Congratulations to the following CES associates for receiving awards in recognition of academic excellence, outstanding individual qualities, or other achievements.

• Oluchukwu Amadife (2025) received the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize - awarded to students with the best essays that explore the principles of free government - for her senior thesis entitled "Reimagining French Universalism: Le Prix Littéraire de la Porte Dorée and Migrant Recognition."

• Maeve Brennan (2026) received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - awarded to students showing the greatest promise in the field of history and literature - for her project entitled "From Toxins, to Justice, to Health: The Everyone's Backyard Newsletter (1982-97) and the Transformation of the Antitoxics Movement."
  

• Leonardo D’Amico (2025) received the Padma Desai Prize in Economic Science for the most outstanding dissertation by a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics.

• Addie Esposito (2025) received the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize for her senior thesis entitled "The Berlin Wall Still Cuts Through the Bundestag: East/West Divides on Personal and National Identity Among German Parliamentarians." She also received the Sophia Freund Prize for graduating summa cum laude with one of the highest grade point averages of her class.

• Taylor Fang (2025) was awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize - awarded to students with the best senior thesis in the Sociology Department - for her project entitled "Without Meaning to." She also received the Lucy Allen Paton Prize in the Humanities and the Reuben A. Browser Prize for achieving excellence in the humanities.

• Caroline Gage (2025) was awarded the Judith Vichniac Thesis Prize in Social Studies - awarded to students with the best senior thesis on a country in Europe - for her project entitled "Sono Una Donna: Women and the Creation of Fascist Myth in Italy, 1922-2022."

• McGowin Grinstead (2026) was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Edward Eager Memorial Prize - awarded to the best creative writing by an undergraduate - for her project entitled "Devotions."

• Connor Huey (2025) received the James Gordon Bennett Prize - awarded to students with the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental, domestic, or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest - for his project "The Progressive Paradox: How the Democratic Party Won Rural Western Washington, 1976-2024."

• Serena Jampel (2025) was awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize — one of Harvard College's highest honors — and the John Clive Prize for her senior thesis entitled "Capturing Hannah Duston: The Making of an American Legend."

• Aqil Merchant (2025) received the Mary Steedly Prize in Anthropology for showing exemplary commitment to the field of Anthropology.

• Maya Rosen (2025) received the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize in Social Science - awarded for an essay of highest distinction - for her senior thesis entitled "Prescribing Liberty: Medical Freedom movements in America, 1910-1931."