2011
Senior prize
Austin Shiner, ES ’11, Food Writing
Sophomore prize
Matthew Dernbach, TC ’13, The Experiences of War
Sophomore second prize
Thomas Burns, MC ’13, The Spark of Imagination
2010
Senior prize
Philip Gant, TC ’10, Korea: Art, History, and Culture
Senior honorable mention
William Alden, PC ’10, American Dramatic Literature after 1962: First, Second, and Autographed Editions
Jacob Liberman, PC ’10, Performance Studies
Sophomore prize
Kevin Adkisson, MC ’12, Yale: Collectors, Creators, and Conservators of Architecture
2009
Senior prize
Jessica Svendsen, MC ’09, Kara Walker; and Typography and Graphic Design (two collections)
Senior second prize
Rebecca Dinerstein, BK ’09, Irish Poetry: Rare, Local, and Autographed
Senior honorable mention
Jongwook "Wookie" Kim, ES ’09, Tea and Coffee
Sophomore prize
George Bogden, SM ’11, Visions of Statehood: The Poetry of Modern Kurdistan
Sophomore honorable mention
Elizabeth Palazzolo, SY ’11, Classical History, Civilization, and Literature
2008
Senior prize
John Mittermeier, DC ’08, ornithology
Senior honorable mention
Robert Nelb, TD ’08, health studies collection
Jeffrey Tierney, BK ’08, Tolkien’s Middle Earth
Sophomore prize
Basie Bales Gitlin, DC ’10, Canvassing Books: The Itinerant Book Trade and the Democratization of Book Ownership
Sophomore honorable mention
Kate Hawkins, SM ’10, history, literature, and life for American youth
2007
Senior prizes
Alexa Garvoille, TC ’07, bilingual Beckett collection
Temidayo Olopade, BC ’07, contemporary writing of the Black Atlantic
Senior honorable mention
Lila Neugebauer, ’07, contemporary American drama
Sophomore prize
Alexandra Marraccini, TD ’08, Forster-Auden-Isherwood: Six Degrees of Separation
Sophomore honorable mention
Lee Case Klippel, MC ’08, general
2006
Senior prize
Emily Kopley, BR ’06, Virginia Woolf
Senior runner-up prizes
Jessica Howell, SM ’06, sexuality
Chaitanya Mehra, DC ’06, India
Senior honorable mention
Andrew Stout, TC ’06, comic books and graphic novels
Sophomore prize
Mark Schneider, DC ’08, presidential autographed books
Sophomore honorable mention
Eric Ciaramella, TC ’08, foreign language and linguistic reference tools
Elizabeth Mata, PC ’08, Understanding and Alleviating Man’s
Impact on the Natural World
2005
Senior prize
Noa Wheeler, SY ’05, general library collection
Senior runner-up prizes
Alistair Anagnostou, TD ’05, adventure
William Tauxe, ES ’05, science fiction and related topics
Sophomore honorable mention
Benjamin Siegel, MC ’07, global vegetarian food
2004
Senior prize
Valerie Idehen, SY ’04, African-American literature
Senior runner-up prize
David Gorin, TC ’04, contemporary American poets
Senior honorable mention
Samantha Culp, TD ’04, twentieth-century arts and culture, both East and West
Joshua Foer, TC ’04, for his "Library of Wonders"
Sophomore honorable mention
Julian Darwall, SM ’06, collection on hoboes, itinerant workers, 1870 to
1940
Matthew McCarty, ES ’06, classical art and archaeology
2003
Senior prize
Xin Dong, TC ’03, Buddhist scripture
Senior honorable mention
Drew Baldwin, BK ’03, bartending guides
Dora Malech, TC ’03, signed books of contemporary poetry
Sophomore prize
Jason Farago, SM ’05, contemporary art and art theory
Sophomore honorable mention
Pablo Landa, BK ’05, Jorges Luis Borges
2002
Senior prize
Eugenie Brinkema, SY ’02, film criticism and theory
Senior honorable mention
Oana Marian, PC ’02, Anglo-Irish poetry
Sophomore prize
Samantha Culp, TD ’04, twentieth-century western arts and culture
Sophomore honorable mention
Strand Conover, DC ‘04, boxing
2001
Senior prize
Pamela Bookman, PC ’01, Isaac Babel
Senior runner-up prize
Sarah Parcak, TD ‘01, Egyptology
Senior honorable mention
Robert Giampietro, BK ’01, fine print design and typography
Isaac Meyers, BR ’01, zoology
Sophomore prize
Dora Malech, TC ’03, twentieth-century poetry
2000
Senior prize
Elizabeth Hazen, TC ’00, poetry
Senior runner-up prize
Alexis Jones, TC ’00, general collection with emphasis on poetry
Senior honorable mention
Katherine Lister, BK ’00, Oz books
Elizabeth-Rose Tufankjian, SY ’00, Irish history and politics
Sophomore honorable mention
Michael Boucai, TC ’02, ancient Egypt
Allyson Brundige, DC ’02, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century children’s
literature and illustration
1999
Senior prize
Anya Elizabeth Liftig, MC ’99, ballet and modern dance
Senior runner-up prize
Kalyanee Mam, MC ’99, Khmer Rouge regime and its effects on Cambodian society
today
Senior honorable mention
Daniel Kellum, SM ’99
Megan Luke, SM ’99
Tamara Sussman, TC ’99
Sophomore prize
Sarah Parcak, TD ’01, Egyptology
1998
Senior prize
Noel Poyo, MC ’98, general library collection
Senior runner-up prize
Joshua Levithan, BC ’98, books on military history
Senior honorable mention
Nicole Emmons, CC ’98, children’s literature before 1950
Dara Epstein, SM ’98, books on fashion and style
Sophomore prize
Joseph Furia, PC ’00, books on angling
Sophomore runner-up prize
Peter Eleey, TC ’00, artist’s books and contemporary exhibition catalogues
Sophomore honorable mention
Alexis Jones, TC ’00, general library
Jeremy Melius, BC ’00, books by Guy Davenport
1997
Senior prize
Timothy McCormick, ES ’97, graphic design and typography
Senior runner-up prize
Giovindini S. Murty, BK ’97, twentieth-century Canadiana
Senior honorable mention
Joel Burges, SY ’97, by and about Joyce Carol Oates
John M. James, MC ’97, Islam
Sophomore prizes
Melissa de la Cruz, TD ’99, China
Anya Elizabeth Liftig, MC ’99, George Balanchine
Sophomore honorable mention
Brian N. Garland, PC ’99, political philosophy, international relations, and world literature
1996
Senior prize
Joshua D. Chapman, BR ’96, first editions of twentieth-century fiction
Peter Morris, ES ’96, sexuality and gay studies
Senior honorable mention
Joseph Braude, CC ’96, Middle Eastern religious and intellectual history
Elizabeth Grandia, TC ’96, women and sustainable development
David Winickoff, DC ’96, history, poetry, and illustrated classics
Sophomore prize
Matthew Boudway, BR ’98, Catholic revival in English literature
Sophomore honorable mention
Daniel Ezra Johnson, BR ’98, books by Vladimir Nabokov
1995
Senior prize
Bilge Ebiri, DC ’95, film studies
Senior honorable mention
Graham Boettcher, PC ’95, Caspar David Friedrich and German romantic painting
Andrew Getman, ES ’95, Russian literature
Wendy Roth, DC ’95, New York history and architecture
Sophomore prize
James Prosek, BC ’97, trout and trout fishing
Sophomore honorable mention
Tim McCormick, ES ’97, literary theory
1994
Senior prize
Joseph Bray, TC ’94, apiarian literature
Senior honorable mention
Daniel Tauss, BR ’94, mineralogy specializing in North American gemstones
Sophomore honorable mention
Grant Felgenhauer, SY ’96, Russian literature in English and Russian
David Winickoff, DC ’96, illustrated hardbacks: poetry and classics
1993
Senior prize
Joseph V. Agostini, ES ’93, Christopher Morley
Senior honorable mention
Caitlin DeSilvey, BK ’93, nature writing
Miko MicGinty, JE ’93, letterpress printing
Sophomore prize
Wendy Roth, MC ’95, first and other editions of The Wizard of Oz
Sophomore honorable mention
Peter J. Morris, ES ’95, classical and modern literature
1992
Senior prize
Bill Johnson Gonzalez, PC ’92, Chicano literature
Senior honorable mention
Anna Levak, JE ’92, costume
Erin Leigh Shigaki, DC ’92, Asian American experience
Sophomore prize
Joseph Bray, TC ’94, bees and beekeeping
Sophomore honorable mention
Laurence Alexander, JE ’94, antiquarian books in literature and philosophy
1991
Senior prize
Joshua Katz, DC ’91, literature on India
Senior honorable mention
Alec Christensen, BK ’91, Native American studies
Matthew Gerber, DC ’91, obscure poetry
Sophomore prize
Joseph V. Agostini, ES ’93, Sherlock Holmes
Sophomore honorable mention
Gerald Garcia, ES ’93, law and human rights
1990
Senior prize
Brent Edwards, BR ’90, Afro-American literature
Senior honorable mention
Hosea Baskin, DC ’90, graphic arts
Matthew Henerson ’90, Shakespeare
Sophomore prize
Edward Liu, TD ’92, philosophy, mythology, and martial arts
1989
Senior prize
Jonathan Littell, BR ’89, twentieth-century literature
Senior honorable mention
Thomas W. Dowe, DC ’89, modern poetry
Sophomore prize
Joshua Katz, DC ’91, linguistics
1988
Senior prize
Alexander Platt, BK ’88, modern American literature
Sophomore prize
Khristaan Villela, MC ’90, Meso-American anthropology, art history, and archaeology
Sophomore honorable mention
William P. Connors, MC ’90, history, doctrine, scripture, and controversy of Mormonism
1987
Senior honorable mention
Timothy P. Hellmuth, PC ’87, baseball
Amor Towles, CC ’87, modern international fiction
Sophomore prize
Ivor B. Clark III, MC ’89, Agatha Christie
Sophomore honorable mention
Nancy C. Cohen, SM ’89, books for children predating 1950
1986
Senior prize
John Watkins, SY ’86, Black American autobiography, biography, literature, and history
Senior honorable mention
Jeffrey Kleeman, TC ’86, history, criticism, theory, and practice of film making
Leonard Picker, BK ’86, Sherlock Holmes canon
Sophomore honorable mention
Jonathan Leaf, BK ’88, modern American literature
1985
Senior prize
Sophie Gilmartin, SM ’85, Celtic art and literature
Senior honorable mention
Richard Mickerson, SY ’85 American architecture
Sophomore prize
David Keck, TD ’87, medieval studies
Sophomore honorable mention
Adam LeBow, JE ’87, theater
1984
Senior prize
Victor Caston, DC ’84, filed on philosophy
Sophomore prize
Jacob Weisberg, TD ’86, Upton Sinclair
Sophomore honorable mention
Stuart Patterson, SM ’86, William Shakespeare
1983
Senior prize
Eric Ceputis, CC ’83, design work of John Vassos
Senior honorable mention
Geofrey Wyatt, PC ’83, collection of Edith Wharton
Sophomore honorable mention
Mary Hess, CC ’85, general literature
1982
Senior prize
Mariuz J. Mazurek, BK ’82, Polish history and literature
Senior honorable mention
Catherine M. Shook, DC ’82, design work of John Vassos
Sophomore prize
Mark Evan Temares, MC ’84, modern library books
Sophomore honorable mention
Margaret F. Thomas, ES ’84, The End of the Affair and the end of the novel
1981
Senior prize
Denise Yuspeh, MC ’81, women's studies
Senior honorable mention
Douglas Evan Hersh, SY ’81, religious mysticism, East and West
Sophomore prize
Nelson Craig Lee, JE ’83, early French and Iberian keyboard music
Sophomore honorable mention
Eric Caputis, CC ’83, applied arts of the 1920s and 1930s
Geofrey Wyatt, PC ’83, Edith Wharton
1980
Senior prize
Brian Nelson, BK ’80, Marvel and DC comic books
Senior honorable mention
Ross H. Frank, TD ’80, early Netherlandish painting
David M. Madrid, CC ’80, Latin American literature
Sophomore prize
Gerald D. Ettkind, DC ’82, science fiction/Harley Ellison
Sophomore honorable mention
James Madden, CC ’82, pure and applied botany
1979
Senior prize
David S. Rose, PC’79, art of the book
Senior honorable mention
Robert S. Burton, TC ’79, early American architecture and furnishings
Sophomore prize
Vincent R. Peterson, JE ’81, Afro-American literature
Sophomore honorable mention
Emily Rose, BK ’81, Shakespeare, with particular attention to Shakespeare on stage
1978
Senior prize
Katherine Morrissey, PC ’78, American popular children's series, from Oliver Optic to the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Sophomore prize
Rueben Aguilera, DC ’80, phenomenology and existential philosophy
Sophomore honorable mention
Ross H. Frank, TD ’80, early Netherlandish painting
1977
Senior prize
William S. Reese, SM ’77, American bibliography
Senior honorable mention
John R. Block, SM ’77, journalism history and newspaper publishing
Jennifer Ann Alttin, JE ’77, illustrated books
Sophomore prize
Robert Cruz, DC ’79, Frank L. Baum’s "Oz" books
Sophomore honorable mention
Robert Stewart Burton, TC ’79, architecture and interior furnishing
1976
Senior prize
Martha Gerson, BR ’76, illustrated children's books
Senior honorable mention
David Elliot Pollens, TC ’76, modern American poetry
Sophomore prize
James F. Clark, SM ’78, American musical theater libretti
Sophomore honorable mention
Jessica G. Gordon, MC ’78, literature
1975
Senior prize
John Henry Friedman, SM ’75, arts
Senior honorable mention
James Gilchrist, BK ’75, literature, religion, and philosophy
Einar Robert Pettrson, BK ’75, Western European tradition of visual art
Sophomore prize
William S. Reese, SM ’77, Western Americana: works of Audubon
Sophomore honorable mention
Theresa Louise Fairbanks, JE ’77, Arts and Crafts movement
William E. Watkins, JE ’77, China
1974
Senior prize
Clifford Ross, ES ’74, books, papers, and illustrations related to the works of Edward Gorey
Senior honorable mention
Prassede Calabi, TD ’74, folk and fairy tales
John B. Clayton, PC ’74, American poetry and fiction, 1900-1974
Peter C. Diamond, DC ’74, modern Summer Olympic games
Steven E. Hyman, BK ’74, philosophy
Sophomore prize
James Daniel Kinney, BK ’76, English literature and criticism
Sophomore honorable mention
Andrew Rosenheim, JE ’76, modern American and English poetry
1973
Senior prize
W. Graham Arader III, SY ’73, the care and study of maps and charts
Sophomore prize
Patrick McEntee, TC ’75, recent poetry
1972
Senior prize
Robert Paul Masland III, SY ’72, Jack Kerouac and American literature since 1950
Senior honorable mention
Jan A. Stevenson, TC ’72, literature on firearms
Burr Thomas, TD ’72, urban mass rapid transit
Sophomore prize
John B. Clayton, PC ’74, American poetry, 1900-1972
Sophomore honorable mention
James Lee, DC ’74, literature on China
1971
Senior prize
Everard H. Smith III, TD ’71, literature on the Civil War
Senior honorable mention
H. E. Anthony Duncan, BR ’71, theoretical physics
Sophomore prize
Casimir T. Farley, ES ’73, English literature and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Sophomore honorable mention
Michael Vlahos, DC ’73, ships and oceanic history
1970
Senior prize
Mark Dementi Kaplanoff, SM ’70
Senior honorable mention
David Matthews Schoffer, SM ’70
Mark Daniel Tomasco, TC ’70
Sophomore prize
Charles Duncan Miller III, TC ’72
Sophomore honorable mention
Tyson Dines III, BK ’72
1969
Senior prize
Robert J. DeLorenzo, PC ’69
Senior honorable mention
Timothy Claude Weiskel, BK ’69
William Graniss Tankoos, Jr., TD ’69
Sophomore prize
Matthew David Gold, DC ’71
1968
Senior prize
Armstead Louis Robinson, MC ’68
Sophomore prize
Mark Dementi Kaplanoff, SM ’70
1967
Senior prize
Paul M. Whitbeck, BK ’67
Senior honorable mention
Timothy A. Mossman, ES ’67
David A. Richards, DC ’67
Sophomore prize
George M. De Voe, ES ’69
Sophomore honorable mention
Christopher C. Hoffman, JE ’69
Peter W. Holmes, BR ’69
Edward T. Veal, BK ’69
1966
Senior prize
Michael T. Dalby, DC ’66
Sophomore prize
Richard L. Dutton, BK ’68
1965
Senior prize
Thomas Rodd, Jr., ES ’65
Senior honorable mention
William A. Turnage, DC ’65
Sophomore prize
David A. Richards, DC ’67
1964
Senior prize
William Jay Kridel, TC ’64
Senior honorable mention
John Battista, BK ’64
Peter C. M. S. Braun, BK ’64
Darrell Richard, TC ’64
Sophomore prize
Stephen Charles Magowan, BK ’66
1963
Senior prize
Peter C. Maffit, CC ’63
Sophomore prize
Peter C. M. S. Braun, BK ’65
1962
Senior prize
Thomas Kimball Brooker, SY ’62
1961
Senior prize
Jared Charles Lobdell, SY ’61
Sophomore prize
Alan Bruce Magary, BR ’63
1960
Senior prize
Anthony D. Knerr, TD ’60
Sophomore prize
Peter L. Gardiner, DC ’62
1959
Senior prize
Reeve Schley, JE ’59
1958
Senior prize
Leland Littlefield McCoy, DC ’58
Sophomore prize
D. E. Wagner, SY ’60