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Nomad Prize

The Nomad Prize is awarded to the best final paper of the mentorship year which is presented at the Nomad Undergraduate Conference.

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Former UO President Richard Lariviere congratulates Anna Waller on winning the Nomad Prize at the 2009 Nomad Release Party.

The Nomad Prize is awarded annually for the best essay published in nomad. Recent winners include:

2021: Carolyn Fritz

“Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and Anxiety Under Surveillance”

2020: Clara Debrun-Sittler

“Blood Cells, Trauma, and Temporal Hybridity in The God of Small Things: How the Small Things in Our Lives Change Us”

2019: Mary Green

“Ken Kaneki Outside of the Panels: Manga as a Bridge into the Hyperreal”

2018: Patrick Riley

“The Code and the Closet: Queer Criminality
in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope”

2017: Claire Williams

“Artificial Chaos, Come to Fruition: The Reinvention of Death in Westworld”

2016: Anna Fitting

“The Silent Border: Repression and Progression in Silent Hill 2″

2015: Mathilde Lind

“The Absurdity of Literary Folktales in Zachris Topelius’ ‘The Sea King’s Gift'”

2014: Bailey Albrech

“Portrait of an Artist as an Author: The Conscious Framing of Isaac Babel as Himself”

2013: Amanda Steinvall

“Bound to Tragedy: Secrecy’s Movement in Tristan and Isolde

2012: Julia Vickers “

Overcoming Dualism: Reading Bodies and Words in the Work of Bill. T Jones.”

2011: Raquel Levine

“Sustaining/Consuming the Ego: Francisco Goya’s and Peter Paul Rubens’ Saturn Devouring his Son

2010: Rachel Rasmussen

“Our Story, As I Know It”

 2009: Anna Waller

“Dancing the Undead: The Social Implications of Giselle’s Wilis”