2019 Winners of Barnard English Department Student Prizes

A special congratulations to Eleanor Stern for winning a Fulbright scholarship to Bulgaria!

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 ALENA WELS HIRSCHORN PRIZE
For a graduating senior major in Economics with a preference for a student who has a strong interest in English literature and/or pursuing a career in journalism
Winner: Ankita Acharya

THE SCHWIMMER PRIZE
For an outstanding graduating senior in the humanities who exemplifies a scholarly commitment to the humanist tradition
Winner: Perry Levitch

ANNETTE KAR BAXTER MEMORIAL PRIZE
For a member of the Junior Class in any field who has distinguished themselves (on a paper or project) in the study of some aspect of women's experience
Winner: Aydan Shahd

The ESTELLE M. ALLISON PRIZE
For excellence in literature
Winner: Loie Plautz

The WILLIAM HALLER PRIZE
Awarded annually by the Barnard English Department to a graduating senior for excellence in the study of English Literature
Winners: Juliana Kaplan, Claire Phillips, Sara Samuel, Leah Schwartz

The W. CABELL GREET PRIZE
To a major for excellence in English
Winner: Eleanor Stern

The ES CARRIGAN PRIZE
For graduate work in English
Winners: Sylvia Korman (BC'18), Sophia Richards (BC'18)

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

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

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: Sara Samuel

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

The LENORE MARSHALL BARNARD PRIZES
In prose and poetry

• Prose winners: Hayley Tillet, Allison Yeh
   
• Poetry winners: 
  First Place: Jade Levine, Mya Nunnally 
  Second Place: Perry Levitch
  Third Place: Radhika Shah
  Honorable Mentions: Eleanor Botomon, Charlotte Rauner, Leah Schwartz, Johanna Zwirner

The SIDNEY MINER POETRY PRIZE
To the senior major who has shown distinction in the reading, writing, & study of poetry 
Winner: Perry Levitch

The HELEN PRINCE MEMORIAL PRIZE
For excellence in dramatic composition 
Winner: Brooke Henzell

The HOWARD M. TEICHMANN WRITING PRIZE
To a graduating senior for work distinguished in its originality of concept and excellence of execution 
Winners: Carolina Gonzalez, Eden Gordon, Claire Phillips, Veronica Suchodolski

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

• 1st Place:  Spencer George
• 2nd Place: Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman, Veronica Suchodolski
• 3rd Place: Eden Gordon, Johanna Zwirner
• Honorable mentions: Mo Crist, Brooke Henzell, Allison Yeh

The HELENE SEARCY PULS PRIZE
For the best poem in an annual student competition
Winners: Jade Levine, Perry Levitch, Mya Nunnally, Radhika Shah

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  

• 1st Place: Andrew Fedorov
• 2nd Place: Isabelle Stromberg
• 3rd Place: Lyric Bowditch

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