Student Awards and Prizes
Jon M. Groetzinger and Elinor Lee Groetzinger Award is awarded to a student who is graduating magna cum laude or summa cum laude and who plans to enter law school. Established in 1998 by bequest of Jon Groetzinger P’71.
2022-2023 John Wright Brown
2021-2022 Matthew Wheeler Fliegauf
2020-2021 Isla Rose Bowery
2019-2020 Kenshin Cho
2018-2019 Dylan Button Salzman
2017-2018 William Christopher McDonald
2016-2017 Day Dakota Robins and Wentao Zhai
2015-2016 Rachel Gabrielle Frank
2014-2015 Taylor Grey Custer
2013-2014 Hannah Kogan
2012-2013 Benjamin Brink Sweeney
2011-2012 Joshua McIntosh Taylor
2010-2011 Timothy Douglas Miles
2009-2010 Avery Fox White
2008-2009 William Kirby Hackett
2007-2008 Thomas Nardini
2006-2007 Julia Jill Bredrup and Caroline L. Harrington
2005-2006 Katherine Webber Kern
2004-2005 Kiernan McAlpine
The Julian E. and Melba Jarrett Prize is awarded to that graduating Political Science major who excelled in the study of political philosophy, law, and American government. Established in 1982 by Glenn A. Jarrett, ‘70, in memory of his parents.
2022-2023 Matei Vasile Goina and Kristina Romita Pompilio
2021-2022 Ideal Downing and Hannan Shoshana Wander
2020-2021 Colson Michael Andrews and Nathan Gunesch
2019-2020 Charlie Cacciatore and Galen Fastie
2018-2019 Caroline Emily Snell
2017-2018 Jonathan Kincheloe Turnage
2016-2017 Alexander Khan and Martin Naunov
2015-2016 Rachel Gabrielle Frank
2014-2015 Taylor Gray Custer and Qian Zhe (Danny) Zhang
2013-2014 Jeffrey Hetzel and Rachel Hannah Kogan
2012-2013 Wenbo Zhang
2011-2012 Alyssa Beatrice O’Gallagher and Michael William
Polebaum
2010-2011 Margaret Elizabeth Moslander & Conrad Ellison
Trimbath
2009-2010 Heather Pangle
2008-2009 William Kirby Hackett
2007-2008 Conor Shaw
2006-2007 Caroline Harrington
2005-2006 Katherine Neill Doorely and Philip Kehl
2004-2005 Uzair Kayani and Kiernan McAlpine
2003-2004 Giorgi Areshidze
2002-2003 Samia Amin
2001-2002 Peter David Nestor and Jonathan Shapira
2000-2001 David Kenneth Cohen and Stephen Matthew Joyce
1999-2000 Irakly George Areshidze and Tobias Steven Dougherty
1998-1999 Ayse Zarakol
1997-1998 Damjan De Krnjevic Miskovic
1996-1997 Heather Barrett Thompson
1995-1996 Justin James Bannett and Samy Karnal Khalil
1994-1995 William Brendan Murphy
1993-1994 Charles Kevin Marshall
1992-1993 Sarah C. Knowles and David Robert Upham
1991-1992 Gavin A. Symes
1990-1991 Mark David Flaherty
1989-1990 Daniel David Northrop
1988-1989 Paul Owen Carrese and Patricia Bauman
1987-1988 Christopher Douglas Hawkins
1986-1987 Edward Andrew Walpin
1985-1986 Dan Michael Kahan
1984-1985 Adam H. Arkel
1983-1984 Melissa Ann Pineault
1982-1983 Hugh Kilpatrick Webster and George S. Shively
1981-1982 David Francis Taylor
The C.J. Neil Kvasnak Family Award is awarded to the graduating Political Science major who has excelled in the study of American politics, with special emphasis on state and local politics. Established in 1983 by the C.J. Neil Kvasnak family.
2022-2023 Bridget Snow Ulian
2021-2022 Celia Patricia Gottlieb and Isabelle Charlia Hartnett
2020-2021 Abbott Warren LaPrade and Audrey Megan
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2019-2020 Benjamin Groustra
2018-2019 Abigail Alsop Hinchman
2017-2018 Nora Katherine Novak Lenhard
2016-2017 Katherine Ann Reinmuth
2015-2016 Katherine Ramsey Hamilton
2014-2015 Kenneth Charles Kunze, III
2013-2014 Annie Kinser Pruitt
2012-2013 Sarah Mikva Pfander
2011-2012 Kathryn Lawlin Strangfeld
2010-2011 Jaime Leigh Fuller and Samuel Rockwood Hoar
2009-2010 Jesse Matthew Shron Gubb
2008-2009 Harriet Fox
2007-2008 Emily Elisabeth Eliot and Amy Marie Shepard
2006-2007 Kathryn Anne Babin
2005-2006 Daniel Michael Coriell
2004-2005 Gregory Eriksen
The Katerina Kraus Prize recognizes outstanding work by a graduating Political Science major, with a preference for comparative or international politics. Established in 2011 by Lisa Giuffra Diaz ’84 in memory of Katerina Kraus, the late sister of Michael Kraus, Frederick C. Dirks Professor of Political Science at Middlebury.
2022-2023 Anthony Sjodin
2021-2022 Isabel Tyner Larson
2020-2021 Caroline Lillian Kapp
2019-2020 Grace Vedock
2018-2019 Mary Isabel Trichka
2017-2018 James Patrick Callison
2016-2017 Madelaine Allen Hack
2015-2016 Sarah I. Steinberg
2014-2015 Bree Bella Baccaglini
2013-2014 Max Ivan Kagan
2012-2013 Zoe Marie Hamilton
2011-2012 Kyle McHenry Hunter
2010-2011 Amanda Brezina Lowe