Senior Thesis Prize

Every year, the University Center for Human Values awards up to three prizes to senior theses that best apply ethical reasoning to advance our understanding of human values. Nominations for this prize are made by departments across the University.

2025 Senior Thesis Prize Winners

Amaya Dressler
Department of Anthropology
Narrating Homelessness: The Construction, Interpretation, and Reframing of Unhoused Experience in Bureaucracies of Care

Thomas Rosini
Department of Philosophy
Competition, Ethics, and Practical Reason

Adam Sanders
Department of Religion
Against Theodicy in the Holocaust Memorials of Berlin and Vienna