The Library Congratulates Our 2007 Student Winners!

14th Annual Paul LeClerc Competition for Best Research Papers

This competition is divided into three categories, with Barnes & Noble gift certificates of $100 for First Prize and $50 for Second Prize in each category.

100-level Category

1st Prize

Kathy-Ann Joseph, A Village within a Village: Life in a Greewich Village Alley. Submitted by Prof. Bernadette McCauley. CHC 150: People of New York City.
 

2nd Prize Olivia Lin, Greenwich Villagers and their Impact on the Women's Trade Union League of New York.
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ubmitted by Prof. Bernadette McCauley.
CHC 150: People of New York City.
 

Undergraduate Category

1st Prize

Vadim Divilov , Climate Change and Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.
Submitted by Prof. Shirley Raps. BIOL 250: Current Topics in the Biosciences.

 

2nd Prize Sarah Lippek , Pronatalism, Eugenics, and the Politics of Motherhood in Weimar Germany.
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ubmitted by Prof. Benjamin Hett.
HIST 384: Problems in European History.
 

Graduate Category

1st Prize

Daniel Werges, The Other Dual Diagnosis: Intellectual Disability & Mental Illness.
Submitted by Prof. Elizabeth Danto. SSW 713: Child and Adult Psychopathology.

 

2nd Prize Alisha Chipman, The New York Public Library's Album of Photographs of Japan: 19th Century Tourist Photography in Japan.
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ubmitted by Prof. Maria Pelizzari.
ARTH 780: Special Topics in Art.
 

 

The Charlotte Katz Millenson Competition

This competition, sponsored by The Friends of Hunter College Library, is divided into two categories, with Barnes & Noble gift certificates of $100 for First Prize and $50 for Second Prize.

Undergraduate

1st Prize

Sally Hassan, for her essay on Sonny's Blues, by James Baldwin.
 

2nd Prize Kristen De Leon, for his essay on Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich.
 

Graduate

1st Prize

Shira Isenberg, for her essay on Sweet Charity? Emergency Food & the End of Entitlement, by Janet Poppendieck.
 

2nd Prize Barbara Andrews, for her essay on A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry, by David A. Kessler.