The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

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Please note that all essays are the property of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and may not be published elsewhere without written permission from the Foundation. All views and opinions expressed in the winning essays are those of the individual writers. The Foundation does not necessarily share these views.

2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997-1990


First Prize Sarah Stillman Made by Us Yale University Second Prize, $2500 prize: Christine Henneberg The God on my Grandfather's Table Pomona College Third Prize, $1500 prize: Catherine Bosley L'Oiseau du Paradis George Washington University		Honorable Mentions Logan Plaster Surprised by Suffering Northwestern University & Katharine Wilkinson The Last Will Become First: Liberations of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Renee Cox's 'Yo' Mamma's Last Supper The University of the South


First Prize Leslie Barnard Forty-three Cents Pomona College, Claremont, CA Second Prize Peter Erickson The Burden of Lightness University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Third Prize Dan Carlin Chasing Images of the Dead: The Unreality of the Iraq War in American Media Washington University, St. Louis, MO		Honorable Mentions Ayelet Amittay The Problem of Empathy: Over-Identification in Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" Brown University, Providence, RI & Lauren Smith Looking Out of a Cubicle--And Finding a Conscience: The Independent Moralist in Bosnia and Modern America University of Texas, Austin, TX


First Prize Aleksandr (Sasha) Senderovich Tatyana's Glory: or the Birth Pangs of a Civil Society. The Ethics of Normalcy in Present-day Russia University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA Second Prize Sarah Watkins Healing the Wounds of Genocide: A Case Study of the Gacaca Court System in Rwanda Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN Third Prize Katherine Bair From Nurturing Terror to Raising Hope Youngstown State University, Warren, OH		Honorable Mentions Alexandra Rahr Are Holocaust Memorials Ethical? Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia & Brittany Perham The Statue of Grief Tufts University, Somerville, MA


First Prize Courtney Martin The Ethics of Transformation Barnard College, New York, NY Second Prize Yvette Cabrera-Rojas Questioning the Arrival at the Station of Departure University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Third Prize Ian Jankelowitz From Oppressed to Oppressors: The Ethical Issues of Post-Holocaust Jewry in Apartheid South Africa University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV		Honorable Mentions James Adomian From Carthage to The City of God: Augustinian Free Will and the Romance of Aeneas and Dido Whittier College, Whittier, CA & Aaron MacLean On the Combing of Hair in Herodotus St. John's College, Annapolis, MD


First Prize James D. Long IV Deaths in Paradise: Genocide & the Limits of Imagination in Rwanda College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA Second Prize Kelly A. Daley Suicide and Public Speaking Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY Third Prize Arielle S. Parker The Moral Need to Regard the Extraordinary Nature of Humanity Brandeis University, Waltham, MA		Honorable Mentions Kelin A. Emmett If This Is A Man Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI & Jennifer C. Slagter Acknowledging the Wounds: Sethe's Ethical Dilemma in 'Beloved' Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL


First Prize Alexa R. Kolbi-Molinas The Secret of Redemption-Memory & Resistance: A Lesson for the 21st Century Smith College, Northampton, MA Second Prize Matthew D. Mendham Replication & Repugnance: Leon Kass on Human Cloning Taylor University, Upland, IN Third Prize Minh P. Doan To Make Boundaries Converge Berea College, Berea, KY		Honorable Mentions Daniel A. Brook Beyond Teaching Tolerance Yale University, New Haven, CT & Brett E. Gross The Ethical Challenges of the New Millennium University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN


First Prize Sami F. Halabi The Bosnian Women Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Second Prize F. Jason Costa The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission & the Case of Stephen Biko Emory University, Atlanta, GA Third Prize Angela Leddy Papa's Medals State University of New York-Cortland, Cortland, NY		Honorable Mentions Abigail Krauser The Ethics of Contradiction Columbia University, New York, NY & Stefan Schulz Challenging the Innocence of the Scientific Mind Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


First Prize Laura Overland Their Lives in Our Hands: Fulfilling Our Ethical Obligations to the Terminally Ill Enrolling in Research Studies University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO Second Prize Quanganh Richard Tran To Bridge the Divide University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA Third Prize Megan Zuercher Recovering Radical Innocence: Ethical Reflections on 'To Kill a Mockingbird' College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO		Honorable Mentions Lincoln Penn Hancock Bad Faith and the Ethics of Truth Guilford College, Greensboro, NC & Richard Kemp Enforcing the Darkness: Ethics and War University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

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2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997-1990


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