2021-2022 Writing Award Winners

The John Hollowell Composition Program Awards

Sophia Topchiyan

Instructor: Emily Brauer Rogers, Lecturer, Department of English

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Best Argument Project Award

Niyati Reddy

Instructor: Patrick McBurney-Nicolay, TA, Department of English

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Best Advocacy Essay Award

Jack Demartino

Instructor: Bryce Lillmars, Lecturer, Department of English

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Best Analysis Essay Award

The Nora Folkenflik Memorial Essay Awards

Sarah Takayama Yang

Instructor: Virginia Jackson, Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Communication and Associate Professor, Department of English

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Best Essay in English 15

Colin Bolek

Instructor: Christine Connell, Lecturer, Humanities Core

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Best Essay in a Humanities Core Course

Jonathan Le

Instructor: Larisa Castillo, Associate Professor of Teaching, Humanities Core

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The Humanities Core Outstanding Website Project in Multimodal Writing Award

Connor Gerald Smith

Instructor: Daniela Chavez, TA, Department of English

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The Ariel Miranda Caldwell Memorial Short Story Award

Katrina Gervais

Instructor: Adam De Petris, TA, Programs in Writing and Poetry, Department of English

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The Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Poetry

Ta'hlia Davis

Instructor: Rebecca Schultz, Director of Writing 30/31 and Writing 90/91, Department of English

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The Bret Baldwin Memorial Poetry Award

Jackson Jordan

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The Howard Babb Memorial Essay Award

Margaret O’Hara

Instructor: Christopher Goffard, Literary Journalism, Department of English

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The Literary Journalism Writing Award

Kaye Bilbao Regalado

Instructor: Michael Malpass, TA, Department of English

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The Scott Kaufman Memorial Writing Award

The Upper-Division Writing Awards

Kristen Chastain

Instructor: Laura O'Connor, Associate Professor, Department of English

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Award for Best Writing Portfolio or Electronic Portfolio

Lisette Moran

Instructor: Laura E. Enriquez, Associate Professor, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies

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Award for Excellent Upper-Division Academic Writing in Social Sciences and Social Ecology

Juli Ramirez

Instructor: Carrie J. Noland, Professor of French, Department of European Languages and Studies

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Award for Excellent Upper-Division Academic Writing in Humanities and Arts

Award for Best Public or Professional Writing

Abigail Rosas

Instructor: Patrick Hong, Lecturer, Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Esmeralda Martinez

Instructor: Patrick Hong, Lecturer, Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Briana Peterson

Instructor: Patrick Hong, Lecturer, Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Alina Vizcaya Reyes

Instructor: Patrick Hong, Lecturer, Henry Samueli School of Engineering