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Student Awards and Achievements

Each year, the department awards several prizes, including the Carson Webster Prize for best departmental honors thesis, an annual prize for the best paper in a 200-level course, and an annual prize for the most outstanding junior major.

Past recipients include:

Best 200-Level Paper Prize

2011

Ellie (Jennifer) Graham

Outstanding Junior Prize

2011

Matt Kluk
Kerry Bickford

Carson Webster Prize

2011

Kristin Leasia, "The Emergence of Nurse and Guardian Images in Ancient Egyptian Royal Funerary Art: Some Connections to Dynasty 18 Pharaonic Legitimacy and the Hathor Cult"
and
Sophia Mancall-Bitel, "In Search of Los Angeles: Myths, Movies and Maps in the Work of Ed Ruscha"

2010

Elliot Reichert, "Unretractable Social Marks: The Critical Spatial Practice of Street Art"
and
Jennifer Wong, "Reinventing the Ancient: the Transforming Female Figures of the Twentieth Century Painter Zhang Daqian"

2009

Jessica Davidson, "Candidates for Admiration: Identity and Display in the Art of London's Public Parks, 1750 - 1800"
and
Viktoriya Kamara, "Extending Discourse on Soviet Art 1920's -1930's: The Career of Ekaterina Zernova"

2007

Amanda Wasielewski, "From the Urban Dérive to the Internet Drive: Detteritorialized Capitalism in the Guise of a Digital Utopia"

2005

Darrah Doyle, "HIV/AIDS Is Our Concern: An Examination of a Work by Artists of the Chivirika Self-Help Embroidery Project"
and
Lauren Wright, "Time-based to Time-bearing: Temporality in Recent Film and Video Art"

2004

Alison Goldstein, "Dürer versus Raimondi: A Claim of Ownership"

2003
David Peterson, "National Endowment for the Arts v. Karen Finley: Understanding U.S. Government Arts Funding Amidst Controversy, Political Warfare and Ideological Clashes"

2002

Dana Atlagic, "Perpetuating Inequalities: A Look at Happenings Through Gendered Criticism"

2001

Brook Crowley, "Compassionate Orientalism: Théodore Chassériau's Arab Horsemen Carrying away Their Dead, 1850"

1999

Anju Shivaram,"'Imagined' Femininities: The Chinese Calendar Woman as National Symbol"
and
David Mullet, "Etats Secondaires in Czech Symbolist and Surrealist Art"