2020 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: Sharon Mathew

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

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

The ESTELLE M. ALLISON PRIZE
For excellence in literature
Winner: Maya Sibul

The WILLIAM HALLER PRIZE
Awarded annually by the Barnard English Department to a graduating senior for excellence in the study of English literature
Winners: Harrison Gale, Aydan Shah, Jadie Stillwell

The W. CABELL GREET PRIZE
To a major for excellence in English
Winners: Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman, Grace Hargis, Ana Lam

The ES CARRIGAN PRIZE
For graduate work in English
Winners: Michelle Chow, Nia Judelson (BC'18), Alexandra Gluckman

The SIDNEY MINER POETRY PRIZE
To a senior major who has shown distinction in the reading, writing, and study of poetry
Winners: Sarah Barlow-Ochshorn, Shelby Hettler

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

The STAINS-BERLE MEMORIAL PRIZE IN ANGLO-SAXON
For excellence in Anglo-Saxon language and literature
Winner: Ruth Kornblatt-Stier

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: Baila Eisen

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

The LENORE MARSHALL BARNARD PRIZES
In prose and poetry

• Prose winners: Michelle Chow, Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman
   
• Poetry winners:
  First Place: Siri Gannholm
  Second Place: Hanna Dobroszycki
  Third Place: Alison Rosenberg
  Honorable Mentions: CJ Strauss, Mya Nunnally

The HELEN PRINCE MEMORIAL PRIZE
For excellence in dramatic composition 
Winner: Phanesia Pharel

The HOWARD M. TEICHMANN WRITING PRIZE
To a graduating senior for work distinguished in its originality of concept and excellence of execution 
Winners: Jenna Bryant, Hana Rivers, Maya Sibul

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: Caitlin McCormick
• Second Place: Hana Rivers
• Third Place: Michelle Chow, Jaya Subrahmanyan, Isabelle Robinson, Simone Shah

The HELENE SEARCY PULS PRIZE
For the best poem in an annual student competition
Winners: Shelby Hettler, Mya Nunnaly, Alison Rosenberg

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

• First Place: Victoria Arancio
• Second Place: Greta Zorn
• Third Place: Carla Melaco

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