The Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prizes
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.
Class of 2015 Prizewinners
Megan Kennedy '15
"Commodities, Gifts, and the Fragmented Social in HeLa Cells"
Yessica Martinez '15
"Mastiklo: Creation of Testimony in The Drowned and the Saved"
Eu Na Noh '15
"Representing Trauma and the Erased History of the Holocaust: The Combination of Realism and Magical Realism in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated"
Max Simchowitz '15
“The Invisible Brand: Critiques of Consumer Empowerment and Consumption-Driven ‘Identity Building’ in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ Campaign”
Class of 2014 Prizewinners
Lorenzo James Fuchs McClellan '14
“Back to the Future: Radical Appeals to the Past in Defenses of Regicide”
Joel Newberger '14
"Trauma and ‘You’: The Second-Person in Tolstoy’s ‘Sevastopol in December’”
Luke Paulsen '14
"Non-Darwinian Plots and The Time Machine"
Gabriel Peterson '14
“The Musical Avant-Garde and Cardew’s Marxism”
Class of 2013 Prizewinners
David Asker '13
"'Here is a Fire lit, that rages mighty far'" Causes of the Dalarna Witch Craze in a Top-Down Perspective"
Joseph P. Dexter '13
"The Aeneid in Modern American and the State of the Classics in Late Nineteenth Century America"
Abby Levene '13
"Meet Me in St. Louis and Stay There: A Challenge to Gender Tranquility"
Jake Nebel '13
"'Then, what is white?' A Critique of the Colorblind Constitution"
Stephanie Y. Tam '13
"Beginnings"
Class of 2012 Prizewinners
Laura Bagamery ’12
“Grays’ Anatomy: Lysistrata, Gender Wars, and the Elderly”
Madelon Case ’12
“Suburban Ridesharing: A New Mission for TriMet”
Jason Kaplan ’12
“MS as Metaphor: Nerves, Nature, and Identity in Hilary and Jackie”
Lucas Manuelli ’12
“Scientists and Their Voice in the Manhattan Project: The Met-Lab and Los Alamos”
Brandon D. Podmayersky ’12
“The Spore Controversy: Consumer Ideology in the Anti-Digital Rights Management Movement and How It Has Influenced Our Perception of Digital Goods”
Jonathan Sarnoff ’12
“Like the Israelites in Egypt: Investigating the Causes of the Spanish Inquisition”
Evan Warner ’12
“Inquisitorial Design and Organization in the Tribunal of New Spain”
Angela Wu ’12
“Review of Factory Girl in the style of The New Yorker”
Jennifer Wu ’12
“Sex and Miscegenation for Children: Removing Audience Polarization of ‘Goblin Market’”
Jessica Yao ’12
“Rage Against the Machine: D. B. Cooper and the Construction of an American Hero”
Class of 2011 Prizewinners
Aku Ammah-Tagoe ’11
“Identity is Resemblance: Constructing the Self in Contemporary Memoir”
Raymond J. Brusca ’11
“The Patronizing Partner: Desdemona’s Racist Pity for Othello”
Sophie C. Jin ’11
“The Labor of Love: Self-Sacrifice and Individualism in a Chinese-American Family”
Zofia A. Rokicki ’11
“The Interrogator’s Dilemma: The Perceived Legality of Torture”
Andrew L. Saraf ’11
“Kuhn and the History of Science: The Challenge of Verification”
Allison L. Shea ’11
“Well-Founded Fears: A Proposal to Include Gender in the UN Definition of ‘Refugee’”
Lova L. Sun ’11
“Naming the Vagina: Eve Ensler’s Subversion of Sexual Stereotypes in The Vagina Monologues”
Class of 2010 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"
Class of 2009 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"
Class of 2008 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"
Class of 2007 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"
Class of 2006 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"
Class of 2005 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"
Varun Phadke '05
"Testing Normality as a Criterion for Genetic Enhancement"
