We are happy to announce the winners of the 2003 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 the papersthat the students provided.

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

Grand Prize: Jacqueline Wernimont (University of Iowa) "Dangerous Dissenters:" Explorations of Methods and Ethics of Discipline in John Milton's Paradise Lost

First Prize: Brian Platzer (Columbia University) Colonial Environmentalism: Harriot and Raleigh's manipulation of the New World Landscape.

Second Prize: Anne Hyde (Lawrence University) "It Becomes not the Mistris to be the Master:" Female Disobedience and the Problem of Honor in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi

Honorable Mention: Brian Kanner (University of Florida) Convincing a Society: A New View of the Deaf and Dumb

Honorable Mention: Sheeba Madan (Indiana University) Ferrying between early modern and Roman notions of femininity in Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar

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), Hillary Nunn (Professor of English, University of Akron), Michael Schoenfeldt (Professor of English, University of Michigan), 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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