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
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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