2007 Ossip Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

The College Writing Board is proud to announce the winners for Research Writing and Critical Writing

First Prize for Research Writing
From Slaves to Solidarity:  The Story of the Coal Miners of Somerset County during the Great Coal Strike of 1922
Jacob Vanzin, History
Written for Edward Muller

Second Prize for Research Writing
Fool’s Gold:  Mining and its Impact on Peruvian Development
Jacob Levine, Economics
Written for Marla Ripoll

Third Prize for Research Writing
An Architectural Analysis of Longhouse Form, Spatial Organization, and an Argument for Privatized Space in Northern Iroquoia
Nathan Browne, Anthropology
Written for Kathleen Allen

First Prize for Critical Writing
The Past in “In the Village”
James Ian Spence, English Literature
Written for Mariolina Salvatori

Second Prize for Critical Writing
Finding Humor in Horace’s “Integer Vitae”
David Chaiffetz, Classics
Written for Mae Smethurst

Third Prize for Critical Writing
Evolutionary Siblings:  Similarities between the Models
of Darwin and Spencer
John Hay, History and Philosophy of Science
Written for Jeffrey Schwartz