Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities gives awards ranging from $1,500 to $7,000 to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in the Humanities. The achievements of these students will be celebrated at our annual Student Awards Ceremony at 11 a.m. on May 14, 2019 at 1 Silber Way, Trustee Center Ballroom, 9th floor.
Undergraduate Awards
The Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize
Noah Lawson, Classical Studies
The John Oddy Memorial Award
Eleni Constantinou, Classical Studies
Kennedy Blake Farrow, Classical Studies
Wenyi Jiang, Classical Studies
Dorothy Modrall-Sperling, Classical Studies
Ningyin Zhao, Classical Studies
The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award*
Giuliana Carder, Linguistics
Bridget Cohen, Religious Studies
Hannah Dion, English
Sarah E. Eagan, English
Margaret Evans, Classics
Flannery Grace Gallagher, History of Art & Architecture
Jeanne Coleen Ilano, English
Hannah Jew, History of Art & Architecture
Dylan Pato, Linguistics
Catherine Peerson, English
Mari Rooney, Classical Studies
Elize Steinhoff, Linguistics
Catalina Uribe Saravia, English
Yingshihan Zhu, Philosophy
*All winners of the Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award also receive the Robert E. Yellin Award.
Graduate Awards
The Clarimond Mansfield Award*
Christopher Bartlett, English
Patrick T.J. Browne, History
José Luis Nogales-Baena, Romance Studies
The Helen G. Allen Humanities Award*
Lauren Graves, History of Art & Architecture
Mariah Gruner, American & New England Studies
The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award*
Laurie Mar Garriga, Romance Studies
Carlos Muñoz-Cadilla, History of Art & Architecture
The Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Prize*
Aaron Alexander Ahlstrom, American & New England Studies
Cari Babitzke, History
Brian Barone, Musicology/Ethnomusicology
Scott Daniel Possiel, Religious Studies
Mohammad Adnan Rehman, Religious Studies
*All Graduate Student Award recipients also receive The Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award
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