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The Emerson Prize
2007 Winners
The Emerson Prize is awarded annually to students published in The
Concord Review during the previous year who have shown outstanding academic
promise in history at the high school level. Since 1995, 51 students have
won the Emerson Prize. The six laureates this year were from Toronto, Canada, Hong Kong, Washington, DC, Morristown, New Jersey, Rockville, Maryland, and Riverdale, New York. Past laureates have come from Czechoslovakia, Canada, Louisiana,
Florida, California, Tennessee, Vermont, Maryland, New Zealand, Texas, Russia, Washington
State, Tennessee, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Illinois, Japan, and New York.
The 2007 Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize laureates are:
2007 James Kwok, of Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario, (now at Harvard)
Austria-Hungary and the Compromise of 1867
2007 Sally Pei, of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, (now at Trinity Hall Cambridge)
From Ambivalence to Acceptance: American Attitudes Towards Linguistic and National Identity
2007 Alexandra Petri, of National Cathedral School, Washington, DC, (now at Harvard)
Progressivism's Last Crusade: Raymond Fosdick, George Creel, and the Moral Mobilization of America in World War I
2007 Stephen Popper, of Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey, (now at Princeton)
The Paradox of Power: An Analysis of the Rise of Parliamentary Power with the Consolidation of the Monarchy in the English Reformation
2007 Steven Siegel, of Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, Maryland, (now at Yale)
British Foreign Policy During the American Civil War: January 1860 to September 1862
2007 Tyler Waywell, of Riverdale Country School, Riverdale, New York, (now at Brown)
A Failure to Modernize: The Origins of 20th Century Islamic Fundamentalism
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