Award Recipients & New Members

29th Annual Phi Beta Kappa Discovery Essay Competition for First-Year Students and Sophomores

Shared 1st Prize $100
Christian Gum, "Flirting at the Monastery: Paganism in Artybashev's Sanin;· for RUSS 522W: Morality, Sex and Revolution in Russian Literature, Ronald LeBlanc, Professor of Russian and Humanities.

Shared 1st Prize $100
Jocelyn Scout Vierzen, ''Loving in the United States;· for HIST 506: African-American History, J. William Harris, Professor of History.

9th Annual Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

1st Prize $100
Stephanie Morales, "The Impact of the Berlusconi Administration on Gender Equality in Italy:· Presented at the Parents' Association Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2017. Faculty Mentor Professor Dilsa Deniz.

The Edmund G. Miller Phi Beta Kappa Award, Outstanding Juniors

Caroline Rebecca Consoli
Anh Phuoc Thien Nguyen 
Kathleen Patricia Wadiak 
Katherine Elizabeth Zampini

The Phi Beta Kappa Key Award, Outstanding Senior

Elizabeth Renee Ambler Gill

New Members, Spring 2017

*Junior 
§UNH at Manchester

28th Annual Phi Beta Kappa Discovery Essay Competition for First-Year Students and Sophomores

1st Prize $100
Jesse Austin, "'Our Deadly Foe or Our Steadfast Friends: A Critical Examination of the Relationship between the British Radicals and the American Revolution through Major John Cartwright." Written for Revolutions Across the Atlantic (HIST 444B), Janet Polasky, Professor of History.

2nd Prize $50
Christian Gum, "Father Knows Best? The Patriarch in Anna Karenina:' Written for Morality, Sex, and Revolution in Russian Literature (RUSS 522W), Ronald LeBlanc, Professor of Russian and Humanities.

8th Annual Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

1st Prize $100
Kelli Minelli, "Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights." Presented in the Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium, April22, 2016. Lecturer Rose Pruiksma, Advisor.

The Edmund G. Miller Phi Beta Kappa Award, Outstanding Junior

Elizabeth A. Haas

The Phi Beta Kappa Key Award, Outstanding Senior

Scott B. Webster

New Members, Spring 2016

*Junior 
§UNH at Manchester

Twenty-Seventh Annual Phi Beta Kappa Discovery Essay Competition for First-Year Students and Sophomores

1st Prize $100
Madison Pierce, “Eugenics and the Italian-American Experience.” Written for Italians Come to America: Representing Emigration and Immigration on Both Sides of the Atlantic (ITAL 444A), Spring 2015, Amy Boylan, Associate Professor of Italian.

Eighteenth Annual Humanities Program Essay Competition for Juniors and Seniors

1st Prize $100
Taylor McFadden, “The Impact of Hierarchical Petersburg Society.” Written for Devils, Deities, and Madness in Russian Literature (RUSS 521W), Spring 2015, Ronald LeBlanc, Professor of Russian and Humanities.

Seventh Annual Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

1st Prize $100
Eva Golden, “The Effect of Syllable Position on the Pronunciation of Sibilants and Liquids in Puerto Rican Spanish.” Presented in the Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 24, 2015. Professor John Chaston, Advisor.

The Edmund G. Miller Phi Beta Kappa Award, Outstanding Juniors

Katelin Angela Collins  and Kelsie Schanlaber

The Phi Beta Kappa Key Award, Outstanding Senior

Scott B. Webster

New Members, Spring 2015

Twenty-Fifth Annual Phi Beta Kappa General Education Essay Competition for First-Year Students and Sophomores

No prize awarded in 2014.

Seventeenth Annual Humanities Program General Education Essay competition for Juniors and Seniors

First Prize, $100, Tanya Decker: "The Artist as God in The Master and Margarita.”
Written for Devils, Deities and Madness in Russian Literature (RUSS 521W)
Spring Semester 2013, Ronald LeBlanc, Professor of Russian & Humanities

Second Prize, $50, Sean Thoel: "As One Kisses the Bishops’ Hand: Spirituality and Carnal Restraint in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.”
Written for Mortality, Sex and Revolution in Russian Literature (RUSS 522W)
Spring Semester 2014, Ronald L. LeBlanc, Professor of Russian & Humanities

Ninth Annual Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Prize, $100, Caitlin Duttry: “Copycat People: Media Imagery and Counterfeit Identities in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire.”
Presented at the Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 25, 2014 
Sandhya Shetty, Professor of English, Advisor

The Edmund G. Miller Phi Beta Kappa Award, Outstanding Juniors

Sarah A. Shouse and Emily Marie Planchet

Beta Chapter Phi Beta Kappa Key Award, Outstanding Senior

Alexander James Nardone

New Members, Spring 2014

Twenty-Fourth Annual Phi Beta Kappa General Education Essay Competition for First-Year Students and Sophomores

First Prize, $100, Zach Laganiere: "Guilt"
Written for Devils, Deities and Madness in Russian Literature(RUSS 521W)
Spring Semester 2013, Ronald LeBlanc, Professor of Russian & Humanities

Sixteenth Annual Humanities Program General Education Essay competition for Juniors and Seniors

First Prize, $100, Kenneth Deyett: "Keep Asking for Envelopes: Moral and Empirical Evidence in The Brothers Karamazov"
Written for Humanities and the Law (HUMA 650), Fall Semester 2012, Ronald LeBlanc, Professor of Russian & Humanities

Second Prize, $50, Zachary Kay: "La Roma di Mussolini"
Written for The Golden Age of Rome (CLAS 604)
Spring Semester 2012, R. Scott Smith, Professor of Classics

Eighth Annual Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Prize, $100, Tegan O'Neill: "Regional Political Integration in Southeast Asia and Natural Disasters"
Presented in the Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 26, 2013
Professor Alynna Lyon, Advisor

The Edmund G. Miller Phi Beta Kappa Award, Outstanding Juniors

Cory McKenzie and Amy L. Oldenquist

Beta Chapter Phi Beta Kappa Key Award, Outstanding Senior

Monica Charlene Stewart

New Members, Spring 2013