Class of 2021 Prizes and Fellowships
June 12, 2021
Based on a list provided by the dean’s office.
Prizes
John Sabin Adriance, Class of 1882, Prize in Chemistry:
Wyndom Chace
Charles R. Alberti, Class of 1919, Award:
Matan Levine-Janach
Robert G. Barrow Memorial Prize for Music Composition:
Meredith Hough Deane
Olga R. Beaver Memorial Prize in Mathematics:
Kimberly Hadaway
The Erastus C. Benedict, Class of 1821, Prize in Biology:
Manting Xu (First Prize) and Erin Courville (Second Prize)
The Erastus C. Benedict, Class of 1821, Prize in French:
Lindsay Avant and Daniel Tran
The Erastus C. Benedict, Class of 1821, Prize in History:
William Abersek (First Prize) and Rebecca Tauber (Second Prize)
Gaius C. Bolin, 1889, Prize in Africana Studies:
Bret Hairston
Russell H. Bostert Thesis Prize in History:
Rebecca Tauber
Kenneth L. Brown, Class of 1947, Prize in American Studies:
Audrey Koh
Sterling A. Brown, Class of 1922, Citizenship Prize:
Shadae McClean
Marriott Canby, Class of 1891, Athletic Scholarship Prize:
Wyndom Chace
The Chaplains’ Prize for Commitment to and Excellence in Inter-Faith Engagement and Service:
Rosa Kirk-Davidoff and Shreyam Misra
Chuzi-Ianniello Prize in Psychology:
Matan Levine-Janach
Class of 1925 Scholar-Athlete Award:
Brianna Bourne and Gwyneth Maloy
The James Bronson Conant and Nathan Russell Harrington, Class of 1893, Prize in Biology:
Ben Maron
Cultivating Community Award:
Angel Ibarra
Robert Dalzell Thesis Prize in History:
Zoë Fisher and Emma Larson
Doris deKeyserlingk Prize in Russian:
Emma Larson
Dewey Prize:
Virginia Marr
Garrett Wright DeVries, Class of 1932, Memorial Prize in Romance Languages:
Morgan Nelson
Jean Donati Student Employee Award in Music:
Isabel Lane
Henry A. Dwight, Class of 1829, Botanical Prize:
Alexandra Grusky
Environmental Studies Committee Award:
Maya Spalding-Fecher
Ernest Brown Africana Arts Prize:
Quess Green
Lane Faison, Jr. 1929 Prize:
Thomas Eilertsen and Kaira Mediratta
The Nicholas P. Fersen Prize in Russian:
Damian Janda
Freeman Foote Prize in Geosciences:
Niku Darafshi
Robert W. Friedrichs Award in Sociology:
Chia-Tien Chen
Gilbert W. Gabriel, Class of 1912, Memorial Prize in Theatre:
Samori Etienne
Sam Goldberg Colloquium Prize in Computer Science:
David Lee
Sam Goldberg Colloquium Prize in Mathematics:
Christopher Thomas (Math) and Samuel Wolf (Statistics)
Patricia Goldman-Rakic Prize in Neuroscience:
Andrea Orozco
William C. Grant Jr. Prize in Biology:
Emily Sun
The Arthur B. Graves, Class of 1858, Essay Prize in Art:
Asher Kolman
The Arthur B. Graves, Class of 1858, Essay Prize in Economics:
Adam Jones
The Arthur B. Graves, Class of 1858, Essay Prize in History:
Meadhbh Ginnane and Sonia Nyarko
The Arthur B. Graves, Class of 1858, Essay Prize in Philosophy:
Zachary Schreier
The Arthur B. Graves, Class of 1858, Essay Prize in Political Science:
Sydney Jones
The Arthur B. Graves, Class of 1858, Essay Prize in Religion:
Soban Mehmood
The Graves Prize for Delivery of Essay:
Christian Alberga, Chris Avila, Ariane Grossmann, and Lance Ledet
Frederick C. Hagedorn, Jr., Class of 1971, Premedical Prize:
Marya Rana
Tom Hardie, Class of 1978, Memorial Prize in Environmental Studies:
Rosa Kirk-Davidoff and Henry Newell
David Harris, Jr., Class of 1963, Prize in Political Science:
Kirstin Mapes
Kate Hogan 25th Anniversary of Women in Athletics Award:
Gabrielle Martin
Willard E. Hoyt, Jr., Class of 1923, Scholar Athlete Award:
Peter Fousek
Charles W. Hufford Book Prize:
John McGovern
Francis Sessions Hutchins, Class of 1900, Memorial Fellowship Prize:
Adam Jones and Onyekachukwu Obi
Arthur Judson Prize in Music:
Isabel Lane, Guanghao Yu, and Isaac van Aelstyn
The Lawrence J. and Carolyn M. Kaplan Prize for Dedication to and Leadership in the Williams College:
Molly Berenbaum
Arthur Kaufmann, Class of 1899, Prize in English:
Nelly Lin-Schweitzer
Muhammad Kenyatta, Class of 1966, Community Service Prize:
Halle Schweizer
William W. Kleinhandler Prize for Excellence in Music:
Zachary Babat, Jackson Corrigan, Sophia Jeongyoon Han, Christian Maloney, Ben Maron, Geoffrey Salmon, Andrew Thai
Robert M. Kozelka Prize in Statistics:
Faris Gulamali
Richard Krouse Prize in Political Science:
Mohammed Memfis and Alice Westerman
Richard Lathers, Class of 1877, Essay Prize in Government:
Jason Mazique (Essay) and Samuel Wolf (Research Paper)
Lawrence S. Graver Prize in Theatre:
Onyekachukwu Obi
Linen Senior Prize in Asian Studies:
Catherine Kao (Chinese), Raquel Livingston (Japanese), Germanie Louis (Asian Studies)
Linen Senior Thesis Prize in Asian Studies:
Andrew Rule
Ganse Little, Jr. Prize in Religion:
Seynabou Diop and Sydney Jones
David N. Major, Class of 1981, Memorial Prize in Geosciences:
Hayden Gillooly
Leverett Mears Prize in Chemistry:
Madelyn Hurwitz
Willis I. Milham Prize in Astronomy:
Amina Diop
John W. Miller Prize in Philosophy:
Joshua Reynolds
Morgan Prize in Mathematics:
Julia Tucher
Nancy McIntire Prize in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies:
Skye An
Louise J. Ober Theatre Award in Creativity:
Young Wuk Jung
James Orton Award in Anthropology:
Fang Zheng Andre Hui
Frederick M. Peyser Prize in Painting:
Crystal Ma
Ursula Prescott Essay Prize in Political Science:
Hadiqa Faraz
Purple Key Trophy:
Arturo Kam Dryjansky and Laura Westphal
Robert Ikemori Quay ’04 Outing Club Memorial Fellowship:
Henry McGrew
James Lathrop Rice, Class of 1854, Prize in Classical Languages:
William Abersek and Jessica Thompson
Robert F. Rosenburg Prize in Environmental Studies:
Wyndom Chace
Robert F. Rosenburg Prize for Excellence in Mathematics:
John Emil Graf and Shinyu Huang
Bruce Sanderson, Class of 1956, Prize in Architecture:
Anna Bruce
Ruth Scott Sanford Memorial Prize in Theatre:
Tobias Delgado and Fiona Selmi
The John E. Sawyer Prize in Transnational and Non-Western History:
James FitzGerald
Scheffey Award:
Mohammed Memfis
Robert C. L. Scott Prize in History:
William Abersek
Sentinels of the Republic Essay Prize in Government:
Alice Westerman
Shirin Shakir, 2003, Prize in Political Science:
Elisar El-Gaouny
Edward Gould Shumway, Class of 1871, Prize in English:
Isabel Cushing
James F. Skinner Prize in Chemistry:
Andrew Hallward-Driemeier
Elizur Smith Rhetorical Prize:
Shreyam Misra
Social Justice Advocate Award:
Abigail Fournier and Sophia Jeongyoon Han
Howard P. Stabler Prize in Physics:
Paige Robichaud
Shirley Stanton Prize in Music:
Jared Berger
Stanley R. Strauss, Class of 1935, Prize in English:
Xiwen Wang
William Bradford Turner Citizenship Prize:
Gabrielle Martin
William Bradford Turner, Class of 1914, Prize in History:
Joseph Fox
A.V.W. Van Vechten, 1847, Prize for Extemporaneous Speaking:
Lance Ledet
Laszlo G. Versenyi Memorial Prize:
Patricia Fofie
Ward Prize for Best Project in Computer Science:
Samuel Gilman and Peter Zhao
David A. Wells Prize in Political Economy:
Hadiqa Faraz
Karl E. Weston, Class of 1896, Prize for Distinction in Art:
Meadhbh Ginnane (Art History), Ayite Kester Messan-Hilla (Studio Art), and Novera Rahman Momo (History and Studio)
Wyskiel Williams Math Award:
Spencer Brooks
Fellowships
Allison Davis Research Fellowship:
Skye An, Arselyne Chery, Jesus Estrada, Bret Hairston, Ivana Onubogu, Nicholas Patiño, and Anneliese Silveyra
Class of 1945 Florence Chandler Fellowship:
Beyond Jonathan Deng
Horace F. Clark, 1833, Prize Fellowship:
Skye An and Mae Erzini Vernoit
Dorothy H. Donovan Memorial Fellowship:
Dominic Madera and Virginia Marr
Fulbright Grant:
Catherine Kao, Germanie Louis, Matthew Peacock, and Daniel Tran
Hubbard Hutchinson, Class of 1917, Memorial Fellowship:
Jonathan Ahsing (Art), Rebecca Christainsen (Music), Amber Lee (Dance), John Murphy (Theater), Ananth Shashtri (Writing)
Jeffrey Owen Jones 1966 Fellowship in Journalism:
Sophia Jeongyoon Han
Charles Bridgen Lansing, 1829, Fellowship in Latin and Greek:
William Abersek and Jessica Thompson
Henry Luce Foundation Scholarship:
Jason Mazique
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship:
Isaiah Blake, Franklin De La Cruz Gomez, Delsa Lopez,
Alan Louis, and Tionne Townsend
John Edmund Moody, 1921, Fellowship:
Dominic Madera and Virginia Marr
National Science Foundation Fellowship:
John Emil Graf, Shinyu Huang, and Paige Robichaud
Schwarzman Scholarship:
Julius Dodson
Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship:
Erin Courville, James FitzGerald, Mohammed Memfis, Sonia Nyarko, and Marya Rana
Frederick Eugene Stratton 1871 Fellowship in Biology:
Kiersten Campbell and Ekaterina Khalizeva
Taiwan Ministry of Education Mandarin Scholarship:
Andrew Rule
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship:
Crystal Ma
Williams Teaching Fellowship, United College, Chinese University of Hong Kong:
Sophia Jeongyoon Han and Emily Sun
Ruchman Student Fellowship:
Nelly Lin-Schweitzer and Ivana Onubogu
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