2024 WINNERS:
1st place: Ayah Noor, The Stories We Hold On To: Intergenerational Trauma, Justice and Resilience in the Refugee Diaspora
2nd place: Louise Kamaka, Psychosocial Factors Mitigating the Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Academic Disengagement among Indigenous College Students in the U.S.
3rd Place: Alyssa Alvey, The Current Language of Autism-centered Charities: A Social Semiotic and Narrative Analysis
2023 WINNERS:
1st place: Christopher Carpenter, "Our Artistic Patrimony?”: Rembrandt’s Mill and the Construction of National Identity in Britain
2nd place: Edward Kemelmakher, Danish Exceptionalism: The Rescue of Danish Jewry from European Jewish Fate
3rd place: Olivia Benedict, Framing COP27: Framing Analysis of Articles Published by Leading National Newspapers of the Permanent Members of the Security Council
2022 WINNERS:
1st place: Lauren Schmidt, Pearls of the Patriarchy: Symbolism, Iconography, and History of Vermeer’s Pearls
2nd place: Sahib Singh, A Misrepresented Climate and the IPCC-AR6.2 Report: A Framing and Agenda-Setting Analysis on Indian and American Newspapers
3rd place: Nicole Wei, Breaking into the Mainstream: Self-Censorship and Queer Visibility in Chinese Dangai Dramas
2021 WINNERS:
1st Place: Rachel Hsu, The Impact of Covid-19 on the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Colombia
2nd Place: Julia DeLuca, The Chain of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
3rd Place: Nellie Tash, Women, Luxury, Pearls, and Soldiers: The Significance of Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra to Jan Steen and the Dutch Republic
2020:
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there was no Eckles Prize competition in 2020. While students who are no longer freshmen are not eligible to participate in the Eckles Prize, they are encouraged to publish or submit their research to other competitions.
2019 WINNERS:
1st Place: Emma Alzner, The Question of Genocide: Journalistic Framing of the Rohingya Crisis
2nd Place: Peyton Wilson, Dimensions: Intergenerational Trauma's Effect on the Mental Health and Treatment of Black Americans
3rd Place: Noor Qureishy, The Othering of Ilhan Omar: How the Media Frames Minority Congresswomen
2018 WINNERS:
1st Place: Caitlin Chan, Jan Steen’s Young Woman with a Letter (Bathsheba with King David’s Letter): Dutch Painting in the Age of #MeToo
2nd Place: Karin Scott, Fear of the “Woman Brain”? How the Print Media’s Low Incorporation of Female Expert Sources Reflects Gender Disparity Within the Field
3rd Place: Alexander Neumann, Double Sided Shield: The Duality of Law Enforcement Imagery in Recent News Media
2017 WINNERS:
1st Place: Rachel Lyons, More Than Hair
2nd Place: Gina Le, From the Grave to the Stars: Analyzing Developments in Racial Power Dynamics from Black Youth Poetry from the Civil Rights Era to Now
3rd Place: Caden Grant, Late Night Politics: Using Moral Foundations Theory to Analyze Political Satire
2016 WINNERS:
1st Place: Jack Skopowski, Ad Majora Mala Vitanda: Catholic Responses to the Holocaust
2nd Place: Gabriel Falk, The Land of the Free
3rd Place: Lisa Ben-Horin, German Railroads and the Holocaust
2015 WINNERS:
1st Place: Kevin Kearns, The Search for Intimacy: Loneliness in the Imagery of Lost in Translation
2nd Place: Thomas Perry, Studying the New Town Movement for the Benefit of New Urbanism
3rd Place: Jacqueline Dyer, The Birth of Modern Chemistry and Medicine in the Dutch Golden Age
2014 WINNERS:
1st Place: Amanda Lam, Hashtagging Sandy: How are the psychological effects of natural disasters expressed in social media?
2nd Place: Celeste Aguzino, After the Storm: Analyzing Chris Christie's Use of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey's 2013 Gubernatorial Election
3rd Place: Anne Keough, Application of Selectorate Theory in Explaining Idi Amin’s Cooperation with the 1976 Plane Hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
2013 WINNERS:
1st Place: Emma Perloff, Hierarchy, Home, and Homeland: The Dutch Golden Age in Frans Hal's Family Group in a Landscape
2nd Place: William King, Of Gangsters and Bakers: Cake Boss, Stereotypes, and the Italian American Identity
3rd Place (tied): Marissa Young, Fans and Fanatics of Jane Austen
3rd Place (tied): Megan Mattson, Do Electoral Systems Affect Female Representation? Comparing the Proportion of Women in Rwandan and Tanzanian Legislatures
2012 WINNERS
1st Place: Rebecca Levy, We Will Demand Nothing: The Revolutionary Potential of Occupy
2nd Place: Emily Schirvar, Network Centrality and Weapon Advocacy
3rd Place: Brianna Gurciullo, Filling the Gap, Exposing Truth, and Strengthening Democracy
2011 WINNERS
1st Place: Augustus Urschel, Understanding Real Money Trading in MMORPGs
2nd Place: Ricca Prasad, Examining Fearon's Commitment Problems as a Rationalist Explanation of War through the Study of Indo-Pakistani Relations: Why has the Kashmir Dispute Continued for so Long?
3rd Place: Angela Schopke, A Study of Hasidic Jewish and Celtic Music and Dance and Their Implications on Social Survival
2010 WINNERS
1st Place: Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, War of Words: Rhetoric and the US Intervention in Chile in 1973
2nd Place: Maris Kramer, I am My Lebeneh
3rd Place (tied): Rebecca Crowder, Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Education: Applications in the Higher Achievement program
3rd Place (tied): Alexander Schaper, This Might Just Be My Masterpiece: The Basterds' Power of Fiction to Master an Inglorious Past
2009 WINNERS
1st Place: Kirsten Ortega, Framing Homosexuality: Media influence in reconciling the film Brokeback Mountain within the limits of a heteronormative society
2nd Place: Gretchen Gasteier, Why Don't We Hear from the Women: The female voice in public settings
3rd Place: Callie Freitag, The Real World: Opening social dialogue through stereotypical casting
