2024 Prizes for Research Announced

HRI Announces 2024 Prizes for Research in the Humanities

Each year, the Humanities Research Institute recognizes excellence in humanities scholarship with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. We are excited to announce this year's recipients!

You are invited to join us to celebrate at the Prizes for Research Ceremony and Year-End Reception on Thursday, May 2, 4:00–6:00 p.m. at Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422 and 424. Prizes will be awarded at 4:00 p.m. with reception to follow.

Faculty Prizes

Winner

Bobby J. Smith, II (African American Studies), “Food Denied, Food for Freedom: The 1962–63 Greenwood Food Blockade,” from Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023). Nominated by Professor Merle L. Bowen.

Honorable Mention

Eric Calderwood (Comparative and World Literature), “The Palestinian al-Andalus,” from On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023).

Graduate Prizes

Winner

Mitchel Angelo Civello (Theatre), “Identity and Belief in John Rawls’ ‘Justice as Fairness,’” submitted for PHL 521: Seminar in Contemporary Problems, taught by Professor Helga Varden.

Honorable Mention

Yoonsuh Kim (English), “‘Sacredly Confidential’: Patent Medicine, Anecdotes, and Medical Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century Women’s Magazine Culture,” submitted for ENGL 599: Thesis Preparation, directed by Professor Justine Murison.

Undergraduate Prizes

Winner

Emily Quid (English), “The Power of Print: Shaping Collective Memory in The Marrow of Tradition,” nominated by Professor Justine Murison and submitted for ENGL 396: Love and Money in the 19th Century, taught by Professor Murison.

Honorable Mention

Jessica Vargas (Political Science), “Fortune, Fame, and Feminism: How Female Rappers Reclaimed Their Image,” submitted for GWS 355: Beauty and Culture, taught by Professor Zalika U. Ibaorimi.