Boothe Prize Essays

The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by first-year students in the Writing and Rhetoric and Introduction to the Humanities Programs. One first-place and one honorable mention prize are awarded to outstanding essays from each academic quarter at an annual award ceremony in May.

Each first place winner receives a certificate, a copy of The Riverside Shakespeare and $350. Each honorable mention winner receives a certificate, a copy of The Riverside Shakespeare and $200. The winning essays are published annually in Boothe Prize Essays: Excellence in Writing at Stanford and are available online through this website. 

The Boothe Prizes have been made possible by the generosity of the late D. Power Boothe, Jr. and his wife Catie. Mr. Boothe was a graduate of the Stanford class of '31.

Boothe Prize essays for 2007-2008

 

Boothe Prize essays for 2006-2007

PWR Winners for 2006-2007

Spring 2006

Autumn 2006

Winter 2007

IHUM Winners for 2006-2007

Boothe Prize essays for 2005-2006

PWR Winners for 2005-2006

Spring 2005

Autumn 2005

Winter 2006

IHUM Winners for 2005-2006

Spring 2005

  • Jessica Lee (Winner): "Death of the Faces of God"
  • Julie Byren (Honorable Mention): "If You're Lost Enough to Find Yourself: Unveiling Nature's Secrets in Robert Frost's 'October' and 'Directive'"

Autumn 2005

  • Patrick Leahy (Winner): "The Three Furies of Dublin"
  • Nathan Pflueger (Honorable Mention): "Hamlet's Imagined Filial Love"

Winter 2006

  • Sarah Johnson (Winner): "Breaking the Watch Along With the Wedding Glass: Conceptions of Time in the Transition from Biblical to Rabbinic Judaism" 
  • Jason Dunford (Honorable Mention): "Empowering the Oppressed: The Role of Language in the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa"

 

Boothe Prize essays for 2004-2005

PWR Winners for 2004-2005

Spring 2004

Autumn 2004

Winter 2005

IHUM Winners for 2004-2005

Spring 2004

Autumn 2004

Winter 2005

 

Boothe Prize essays for 2003-2004

PWR Winners for 2003-2004

Spring 2003

Autumn 2003

Winter 2004

IHUM Winners for 2003-2004

Spring 2003

Autumn 2003

Winter 2004

Boothe Prize essays for 2002-2003

PWR Winners for 2002-2003

Spring 2002

Autumn 2002

Winter 2003

IHUM Winners for 2002-2003 [anchor]

Spring 2002

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Winter 2003

Boothe Prize essays for 2001-2002

Boothe Prize essays for 1999-2001

PWR Winners for 2000-2001

Winter 2001

  • Mandy Rinder (winner), "Sweet Home Chicago: Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future of the Windy City."

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