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Brooker Prize | Recipients of the Brooker Prize
Year Class Prize Recipient Collection Title
2008 4th-years Elizabeth Litchfield A Library of Love: Challenging the Social Order One Couple (or Threesome?) at a Time
Elizabeth Davidson,
Honorable Mention
Religion in Late Antique Egypt
2nd-year Aaron Vanides Into the Mists of the North: A Comparative Collection of the Medieval Germanic Tradition and its Modern Manifestation
2007 4th-year Donna Zuckerberg Homer and His Students
2nd-year Erin Wonder Cultured Insolence: Wit in British Literature
2006 4th-year Quinn Anya Carey Languages and Linguistics of the Former USSR
2nd-year Sabahat F. Adil From Málaga To Miyagi- Collected Wisdoms of the Seeker
2005 4th-year Benjamin Trofatter INIM.MEŠ, AMATU, uddar ("Words, Words, Words"): A Collection of the Languages and Literatures of the Ancient Near East
2004 4th-years Ian R. B. Desai Where Poetry Comes to Live
Austin Bean
Honorable Mention
Alternatives to, Defenses of, Mathematical Orthodoxies
2003 4th-years Rukmini Singh Manga (Japanese Comics), Shoujo Manga ( Girl's Comics) and Boys' Love
Christian Kammerer,
Honorable Mention
Man and Fish
Margo Miller,
Honorable Mention
Rock Writing and the Vinyl Closet
2002 4th-years Rachel Anne Dion Ancient Egypt
Licsi Aniko Szatmari The Development of Sufism in Iran and Central Asia
Jessica B. Ferguson,
Honorable Mention
Modern Central European Literature in Translation
2nd-years

 

Zachary Martin First Person Masculine American Travel Literature
Ian R. B. Desai,
Honorable Mention
Enduring Verse: Ancient Legacy/ Modern Inheritance
2001 4th-years Patrick Earnest Suicidal Writers and Their Works

Elisha Fishbane,
Honorable Mention

Jewish Mystical Literature
2nd-year

Kristin Paige Schmidt

Gnosticism and Its Early Christian Context
2000

2nd-years

Moshe Krakowski Jewish Studies

Jared Ronai Shurin

Robert Graves: His Life and Works

Aniko Szatmari

The Marriage of Philo and Sophia: Love and Knowledge in Medieval Islam and the European Renaissance
1999 4th-year Katharine Olson Cymru am byth: The Language, Literature, and History of Wales
1998 4th-years Sherlina Nageer Literature and Poetry from the Caribbean

Elda Stanco

The New Latin American Narrative
2nd-year

John Allread

Hoosier Notables: 1880-1930
1997 4th-year

Benjamin A. Lord

Abstract Expressionism
2nd-year

Nathan H. Mauk

The Epistemology of Meaning and Communication
1996 4th-years

Nathanael Crawford

From "Mankind" to Midwives: The John Newberry Medal

Aden Kumler

A Bookmaker's Books: A Collection of Fine Printed and Handmade Books
1995 4th-years

Gregory Vargo

Contemporary American Poetry

Isabel Cole

Fairytales and Folklore
2nd-year

Taska Moira Harnischfeger

Imagination and Prophecy: Early to Modern Classics of Fantasy and Science Fiction
1994 4th-year

Robert J. Williams

U.S. Highways
Honorable Mention

Daska Babcock

Issues of Women around the World
1993 4th-year

William Frohnhoefer

Catholic Literature with a special emphasis on English Converts
2nd-year

John Ward

18th Century French Decorative Arts and the English Country House
1992 4th-year

Heather Stettler

The History of Paleonanthropology and Archeology
2nd-year

Benjamin Wiener

Media and Mass Culture and the Works of Don DeLillo
1991 4th-year

David A. Gemunder

American Antebellum and Civil War History
2nd-year

Brian Huelsmann

Experimental Literature and Modern German Literature and its Precursors
1990 4th-year

Mark M. Levandoski

Vladimir Nabokov
2nd-year Nathan Ferguson Michael Moorcock