The annual Undergraduate Humanities Prize is a $500 cash award to recognize exceptional achievement in a capstone project or senior paper.
Eligibility
This award is only available to CWRU undergradhumanities students. (Click here for a list of the humanities departments and majors at CWRU.)
Application Details
This year’s deadline is April 15, 2022.
All application materials must be submitted prior to 5:00 PM on this date.
To begin your application, complete the 2022 Humanities Prize Cover Sheet and submit it to bakernord@case.edu.
Recent Humanities Prize Winners
| Emily Belina (Art History ’22), “White Men, White Women, and a White Cockatoo: Eighteenth Century Gender and Race in “An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump” |
| Jillian White (Classics ’21), “Filial Anxiety in the Poems of Sulpicia” |
| Morgan McCommon (Art History ’21), “An Attack on Constantine: Vandalism in the 4th-century Frieze of the Arch of Constantine” |
| Brian Eckert (English ’20), “Dashiell Hammett’s Detectives as Plato’s Ideal Proletariat in Corrupt Capitalist America” |
| Elizabeth Hanna (International Studies and Religious Studies ’20), “The Religious Rhetoric of Othering: Julia Boutros and Lebanese Christian Support for Hezbollah” |
| Sierra Lipscomb (History ’19), “The Price of Black Power: Winston E. Willis and the Fight for Economic Self-Determination in Cleveland, 1960s – 1980s” |
| Ann Wang (English and Music ’18), “Transfering Performativity: Song and Class Mobility in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night“ |
| Cullin Brown (Philosophy ’17), “Thinking Like a Farm: Thoughts Towards an Ethos of Careful Construction” |
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Chloe Gellert (History ’16), “World War II and Today’s Refugee Crisis in Germany”
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| Francesca Langer (History ’16), “Republican Pastoral and Federalist Epic: A Mythology of the First Party System” |
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Jason Walsh (Philosophy ’15), “New Readings of Louis Althusser”
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| Derek Reinhold (Art History ’14), “Gods of Fire on the Parthenon: Helios and Hephaistos in the East Metopes” |