Sowell Collection Essay Contest
 2015 Undergraduate AwardsGarrett Dewbre, "Responsibility, Reverence, and Reciprocity: The Life and Work of Barry Lopez," 1st prize Jenna Hay, "The Loss and Grief of Susan Brind Morrow," 2nd prize 2015 Graduate AwardsCaleb Roberts, "Isolation and Community in Wilderness," 1st prize Joseph Drake, "A Paradise, a Wasteland, A Home," 2nd prize 2014 Undergraduate AwardsElizabeth Hash, "Starting Fires: The Origin of Characters in "The Fireman" by Rick Bass," 1st prize Cecilia Morales, "Poetry, Fact and Environmental Consciousness in Gretel Ehrlich's The Future of Ice," 2nd prize Clara Bush, "Reciprocity in Music, Poetry, and the Natural World: Poems Inspired by Pattiann Rogers," honorable mention Emily Fox, "He Dreams of the Nile, The Stylistic Choices of Sandra Scofield in A Chance to See Egypt," honorable mention 2014 Graduate AwardsJoseph Drake, "In the morning the jungle had taken my socks...", 1st prize 2013 Undergraduate AwardsElizabeth Hash, "Get Out of Texas," 1st prize Sarah Roth, "A Return to Howling," 2nd prize Michael Austin, "Gretel Ehrlich and Island Isolation," honorable mention Shelby Thibodeaux, "How Much Can Love Endure?" honorable mention 2013 Graduate AwardsCatherine Baxter, "What we eat, what we grow, what we know: Personal reflections on Gary Paul Nabhan’s Desert Terroir: Exploring the unique flavors and sundry places of the borderlands," 1st prize Caleb Roberts, "Finding One’s Place in Pattiann Rogers’s Poem 'Achieving Perspective'," 2nd prize 2012 Undergraduate AwardsCari Babitzke, a paper on Plain Seeing by Sandra Scofield, 1st prize Quinn Smith, "Nature and Language in Susan Brind Morrow's The Names of Things," 2nd prize Jessica Schuhmann, "To Have and To Hold," 3rd prize 2012 Graduate AwardsAbraham Mata, "Gary Nabhan: A New Tool for Literary Critics in the Field of Spanish Colonial Literature," 1st prize Rolando J. Diaz, "Elements of Man Against Nature in Two Short Stories and One Poem by Barry Lopez," 2nd prize Jeff Farmer, "A Review of the Style and Techniques in the Works of Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan: Interdisciplinary Insights of History, Geography and Ethno-Botanical Culture," 3rd prize |