The College Writing Board Announces the Winners of the 2007 Ossip Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing
12/11/07
The Ossip Awards recognize and promote fine nonfiction prose writing in the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Cash prizes are awarded for winning entries in the categories of research writing (projects involving substantial analysis of primary sources or data) and critical writing (projects involving critical analysis of a text, artifact, problem, issue, or experience). Submissions are judged by the College Writing Board, and awards are acknowledged at the annual Honors Convocation.
for Research Writing
First Prize
From Slaves to Solidarity: The Story of the Coal Miners of Somerset County during the Great Coal Strike of 1922
Jacob Vanzin, History
Written for Edward Muller
Second Prize
Fool’s Gold: Mining and its Impact on Peruvian Development
Jacob Levine, Economics
Written for Marla Ripoll
Third Prize
An Architectural Analysis of Longhouse Form, Spatial Organization, and an Argument for Privatized Space in Northern Iroquoia
Nathan Browne, Anthropology
Written for Kathleen Allen
for Critical Writing
First Prize
The Past in “In the Village”
James Ian Spence, English Literature
Written for Mariolina Salvatori
Second Prize
Finding Humor in Horace’s “Integer Vitae”
David Chaiffetz, Classics
Written for Mae Smethurst
Third Prize
Evolutionary Siblings: Similarities between the Models
of Darwin and Spencer
John Hay, History and Philosophy of Science
Written for Jeffrey Schwartz
Nominations for 2008 awards will be accepted from February 1 through May 15, 2008. The 2008 competition will consider pieces written for courses taken at the University of Pittsburgh during the 2006-07 or 2007-08 academic years. Read the complete 2008 guidelines (PDF).