We are happy to announce the winners of the 2002 Early English Books Online/ EEBO-TCP Undergraduate Essay Competition. The papers submitted all offered impressive evidence of the exciting uses students can find for primary texts, and in many cases they also illustrate the noteworthy contributions that undergraduates can make to the field of early modern studies.

We are very glad to have had a role in the work these winners have accomplished, and we are very proud of the scholarship these students have exhibited in their use of texts from EEBO. We would also like to invite you to learn more about their work by sharing abstracts that the students provided.

To view these abstracts, please click on the paper titles listed below.

Grand Prize: Irina A. Dumitrescu (Trinity College) "False Glitter: The Meaning of Gunpowder in Paradise Lost

First Prize: Polly R. Ha (Yale University) "Non Party Protestantism: Hugh Broughton in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England."

Second Prize: Emily Raike (University of Pittsburgh) "The Aesthetics of Horror in Elizabethan and Jacobean Theater: Scaring the Renaissance Audience."

Honorable Mention: Sheelagh Bevan (Columbia University) "Poetic Projections of Public Dystopian and Private Utopian Worlds in Elizabethan and Early Modern Underworlds."

Honorable Mention: Tanya Pohl (Boston College) "War News"

Honorable Mention: Jaclyn Riches (Rutgers University) "Women with Child: Seventeenth Century Advice Manuals on How to Have a Healthy Pregnancy."

Honorable Mention: Carolynn Dude (Lawrence University) "An Analysis of Early Modern Theories of Sovreignty within the Context of Shakespeare's Cymbeline"

Scholars and librarians from a variety of fields ranked the entries and distributed awards for the contest including, Arthur Kinney (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts), James Rosenheim (Professor of History and Director Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University), Dan Traister (Curator, Research Services Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania), Maureen Quilligan (Professor of History, Duke University), Newton Key (Professor of English, Eastern Illinois University), and John Pierre Vander Motten (Professor of English, Ghent University)

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