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Yale college senior essay prize: the harvey m. applebaum ‘59 award.

Yale College seniors, does your senior essay include research with government information? If so, you may be eligible to win the Harvey M. Applebaum ‘59 Award–and a prize of $500 !

The Applebaum Award is given annually to an outstanding senior essay, from any discipline, that makes use of government information. If you used government documents or data in any format from the United States federal government, the Government of Canada, the European Union, the United Nations, or the Food & Agriculture Organization, consider submitting your essay by 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 26 !

For more information about the Applebaum Award and to submit your senior essay for consideration, visit guides.library.yale.edu/Applebaum . If you have further questions about eligibility or the prize, please contact Kenya Flash , Librarian for Political Science, Global Affairs, and Government Information. 

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Prizes by department or subject, andrew d. white (1902).

ANDREW D. WHITE (1902). First awarded in 1907, the gift of Professor Guy Stanton Ford of the University of Illinois in honor of Andrew D. White, B.A. 1853; endowed by a bequest from Mr. White. For the best essays, one in American history, one in European history, and one in third-world history by freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and graduate students and for the best essay in European, English, or third-world history by a junior, senior, or graduate student. Senior essays in English, European, or third-world history in fulfillment of the major requirement are considered as entered in competition. All essays must be completed during the current academic year.

Canadian History Prize (1999)

CANADIAN HISTORY PRIZE (1999). Awarded by the Canadian Studies Committee for the best essay in Canadian Studies.

Edwin W. Small (1990)

EDWIN W. SMALL (1990). Carmen R. Small in memory of Edwin W. Small, B.A. 1930, M.A. 1934. Awarded in recognition and furtherance of outstanding work in the field of American history.

George Washington Egleston (1901)

GEORGE WASHINGTON EGLESTON (1901). George Washington Egleston of Eardisley, Herefordshire, England, brother of Thomas Egleston, B.A. 1854, and William C. Egleston, B.A. 1861. For the best essay on American history completed by a resident student during the current academic year. Doctoral dissertations presented in the Department of History in the appropriate field are considered as entered in competition.

John Addison Porter - American History Prize (1901)

JOHN ADDISON PORTER-AMERICAN HISTORY (1901). Mrs. Porter in memory of her husband, John A. Porter, B.A. 1878. To a junior or senior for the best original essay completed during the current academic year on a subject bearing upon the political, constitutional, or economic history, condition, or future of the United States. Essays submitted by seniors majoring in American history in fulfillment of the major requirement are considered as entered in competition.

Max Bildner Prize (2001)

MAX BILDNER PRIZE (2001). Awarded for the best senior essay in Latin American history.

Percival W. Clement Prize (1994)

PERCIVAL W. CLEMENT PRIZE (1994). Awarded to a junior or senior for the best thesis in the support of the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America and the first ten amendments. Also open to students in American Studies, History and Political Science.

Richard Hegel Prize for a Senior Essay on New Haven (2001)

RICHARD HEGEL PRIZE FOR A SENIOR ESSAY ON NEW HAVEN (2001). Sponsored by the Yale Club of New Haven, the Hegel Prize was awarded for the first time in celebration of Yale’s Tercentennial year. The prize is named in honor of Richard Hegel because of his enduring commitment to the partnership of the University and the City of New Haven. The Hegel Prize is to be awarded for an outstanding senior essay pertaining to the greater New Haven area. Senior essays from any department of Yale College are eligible.

Robert Gries (1981)

ROBERT D. GRIES (1981). Robert D. Gries. For the best essay in History other than American or European (including Russia).

Winifred Sturley (1984)

WINIFRED STURLEY (1984). Richard A. Sturley, B.E. 1949, M.Eng. 1950, and Michael F. Sturley B.A. 1977, J.D. 1981, in honor of Winifred Sturley, M.A. Hon. 1955. Awarded to the student in the History Department who submits the best senior essay on a topic in English history.

Wolfgang Leonhard Prize in Russian and East European Studies

WOLFGANG LEONHARD PRIZE IN RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES. Established by the gift of James Leitner, B.A. 1975, the prize honors a distinguished former member of the faculty in Russian and East European Studies. Awarded to the senior who has written the most outstanding senior essay related to Russia or East Europe. Submission deadline: April 21 2023, 3:00 p.m. Submit essays by email .

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Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics

The senior essay.

The EPE Senior Essay

A senior essay is required for the major and should constitute an intellectual culmination of the student’s work in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. The essay should fall within the student’s area of concentration and may be written within a relevant seminar, with the consent of the instructor and approval of the director of undergraduate studies, provided that the EPE essay constitutes most of the grade for the seminar. The senior essay must be written by the EPE deadline, which may in some cases be earlier than the course deadline, and the overall grade for the course will constitute the grade for the EPE essay. If no appropriate seminar is offered in which the essay might be written, the student may instead enroll in EP&E 491 with approval of the director of undergraduate studies and a faculty member who will supervise the essay. Students who wish to undertake a more substantial yearlong essay may enroll in EP&E 492, 493. In either case the grade will be calculated on the basis of evaluations by the primary and secondary readers, in the proportion of two thirds to one third.

The senior essay reflects more extensive research than an ordinary Yale College seminar paper and employs a method of research appropriate to its topic, which should address a topic in each of the three dimensions – normative, institutional, and economic. Some papers might be written entirely from library sources; others may employ field interviews and direct observation; still others may require statistical or econometric analysis. The student should consult frequently with the seminar instructor or adviser, offering partial and preliminary drafts for criticism. One semester essays should be about 40-50 pages in length, while year-long essays should be about 80-100 pages long. 

Whether students are writing in a thesis or in a seminar or 491-493, regular attendance at the EPE senior essay workshop and contact with the advisor is mandatory.

Click here for a list of past EPE senior essay titles.

The Advisor and Second Reader

The senior essay grade will be calculated on the basis of evaluations by the primary and secondary readers, in the proportion of two thirds to one third.  All students and their faculty advisors devise a schedule for regular meetings to discuss progress on the essay and consider drafts throughout the writing process. All students will also choose a Second Reader, regardless if the essay is written independently or in a seminar.

Students should consult frequently with the seminar instructor or adviser, offering preliminary but carefully written and organized drafts for criticism.  The body of a one-semester essay should be about 40-50 pages in length.  The body of a year-long essay should be about 80-100 pages in length.

Joint Senior Essay

If an EPE student decides to write a joint senior essay, he or she must satisfy each major’s distinct senior essay requirements in one senior essay.  Also, please know that no additional overlap in course credits is permitted.  Additionally, you must meet with the EPE DUS for approval if you want to write a joint senior essay.

The Senior Essay Consultant

An advanced graduate student from one of EP&E’s affiliate departments will serve as a senior essay consultant, available to essay writers for consultation on the formulation of research questions, integrating normative and positive analysis, working with data and evidence, and drafting and revising essays.

The Senior Essay Writing Workshop

The Department of EP&E offers senior essay writers the opportunity to participate in a workshop organized by the Senior Essay Consultant and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Participants will share proposals, literature reviews, and drafts of their essays amongst themselves, receiving feedback on ideas and methods from their peers. Students writing the essay in a seminar are require to attend at least one of these workshops; students writing the essay as an independent study are required to attend all three. All meetings will be held in the first-floor conference room in the EP&E building at 31 Hillhouse Avenue.

All seniors must submit a Senior Essay Form and Requirements Progress Report (both available on the EP&E forms page) signed by their senior essay advisor, indicating their writing plans (dates TBD).  If you are writing your essay in in the fall semester the due date is December 4, 2023; if writing a spring semester or yearlong essay the due date is April 15, 2024.  Students and their advisors are encouraged to develop their own deadlines and mechanisms for marking progress, but the Department maintains deadlines, which correspond to meetings of the Senior Essay Writing Workshop, for both participants and non-participants.

Submission and Grading

On the day the senior essay is due, students should submit an electronic copy of their essay to the EPE registrar and cc the Senior Essay Consultant and their two readers by noon of the due date. Any recognized standard writing format is acceptable. You must list the names of both readers on the title page.  Grades are determined by averaging the grades of the advisor (2/3) and the second reader (1/3).

The EP&E Program awards two departmental senior essay prizes -

• The George Hume Prize is awarded to the senior essay that best investigates both the normative and empirical components of public issues.
• The William H. Orrick Jr. Prize is awarded to the essay that best integrates EP&E’s constituent disciplines while illuminating a concrete problem.

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2023-2024 Undergraduate Deadlines

January 23, 2024.

• Spring Senior Essay Prospectus form due for an essay written in PLSC 480

January 26, 2024

Spring Senior Essay Prospectus form due for an essay written in a seminar.

April 26, 2024

Spring 2024 senior essay due by 4:00 p.m.

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Eight writers awarded yale’s windham-campbell prizes.

The 2024 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. Top row, left to right: Hanif Abdurraqib, Christopher Chen, Jen Hadfield, and Sonya Kelly. Bottom row, left to right: Deirdre Madden, m. nourbeSe Philip, Kathryn Scanlan, and Christina Sharpe.

Yale University today announced the eight recipients of the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The recipients, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will each receive $175,000 to support their work.

The recipients are, in fiction, Deirdre Madden (Ireland) and Kathryn Scanlan (United States); in nonfiction, Christina Sharpe (Canada/United States) and Hanif Abdurraqib (United States); in drama, Christopher Chen (United States) and Sonya Kelly (Ireland); and in poetry, m. nourbeSe Philip (Canada/Trinidad and Tobago) and Jen Hadfield (Canada/United Kingdom).

Each recipient was contacted directly by Michael Kelleher, director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes, who shared with them the news of their selections.

“ Each year, I feel incredibly honored to call the eight recipients: to be the messenger delivering the entirely unexpected and life-changing news that they have been awarded the prize,” said Kelleher. “It is clear — now, more than ever — how challenging working in the creative industries, around the world, can be. A Windham-Campbell Prize is intended to offer financial security, and through this freedom, the time and space to write, to think, to create without pressure or expectation.”

The awards will be presented in person in the fall during an annual international literary festival at Yale. 

The prizes were established in 2013 through a gift from writer Donald Windham in memory of Sandy Campbell, his partner of 40 years. Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, part of the Yale University Library, they are conferred annually to eight writers working in English anywhere in the world in fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. Writers can be awarded the prize during any stage of their careers. To date, 99 writers representing 21 countries have received the Windham-Campbell Prize.

The recipients, who are nominated confidentially and judged anonymously, don’t know they are being considered for the prize until Kelleher contacts them about the judges’ decision.

“ I’ve been walking around in a daze — in a dream — since receiving the life-changing news of this prize,” said Kathryn Scanlan, whose most recent novel, “Kick the Latch,” brings to life the world of horse racing. “It’s impossible to adequately thank the judges, nominators, and Donald Windham for the generosity and support of this outrageous gift.”

Fiction recipient Deirdre Madden, who has authored eight novels, often begins her narratives from deceptively simple premises — the birthday of a friend (“Molly Fox’s Birthday”); a chance meeting with a stranger (“Authenticity”) — that grow into complex and elegant meditations on art and experience, love and knowledge, memory and meaning.   

The work of Hanif Abdurraqib, the author of three books of nonfiction, covers a wide range of subjects — Michael Jackson and moon walks, Sun Ra and NASA missions — incorporating the personal and the political with joy and seeming effortlessness.

“ Gratitude is a practice, and is not a stagnant one, it is a practice that grows, continually, and it has grown mightily for me here, especially as I see the company I am in,” Abdurraqib said. “The real gift of doing the work is getting to do it alongside writers you admire, and to share some decoration with them is an added joyful bonus.”

Nonfiction recipient Christina Sharpe’s work explores the complex relationship between language and Black being. Her 2023 book, “Ordinary Notes,” fuses archival work, cultural criticism, memoir, and photography in a series of 248 numbered notes that reflect on the “ordinary extraordinary matter of black life.”

Dramatist Sonya Kelly has authored five full-length plays and numerous scripts for film, radio, and television. From her first play, “The Wheelchair on My Face” (2011), to her most recent, “The Last Return” (2022), Kelly wields farce and satire to expose the cruelty and chaos roiling beneath the veneer of civilization.

“ There is now a dent in my floor where my jaw hit it, which will serve as a permanent reminder of this deeply humbling moment,” Kelly said. “It takes a village to raise a playwright. Thank you every single person whose work and wisdom illuminated the way to this incredible honor. Words fail. How delightfully ironic.”

Playwright Christopher Chen has authored more than a dozen innovative and politically provocative plays, including his most recent, “The Headlands,” (2020), a neo-noir that engages vast themes — class and race, death and desire — with a structure that might best be described as musical.   

Poetry recipient m. nourbeSe Philip produces work across genres that deeply engages with the complexities of art, colonialism, identity, and race, with a particular interest in forgotten and suppressed histories. For example, her book-length poem, “Zong!” (2008) concerns the 1781 murder of 142 Africans committed by a slave-ship crew so that the vessel’s owner could secure insurance payments. The poem’s words are drawn entirely from records of a 1783 court case that concluded the massacre was legal.

Jen Hadfield, a visual artist and the author of four poetry collections, draws inspiration from her experiences living, working, and traveling in Canada and the Shetland Islands. Her poems “slow down time, reveal overlooked details of the natural world, and forge complex relationships between language, history, and place,” according to the judges’ citation.

“ It's a life-changer: it feels like true creative freedom,” Hadfield said of being named a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize.

Biographies of the recipients and additional background on the prizes, including past recipients, are available on  the Windham-Campbell Prizes website .

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Senior Essays Nominated for Prizes

Each year, 30-50 students write a senior essay in economics.  Of these, 10-15 are nominated for a prize by both the student's advisor and a second reader. These nominated essays are posted below with the permission of the authors.

A committee comprised of faculty members from the Department of Economics reads and selects the prize winning essays :

• The Charles Heber Dickerman Memorial Prize      Awarded to the best departmental essay.
• The Ronald Meltzer/Cornelia Awdziewicz Economic Award      Awarded to one or two other outstanding senior essays.
• The Ellington Prize      Awarded to the best departmental essay in the field of finance.

Senior Essays Nominated for Prizes, by Year

• Bruno Moscarini:  Skewed Uninsurable Income Risk in Incomplete Market Economies
• Ayumi Sudo:  Effect of childcare needs on parents labor supply: Evidence from remote schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Tilden Chao:  When the Dust Settles: How Cleaning Up America's Most Toxic Sites Affects Renters and Homeowners
• Crystal Wang:  Police Brutality and 911 Calls
• Rosa Kleinman:  Transaction Costs and the Take-up of Social Safety Net Programs: Evidence from the Combined Application Project
• Aaron Dickstein:  The Impact of Economic Conditions on Decision-Making: Evidence from Retail Stock Trading
• Sarah Moon:  Partial Identification of Individual-Level Parameters Using Aggregate Data in a Nonparametric Binary Outcome Model
• Sasha Thomas:  Consumption Inequality Within Households: An Analysis on Budget Allocations and Resource Shares in the UK
• Michael Ning: Linkages between Venture Capital and Public Markets, and Venture Capital Cyclicality 
• Noah Friedlander:  Regressive As Well As Unequal?
• Raphael Berz:  The evaluation of the Nutrition North Canada subsidy and implications in imperfectly competitive and remote communities
• Justin Ye:  Trust, Insurance, and Demand in Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence From the Short-Term Rental Market
• Jack Hirsch:  Optimal Auction Mechanisms in the Presence of Regret
• Kamila Janmohamed:  Estimating Policy Effects With Staggered Implementation and Multiple Periods: Another Look at Family Caps
• Brian Zhu: Regime-switching factor models with applications to portfolio selection and demand estimation
• Michael Barresi:  Unilateral Carbon Policies and Multilateral Coalitions An Analysis of Coalition Stability under the Optimal Unilateral Policy
• Kueho Choi:  Unemployment Insurance and Job Quality:Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Jack Kelly:  Who Benefits from Multiple Choice(s)? : The Equilibrium Impacts of Test-Optional Admissions
• Aiden Lee:  The Motherhood Penalty: Assessing the Labor Market Effects of Childcare Closures During the COVID-19
• Salma Shaheen: The Impact of Violent Political Conflict on Child Labor: Evidence from the Palestinian Territories
• Marley Finley:  Girls Who Code: A Randomized Field Experiment on Gender-Based Hiring Discrimination

Rohan Garg:  Should Central Banks Lend to Local Governments in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the Federal Reserve’s Covid-19 Municipal Liquidity Facility

Lauren Harris:  Estimating Excess Female Attrition From STEM Occupations

Adrian Kulesza:  Transportation Infrastructure and Knowledge Diffusion

Hannah Moreno:  Effect of Romania’s E.U. Accession on Regional Emigration and Development

Teodora Tyankova:  Demystifying the Economic Impact of the Refugee Crisis: An Analysis of Revenues and Expenditures Associated With Refugee Flows and Stocks into Bulgaria

Lucy Zhu:  California’s Three Strikes Law Reformed: What Happens to Crime Rates When Stealing a Slice of Pizza No Longer Means Life Behind Bars

• Narek Alexanian:  The Equilibrium Impact of Robots on Labor Markets
• David Adelberg:   Text-Based Factor Models of Equity Prices
• Sarah Hamerling:   Information, Insurance, and Interaction: The Municipal Bond Market after the Monolines
• Sienna Gough:   Evidence and Explanations for the Reversal of the Conditional Jumbo-Conforming Mortgage Rate Spread
• Jacquelyn Du:    Examining the Effect of Stress on Decision Making Under Risk and Ambiguity
• Zona Zhang:   Leverage Divergence between the State-owned Sector and the Private Sector in China
• Anthony Deaconn:   A Dynamic Programming Model for U.S. Energy Security
• Saul Downie:  UBERING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: The Impact of Ridesharing on Drunk Driving
• Martin Lim:  Estimating the Effect of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on DREAMers
• Kevin Huang:  The Regional and Sectoral Consequences of Leaving NAFTA
• Jinchen Zou:  A Program Treading Water: Measuring the Eect of Changes in National Flood Insurance Program Premiums on Houston Housing Markets
• Neeraj Shekhar:  A Belief-Based Model of Investor Trading Behavior
• Harry Browne:  Braving the Uncharted Sea: Effects of the IOER – ON RRP Spread on the Federal Funds Market and Overnight Reverse Repurchase Facility
• Eliot Levmore:  Approximate Vickrey Auctions
• Tijana Stanic:  The Effect of the Sunshine Act on Industry Payments to Physicians in Orthopedic Surgery and Other Surgical Specialties
• Hannah Yang:  Wealth Inequality between Americans: Exploring Recent Trends in the Racial Wealth Gap
• Anna Russo:  A Head Start for the Whole Family: Assessing the Labor Supply Response of Mothers of Head Start Participants *
• Amen Jalal:  The Targeting Performance and Short-Term Welfare Effects of Female Income Support Programs: Evidence from Pakistan **
• Neha Anand:  Investing in the Womb: Identifying Gender Discrimination Through the Lens of Parental Ultrasound **
• Alicia Borja Alvarez:  Did Central Clearing of Interest Rate Products Impact Market Activity? ***
• Katherine Bradley:  Relative and Absolute Income Mobility Variation in the United States: 1968-1997
• Andrew Brod:  Education and Wage-Based Statistical Discrimination
• Alexis Henkel:  The Effect of Acquisitions on Pharmaceutical Drug Prices
• Amelia Ricketts:  Using the Green Card Marriage to Model Demand for United States Immigrant Visas
• Adam Harris:  Economic Geography and Deportation
• Shane Kim:   Dutch Auctions and Reserve Prices: A Field Experiment on the Internet
• Gabriel Pombal-Fritsch:  Are Government Spending Multipliers State Dependent? Evidence from U.K. Historical Data
• Michael Wang:  Flu Vaccines on College Campuses: Survey of Challenges and Local Intervention
• Philip Groenwegen:  Squatting, Sniping, and online Strategy: Analyzing Early and Late Bidding in eBay Auctions
• William Van Fossen:  The Effect of Supermarket Entrance on Nearby Residential Property Values in the United States from 1997 to 2015
• Daniel Giraldo:  Taxation and Migration: Evidence from Major League Baseball
• Zhuohan Li:  Do Legislators Consider the Economic Vulnerability of their Constituents when Liberalising Trade? An Empirical Examination of the Voting Record on NAFTA

*  Indicates the Dickerman Prize recipient **  Indicates the Ronald Meltzer/Cornelia Awdziewicz Economic Award recipients ***  Indicates the Ellington Prize recipient

• Adrian Rodrigues:  Panacea or Pariah: The Labor Market Returns of Private For-profit Institutions and Community Colleges
• Anthony Tokman:  Crime and the Geography of the City: Measuring the Effect of Crime on Urban Residential Patterns
• Apsara Iyer:  Agricultural and Mining Labor Interactions in Peru:A Long-Run Perspective (1571-1812)
• Avery Schwartz:  Arbitrage in the European Soccer Betting Market
• Darien Lee:  UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: Disincentive Effects on Job Search in the Great Recession
• Edward Kong:  Estimating Competitive Effects in Firm Entry with Applications in the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry
• Hugh Sullivan:  Environmental News and Noise in Financial Markets: Event Studies Concerning the Effect of Environmental Performance on Financial Performance
• Jason Brown:  Analyzing the Long-Term Performance of Activist Targets
• Jeffrey Guo:  Regional Differences in Consumer Confidence, Consumption, and Employment: 2001-2014
• Jonathan Lam:  Robo-Advisors: A Portfolio Management Perspective
• JP DeOliveira:  Is There a Case for a Brazilian Exit from the Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR)? A Quantitative Assessment of Policy Options
• Kenza Bouhaj:  The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993: Impact on Female Employment and Income
• Maia Eliscovich Sigal:  Socioeconomic Effects of Oil Drilling: The Case of Ecuador
• Siqi Wang:  ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND ENTRY DECISIONS: A Study of the Retail Home Improvement Sector from 2005-2011