The Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prizes

Overview

The Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prizes are awarded annually for the best essays produced in Writing Seminars.

The prize is named after Quin Morton, a Princeton alumnus whose family created an endowment to support undergraduate writing at Princeton.

2006-07 Prizewinners

Marguerite B. Colson '10, "A Brothel at Belmont: Portia’s Use of Sexual Wit in The Merchant of Venice"

Rachel E. Dunn '10, "Francis Drake: For Whom the Sea Dog Heels"

Benjamin F. Farkas '10, "A Victim of the Injustice, Not of Men, But of Laws"

Daniel E. Rauch '10, "Introspective Heroism"

Danielle H. Rochlin '10, "Robert Rauchenberg: An 'American' Artist?"

Sara R. Shaw '10, "'What should a man do but be merry?' (3.2.112-13): Wit and Attack in Hamlet"

Emily M. Silk '10, "Redeeming Oscar Wilde: Transformation of the Homosexual Role in English Sexology"

Brittany A. Urick, '10, "Beyond Two Infinites"

Josephine C. Wolff '10, "The Morals of the Murals: The Overlapping Legacies of Bruno Schulz"

Changqing Christopher Xu '10, "A Special Case in Asylum Determination"

2005-06 Prizewinners

Katherine M. Brandwood '09, "The Parallel of Paternal Decline: Tony Last and the Descent of Empire"

Susan V. Butler '09, "Nineteenth-Century Prostitutes: Objects or Opportunists?"

Jessica L. Frey '09, "NAGPRA and the Repatriation Debate: 'Burning' Mankind's History in the Name of 'Cultural Affiliation'?"

Chenxin Jiang ‘09, "'Wretched, rash, intruding fool': The Eavesdropper in Hamlet"

Paavana L. Kumar '09, "'The clock was striking': Septimus' Death as a Catalyst for Progression in Mrs. Dalloway"

Fiona R. Miller '09, "From Sexology to Shape: Reading Between the Lines in Rodin's Lesbian Drawings"

Ira D. Posen '09, "Aboriginal Justice and Alternative Sentencing in Canada: The Equality of Separate Treatment"

Richard C. Sgalardi '09, "Re: Genetically Engineered Foods"

William P. Sullivan '09, "'The mould of form': Structure and Oppression in Shostakovich's Music for Hamlet"

2004-05 Prizewinners

Larisa K. Baste '08, "Hysteria and the 'Woman Question': Angel or Vamp(ire)?"

Mackenzie C. Bushy '08, "'Full of Nonsense and Stuff': The Perception of the Novel in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey"

Mallory G. James '08, "Temporality Reified: Academic and Aesthetic Value in the Garrett-Gates Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts"

Brett T. Masters '08, "Behind Picasso's 'Boy with a Pipe'"

Zachary A. Squire '08, "Cromwell's Crusade"

Townsend R. Wells '08, "Laughing Down Tragedy: Transformations of Humor, Satire, and Irony After 9/11"

Sarah K. Zaslow '08, "'For the Sake of the Greater Good of Human Freedom': An Argument for Discontinuing the Norplant Program"

2003-04 Prizewinners

Dana Berkowitz '07, "Taming Casanova: Theseus as the Ideal Male Lover in A Midsummer Night’s Dream"

Laura Boyce '07, "Preserving Western Classics v. Promoting Multiculturalism: Mutually Exclusive Goals?"

Tamara Broderick '07, "Transition from Animal Origins"

John Chapman '07, "The Future Consequences of Historical Analysis"

Robert Chong '07, "The New Boston Tea Party: Drug Price Discrimination and the Importation Movement"

Zuhair Khandker '07, "Atypical Response to Decline: Bourgeois Redemption of Aristocracy in Stoker’s Dracula"

Lester Mackey '07, "Coping Strategies, Counterforces, and Failed Connections: An Analysis of the Variation of Cultural Opposition Theory"

Alexis Neuhaus '07, "Hell on Earth"

E. Glen Weyl '07, "The Kinaidos: Sexual and Political Deviance in Ancient Athens"

Joseph Zipkin '07, "Antichrist and Antinihilist: The Inevitable Demise of Tradition in Nietzsche and Kafka"

2002-03 Prizewinners

Robert Brown '06, "The Blood on Britain's Hands: Bloody Sunday and British Law"

Ayan Chatterjee '06, "'Pray you, love, remember': Rosemary for Remembrance in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet"

Colin Fuller '06, "Solitude and the Scientist"

Chana Landes '06, "Representing the Other: Western Museums and African Art"

2001-02 Prizewinners

Ananya Chakravarti '05, "Museum Marriages: Spreading the Seed of Survival"

Heather Gilmartin '05 "Horse Sense: Are Equines Intelligent?"

Travis Muir '05, "Ambition Also Rises: The Subversion of Social Aims to Personal Ambitions in Havel's Czechoslovakia"