The Emerson Prize
2009 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, 74 students have won the Emerson Prize. The five laureates this year were from Ohio, New York, New York, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin. 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 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize laureates are:

2009 Paul Armstrong, of Richard Montgomery High School, in Rockville, Maryland (now at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota). His paper, in the Fall 2007 issue (18/1), was on the historical relationship between Poland and Lithuania.

2009 Pamela Ban, of Thomas Worthington High School, in Worthington, Ohio, (now at Harvard). Her paper, in the Summer 2008 issue (18/4), was on the stages of Chinese Economic Reform.

2009 Nicole Heise, of Ithaca High School in Ithaca, New York, (next year at Amherst)

Her paper, in the Winter 2007 issue (18/2), was on the Tu Quoque Defense at Nuremberg and after.

2009 Benjamin Loffredo, of the Fieldston School in the Bronx, New York, (now at Yale). His paper, in the Winter 2007 issue (18/2), was on the Philippine War.

2009 Colin Sellers Harris, of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, DC, (Class of 2009). His paper, in the Fall 2007 issue (18/1) was on the United Arab Republic.

2009 Elize S. Zevitz, of the Prairie School, in Racine, Wisconsin, (now at William and Mary). Her paper, in the Spring 2008 issue (18/3) was on the Northern and Southern reactions to Uncle Tom's Cabin.