Dissertation Prizes * Dissertation-Year Awards * Graduate Center Awards
The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year:
Duncan Faherty
"'A Game of Architectural Consequences': The American House and the Formation of National Identity, 1776-1858"
Dissertation Director: Provost William Kelly
The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work:
Oona Frawley
"Irish Pastoral: Nature and Nostalgia in Irish Literature"
Dissertation Director: Professor Catherine McKenna
The Adrienne Auslander Munich Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Women's Writing:
Stephanie Oppenheim
"Spinning Their Wheels: Spinsters and Narrative in 18th and 19th century British Women's Fiction"
Dissertation Director: Professor Nancy Miller
The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature:
Adrian Wisnicki
"Towards Conspiracy Theory: Revolution, Terrorism and Paranoia From Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel"
Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys
The David Gordon Prizes for the Best Dissertations in 20th Century Studies:
Gloria Fisk
"Tragic Knowledge in Postmodern Novels"
Dissertation Director: Professor Louis Menand
Janine Utell
"Play for Moral Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction"
Dissertation Director: Professor Edward Epstein
The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture:
Kimberly Engber
"Intimate Observers: American Women Writers in an Ethnographic Tradition"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
The Thomas Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation in Poetry and Poetics:
Ann Hoff
"'This is my room': Modernist Women Poets' Self-Exposure"
Dissertation Director: Professor Wayne Koestenbaum
Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African-American Studies:
Josh Gosciak
"Between Diaspora and Internationalism: Claude McKay and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual"
Dissertation Director: Professor Jane Marcus
Dissertation-Year Awards
The Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Award
Jamie Bianco
"Technoscience Fictions: Catastrophe, Complexity, Control and Affect by Design"
Dissertation Directors: Professors Peter Hitchcock and Patricia Clough
The Townsend Harris Dissertation Year Fellowship
Cara Murray
"Monumental Dissolution: Victorians Representing the Suez Canal"
Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys
The Millennium Dissertation Year Award
Evan Brier
"Advertisements for Themselves: the 1950s American Novel and the Production of Belief"
Dissertation Director: Professor Louis Menand
The Grace Calder Dissertation Year Awards
Crystal Benedicts
"Spasmodic Bodies and Victorian Poetics: Reconsidering the Taint of Spasmodicism"
Dissertation Director: Professor Anne Humpherys
Kay Harel
"The Descent of Beauty: Its Causes and Consequent Characteristics"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
The Morton Cohen Dissertation Year Travel Awards
June Dunn
"Troubled Houses: Irish Women Writing the Great War"
Dissertation Director: Professor Jane Marcus
Andrea Knutson
"American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James"
Dissertation Director: Professor Joan Richardson
The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Awards for Service
Ann Wallace
"Inscribed in Skin: Gender, Trauma, and Marked Bodies"
Dissertation Year Fellowship
Jennifer Abeles
"John Dee's Brytanici Imperii Limites: A Scholarly Edition"
Dissertation Director: Professor Scott Westrem
Jewish Foundation for The Education of Women Dissertation Fellowship
Katherine Harris
"Women Writers, Literary Annuals, and Archives: Archiving the Textual Body, Authorial Identity and Bodily Subject in a Digital Structure"
Dissertation Director: Professor David Greetham
Center for the Humanities Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship
Mischa Edwards
"The Heroic Dividing Line: Mapping the Geography of Social Uplift in Contemporary African-American Literature"
Dissertation Director: Professor Robert Reid-Pharr
Center for Place, Culture and Politics Fellowships
for participation in "War" seminar
James Groom