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Prizes and Fellowships

Jay Rosen American Studies Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded each year to recognize an outstanding American Studies major. The Jay Rosen Scholarship Fund is an award made in 1997 in honor of Jay Rosen, a former American Studies major. The criteria are few: financial need, 3.5 or better GPA and American Studies major. It is an endowment fund and the scholarship comes from the earnings of the fund.

2024
Garrison Guzzeau
2023
Vivian Bui
2022
Jane Clarke
2021
Dori-Taylor Carter
2020
Mara Kelly
2018
Nicholas Anderson
2013
Rhaina Cohen
2012
Rhaina Cohen
2011
Adam Yalowitz
2011
Victoria Scheerer
2010
Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar
 

Carl Smith Prize for Outstanding Student Essay in American Studies

2024
Jane Clarke

Playgrounds or Classrooms:  Visions of Global Engagement in U.S. Children's Literature, 1989-1941

Isabel Podolsky

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same:  Navigating Nostalgia and Reinvention in Upper Midwestern "Main Streets"
2023
Maddie Brown

How the Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers Made Abortion Gothic

Dori-Taylor Carter

How Filipinx American and Asian American Community Organizers Mobilize the 2020 Census
2022
 Daisy Conant

Come out Fighting with Truth Beauty and the Womanly Way:  Reading Lesbian Newspapers as Discursive and Physical Tools of Community Building in Chicago, 1971-1980

Caleb Young

Sanctuary and Sovereignty in the Pacific:  Asylum Policy as Imperial Control in the Marina Islands
2021
Keerti Gopal

The Green Dream:  Framing and Youth Participation in the Sunrise Movement

Matt Marth

Projects of Community:  Community Programs, the Chicago Housing Authority, and the Social and Civic Landscape of the Ida B. Wells Homes 1940-1950
2020
Hannah Lachow

Double-Edged Disclosure:  A Qualitative Analysis of How Female Friendship Influences Body Image

Amos Pomp

Institutional Logics of Inclusion in Outdoor Adventure Programming:  A Case Study of Organizational Conflict
2019
Aliana Ruxin

Seeds are Stories:  Toward Generating Collaborative Seed Systems

Grant Everly

The United States' Vertical Border:  A Case Study of the 2016 Ecuadorian Mass Deportation of 122 U.S. -bound Cubans
2018
Chelsea Hammersmith

Future Periods: Digitized Menstruation and the Politics of Rish, Liberation, and the Self
2016
Molly Henderson

Nostalgia for the Home, the Family, and the Housewife in the Suburban Sitcom
 

Phi Beta kappa society 

2024

Jane Clarke

Isabel Podolsky

 

2023

Dori-Taylor Carter

Maddie Brown - Centennial Prize for Phi Beta Kappa winner:  The Centennial Prize this year honored three members of this year's graduating cohort of PBK who most fully embody the intellectual, ethical and communal values that motivate our organization.

 
2022 

Margot Bartol

Maggie Cheever

Jack Jordan -  Centennial Prize for Phi Beta Kappa winner:  The Centennial Prize this year honored three members of this year's graduating cohort of PBK who most fully embody the intellectual, ethical, and communal values that motivate our organization.

Thea Showalter

Caleb Young

 

 

For more information about additional external awards outside of the specific American Studies awards, contact the Northwestern University Office of Fellowships.