winter 2003 Winner), “A Heap of Broken Images: Conflicting Narratives of Nature in Milton's 'Lycidas.'”
  • Brian Caliando (Winter 2003 Honorable Mention) “Don't Spazz: It's Not Rational and It's Not Moral”

Boothe Prize essays for 2001-2002

Boothe Prize essays for 2000-2001