A prize of $300 is awarded annually to the writer of the best graduate student research paper. Recipient is selected from nominations made by the faculty. Any paper written for any 6000- to 7000-level course or presented as a Master’s paper or independent research paper is eligible. Award is announced in spring.
Previous Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Directed by | Title of Paper | |||
| 2017 | Colleen Kron | Tom Hawkins | "Prometheus Bound in a Sicilian Performance Context" | |||
| 2016 | Marcus Ziemann | Carolina López-Ruiz | "The Drowned God: Are Melicertes and Melgart Identical?" | |||
| 2013 | Alice Gaber | Bruce Heiden | "The Light Ambiguous: Reading the Second Stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone" | |||
| 2012 | Laura Marshall | Julia Nelson Hawkins | "Venus, Apollo, and Augustus: The Iapyx Scene of Aeneid 12" | |||
| 2011 | Gabriel Fuchs | Tom Hawkins | "Parasitic paradrama in Plato's Symposium" | |||
| 2011 | Aaron Palmore | Richard Fletcher | "Shades of Sappho in Horace's Odes: Book, Poetry, and Persona" | |||
| 2010 | Sarah Dubina | Richard Fletcher | "Of Parrots and Popinjays: Finding the Philosopoher in Apuleius' Florida 12" | |||
| 2009 | Hanne Eisenfeld | -- | -- | |||
| 2008 | Katarzyna Jazdzweska | Anthony Kaldellis | "Hagiographic Adventure: Niketas and his Life of Theoktiste" | |||
| 2006 | Christopher Bungard | Bruce Heiden | "Looking Toward the Future" | |||
| 2005 | Dennis Duncan | Anthony Kaldellis | "An Examination of Sepulchral Epigrams from the Cycle of Agathias" | |||
| 2004 | Aikaterina Ladianou | Victoria Wohl | "Legalizing desire: women, law, and history in Isaeus and Antiphon" | |||
| 2003 | Aikaterina Ladianou | Bruce Heiden | "The Poetics of Gaster: Food and Poetry in Hesiod" | |||
| 2002 | Michael Magree | June Allison | "Tacitus and Memoria: Philosophy and the Morals of an Historian" | |||
| 2001 | Gregory Hodges | June Allison | "Public and Private: Alcibiades' Paradox" | |||
| 2000 | Gillian McIntosh | Bruce Heiden | "Allegory in Hesiod's Works and Days" | |||
| 1999 | Bart Huelsenbeck | Stephen Tracy | "Evidence for Apragmones in Perikles' Speeches" | |||
| 1998 | Gillian McIntosh | William Batstone | "Eating Tortilla Tables: A Discussion of the Actions and Reactions to Prophesy and Text within the Aeneid" | |||
| 1997 | Jack Emmert | Sarah Iles Johnston | "Summoning the Magician" | |||
| 1996 | Peter Nani | Bruce Heiden | "Apollo in the Iliad" | |||
| 1995 | Robert Gallagher | Kathryn Morgan | "Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Agon in and over Electra 518-44" | |||
| 1994 | Rod Boyer | Jane Snyder | "Like Unto Goddesses: Sappho Fragment 96V" | |||
| 1993 | Paul Iversen | Kathryn Morgan | "Pindar's Program of Many Themes in a Short Poem" | |||
| 1992 | Poulheria Kyriakou | Nancy Andrews | "Empedoclean Echoes in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica" | |||
| 1991 | Stephanie Winder | Thomas Rosenmeyer | "The Independent Voice of the Chorus in Sophocles' Electra" | |||
| 1990 | Richard Freed | Frank Coulson | "One Moment in Time: Orphism and Encomium in Pindar's Second Olympian Ode" | |||
| 1989 | Stavros Frangoulidis | Carl Schlam | "Tacitus, Plutarch and Suetonius on the Death of Galba" | |||
| 1987 | Artemis Leontis | John Vaughn | "On the Rhetorical Status of 'Autonomous' Law: A Response to Bruce Frier" |