Human Rights and Social Justice Writing Contest 2013-2014
AWARDS
RESEARCH PAPERS AND ESSAYS
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Julia Schast / 33 Battle of the Sexes: Why the United States Has Not Yet Ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Mary-Kathryn Smith / 2 Racial Inequality in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?
Kaitlin Stober / 13 Being Human: A Critical Reflection on Personhood, Disability, and the Role of Language
People's Choice Award
Avery McGaha / 14 Climate Change, Human Security, and the New Landscape of Social Justice
CREATIVE WRITING
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Brianna Duff / 74 Through the Glass
Jordan Duffey / 83Gimcrack National Park
Alli Ginsburg / 90 My Religion is a Book Club
Rebekah Hackney / 87White Girl
People's Choice Award
Katy Steele / 78 For Davante
JOURNALISM
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Nicole Chadwick / 104Diversity at Elon
Kathleen Harper / 108Exploring the Hidden World of Human Traficking
Katy Steele / 100James Barnett - A Man Who Gave Up Everything He Owned To Live on the Streets and Love the Poor
Alex Ward / 105Lifting the Veil
People's Choice Award
Katy Steele / 100 James Barnett - A Man Who Gave Up Everything He Owned To Live on the Streets and Love the Poor
PHOTOGRAPHY
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Michelle Landahl / 70Protests on the Ponte Santa Trinita
Maria Riofrio / 60The Invisibles
Gloria So / 65 Spirit of Malawi
People's Choice Award
Benjamin Lutz / 61 Arbeit Macht Frei
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Natalie Brown / 119Slavery in the Cocoa Industry
Matthew Eastman / 120You Are What You Eat: Aramark
Katy Steele / 113Paperhand: Puppet Intervention
People's Choice Award
Katy Steele / 113Paperhand: Puppet Intervention
WORLD LANGUAGES
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Morgan Abate / 126Los Hermanos de Tegucigalpa (Spanish)
Samantha Burch / 134La importancia de manglares y arrecifes de coral: Proteja esta vida marina. Proteja nuestros derechos humanos básicos (Spanish)
Meg MacHonis / 127L'ignorance, la mère de tous les maux (French)
People's Choice Award
Sarah Colangelo / 130 Los hablantes de herencia en la clase de español: Los retos académicos y sus implicaciones pedagógicas (Spanish)
LEGAL WRITING (Law School Students)
Judges Grand Awards Entry #
Madeline Obler-Grill / 54Extraordinary Rendition: the United States’ Solution to Prevent Terrorism that Resulted in Countless Violations of the Convention Against Torture
Michael Wynn / 30Brief in Support of Applicant’s Application for Asylum
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