2005 Undergraduate Essay Contest

ProQuest Information and Learning and the University of Michigan are proud to announce the winners of the 2005 Undergraduate essay contest. One judge said he was "astounded" by the quality of the essays and all of the essays demonstrate the amount of hard work undergraduates can do and the level of research they can accomplish, rivaling in some cases even doctoral candidates. More information about the contest, and copies of the winning essays essays are also available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/edu/edu_win_05.html

Grand Prize: Courtney Peacock – Brigham Young University
A New Israel: The Tetragrammaton and English Protestantism

First Prize: Stefania Crowther – University of Warwick
“Never Was King So Like to God Before:” Stella Meridiana and the Restoration Panegyric

Second Prize: Michael Sechler – University of Pittsburgh
Old Words, New Pages: Milton, Bracton, and the “Century of Revolution"

Honorable Mention: Edward Esborn – Johns Hopkins University
Apprenticeship and Popular Literature in Seventeenth Century London

Honorable Mention: Emma Easy – University of Warwick
Mass Politics and Tory Anxieties: Thomas Durfey’s The Royalist