Graduate Humanities Essay Contest
The Western 九一麻豆制片厂 University Center for the Humanities invites submissions to the WMU Graduate Humanities Essay Contest - Essay Submission Deadline: April 1, 2024.
Details
The contest invites essays from all graduate students at WMU. Previously published essays or essays already accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible for the contest.
Length: 25 pages maximum. If your essay is part of a longer piece, a chapter in your dissertation for example, please indicate that on the first page of the essay.
Essays should be in English.
Eligibility
The essay contest is open to currently enrolled graduate students at WMU.
Deadlines
Submission deadline: April 1, 2024
The faculty serving as respondents will select two outstanding submissions to be awarded a cash prize and publication in the Hilltop Review. The first place prize will be $1000 and the second place prize will be $600 (in the form of financial aid). The prize-winning papers may be published in the Hilltop Review.
*Some WMU graduate students may not be eligible to receive monetary awards.
Contestants will be contacted by email to confirm receipt of the essay.
Previous Winners
2023
First-place ($1000): Kyle C. VanderWall: 鈥樷樷業n the beets鈥 Mexican Women and the Sugar Beet Industry in 九一麻豆制片厂, 1917-1927鈥
Runner-up ($600): Henry Curcio: 鈥淚rony in Plato鈥檚 Crito: Making Sense of Socratic Disobedience"
2022
First-place prize ($1000) Ruth Aardsma Benton: 鈥淐hallenging Colonialism through Religion: Connections Between Colonialism, Power, and Religion in Colonial Uganda"
Runner-up prize ($600) Eric Morningstar: 鈥淎ll for The Glory of God: Reconstructing the Jesuit Perception of Odawa Female Identity in New France, 1660-1675鈥
2021
First place prize ($1000) Jason Rose: 鈥淢entalit茅s and the Search for Total History in the Works of Annalistes, Foucault, and Microhistory"
Runner-up prize ($600) Austin Avison: 鈥淒elusional Mitigation in Religious and Psychological Forms of Self-Cultivation: Buddhist and Clinical Insight on Delusional Symptomatology鈥
2020
First place prize ($500) Dale Brown: 鈥淭he Promise of Higher Education in Prison: Cognition, Character, and Citizenship"
Runner-up prize ($300) Mitchell Winget: 鈥淔reedom鈥檚 Paradox鈥