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2006 Department of English Graduate Awards

Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize /Academy of American Poets Award: Chris Michel
Spiro Peterson Award: excellence in scholarship, research, and teaching: Jay Dolmage
Outstanding Teacher Awards: given to one MA student and one Ph.D. student who exemplify excellence as classroom teachers: Jen Cellio Miller; Heather Stuart

2006 Department of English Undergraduate Awards

Presented annually. For information on how to apply for these awards, please refer to the Undergraduate Awards page.

Harris S. Abrahams Prize / Academy of American Poets Award: Winner: Christine Zaino
THE CARL R. GREER/ANDREW D. HEPBURN SENIOR PRIZES IN ENGLISH: First: Anthony Edward Costic, Non-Fiction; Second: Patrick Elliott Alexander, Non-Fiction; Third: Vanessa Schutz, Journalism; Fourth: Adam Stier, Fiction; Honorable Mention: David Joseph Martin (Fiction), Michelle Mitchell (Journalism), Bryan Grainger (Poetry)
THE EDWARD J. MONTAINE JUNIOR PRIZES IN ENGLISH: First: Jacqueline Elizabeth Kari, Poetry; Second: Emily Benson, Fiction; Third: Jack Samuel Rowe, Fiction; Honorable Mention: Megan Ruth Collard (Non-Fiction), Megan Bernice Hadley (Non-Fiction), Owen Charles Cantrell (Poetry), Denise Fung Cheng (Journalism)
THE ALMY AWARDS IN CRITICAL STUDIES: Rebecca Alison Payne; Patrick Elliott Alexander
THE DANIEL AND MARGARET BOOKWALTER SOPHOMORE AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING: Fiction Roger W. Marks; Poetry Claire Elizabeth Keys
THE MARY JO PRIEST MEMORIAL AWARDS IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION: Instructional Text (Print): Caroline (Carly) Wiegand
Linguistics Award for Outstanding Performance: Winner: Faith Kelley; Title: “How Borrowed English Nouns are Assigned Gender and Declension in Russian.”

2006 College Composition Award Winners

Listed below are the award winners for College Composition for the year 2006. Congratulations to the students and their instructors. Information on how to submit papers for future awards may be found at The Composition website.

The Oxford Copy Shop Award: reflective narrative: Winner: Gloria Perez; Title:“My American Dream”; Instructor: Heidi McKee
The Miami Co-op Book Store Awards: expository or persuasive essay: Winner: Abigail M Courlas; Title: “No Child Left Behind”; Instructor: Heidi McKee; —; Winner: Mitch Essig; Title: “Diamonds in the Rough”; Instructor: Joe Squance
The DuBois Book Store Award: literary analysis: Winner: Nancy C Dombek; Title: “The Diary of Minnie Wright”; Instructor: Elizabeth Claussen
The Miami University Book Store Award: literary analysis: Winner: Will Runyan; Title: “Cognitive Dissonance at Sea: How I Met Seu Jorge”; Instructor: Michael Stratton
The Miami Co Op Bookstore ESL Award: best papers of English 108 and 109: Winners: Huimin Yu; Luciana Caixeta; Szu Hua Lee

2004 CAS Outstanding Teacher Awards

Elizabeth Mackay and Lisa Suter have won the College of Arts and Science Outstanding Teacher Award. Liz is a third-year doctoral student in literature; Lisa is a fourth-year doctoral student in composition and rhetoric. The College recognizes three graduate students each year for this honor and $500 award. This is the third year that the Outstanding Teacher Award has been won by English department graduate students: Amie Fletcher, MA/literature, received the award in 2004 and Brenda Helmbrecht, Ph.D./composition and rhetoric, in 2003.