2022 Winners of Barnard English Department Student Prizes

Each year, the English Department awards named prizes to a few English majors in recognition of their scholarship and accomplishments. The prizes requiring writing submissions are open to those not majoring in English as well.

THE ALPHA ZETA CLUB GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
For promise of distinction in the pursuit of higher degrees. Particularly for students entering the professions.
Winner: Meredith Phipps

GEORGE WELWOOD MURRAY GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
For promise of distinction in graduate study in the humanities and/or the social sciences.
Winner: Audrey Pettit

THE ETHEL STONE LEFRAK PRIZE
Awarded to a student for excellence in a field of the arts, including, but not limited to, art history, music theory, architecture, and the performing arts.
Winner: Sophie Poole

ANNETTE KAR BAXTER MEMORIAL PRIZE
Awarded to a member of the Junior Class in any field who has distinguished herself (on a paper or project) in the study of some aspect of women's experience.
Winner: Dariya Subkhanberdina

The ESTELLE M. ALLISON PRIZE
For excellence in literature
Winner: Joanna Gao

The WILLIAM HALLER PRIZE
Awarded annually by the Barnard English Department to a graduating senior for excellence in the study of English literature
Winners: Emma Breber, Michaela Fleischer, Mira Kittner, Julia Tong

The W. CABELL GREET PRIZE
To a major for excellence in English
Winners: Kena Chavva, Mallory Evans, Uma Halstad, Meredith Phipps

The ES CARRIGAN PRIZE
For graduate work in English
Winners: Mathilde Nielsen ('21), Audrey Pettit

The SIDNEY MINER POETRY PRIZE
To a senior major who has shown distinction in the reading, writing, and study of poetry
Winners: Ana Comas-Short, Temi George, Isabelle Robinson

The SAINT AGATHA-MURIEL BOWDEN MEMORIAL PRIZE
For superior proficiency in the study of Chaucer and Medieval literature
Winner: Connie Crighton

The STAINS-BERLE MEMORIAL PRIZE IN ANGLO-SAXON
For excellence in Anglo-Saxon language and literature
Winner: Alexandra Aguirre

The DORIS E. FLEISCHMAN PRIZE
For the student at Barnard judged by the Faculty of the English Department to have written the best short piece, fiction or non-fiction 
Winner: Jewels Tauzin

The AMY LOVEMAN MEMORIAL FUND PRIZE
For the best original poem by a Barnard undergraduate 
Winner: Meredith Phipps

The LENORE MARSHALL BARNARD PRIZES
In prose and poetry

• Prose winners: Delia Anderson-Colson, Sophia Jao
   
• Poetry winners:
  First Place: Olivia Treynor
  Second Place: Victoria Cadostin, Charlotte Wadsworth
  Honorable Mentions: Melissa Marie Wang, Willa Neubauer, Nithya Swaminathan, Vanessa Tasé Sueiro

The HELEN PRINCE MEMORIAL PRIZE
For excellence in dramatic composition 
Winner: Sophie Poole

The HOWARD M. TEICHMANN WRITING PRIZE
To a graduating senior for work distinguished in its originality of concept and excellence of execution 
Winners: Tristen Pasternak, Brigid Cromwell, Lily Parker, Avigail Borah

Awarded by Outside Judges:

The PETER S. PRESCOTT PRIZE FOR PROSE WRITING
For a work of prose fiction which gives the greatest evidence of creative imagination and sustained ability

• First Place: Meg Young
• Second Place: Tristen Pasternak
• Third Place: Olivia Treynor
• Honorable Mentions: Frankie Fierro, Sophia Jao, Isobel Obrecht, Lara Smith

The HELENE SEARCY PULS PRIZE
For the best poem in an annual student competition
Winners: Temi George, Ana Comas-Short, Isabelle Robinson, Charlotte Wadsworth

Judged by Departmental Committee:

The BURNS SOCIETY PRIZE
Awarded to three Barnard or Columbia students who write the best papers on topics related to the poetry of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Burns

NONE THIS YEAR

The BRANDT PLAYWRITING AWARD
To the student who writes the most promising one-act play
Winner: Janvi Sai