Past Prize Recipients | University Center for Human Values

2015 Winners

Elena Di Rosa: Department of Philosophy; “A Contemporary Theory of Responsibility: What Aristotle Can Teach Us”
Cameron Langford: Department of Politics; “Epistemic Ecosystems: A Theory of Science Communications”
Annaliese Ionson: Department of Anthropology; “Competing Discourses: Diabetes and the Narrative of First Nations Identity”

Seongcheol Kim: Department of German; “Theory, Organization, and Milieu in the West German Extra-Parliamentary Left, 1966-78”
Mary Schulman: Department of East Asian Studies; “The King's Speech: Language and Ritual in the 'Great Proclamation' of the Classic of Documents”
Naomi Zucker: Department of Anthropology; “Visions of Health and Care in São Paulo, Brazil”
Robert Stone III: Department of Politics; “Socrates Satisfied: John Stuart Mill, Plato, and the Athenian Political Ideal”

Colleen Culbertson: Department of Anthropology; "Testing the Malaria Vaccine: Membership, Expertise, and the 'Adverse Effects' of Accountability"; Adviser: Rena Lederman, Anthropology
Victoria Lauren Cadiz: Department of Philosophy; "Aristotle's Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Theory"; Adviser: Benjamin Morison, Philosophy
Mariana Olaizola: Department of Politics; "A Push for Inclusion: Human Rights and the Implications for Democracy"; Adviser: Philip Pettit, Philosophy and University Center for Human Values
Alison Lo: Department of Psychology; "Morality and Culture: Differences in American and Chinese Moral Reasoning"; Adviser: Deborah Prentice, Psychology and Public Affairs

Emily Rutherford: Department of History; "John Addington Symonds: Humanism, Love, and Sexual Identity in Victorian Britain"; Adviser: Anthony Grafton, History
Jonathan Sarnoff: Department of Philosophy; "A Theory of Moral Responsibility"; Adviser: Elizabeth Harman, Philosophy
Jane Abbottsmith: Department of Religion; "A Dwelling for the Abandoned: Love for God and Neighbor in St. Augustine's Homilies on the First Epistle of John"; Adviser: Eric Gregory, Religion

Devin Blair Kennedy: Contested Body: Identity, Anatomy, Sign
Samantha Janaki Pergadia: Animal Tales: Anthropomorphism and the Management of Compassion
Amelia Jane Thomson-DeVeaux: Looking with Love: A Feminist Vision of Simone Weil

Daniel Eric Rauch: The New Supermajority: Judician Review, Supermajority Voting Rules, and the United States Supreme Court
Praveen Giridhara Murthy: Lost in Translation: How Emerson and Thoreau Helped Gandhi to Reinvent the Bhagavad Gita
Benjamin Frankel Farkas: Consensus on Justice in Rawls and Aristotle

Jo-Ann Tamila Karhson: Reciprocal Obligations: A Just Theory of Immigration and Assimilation
Wendy Liu: Justifying Revolution
Emily Anne Weigel: To See It Feelingly: Shakespeare and the Exercise of Early Modern Empathy

Emily Seen: Challenging the Refugee Regime's Exilic Bias: The Relationship between Asylum and Intervention in Humanitarian Crises.

Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum: The Promise of Architecture: Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh

Catherine Ambler: Per lo Raggio de L’Alta Luce: How Averroes’ Theory of Intellection Influences Dante’s ‘Divina Commedia
Amak Megwalu: Looking Back Moving Forward: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Xiuhui Lim: Reasons and Passions: Can Intrinsic Desires Be Rationally Criticized?

Stephen Porter: Traditional Healers, Biological Citizens, and Culture-as-Such: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Recognition in Post-Apartheid South Africe

Katrina Anna Besch: Moral Luck: An Empirical Investigation
Jessica Rose Munitz: Ohev Shalom V’Rodef Shalom: A New Perspective on Peacemaking in Ancient Judais moving Forward: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Matthew Frazier: Beyond Charity: America’s Moral Obligation to the World’s Poor
Kathryn E. Grzenczyk: The Importance of How We Value: Moral Reasoning and Personal Integrity

Kathleen Daffan: Defining and Defending Human Dignity: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American System
Susan Schaefer: The Drama of Disappearance: ‘Antigona Furiosa’ and Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’

Daniel Powell: The Gay Gene: An Ethical Analysis of Genetic Testing for Sexual Orientation
William Yandik: Voices of the Hudson: A Narrative on PCB Pollution

Jennifer Kinsbruner: Women, Marginal Barrios, and Community Organization: A Case Study in Quito, Ecuador, 1970-199
Karen Laura Thornber: Toward Human Dignity: The Poetry and Poetics of Toge Sankichi with a new translation of the Gembaku shishi

Rebecca Neill Taylor: At the Intersection of Chronos and Kairos: Time and the Primitive in the Writings of Virginia Woolf
Fredrick Vars: Attitudes towards Affirmative Action: Paradox or Paradigm?

Rebecca Ryan: The Sex Right: A Legal History of the Marital Rape Exemption

Raquel Ukeles: Beyond and Yet Within: Exploring the Legitimate Other in Islam and Judaism
Monica Youn: No Man’s Land: A Critical Approach to the Social, Medical, and Legal Status of Transsexuals