Kirkland Essay Prize
Essays should be no more than 10 pages; they may be essays prepared for a class assignment, but students should submit clean, ungraded copies. The paper should be anonymous, with a cover sheet with the student’s name and email address.
Recipients
Bailey Black ’24
“The History and Underlying Causes of Black Maternal Mortality through an Intersectional Lens”.
Ann Kennedy ’24
"The Separation of Lead and Water"
Lillian Norton-Brainerd ’23
"Bodies, (of) Water, and Power: Water Infrastructure as a Method of Colonization" (2023)
“Reimagining Space and Land Through Embodied Mapping and Art” (2022)
Mckela Kanu ’22
“Black Women, Privacy, and Labor”
Diamond Jackson ’21
“Black on the Track: Examining the Lived Experiences of Low-Income Black Women Athletes at Elite Institutions”
Gabriel DeJoseph ’19
“Loyalty and Morality: Religious Minorities in U.S. Politics”
Jade Alvillar ’18
Joany Lamur ’17
“Epigenetics & Black-White Disparities in Low Birth Weight”
Crystal Kim ’15
“The Fall and Rise and Fall Again of the Haleminis: the Comfort Women Redress Movement”
Lauren Howe ’14
“Past, Present and Future: The Effects of the Death of the Swift River Valley and the Birth of the Quabbin Reservoir on Local Residents”
Contact
Contact Name
Pavitra Sundar
Chair, Kirkland Endowment Advisory Committee
