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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
Margot Berman* | Lia Marie Bonoli | Marina Jayne Bowie* | Margaret Eve Brush |
Caitlin Quinn Bucksbaum | Leah Mary Francis Burke | Alexander Whitty Chase | Lilah B. Cherim* |
Kerri Ann Cobb§ | Ellis Owen Arnold Codd | Cielle Elyse Collins | Caroline Consoli*§ |
Lincoln J. Crutchfield | Grace Dietz | Christina M. DiMeo* | Lisa Dittman* |
Megan Dixon | Kathleen B. Doherty* | Andrea Elizabeth Engen* | Maren Michelle Forsyth |
Jessica Gero* | Jacqueline Gilbert | Elizabeth Gill | Chris Grinley |
Emily Lane Haley* | Virginia E. Harmon | Amalia Jereczek* | Taryn Johnson |
Amelia Keane§ | Rachel Kelley | >Emily May Kepner | Jacqueline F. Klatt* |
Paul S. Kuster Jr. | Hannah Jordan Lane | Amanda Lathrop | Magna Susan Leffler |
Morgan C. Lynch | Bailey Marshall* | Claire McCarthy* | Mackenzie Ryan Meier* |
Stephanie Morales | Jordan T. Mrvos | Crystal Napoli* | Anh Phuoc Thien Nguyen* |
Courtney O'Brien | Talia J. Pepin | Jessica L. Peterson* | Justin Daniel Poisson* |
Samantha Powers | Margaret Quick* | Gabrielle Raymond* | Celine Rogers* |
Jamie Noelle Smith | Eliza Howell Sneeden | Benjamin D. Sumner | Daniella Elizabeth Tancredi |
Caitlin Paula Truesdale | Erinn Shannon Vittum | Kathleen Wadiak | Katherine Zampini |
*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
Hannah Marie Betit | Olivia Ann Bochicchio | Kristin Boelzner§ | Sarah Bogert | Evice Ann Bolton | John Ramirez Bowen | Alyssa Carlisle | Meghan Carroll |
Emily Ciabattoni | Devon Clarke* | Elizabeth A. Coit | Annabelle Marie Collins* |
Ross Conroy | Carol Lee Cummings | Anthony Daley | Gabriela Diaconu§ |
Gina DiDonna | Kelsey Rae Douville | Mckenzie A. Dow | Morgan Hartin Fay* |
Bria K Frehner* | Allison H. Gardner* | Gianna Louise Gerhardt* | Elizabeth A. Haas* |
Emily Ham | Alexander Harling | Casey Harrigan | Alexandria Hashem* |
Daniel Hertig | Gabriel Mark Folium Hoffman* | Aaron Jones | Samantha Jones |
Enrica Lucia Jossi* | Joseph D. Juknievich | Julia Kahr* | Katja Kleyensteuber |
Erin Lee* | Jacob Anthony Lehoux | Samantha D. Leiper* | ZiweiLiu* |
Emily Elizabeth Loud | Megan Lusignan | Brice S Maloney | Kelly Anne Martin |
Abbygale Martinen* | Michael Anthony Mignanelli | Rebecca Joy Migotsky* | Stefanie Orn |
Caitlin Palmer | Sameer Panesar* | Danielle Lee Pomeroy* | Bruce Anthony Rheaume§ |
Tiana Autumn Salsman* | Julia Schmidt | Rebecca Scialabba* | Liam Spinicci |
Drew Elizabeth Stazesky | Emily W. Tumber* | Cameron R. Twombly | Lyndsay Ulin* |
Meixian Wang | Ziyang Wang* | QizhenXie | Sarah E. Yetman |
*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
Anna Allen |
Nicole Anderson |
Edith Aromando |
Casey Benner |
Joshua Colin Berk |
Amber M. Brooks |
Evan J. W. Bruno |
Abigail M. Burmeister |
Kyle Charrette |
Emily Coburn |
Mikayla Collins |
Katelin Collins |
Mollie Conant |
Cassidy Croci |
Claire Czotter |
Jessica David |
Kelsey Diemand |
Victoria DiPippo |
Christina M. Doherty |
Laura Donegan |
Hannah Drake |
William Dykes |
Nathan Faro |
Jennifer Flood |
Eric Fortier |
Alyssa Frechette |
Candace French |
Eva Golden |
Melanie Green |
Catherine Hall |
Ellen Haynes |
Christopher Healy |
Henry Herndon |
Isabel Hughes |
Ragnar Kempf |
Caelie E.S. Kern |
Alison Kessler |
Gretchen Klempa |
Noelle Kotelly |
Stephanie Kuhn |
Emily Kwesell |
Mondi Lam |
Patrick Landroche |
Amanda Luongo |
Shaina Maciejewski |
Ian MacKay |
Maura MacLellan |
Brittany Marien |
Cathryn McCann |
Taylor McFadden |
Sarah Milicia |
Daniel Minukhin |
Keshav Nepal |
Dimitri Newman |
Siddharth Nigam |
Amelia Ordway |
Nicholas Pacheco |
Sumer Panesar |
Kirby Parm |
Hannah Pender |
Amanda Perron |
Elizabeth Pettitt |
Kristin Phyles |
Sarah Pollard |
Laurianne Posch |
Ariel Pueyo Encinas |
Caroline Reckelhoff |
Yosub Rim |
Nicole Sayed |
Kelsie Schanlaber |
Emily Schostack |
Casey Sheehan |
Tom Spencer |
Brianna Stoyle |
Sean Thoel |
Valeriu Tomescu |
Kathleen Uhlman |
Kelsey Walsh |
Yandan Wang |
Scott Webster |
Caroline Wilhelm |
Parker Woolley |
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
Marie Ainaire | Laura Bello | Madeleine C. Bennett | Danielle Blevens | Steven Bosse |
Bryan H. Boucher | Ashleigh Boulton | Erica Bourque | Henry Bowen | Kaitlyn Boyle |
Alexander R. Braile | Emma M. Brown | Megan E. Barry | Julia Brush | Jasmin Cesko |
Benjamin Claxton | Alyssa Clement | Stehpanie Cofrin | Brianna A. Cole | Amanda G. Condon |
Meghan M. Craig | Theunis deBoer | Christopher DiPersio | Abigail Douglas | Caitlin R. Duttry |
Mary Foster | Amanda Gagnon | Ethan Gauvin | Ryan Clauson | Megan E. Gibbons |
Timothy Gillam | Allison L. Ginwala | Susannah J. Gross | Luke Hansford | Dylan Hegarty |
Jennifer Hogan | Luke T. Holzapfel | Chloe Hood | Alexis H. Kasparian | Amanpreet Kaur |
Katarina Kieleczawa | Caroline M. Kras | Riley Lacasse | Timothy Lachance | Shannon Langtry |
Michael J. Laverriere | Brendan Lortie | Thomas D. Lusted | Kelly L. Marion | Olivia Marple |
Kevin McAleese | Jamie McDonough | Casey McGoldrick | Katherine McKay | William Meyer |
Alexander Nardone | Lauren Nawfel | Alexander Newman | Tuan Minh Nguyen | Rebekah Olson |
Chelsea Parent | Audrey Petteruti | Vivian H. Pham | Rose Phipps | Emily Planchet |
Amanda A. Plante | Melanie Platt | Amber Quinn | Thomas Raviele | Theresa Renker |
Shannon Reville | Benjamin Rideout | Adrienne Roche | Alexis Scargill | Sarah Shouse |
Kelsey L. Slade | Connor Strobel | Kelly Taveras | Annika Taylor | Jocelyn G. Thibault |
Christine M. Turner | Samantha-Jo Virga | Amanda Vispo | Hannah Waller | Hannah Whalen |
Sophia White | Peter Wilkinson | Kristen Wilson | Jingxuan Yang | Kristina G. Zarrilli |
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
Maria Aiello | Colby R. Aiken | Katherine Allen | Dylan L. Arky | Nathaniel C. Ascani |
Nicole M. Ashmankas | Maisea L. Bailey | Lauren E. Banker | Elizabeth D. Barker | Henry C. Barnes |
Jessica E. Barrett | Lauren E. Barry | Megan E. Barry | Kathryn L. Beaulieu | Kerstin J. Becker |
Nicole A. Bell | Ariel C. Berry | Darrin J. Broadhurst | Kimberly A. Buchwald | Alexander H. Buell |
Molly M. Bulger | Elizabeth Burgess | Lynsey K. Burke | John L. Callahan | Kaitlyn T. Cameron |
Maria Carrasquillo | Allison L. Casey | Linda E. Chardon | Ryan Clauson | Sarah M. Collins |
Melissa P. Copeland | Kyle G. Cormier | Kayla Cruikshank | Megan B. Currier | Danielle Cushing |
Carmelina D'Andreti | Graham A. Derby | Michael A. DeStefano | Nicholas A. Devanney | Richard H. DiCecca |
Nicholas J. Fogarty | William Ford | Anthoni B. Fortier | Emily M. Fortin | Alexander Freid |
Kathereine M. Gager | Kathryn Garland | Jeffrey J. Garside | Valerie H. Gauthier | Colleen Geraghty |
Alyssa S. Gilbert | Lydia B. Gove | Benjamin K. Grande | Sarah L. Gregg | Gina B. Guadagnoli |
Sean A. Hardies | Garrett P. Healey | Christine Hebert | Chandler E. Hull | Alicia K. Jacobs |
Molly E. James | Jenny Jing | Melanie E. Johnson | Kristin M. Jones | Kelly E. Juster |
Hillary J. Kayser | Grace L. Kirkpatrick | Brian J. Kispert | Brian Kraus | Alexander L. Lamothe |
Megan L. Landale | Edward A. LaVilla | Hannah Lawrence | Jared H. Liamos | Kasey Lynch |
Lynnette V. Macomber | Amanda R. Maillet | Margaret J. Marsano | Emily M. Martin | Arly Maulana |
Ruth E. McBain | Cory McKenzie | Whitney A. Mills | Suzanne S. Moberly | John Morgan |
Emily E. Morrison | Gabrielle Najmy | Jac-Leen Nash | Duncan I. Nelson | Alyson Nesson |
Jessica E. Newkirk | Andrew H. Ntapalis | Amy Oldenquist | Halie R. Olszowy | Rachel I. Orzechowski |
Melissa J. Otis | Emily L. Pacetti | Kelsey A. Packard | Brett T. Palmer | Alexander M. Parkes |
Melissa Parks | Austin A. Perea | Marie A. Petropoulos | Stefanie N. Piroso | Ashley C. Pond |
Mallika Prabhakar | Elizabeth M. Puris | Samy S. Ramadan | Joshua Ratliff | Dana M. Roach |
Julia B. Romano | Kristina S. Romano | Ashley R. Roney | Mary E. Ross | Alanna H. Rourke |
Eric R. Sales | Alexandra Sargent | Erik R. Schmidt | Trisha F. Schuman | Lindsey Shapiro |
Emily V. Smith | Kelly N. Smith | Amanda St. Jean | Samuel L. Stevens | Monica C. Stewart |
Alyssa M. Taliaferro | Maegan N. Teichman | Benjamin J. Trolio | Sarah E. Truchon | Zachary Turgeon |
Brendan Wile | Daniel P. Winslow | Joel D. Wyatt | Michael A. Yereniuk | Samantha Zinno |