Past Prize Winners Social Science

Three Generations Prize for Writing in the Social Sciences: Past Prize Winners

2020-21

Maya Mau '25

Nothing About Us, Without Us: An Analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in Today's America
WRIT 163: Wealth and Poverty in America: an Economist's Perspective, Ann Velenchik (Writing & Economics)

2020-21

Maren Frye '23

Solitary Confinement Reform in California: A Case for the Executive Approach
SOC 211 Introduction to Criminology: The Idea of Crime, Matt Kaliner (Sociology)
 

Sofia Rubio '23
Phonetic and Phonoglogical Structures of Iberian Portuguese: An Accoustic Analysis
LING 240 The Sounds of Language, Angela Carpenter (Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences)

2019-2020

Alyssa Robins '22

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Wellesley: Making a Case for the Ethnographic Value of Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausing a Place in Paris   
ANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology, Justin Armstrong (Writing Program and Anthropology)

2018-2019

Angela Coco '19

The Powerful Mind is the Healthy Mind: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Representative Men (1850) and the History of Mental Health   
HIST 352: Mental Health in European History, Simon Grote (History)

2017-2018

Makiko Miyazaki '20

Victor or Victim: China's Different Narratives on the War of Resistance against Japan, Their Justifications, and Their Effects on Sino-Japanese Relations   
POL2 304: Nation-building and Nationalism in East Asia, Katharine Moon (Political Science)

2016-2017

Amy Johnson '17

Understanding the Authentic: A critical & empirical analysis of the complexities of authenticity   
SOC 304 Modernity & Social Change, Thomas Cushman (Sociology)

2015-2016

Alexis Zhang '16

Re-examining Immigration Politics: Huntington, Kymlicka, and the Role of Culture   
POL4 343 Seminar: Democracy & Difference, Joel Krieger

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