Undergraduate Writers’ Conference - Academic Honors and Fellowships

The Undergraduate Writers’ Conference (UWC) is a campus-wide celebration of undergraduate writing, hosted by USC’s Office of Academic Programs in partnership with The Writing Program. Open to students from every major and discipline, the conference is a place to share bold ideas, showcase standout work, and connect with peers and faculty who care about writing.

Students can take part in the conference in two ways. Those who want to be considered for prizes may enter the prize competition by submitting one piece of writing that represents their strongest work. To remain eligible for prize consideration, students must attend at least two conference sessions in addition to the awards ceremony.

Students who do not wish to enter the prize competition are still encouraged to register and attend conference sessions to learn, connect, and celebrate undergraduate writing.

Undergraduate Writers’ Conference: Monday, April 6, 2026

Awards Ceremony: Monday, April 13, 2026

Upcoming Dates & Deadlines

There are no upcoming events.

2026 Keynote Address:

Sarah LaBrie is a Bay Area-born TV writer who grew up in Houston and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of No One Gets to Fall Apart (Harper, 2024) a 2024 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Writers League of Texas Book Award.

Lorrie Moore calls No One Gets to Fall Apart “a brilliant memoir… a triumph of every kind of literary perseverance,” and the Los Angeles Times hails it as “extraordinary.” Her television credits include Minx (Starz), Blindspotting (Starz), Love, Victor (Hulu) and Made for Love (HBO Max). She currently has projects in development with Hulu and UTV. She’s been granted fellowships by Yaddo, Macdowell and the Austin Film Society and is an alumna of Brown University and New York University’s MFA in fiction program.

Conference Registration

Students who would like to attend the Writers’ Conference must submit a registration form by Friday, April 3 at 12:00PM.

You do not need to enter the prize competition to attend the conference. All students are welcome to participate in the conference.

2026 Conference Schedule

Monday, April 6, 2026

Location: Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 227

Conference Kick-Off (9:00am-9:30am)

Grab some breakfast and get to know your fellow conference participants before we settle in for the Keynote Address.

Keynote Address featuring Sarah LaBrie (9:30am-11:00am)

Join writer, Sarah LaBrie, as she shares insights from her career. There will be time for Q&A as well as a raffle of the author’s books for those in attendance.

What I’ve Learned from Podcasting for the Past 6 Years with Daniel Dissinger (11:00am-11:50am)

Award-winning podcaster Dr. Daniel Dissinger discusses creating and hosting Writing Remix and The Nostalgia Test Podcast, co-founding The Humanities Podcast Network, and the challenges and rewards of being a public academic. This interactive session will be recorded and released as a podcast episode.

Fiction Workshop with Amy Meyerson (12:00pm-12:50pm)

Professor Meyerson will lead students in a writing workshop, focusing on the craft of fiction. This is welcome to all attendees. Bring a computer or notebook and get ready to generate some new work!

Craft, Community, and Shaping the Contemporary Young Poet with Shandela Contreras (1:00pm-1:50pm)

In this poetry session, Shandela Contreras will discuss her career and offer advice to fellow young poets.

Nonfiction as Craft and Cultural Critique: A Conversation with Sarah Mesle (2:00pm-2:50pm)

Join us for an intimate conversation with Sarah Mesle about the writing and publishing journey of her most recent academic book, Reasons & Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now as well as the forthcoming work of cultural criticism, Tangled: Seven Iconic Moments in White Women’s Hair and What They Tell Us About Power, Pleasure, and Complicity.

Open Mic (3:00pm-3:50pm)

Share your Writer’s Conference submission or cheer on fellow writers from the audience during this writer’s showcase.

Additional Conference Events

Juried Workshops

Our juried workshops at the USC Undergraduate Writers’ Conference offer selected students the opportunity to share their work in a focused, small-group setting led by experienced writers and instructors, with in-depth feedback and craft discussion.

Participation is limited to students who submitted work for the prize competition. Eligible students will receive an email invitation with a form to indicate their interest in participating.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

The Poet as Witness: Writing about Social Change, Here and Now (11:00am – 12:20pm)

“[Y]our lucky self / Waits for your / Arrival,” writes poet Cornelius Eady in “Proof,” composed for the 2026 mayoral inauguration of Zohran Mamdani in New York City. In this 80-minute juried poetry workshop, 12 students will meet to discuss Eady’s poem as well as write odes to their own cities: cities of arrival, cities of waiting, cities of the past and present and future possibilities. We will consider audience, literary devices like anaphora and image, and the role of the poet as witness during times of political and social change. The full text of “Proof” by Cornelius Eady is here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1761421/proof

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Advocating for People & Planet: A Workshop on Climate Writing (6:00pm-7:10pm)

Last year, the topic of anthropogenic climate change polled as the most heated topic of conversation at family gatherings thanks to online disinformation campaigns framing it as cyclical and irreversible — even a hoax. This workshop spotlights how young people can use their writing to break through the rhetorical gridlock and pave the way to a more sustainable future for us all.

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Setting as Character: Writing Place in Creative Nonfiction (1:00pm-2:10pm)

In this workshop, students will explore the power of setting as a narrative force, using Joan Didion’s “The Santa Ana” as a springboard for their own creative work. Drawing from an exercise I developed while teaching “Creative Writing for the Non-Major” during my graduate studies, participants will analyze how Didion fuses landscape, emotion, and cultural critique, then craft their own short pieces in which place functions not as backdrop but as character. The workshop will blend close reading, guided discussion, and an in-class writing exercise designed to help students move beyond surface-level scene-setting toward richly layered, place-driven storytelling.

Awards Ceremony

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UWC 2026 Featured Panelists:

Craft, Community, and Shaping the Contemporary Young Poet with Shandela Contreras

Shandela Contreras is a Los Angeles-based poet, writer, artivist, and teaching artist. She’s the author of Cricket in the Slit of a Tummy (Bottlecap Press, 2025), Every Beautiful Pen Bleeds Through (2024) and Mellow Ballads, that move your bones (2021), and served as a California & Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador. Her work has been featured at events with the Grammy-winning LA Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Times Festival of Books, the 2022 Brotherhood Crusade Gala honoring Dodger’s Mookie Betts, and Lincoln Center’s Anthem to Us Project, and many more events. Her writing and poems have been featured in PopMatters, NPR Morning Edition and Taylor & Francis Co. publication. She was selected as one of eight to represent the City of Los Angeles in Paris for the 2024 Cultural Olympic Games. She is a firm believer that the voices of the past shape those of the future. You can find her on social media @shandelaa and https://shandela-contreras.weebly.com/

What I’ve Learned from Podcasting for the Past 6 Years with Daniel Dissinger

Daniel Dissinger is an Associate Professor in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California, poet, Kerouac scholar, and writing coach. He hosts the award-winning podcast Writing Remix, and The Nostalgia Test Podcast, and facilitates workshops with Inspired Belonging. He earned his PhD and MA from Saint John’s University, and an MFA from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Daniel’s poetry has been published in numerous journals and is forthcoming in the Altadena Poetry Review. His chapbook, tracing the shape, was published by Shadow Mountain Press. He co-created a global Humanities podcaster network, The Humanities Podcast Network, holding annual international symposiums since 2021.

Nonfiction as Craft and Cultural Critique: A Conversation with Sarah Mesle

Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is a professor, writer, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. She is faculty at USC, the former Senior Humanities Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, founding co-editor of the LARB channel Avidly and the NYU short book series Avidly Reads. Mesle’s many essays about writing, literature, gender, television, and more have appeared in venues such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Talking Points Memo, Guernica, InStyle, Self, andThe New York Times Magazine. She is the author of the writing guide Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now (Chicago University Press, 2025). Her collection of essays Tangled: Seven Iconic Moments in White Women’s Hair and What They Tell us About Power, Pleasure, and Complicity is forthcoming from Beacon Press in August 2026..

Fiction Workshop with Amy Meyerson

Amy Meyerson is the internationally bestselling author of The Water Lies, The Bookshop of Yesterdays, The Imperfects, and The Love Scribe. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages and are frequently chosen for best-of lists, including lists from Good Morning America, People Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Texas Library Association’s Lariat List, among others. Meyerson completed her graduate work in creative writing at the University of Southern California, where she now teaches in the writing department. Her next suspense novel, The Chaperones, will be published by Thomas & Mercer.

UWC 2026 Juried Workshops:

“The Poet as Witness: Writing about Social Change, Here and Now“

Michelle Brittan Rosado is an Associate Professor in USC’s Writing Program. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno, and a PhD Literature & Creative Writing from USC. Poems have appeared in publications like Alaska Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, and The New Yorker, and are forthcoming in The Southern Review. Her collection, Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry from University of Wisconsin Press.

“Advocating for People & Planet: A Workshop on Climate Writing”

Amanda Bloom is an Associate Professor in USC’s Writing Program. Her research interests include anthropogenic climate change and the many ways young people can leverage their writing to protect people and planet. Her passion for these topics inspired her to develop “Maymester” courses titled Writing Sustainable Futures in Spain & Sicily (2025) and Preserving La Dolce Vita: Writing Sustainable Futures in Northern Italy (2027).

“Setting as Character: Writing Place in Creative Nonfiction”

Christopher Muniz is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in advanced writing and critical reasoning. He holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Writing from CalArts and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC. His critical and creative work explores the intersection of race, identity, and culture in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and American West. His short story “Sweetpea” was featured in the 50th Anniversary issue of Ploughshares and nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. He is currently at work on his first novel, Owl Medicine.

Prize Competition Details

Students who would like to be considered for the prize competition must submit a complete application by Sunday, March 8, 2026.

You do not need to enter the prize competition to attend the conference. All students are welcome to participate in the conference.

Prize Competition Eligibility

Writing Category Descriptions

Submission Formatting

Judging & Prizes

Judges are USC faculty members primarily from the USC Writing Program, Schwarzenegger Institute and Office of Sustainability. Each category has a panel of 2-6 judges, who are assigned based on their respective expertise in each of the writing categories.

The judges will award the following prizes:

First Prize (All Categories): One $1000 First Prize will be awarded in each of the four writing categories.

Second Prize (All Categories): One $500 Second Prize will be awarded in each of the four writing categories.

USC Schwarzenegger Institute Award: Prize to students whose work proposes real-world solutions to serious policy challenges and improves the lives of people and communities with regard to issues in Environment & Energy, or Political Reform & Voter access, or Terminate hate. Awards will be given in two categories: Research and Creative Arts. In each category, one First Prize of $1,000 and one Second Prize of $500 will be awarded.

Sustainability Award: One $1,000 First Prize and one $500 Second Prize will be awarded in each of the Research and Creative Arts categories to students whose work addresses understanding the challenges and solutions related to climate change and other environmental issues that impact the well-being of people and the planet. In line with the University’s vision for a more sustainable USC, we encourage submissions related to sustainability and sustainable solutions, including topics such as (but not limited to): biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, climate change, environmental justice and sustainable design.

Prize Claims

An Undergraduate Writers’ Conference Prize is disbursed as a stipend in the spring as a check issued to the student. This may affect student financial aid packages. Students are encouraged to email the Financial Aid Office through the askUSC portal to discuss the potential effects of a Prize. The award could adversely affect students with Pell grants and/or loans.

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Prize Recipients

Each year, the Undergraduate Writers’ Conference awards First and Second prizes for outstanding work in each of the four writing categories. Additional recognition includes Honorable Mentions and awards from the USC Schwarzenegger Institute and Office of Sustainability.

Student Name	Year	Award Category	Award Type	Project Title
Aashi Tailor	2025	Sustainability Award	Honorable Mention	Is ESG Actually Sustainable?
Hanna Liang	2025	Sustainability Award	Second Place	Wild Flowers
Liam Ahn	2025	Sustainability Award	First Place	The Panacea That Failed: Why Technology Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis and How Capitalism Is the Problem
Mariam Astvatsatrian	2025	Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	The Alchemy of Skin: Unraveling Nature’s Most Complex Fabric
Joyce Zhou	2025	Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	Breaking Free
Maximilian Garibay-Deasy	2025	Schwarzenegger Institute	Second Place	NO2, No Grazie!: The Fight for Clean Air in Italy’s Fashion Capital
Mengchu Yue	2025	Schwarzenegger Institute	First Place	Assessing Gerrymandering: A Comparative Analysis of Quantitative Metrics and Legal Applications
Jada Leung	2025	Poetry	Honorable Mention	all fall down
Joelle Chien	2025	Poetry	Honorable Mention	Poems from Inside a Black Hole
Shandela Contreras	2025	Poetry	Second Place	Into Twigs of Our Bones
Safira Khan	2025	Poetry	First Place	What Will Survive
Anna Pollnow	2025	Fiction & Memoir	Honorable Mention	Oh fair Ophelia
Nicolas Diaz-Magaloni	2025	Fiction & Memoir	Second Place	The Hyphen Between
Emma Sun	2025	Fiction & Memoir	First Place	FISH BONES & WAX WINGS: a conversation with the Boy Who Fell
Michael Zhang	2025	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	Honorable Mention	Race Against Time: Evaluating the Impact of SFFA v. Harvard
Susanna Andryan	2025	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	Honorable Mention	Out of the Cage and Down From the Pedestal: Transitioning to Rational Basis for Sex-Based Discrimination Cases
Xinni Gu	2025	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	Second Place	Beyond the Science: Exploring the Paradoxes of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy in Practice
Xinyan Tong	2025	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	First Place	Where are They Now?: Chinese Tomboys in the US, (Fe)male Masculinity, and Recentering Home via Queer Migration
Jonathan Hayden	2025	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	Honorable Mention	After Abbas and Out of the Archives: Martial Arts as Postcolonial Subjectivity in Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster
Sienna Jackson	2025	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	Second Place	Sorrow, Sacrifice, and Sublime: The Transformation of Han Psychology
Alexis Mesa	2025	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	First Place	Postpartum Nightmares: Jewish Motherhood as a Source of Oppression and Defiance Under Nazi Persecution
Anders Johnson	2024	Sustainability Award	Second Place	Breaking Barriers: Empowering Youth for Climate Solutions
Mariam Astvatsatrian	2024	Sustainability Award	Honorable Mention	From Antagonist to Protagonist: The Solar Revolution and the Star that Shines Brighter Than All
Lindsay King	2024	Sustainability Award	First Place	The Impact of Rapid Urbanization on Cultural Well-Being in Rural Towns: A comparative analysis of development in Rishikesh, India and Nosara, Costa Rica.
Kyra Horton	2024	Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	Help as Resistance: Daily Tools for Living a Life Rooted in Community
Grace Okafor	2024	Schwarzenegger Institute	Second Place	Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Fire and Indigenous Communities
Nivea Krishnan	2024	Schwarzenegger Institute	First Place	Ranking Reforms: Evaluating the Feasibility of Federal Ranked Choice Voting Implementation
Ziying Li	2024	Poetry	Honorable Mention	A Fraud's Guide to Inheritance
Jonathan Hayden	2024	Poetry	Second Place	Convalescence
Henry Romain	2024	Poetry	First Place	Heterophenomenology
Juno Wolfe	2024	Fiction and Memoir	Honorable Mention	2,450,000
Ife Olarewaju	2024	Fiction & Memoir	Second Place	The Take-Care Hours
Joyce Chen	2024	Fiction & Memoir	First Place	My God Is The Future
Amy Nam	2024	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	Honorable Mention	“I’m talking WAP, WAP WAP”: Ratchetness, Redefining, and Reclaiming
Sophia Sturgeon	2024	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	Second Place	How to Plant Marigolds: The Formation of Identity in The Bluest Eye
Thordar Han	2024	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	First Place	Born With a Wooden Spoon: The Life and Legacy of U Han Tin
Giulia Cafe Aoude	2023	Sustainability Award	Honorable Mention	The Unspoken Aspect of Sustainability: The media impact on the public misconception of sustainability
Ahad Aijaz Kajani	2023	Sustainability Award	2nd Prize	The Corruption, Contamination, and Conservation of Our Skies; A Resolution for the Plight and Restoration of the American City
Will Erens	2023	Sustainability Award	1st Prize	America, Incorporated: A Navajo Tale of Energy and Power
Emilee LeVeque	2023	Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	HOW TO IMPROVE THE STATE GRANT PROGRAMS IMPACT TOWARDS BENEFITTING PRIORITY POPULATIONS: An Analysis of Land Use, Housing, and Transportation Policy in California and the impacts towards Priority Populations
Emerson Damiano	2023	Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Deep-Sea Mining
Anna Molnar	2023	Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Driving Away from the Car: How to balance transportation demand and supply in Los Angeles for improved efficiency and sustainability?"
Yi-Ann Li	2023	Poetry	Honorable Mention	Kintsugi: poems celebrating breaking and remaking
Emma Ashley	2023	Poetry	2nd Prize	Moment of Contact
Safira Khan	2023	Poetry	1st Prize	The Willingness to Open
Cat Broderick	2023	Fiction & Memoir	Honorable Mention	Ancestral Rights
Megan Dang	2023	Fiction & Memoir	2nd Prize	Soul Town
Max Nichol	2023	Fiction & Memoir	1st Prize	Up on the Hill
Stella Horns	2023	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	Honorable Mention	The Green and the Grün: A Comparative Analysis of United States and German Environmental Movements
Ammar Dharani	2023	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	2nd Prize	The Evolution of the Ginan: Or, When Poets Became Prophets and Prophets Became Poets
Sarah Kim	2023	Academic Writing: Social & Hard Sciences & Business	1st Prize	The Invisible Crisis: A Historical Analysis of National Trauma and Changes in Psychosocial Healing in South Korean Society
Yu Li	2023	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	Honorable Mention	Confronting Horror: Visually Representing the Abortion Procedure in Audrey Diwan’s Happening
Jonathan Hayden	2023	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	2nd Prize	Breaking out of the Machine and Becoming Byron: Little Language in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Aastha Jani	2023	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	1rst Prize	For My Chosen Family: An Ode to The Love I Know Best
Mariam Matta	2022	Creative	1st Prize	Kin to Nectar and Thorns
Tricia Lim Castro	2022	Creative	2nd Prize	The Forward to My Dance
Cameron Baker	2022	Creative	Honorable Mention	When the God of Love Returns
Giacomo Green	2022	Analytical	1st Prize	Why Africa?
Neelia Abadi	2022	Analytical	2nd Prize	“Stop Acting Like a Girl” - An Exploration of Pain Bias in the Medical Field
Benjamin Katz	2022	Analytical	Honorable Mention	How Jewish Talk Shapes Judaism
Emma Taulli	2022	Professional Writing/Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	He has stripped me of my life’s work’: Profit Over Personhood in the Music Industry
Madeleine Nations	2022	Professional Writing/Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	A letter to General Tod D. Walters, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe: Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Joel Lee	2022	Professional Writing/Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Beyond the Species: Kant, Marx, and the Preservation of the Will
Yunkyoung Jeong	2022	Research	1st Prize	Lifestyle or Politics: The Struggle over Sexuality in the Third World Women’s Alliance
Himani Boompally	2022	Research	2nd Prize	Heads or Tails:The Contribution of Religion and Reason to “Scientific Racism” in the Colonial Asylums of Bengal
Melody Gui	2022	Research	Honorable Mention	The Evolution of the National Front in France: Is it Neo-Fascist?
Diana Cantini	2022	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Policy Memo to Olaf Scholz on Nord Stream 2 and Ukraine
Sophia Gross	2022	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	The Irony of our Constitution's Ambiguity
Mane Berikyan	2022	Sustainability	1st Prize	Dictators are Bad for the Environment
Olivia Ellegard	2022	Sustainability	2nd Prize	The Climate Clock: A Reminder That "Accuracy" Doesn't Matter
Sam Fredericks	2022	Sustainability	Honorable Mention	A Retro Revival: How Dated Devices Could Lead to an Environmental Disaster

John-Paul Petrash	2007	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Memorandum
Chuong Nguyen	2007	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	The Cost of Self-Esteem and the American Girl
Shahin Berenji	2007	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Analysis of the Supreme Court Case American Insurance Association vs. Garamendi (2003)
Emily Ansara Baines	2007	Creative Writing	Honorable Mention	Adventures in Wonderland
Suh Yung (Amy) Han	2007	Creative Writing	Honorable Mention	Collected Poems
Bryan Carberry	2007	Creative Writing	2nd Prize	Touched by God
Diana Arterian	2007	Creative Writing	1st Prize	Collected Poem
Hrishikesh Joshi	2007	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Tacit Knowledge, Schrödinger, and the Revolution in Biology
Jamie Kagihara	2007	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Murses
Allison Norman	2007	Research Essay	1st Prize	From Lions to Logos: Heraldry, Social Class, and Accessorizing the Middle Ages from Arthurian Romance to American Popular Culture
David Slagle	2007	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	The Contemporary Filmic Aura
Henry Wu	2007	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	A Ghost Story
Allison Norman	2008	Research Essay	1st Prize	Hear, my Lords: Marriage in Twelfth-Century France and Women as Teachers in the Letters of Heloise and the Lais of Marie de France
Jessica Kim	2008	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Beam Me Up, Scotty: Into the World of Fan Fiction
Monica Bennett	2008	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Home Literacy Practices: A study of the self-reported practices and literacy of children in urban Los Angeles
Irene Campos	2008	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	The Inkblot: Interpreting the Diverse World of Psychology
Brian Braunlich	2008	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	For his business memo to Mr. William Clay Ford, Jr., Ford Motor Company about "Declining Ford Automotive Sales Trends"
Naira Kuzmich	2008	Creative Work	1st Prize	Inheritance (short story)
Janet Thielke	2008	Creative Work	1st Prize	Camelot, Georgia (short story)
Anthony Marra	2008	Creative Work	2nd Prize	When She Looked Into the Sea (short story)
Tera Vale Ragan	2008	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Poems
Yulia Tsukerman	2008	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Poems
Melissa Niiya	2008	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Audubon
Andrew Horning	2008	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	The Thin Read Line
Colin Dwyer	2008	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	One More Betrayal: Storytelling as Character Development in Paradise Lost
David (Brandon) Fite	2009	Research Essay	1st Prize	Quis Hoc Vult?: An Exploration of the Role of Pope Urban II and the Causes behind the Commencement of the First Crusade
Stefanie Demetriades	2009	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Parallels and Paradoxes: Western Intervention in Middle Eastern Governance
Regina Pritchett	2009	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Highly Publicized: The Role of Public Space in the Generation of Social Capital
Nicolette Omoile	2009	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	The Intersectionality of Sasha Fierce: A Look into Beyonce Knowles, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Kunal Bambawale	2009	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Funny but Futile: Why Racial Humor is a Joke
Andrew Pouw	2009	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Viral Panic: The Paranoid Style in Microbiological Discourse
Hannah HyunYoung Kim	2009	Creative Work	1st Prize	Listen
Taylor Friedman	2009	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Special
Cody Marion	2009	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Heat
Andrew Ramirez	2009	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Moving On
Jason Lipshin	2009	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Hollywood Extras: "Seeing" and "Being Seen" in Pre-Stonewall Gay and Lesbian Cinema
Anthony Catalano	2009	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	The Insufficiency of Tradition: The Plotinian and Irenaean Attempts to Refute the Gnostic Claims
William Sohigian	2009	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Law and Order: Special Victims Unit An Incomplete Rape Discourse
David Livingston	2010	Research Essay	1st Prize	Carbon Statecraft: Russia's Attitude, Capacities and Future Under the Kyoto Protocol
Daniel Wu	2010	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Reimagining the Figueroa Corridor: Growth Politics, Policy, and Displacement
Colin Dwyer	2010	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Identity, Fractured into Fundamentals: Post-Colonialism and its Application in The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Sarah Ghulamhussain	2010	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The Voice of a Generation
Andrea Chin	2010	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Aging in Place and Fall Prevention: Home Modification Policy Recommendations
Michael Kianmahd	2010	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Michael on Business: A New Paradigm for Business Blogging
Gary Yao	2010	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Coffeehouse Urbanism: Giving a Jolt to the March Toward True Walkability
Joshua Lang	2010	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Notes from Cuba: The Importance of Primary Care
Janet Thielke	2010	Creative Work	1st Prize	How To Save Your Son From the World
Andrew Ramirez	2010	Creative Work	2nd Prize	A Man Dies Happy
Timothy Clayton	2010	Creative Work	2nd Prize	How to Become the Brother of a Drug Addict
Melissa Rae Sipin	2010	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Her Eyes Round Like Coconuts (A Short Story Collection on the Immigrant Experience of Alienation and Otherness)
Sarah Hawley	2010	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Looking Down
Charles Furman	2010	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Dueling With Censorship: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series' Pastiche of Dubbing
Hrishikesh Joshi	2010	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	On Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference
Patreeya Prasertvit	2010	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Deck the Halls with Boughs of Folly: Camelot's Unfortunate Victory
Stephen Lamb	2011	Research Essay	1st Prize	"Wicked and Diverse Opinions": Controlling Heresy in the Henrician Reformation
Zara Lukens	2011	Research Essay	2nd Prize	The Political, Social, and Institutional Causes of the Disparity between Water System Effectiveness in Uruguay and Argentina
David Branch	2011	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The Subway to the Sea
Gregory Woodburn	2011	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Twain Marks of Memory: Time, Loss, and Their Intersection in Mark Twain's Two Autobiographies
John (Charlie) Mach	2011	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	mpact of Hospice Care on Healthcare Costs and Patients' Quality of Life
Madison Ainley	2011	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Authority through Relevancy: On Modernizing the United Nations Security Council Membership Structure
Luia Yen	2011	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	An Argument in Favor of Corporate Social Responsibility
Sarah Boots	2011	Creative Work	1st Prize	The Poetry of Science
Taylor Friedman	2011	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Frozen Cherry Custard
Lesley Wasserman	2011	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Captive in Communes of Charlatans Confined in the Company of Callow Animals
Paige Cohen	2011	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	What We Hang on the Walls
Charles Green	2011	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Death in Texas
Colin Dwyer	2011	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Who and What Art Thou?": The Question of the Child in Peter Pan
Jason Lipshin	2011	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Casual Labor: How Farmville Converges Consumption, Production, and Play
Tiffany Yang	2011	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Oscillations of Race and Memory: The Stained Path to "A More Perfect Union"
Lauren Maldonado	2012	Research Essay	1st Prize	On Piero della Francesca's "Madonna del Parto": Contextualizing the Modest Mediator and her role in Childbirth in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Erik Peterson	2012	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Genocide, Identity, and the State: The Role of Societal Manipulation in Conflict
Alexander Gertel	2012	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The Need to Make Periodic Board Recertification Mandatory for Grandfathered' Specialists
Jasneet Aulakh	2012	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Blood for Blood: 1984 India
Nancy Benner	2012	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Are Chemicals Making Americans Fat? What You Should Know About the Obesogen Debate
Isabelle Feldhaus	2012	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Stopping Corporate Drivers of the Noncommunicable Disease Epidemic: Nestlé Supermarkets in Brazilian Slums
Allegra Tepper	2012	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Mo' Women, Mo' Problems: How Showtime Found its Niche Among the Broads
Rebecca Kantor	2012	Creative Work	1st Prize	Introducingthe Rapturous Rhonda Rhodes!
Brenda Yang	2012	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Anna's Syndrome (short story)
Anthony Decapite	2012	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Divide (screenplay)
Sarah Ingerson	2012	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	UnPretty (poetry collection)
Ruth Madievsky	2012	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Up in Flames (short story)
Nicholas Farmer	2012	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	The Quirky Adventures of Margot and Her Little Pink Glove
Lindsey Smith	2012	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Zozobra: The Reassuring Death of the Other
Michael Onorati	2012	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	An Invader of Privacy: Gene Hackman in "The Conversation"
Ambrose Soehn	2013	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Why Providing Every Student a Quality Music Education Makes So Much Sense
Kim Vu	2013	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Learning to Choose Who Decides and How to Decide about Advanced Directives
Nahel Kapadia	2013	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	Palliative Care: An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide
Marissa Roy	2013	USC Levan Institute - Overall	1st Prize	The UN's 8 Millenium Development Goals and the Legal Status of Distributive Justice
Candice Tardif	2013	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	1st Prize	Allergic Inmates: Unheard and Unsafe
Uriel Kim	2013	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	1st Prize	No More Pointing Fingers: Science and Regulation Needed for Fingerprinting's Future
Paige Sorrentino	2013	USC Levan Institute - Personal Ethics	1st Prize	Dante's Inferno--Canto 12.5
Francesca Bessey	2013	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	1st Prize	Free To Die: The Sexist Paradox of Women's Suicide Terror
Roza Petrosyan	2013	Research Essay	1st Prize	Voiceless Heroes: Female Resistance during the Armenian Genocide
Jordan Nowaskie	2013	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Post-Porn Culture: The Effects of Sexual Media on Social Relationships, Identities, and Desire
Evan Cohen	2013	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Hemodynamic Pressure Sensors as a Diagnostic Tool in Physiological Monitoring
Nithya Kubendran	2013	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Hemodynamic Pressure Sensors as a Diagnostic Tool in Physiological Monitoring
Nicholas Kosturos	2013	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The 16 Years Crisis: Security, Geopolitics, and Conflict in the Arctic
Jason Finkelstein	2013	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The 16 Years Crisis: Security, Geopolitics, and Conflict in the Arctic
Kelsey Bradshaw	2013	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The 16 Years Crisis: Security, Geopolitics, and Conflict in the Arctic
Vellore Adithi	2013	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Beyond Victimhood, Relief, and Bare Life: Assessing the Pitfalls and Perils of Humanitarianism in Global Development
Maheen Sahoo	2013	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Kant and Hume: A Tale of Two Philosophers
Emily Holmes	2013	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Commodifying Humanity: The Ethics of an Open Market for Human Organs
Eric Weintraub	2013	Creative Work	1st Prize	La Laguna
Sean Fitz-Gerald	2013	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Boogeymen
William Hagberg	2013	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Collection of poems (Untitled)
Hayden Bennett	2013	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Furniture Music
Adam Phillips	2013	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Neon Cowboy: A Brief History and Analysis of The Man with No Name As Seen in Hammett, Kurosawa, Leone, and Nicolas Winding Refn's Film Drive
Amanda Griffiths	2013	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Ends and Meanings: Si guarda al fine and Machiavellian Virtue
Nichole Delaura	2013	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Countercultural Noir
Lauren Taymor	2014	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Solving the Plastic Problem
Joshua Hwang	2014	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Outdoor Air Pollution: From Evidence to Comprehensive Action
Grace Carballo	2014	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	Honorable Mention	N/A
Anessa Ibrahim	2014	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	2nd Prize	Words Hurt: The Harmful Discourse of Grutter v Bollinger
Thomas Armstrong	2014	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	1st Prize	Internal Migration in China: An Investigation of Hukou and State Social Policy
Kristen Nakashioya	2014	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	Honorable Mention	Terrorism and the Media: Rolling Stone's Boston Bomber Cover
Katherine Zopatti	2014	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	2nd Prize	Children in the Courtroom as Witnesses
Brian Lentz	2014	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	1st Prize	Medicine Demands More Than an Oath
Morgan Cheeks	2014	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	Honorable Mention	The Swiss Healthcare System: A Consumer-Driven Alternative to Employer-Based Health Insurance
Engie Salama	2014	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	2nd Prize	Traditional Medicine, Pharmaceutical Patents and Intellectual Property Rights in India: Exploring Islamic Law & Moral Rights
Matthew Prusak	2014	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	1st Prize	The Need for Economic Engagement with North Korea
Catherine Gavin	2014	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Aural Sex: The Sound of the Female Orgasm in Pornography and Popular Music
Candice Tardif	2014	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Joining at the Front: British Women's Literary Responses to the First World War
Oriah Amit	2014	Research Essay	1st Prize	Putting Women on the Map: Regendering the Road in Literature and Film
Claire Baugher	2014	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Case Summary
James Luhrs	2014	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Media Morte En Vida Sumus: A Historical, Psychological, and Literary Analysis of Public Attitudes on Grief and Mourning
Matthew Prusak	2014	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	The Need for Economic Engagement with North Korea
Mia Galuppo	2014	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Higher Brain Function
Carrie Moore	2014	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Euola
Monina Varela	2014	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Incredible Winter of Watauga County
Orli Robin	2014	Creative Work	1st Prize	Twirl
Allegra Tepper	2014	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Lizzie in Real Life: Social and Narrative Immersion through Transmedia in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Rabia Kaiser	2014	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Untitled
Brian Lentz	2014	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Modern Implications of Nazi Human Experimentation: The Hippocratic Oath and Hypocrisy in Medicine
Yihui (Ashley) Yang	2014	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Dear Female Chauvinist Pigs: You're Not Actually Men
Haylie Chu	2015	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	Proposal to Change the Regulations of Bottled Water to Reflect EPA's Standards of Tap Water
Dat Pham	2015	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Malnutrition in the United States and How to Improve the SNAP Program
Thomas Winschel	2015	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	The Importance of Humanities to Humanity
Mark Lee	2015	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	Honorable Mention	Hypermasculine Homosexual Heterosexuals
Cameron Espinoza	2015	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	2nd Prize	Laicite and Liberalism: Militant or Modest Separation?
Madison Harris	2015	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	1st Prize	Why Air Quality is a Race Issue
David Zhang	2015	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	Honorable Mention	Is the "Right to be Forgotten" Ruling Ethical
Mathew Goldstein	2015	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	2nd Prize	Picked Off: Baseball's Discriminatory Latin-American Practices
Jordan Bidwell	2015	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	1st Prize	Professor, Would You Share Your Thoughts on Beta-Blockers?
Lisa Dorrington	2015	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	Honorable Mention	Interpreting the Ethicality of Occupation Therapy Practice
Ryan Townsend	2015	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	2nd Prize	Don't Free Willy: The Case for Captive Orcas
Paxton Hall	2015	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	1st Prize	The Black Island of USC: What It Means to Be African American at an Elite University
Francesca Bessey	2015	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	Honorable Mention	Mothers Made Midwives: A Bottom-Up Solution for Top-Down Disempowerment
William Orr	2015	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	2nd Prize	Reckless and Indiscriminate: The Impact of Japanese Bombing in the Second Sino-Japanese War on Pre-World War II American Morality
Engie Salama	2015	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	1st Prize	TRIPS and India: Navigating Intellectual Property Rights for Antiretroviral Therapy Affordability
Patrick Cleland	2015	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	From Farce to Art: Sources and Evolution of the Shakespearian Twin Trope
Francesca Bessey	2015	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Asteroids Know No Borders: International Solutions for an International Menace
Nicholas Farmer	2015	Research Essay	1st Prize	Where One Font Sent the World into an Uproar, a New Font Seeks Redemption: Enter Comic Neue
Denni Chen	2015	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	From Bronze Soldier to Cyber Crimes Conflicts between Estonia and Russia
Sean Elezra	2015	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	The Test of Times: Interpreting New York Times v. Sullivan Amidst Social, Political Unrest
Matthew Prusak	2015	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	The Gorilla Economy': The Emergence of the Rwandan Development Model
Remaya Campbell	2015	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Openly Black, a memoir in freeverse
John Foraker	2015	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Using
Monina Varela	2015	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Things We Did In Texas
Carrie Moore	2015	Creative Work	1st Prize	Playing Possum
Orli Robin	2015	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	The Fading and Falling Women of Israel: An Exploration of Rama Burshstein's Fill the Void
Janella Lee	2015	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	The Women Made Them Do It: The Fallacies and Truths Behind Shakespeare's Villainous Women in Hamlet and Macbeth
Maria Fish	2015	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	The Tragedies of Others: Images, Power and Politics
Proanne Liao	2015	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	The Margins of a City
Mingkun Chen	2016	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	Tacit Tactics From Values to Actions
Jennifer Bailey	2016	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Mental Illness Among the Homeless and Incarcerated of Los Angeles
Alex Teboul	2016	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Choosing Profits Over Patient Health With Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medication
John Hochschild	2016	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	Honorable Mention	Reducing Implicit Bias in the American Judicial System
Sivakami Ananthasingam	2016	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	2nd Prize	Civilian Heath Care in War-Torn Regions: A Look into Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka and Iraq
Jennifer Smart	2016	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	1st Prize	Space for Aces: Finding a Home in a Sexual World
Julianna Paul	2016	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	Honorable Mention	Forgetting to Care: Declining Empathy Rates in Medical Students
Christina Nursalim	2016	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	2nd Prize	Interventions to Stop Medicine from Being Racist: Solving Racial Healthcare Disparities
Emily Livermore	2016	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	1st Prize	Film's Construction of a White Male World
Ariana Aboulafia	2016	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	Honorable Mention	The Minority Rule: A Thoreauian Guide to the Proper Practice of Civil Disobedience
Mingkun Chen	2016	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	2nd Prize	Tacit Tactics from Values to Actions
Max Kapur	2016	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	1st Prize	Hall v. Florida: A Cauldron of Scientific Jurisprudence?
Miranda Drolet	2016	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	Honorable Mention	Liberated Queer, Repressed Muslim: the Problem with Pinkwashing Palestine
Lilly Taing	2016	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	2nd Prize	The Effects of the Western Garment Industry on Cambodia and Cambodian Women
Diana Ciraulo	2016	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	1st Prize	The Price of Bleaching the Great Barrier Reef: A Moral and Economic Assessment
Chloe Borenstein-Lawee	2016	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Unsung Heroes: Jewish Women and Non-Violent Holocaust Resistance in France
William Orr	2016	Research Essay	2nd Prize	From Shangri-La to Silver Screen: The Myth of Precision Bombing and the Doolittle Raid
Jennifer Bailey	2016	Research Essay	1st Prize	Mental Illness Among the Homeless and Incarcerated of Los Angeles
Yume Nishi	2016	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Crumpling Bad Hospitals with Evidence-Based Design
Max Kapur	2016	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Hall v. Florida: A Cauldron of Scientific Jurisprudence?
Jane Kim	2016	Professional Writing / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Maternal Health in Nigeria
Alexa Aman	2016	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	The Names of Their Fathers
Nathaniel Gualtieri	2016	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Keeper of Half-Missing Men
Monina Varela	2016	Creative Work	1st Prize	Belly
Sydney Fishman	2016	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Fake Guns, Real Money: Conspicuous Consumption and Identity Building in Virtual Communities
Scott Huhn	2016	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Does Uber Have and IPO Problem?
Gabriella (Rica) Maestas	2016	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	The Margins of a City
Holly Bard	2017	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Kalama Harris Presidential Playbook
Austin Reagan	2017	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Climate Resilience in the Arctic Fishing Industry
Alya Omar	2017	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Climate Resilience in the Arctic Fishing Industry
Max Hill	2017	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Climate Resilience in the Arctic Fishing Industry
Maryalice Peng	2017	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	Honorable Mention	The Legal Whore Stigma: Punishing, Not Protecting Prostitutes
Garrett Nance	2017	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	2nd Prize	How Judge Bias Contributes to Racial Disparities and What Can Be Done to Help
Preethi Chaudhari	2017	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	1st Prize	Economic Mobility in Higher Education: A Right or a Privilege?
Fiona Sequeira	2017	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	Honorable Mention	The True Future of Tech: Why Women Must Forget the Glass Slipper and Shatter the Glass Ceiling
Logan Austin	2017	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	2nd Prize	The Commodification of Love in the American Cinema
Calvin Boyd	2017	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	1st Prize	The Architecture of Captivity: The Inescapable Dilemma of Design
Olivia Cordell	2017	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	Honorable Mention	(Mis)Casting Race at USC: A Self-Perpetuating Ethical Dilemma
Christina Nursalim	2017	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	2nd Prize	The Call for More Orphan Drug Research Funding
Adrian Lurie	2017	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	1st Prize	Tweens in Transition
Laila Naraghi	2017	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	Honorable Mention	Organic Farming, Biopiracy and the Neem Tree, and Plant-Based Diets: How the "Green Movement" Exploits Women in Developing Nations
Bailee Ahern	2017	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	2nd Prize	The Radicalization of Western Women: Adopting Gender-Specific Methods to Combat ISIL
Trevor Kehrer	2017	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	1st Prize	Opening Pandora's Box
Morgan Mamon	2017	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Ibn Khald?n in Translation: An Examination of J?l in Franz Rosenthal's Muqaddimah
Jacob Silverman	2017	Research Essay	2nd Prize	"I Looked and Looked but Failed to See What So Terrified You": Agency and the Double Self in Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her
Bethany Balchunas	2017	Research Essay	1st Prize	Codifying Exoticism: Race and French Colonial Policy in West Africa, 1910 to 1918
Jennifer Smart	2017	Professional / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Forget the Bomb
Blair Thoman	2017	Professional / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Acquisition of Consent in Harmony Korine's Kids
Soobin Kim	2017	Professional / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Bus Shelters in Los Angeles
Will Drickey	2017	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Parabellum
Karen Garcia	2017	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Metamorphosis
Nathaniel Gualtieri	2017	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Imperfect Machines
Xueyou Wang	2017	Creative Work	1st Prize	Stories about my father
Max Kapur	2017	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Four Glimpses of Han in Lisa Lee's Fiction
Anastasia Barbato	2017	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Technically Feminine: A Study of the Role of the Female Android in Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Antonia Matias-Bell	2017	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Compression, Expansion, Magic, and Loss: Digitization in Museums
Alexandra Demetriou	2018	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Seeking a cure for Governmentitis
Sebastian Walter Young	2018	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Blackouts and Bills
Oliver Dare	2018	USC Levan Institute - Social Justice	1st Prize	The Surveillance Game: How to Hide from Surveillance Seekers in the Modern Era
Laura Russell	2018	USC Levan Institute - Professional Ethics	1st Prize	Linguistic Conmen: Issues and Ethics on the Witness Stand
Brianna Johnson	2018	USC Levan Institute - Moral Decision-Making	1st Prize	"Mother, May I Come?": Angela Merkel and the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
Robert Tseng	2018	USC Levan Institute - Global Ethics	1st Prize	Linkage between business ethical values and access to capital: Comparative analysis of Kyrgyzstan, China, and the United Stat
Alejandro Schugurensky	2018	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Charter Schools and the Growing Opportunity Gap in California
Alanna Schenk	2018	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Arctic Stewardship: Treaties and Regimes
Hanna Fahsholtz	2018	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Arctic Stewardship: Treaties and Regimes
Lauren Brackmann	2018	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Arctic Stewardship: Treaties and Regimes
Rosebud Campion	2018	Research Essay	1st Prize	Forging the Folk: The Development of a National Musical Identity in Edwardian England
Sonali Seth	2018	Professional / Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	"The Library Cad of Morning Glory High" Memorandum
Mary Hickman	2018	Professional / Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Spanish Politics and Religious Monuments: The Case of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
Olivia Steinkamp	2018	Professional / Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Wandering Thoughtfully Through the 21st Century: The Evolution of Benjamin's Flaneur
Diana Postolache	2018	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	scrap metal & white space
Jensen McRae	2018	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Requiem for Bundy
Kanak Kapur	2018	Creative Work	1st Prize	In the Kitchen
Garrison Hall	2018	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	A Theoretical Analysis of Gonzales v. Carhart
Max Kapur	2018	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	"When I Turn into a Leaf and Empty Myself": Trees, Transcendence, and the Ecopoetic Imagination in Contemporary Korean Poetry
Angelina Sophonpanich	2018	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Hearing History: Iterations of Modern Identity Politics in Philip Metres' "Sand Opera" and Monica Ong's "Silent Anatomies"
Diana Kruzman	2019	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	A Toxic Breeze
Hannah Hunt	2019	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	"Senator, We Run Ads": Facebook Advertisements and Political Microtargeting
Chandler Zausner	2019	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	The Manga is the Message: Redrawing Social Boundaries for Japan's Hikikomori Youth
Dustin Chi Kan Wong	2019	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Creating an LA Metro Rider's Experience
Aarohi Mahableshwarkar	2019	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Rural and Urban Regions
Rae Lan	2019	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Rural and Urban Regions
Lillian Dyre	2019	Research Essay	2nd Prize	Malnutrition in India: A Case Study of Rural and Urban Regions
Anna Lipscomb	2019	Research Essay	1st Prize	Taste of Asia: Gastrodiplomacy in Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan
Mai Mizuno	2019	Professional/Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Orange Juice with a Side of Police Brutality
Noor Alwani	2019	Professional/Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Does Humanitarian Action Prolong Conflict?
Manushri Desai	2019	Professional/Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Disability Rights in LDCs: Increasing accountability and transparency of USAID through DPOs
Yi Youn Kim	2019	Professional/Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Killing Affirmative Action Won't Fix Harvard's Prejudiced Admissions
Yijing Luo	2019	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Trembling Through
Simran Jehani	2019	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	The Skimmer Short Film
Jensen McRae	2019	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Manic Pixie American Dream
Zoe Correa	2019	Creative Work	2nd Prize	Nena
Kanak Kapur	2019	Creative Work	1st Prize	Girls: Poems
Annie Ly	2019	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Analysis of Jacobean Witchcraft Plays: Witchcraft as a Mechanism of Resolution
Adam Karelin	2019	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	The Portrayal of Russian Messianism through Binary Contrasts in Vasily Grossman's Hell of Treblinka
Laura Russell	2019	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	It's Life or Death: The Legal Dangers of Expletive "It"
Amanda Douglas	2019	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Artemesia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders: A Missing Link in Poussin's Chain of Artistic Lineages
Jack Strauss	2019	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	It's All Part of the Plan: The CCP's Playbook for Homogenizing Chinese Society
Alexis Areias	2020	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	A Proposal to Eliminate Gerrymandering in Texas
Jacob Lester	2020	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Air Pollution in the United States: Pertinent Trends and Policy Prescriptions
Jason Collines	2020	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	Becoming Graceful Figures: The Gothic and Moral Epistemology in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Nika Shroff	2020	Research Essay	2nd Prize	A Holistic Approach to Treating Obstetric Fistulas: Beta-testing 'RESTORE' in the Gumla District of Jharkhand, India
Mahima Chillakanti	2020	Research Essay	2nd Prize	A Holistic Approach to Treating Obstetric Fistulas: Beta-testing 'RESTORE' in the Gumla District of Jharkhand, India
Mihir Kumar	2020	Research Essay	2nd Prize	A Holistic Approach to Treating Obstetric Fistulas: Beta-testing 'RESTORE' in the Gumla District of Jharkhand, India
Manushri Desai	2020	Research Essay	2nd Prize	A Holistic Approach to Treating Obstetric Fistulas: Beta-testing 'RESTORE' in the Gumla District of Jharkhand, India
Ellen Murray	2020	Research Essay	1st Prize	Aesthetic Decolonization: Magic Realism and Rewriting Postcolonial Trauma in Briar Grace-Smith's Purapurawhet?
Kurtis Weatherford	2020	Professional/Moral Reasoning	Honorable Mention	Coming Down from the Mountains: John Major and the Decision to Intervene in Iraq
Hailey Robertson	2020	Professional/Moral Reasoning	2nd Prize	Leveraging Freedom Against Motherhood: A Case Study of U.S v. Summer Thyme Creel and Sterilization as a Sentencing Mitigation Factor
Catherine Knox	2020	Professional/Moral Reasoning	1st Prize	Implementing Ethics in Transboundary Water Management
Ryan Nhu	2020	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Blown: Fragments
Shirin Herzig	2020	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	yet here we are (alive)
Lela Ni	2020	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Art of the In-Between
Joseph Debaerien	2020	Creative Work	1st Prize	Bus Stop Poems
Dara Phung	2020	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Exclusionary Zoning: An Illness of Many Symptoms
Megan Ritchie	2020	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Politicizing Scots: An Exploration of the Use of Dialect in Literature
Lucy Allen	2020	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	Totally Free: Pleasure and Liberation in The Living End
Finley Davis	2021	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	Honorable Mention	Reforms to the issues of prison gerrymandering in the state of Louisiana
Pratik Thakur	2021	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	2nd Prize	Improving Health in South Los Angeles by Reducing Local Oil Development
Natalie Briones	2021	USC Schwarzenegger Institute	1st Prize	Long Lines, Crowded Places: Early Voting Access in Texas
Elizabeth Nguyen	2021	Research Essay	Honorable Mention	A Review on the Role of iPSCs and Chimera-Based Approaches to Pancreatic Islet Transplantation in Treatment for Diabetes Mellitus
Rosa Noriega-Rocha	2021	Research Essay	2nd Prize	The racial formation of fresa ville: the ongoing racialization and objectification of Indigenous farmworkers in Watsonville
Nika Shroff	2021	Research Essay	1st Prize	A Community-Centric Approach to Typhoon Preparedness and Risk Management: Beta-testing Bayanihan' in Catanduanes, Philippines
Cameron Levine	2021	Research Essay	1st Prize	A Community-Centric Approach to Typhoon Preparedness and Risk Management: Beta-testing Bayanihan' in Catanduanes, Philippines
Mihir Kumar	2021	Research Essay	1st Prize	A Community-Centric Approach to Typhoon Preparedness and Risk Management: Beta-testing Bayanihan' in Catanduanes, Philippines
Manushri Desai	2021	Research Essay	1st Prize	A Community-Centric Approach to Typhoon Preparedness and Risk Management: Beta-testing Bayanihan' in Catanduanes, Philippines
Mahima Chillakanti	2021	Research Essay	1st Prize	A Community-Centric Approach to Typhoon Preparedness and Risk Management: Beta-testing Bayanihan' in Catanduanes, Philippines
Mia Speier	2021	Moral Reasoning/Professional	Honorable Mention	The Question of Intervention: Obama, Qadhafi and Operation Odyssey Dawn
Keon Sanaie	2021	Moral Reasoning/Professional	2nd Prize	Condemn the Monster, Condone the Art
Alexis Pinela	2021	Moral Reasoning/Professional	1st Prize	Window into Wiradjuri Life
Ryan Nhu	2021	Creative Work	Honorable Mention	Spare Change
Lela Ni	2021	Creative Work	2nd Prize	The Radius of Grief
Alia Atkins	2021	Creative Work	1st Prize	Another Other
Emma Taulli	2021	Analytical Essay	Honorable Mention	Nature Trumps Nurture: The Individual as Property Under Capitalism in Orphan Black
Sydney Gamble	2021	Analytical Essay	2nd Prize	Constructive Criticism and the Counter-Work
Maya Reyna	2021	Analytical Essay	1st Prize	I'd Rather Live Through "La Chona" Than Laud "Choral"
Thordar Han	2024	Academic Writing: Humanities & Journalism	First Place	Born With a Wooden Spoon: The Life and Legacy of U Han Tin
Cooper Brown	2024	Academic Writing: Social Hard Sciences and Business	First Place	Confronting Mind-Body Dualism in Contemporary Japanese Medicine: An Integrated Biomedical-Biopsychosocial Approach to Mental Health
Alfonso Aguilar Vazquez	2024	Academic Writing: Social Hard Sciences and Business	Second Place	The Indigenism Policy: the Ideological Foundation for the Marginalization of Indigenous People in the Mexican Political System
Lindsay King	2024	Academic Writing: Social Hard Sciences and Business	Honorable Mention	The Impact of Rapid Urbanization on Cultural Well-Being in Rural Towns: A comparative analysis of development in Rishikesh, India and Nosara, Costa Rica