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UGA Libraries' Undergraduate Research Awards

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The 2020 Award Winners announced

The UGA Main Libraries have announced the Spring 2020 award recipients on their website libs.uga.edu. We are proud to congratulate all of the deserving students, and especially our history majors who swept the senior division! See the UGA Main Library website for details:

Since 2007, the UGA Libraries has sponsored the Undergraduate Research Awards, which provide cash prizes for excellence in research and academic inquiry. All UGA undergraduates conducting research are eligible.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards! All our applicants provided us with insights into their research process, describing impressively creative and sophisticated projects which demonstrate both a commitment to high standards for their academic work and their passion for research. Awards were announced during the Virtual CURO Symposium on April 21, 2020.

2020 Winners

Senior Division 

First Place

Valerie King, "An Experiment in Reading: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Ethical Citation Practices"

Majors: History, Philosophy, and Women's Studies

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bradley Bassler, Philosophy

Librarian Mentor: Emily Luken

Runners Up

Elizabeth Goggin, "The Confederate Diaspora: Race, Slavery, and Reconciliation in the Americas"

Majors: History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cassia Roth, History

Librarian Mentor: Jill Severn

Ellie McQuaig, "How We Begin to Remember: Church, State, and World War II Remembrance in the GDR"

Majors: History and German

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miranda Pollard, History

Librarian Mentor: Diane Trap

1st-3rd Year Division 

First Place

Emma Bay Dickinson, "Landscape and Local Determinants of Non-breeding Bird-Use in Powerlines"

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Hall, Ecology

Librarian Mentor: Kelsey Forester

Runners Up

Ayah Abdelwahab, "Is America Failing Its Workers? A US Report Card on Workers’ Rights"

Faculty Mentor: Dr. K. Chad Clay, Public and International Affairs

Librarian Mentor: Elizabeth White

Mennah Abdelwahab, "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Rights Education"

Faculty Mentor: Dr. K. Chad Clay, Public and International Affairs

Librarian Mentor: Elizabeth White

Jurors' Choice Award

Zainub Ali, "Kashmiri Azadi: Forgotten voices in diplomacy"

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rusty Brooks

Librarian Mentor: Elizabeth White

 

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