Dissertation Prizes * Dissertation-Year Awards * Graduate Center Awards
The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year:
Robert Upchurch
"The Hagiography of Chaste Marriage in Aelfric's 'Lives of Sains'"
Dissertation Director: Professor Gordon Whatley
The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
Erin Henrickson
"Sacred Authorship: Scriptural Models for Early Modern Books"
Dissertation Director: Professor Barbara Bowen
The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
Sara Claire Raymond
"The Trope of the Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing"
Dissertation Director: Professor Meena Alexander
The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
Mitch Melzer
"Between Them and the Sky: The Constitutionality of Classic American Literature"
Dissertation Director: Professor Angus Fletcher
The David Gordon Prize for the Best Dissertation in 20th Century Studies: Cathy Fagan
"'The Excitement of an Afternoon Call'--Reframing the Regional and the Modern"
Dissertation Director: Professor Marc Dolan
The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
Victoria Alexander
"Narrative Telos"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Sharon Lattig
"Lyric Experience: Science and Genre in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
Greg Erickson
"Reading in the Dark: Modernism and the Absence of God"
Dissertation Director: Professor Mary Ann Caws
The Grace Calder Dissertation Year Award
Harry Heuser
"Etherized Victorians: Narrative Drama and the American Radio Play, 1929-1954"
Dissertation Director: Professor David Richter
The Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Awards
Josh Gosciak
"Empire, Diaspora, and Claude McKay: The Making of a Public Intellectual"
Dissertation Director: Professor Jane Marcus
Michaelangelo Tata
"Andy Warhol: POMO, Pimp, Pop Tart, Meta-Star"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
Robert Kaplan
"Intimate Geographies: Male Homotextual Space in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Herman Melville"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
Maggie Nelson
"Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
Dissertation Year Fellowship
Jennifer Brown
"A Critical Edition of Commentary of MS Douce 114"
Dissertation Director: Professor Michael Sargent
Milton Brown Dissertation Fellowship
Christopher Iannini
"Fatal Revolutions: U.S. Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1714-1852"
Dissertation Director: Provost William Kelly
Jewish Foundation for Women Dissertation Fellowship
Deborah Lutz
"The Dangerous Lover and the Erotic Unknown: Victorian Byronism and the Mass-Market Romance"
Dissertation Director: Professor Eve Sedgwick
Newstead Dissertation Fellowship
Mark Noonan
"Reading The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893"
Dissertation Director: Professor Marc Dolan
Center for the Humanities Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship
Amy Leal
"Negative Capabilities: Keatsean Thresholds from Tennyson to Dryer"
Dissertation Director: Professor Morris Dickstein
Conviction Project 2002-2003 Fellowship
Elizabeth Toohey
"Contempoirary American Women Writers and the Idea of God"
Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy Miller
Center for Place, Culture and Politics Fellowships for participation in "Imperialism" seminar
Jamie Bianco
Ira Dworkin
Christopher Iannini
Cara Murray
Two-Year Humana Fellowship
Richard Perez