To encourage and reward good writing in all disciplines, the University of Puget Sound awards Writing Excellence prizes on an annual basis, depending upon available funding.
Typically, a total of tenprizes ($250.00 each) are awarded:
- Two prizes in each category: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- One prize each for First-Year Seminars, Connections, and Graduate Programs
- One prize for a paper written on a topic related to race and pedagogy, regardless of the course in which it was written
For more information, please visit University of Puget Sound - Writing Excellence Awards.
Social Sciences
Traveling Desires: Enlightenment, Commodification and the Imperial Limits of Representation, Juliano Estrada Donatelli
Risk Factors for Youth Anxiety: The Role of Parenting Behaviors, Andrew Fox
The Lives and Stories of Celiac Disease, Ella Frazee
Choices in an Interdependent Economic Environment: Inequity Averson and Bargaining Games, Andrew Galbraith
The Global Gag Rule: An Ideological Policy’s Consequences for Reproductive and Global Health, Anna Galbraith
China’s Confucian Makeover, Rachael Gary
Internal Instability and Technology: Do Text Messages and Social Media Increase Levels of Internal Conflict?, Lucas Henken
Marriage, Divorce, and Domestic Violence in Israel's Orthodox Communities, Brea Kaye
Corruption and Consequences: Illegal Logging in Southeast Asia, Mike Knape
American Political Polarization, Alex McNeil
Hidden Adversity : Disclosure Among Other Overlooked Negative Outcomes of Invisible Disabilities, Sophia Pivnik
Woodrow Wilson's Place in Political Time: A Critique of Stephen Skowronek's The Politics Presidents Make, Alex Plant
Unipolarity and Its Benefits, Peter Russell
The Panamanian Puzzle : Successful Democratization and Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, Paige Saller
The Seductive Orchid, Ardea Smith
Online, On the Couch, or On the Move: The Contours of the Evolving Video Market, Morgan Taylor
Identifying the Threat to Museveni’s Manufactured Legitimacy: The Puzzle of Uganda’s 2021 Elections, Hannah Williams