Gordon McClure Memorial Communications Prize
33 thesises
2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016
2026
- Hong, Qianhui (Natasha) — Desert Under Unequal Conditions: Meritocracy, Luck, and Moral Worth (Other)
- Lam, Navya L. — The Fairy and the Goddess: Lady Audley and Clara Talboys as Competing Models of Femininity (Other)
- Yu, Clara — The Tasmanian Devil: A Genomic Arms Race Against Extinction (Other)
2025
- Kottom, Luke — Beyond the Battleground: T.H. Huxley’s Complex Vision of Science and Religion in Victorian Britain (Other)
- Speer, Edward — The Good Life+: Well-Being in Virtual Worlds (Other)
- Won, Elizabeth — Reliable Unreliability – Narrative Bias in Autofiction (Other)
2024
- Liaw, Sarah Yuan Ni — The Paradox of Authentic Happiness and Existential Suffering (Other)
- Nkurumeh, Emeka — Qital and Jihad: The Faces of Holy War in Islam (Other)
- Redmond, Heidi — The Woman Who Waits No More (Other)
2023
- Kunnam, Shwetha S. — The Influence of Négritude and Black Postcolonial Thought on Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Play (Other)
- Mendoza, Aramis Josephine — Dismantling The Help: The Hollywoodization of The Civil Rights Movement in 1963 (Other)
- Mendoza, Lark — Good Expectations: The Paradox of Expecting Great Things (Other)
2022
- Gorokhovsky, Elia Peter — The Development of the Research Journal and the Prehistory of Peer Review in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Other)
- Lee, Margaret Rachel — Controlling the Female Body: Obsession and Loss of Autonomy in Lolita and "Berenice" (Other)
- Palumbo, Elsa K. — Happiness is Hedonic: In Defense of a Subjective Account of Well-Being (Other)
2021
- Hwang, Saehui — History of Hearing Aids (Other)
- Liu, Victoria — Ahab’s Solipsism and the Illusion of Self-Reliance: The Career of Herman Melville (Other)
- White, Ryan P. — Fairness, Morality, and Pursuing an Ideal System of Distributive Justice (Other)
2020
- de Mello, Lucca Sukman — What Criteria Should be Used to Determine Whether an Automated Decision Procedure is Fair? (Other)
- Liu, Victoria — "On Lily Bart's Specializations and Survival in the Upper Class": What Women Want: Desire and the Modern American Novel (Other)
- Pham, Karen V. — "Otherness": Examining the Relationship Between Human and Non-Human (Other)
2019
- Daghlian, George Heros — A History of Budgetary Politics in the United States (Other)
- Liang, Crystal — Recollected Sanity (Other)
- Maskara, Nishad — Electromagnetism is Time Reversible and the Magnetic Field is a Dynamical Condition (Other)
2018
- Chan, Jonathan Kai Shun — Moral Distinctions between Passive and Active Euthanasia (Other)
- Nair, Maitreyi A. — An Exploration of Letter-Writing in Jane Austen's Work (Other)
- Shankar, Tara Anjali — Why Cervantes' History is His Story (Other)
2017
- Grover, Kshitij — Living with Sisyphus (Other)
- Kaczmarek, Zofii A. — Gaudy Night Essay (Other)
- Lin, Christina Y. — The Rhetoric of Change (Other)
2016
- Balestri, Leonardo — Fifty Years of Dividing Lines: From Selma and Montgomery, 1965 to Ferguson, 2015 (Other)
- Hoza, William Michael — A Can of Worms (Other)
- Nety, Suchita Patil — Feminine Intellectual Fertility in the Writing of Christine de Pizan (Other)