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Convention Awards
Each year Sigma Tau Delta recognizes excellence in convention presentations by awarding over $10,000 in prize money.
Isabel Sparks President's Awards
Given for the best presentations by active student and alumni members at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention, these awards were established in 1991 by Isabel Sparks, the fifth President of Sigma Tau Delta.
Categories
- Original Fiction and Drama
First Place ($600)
Robert Maynor
Lander University (SC)
"We're Not Indians, We're Brass Ankles"
Second Place ($300)
Abbie Lahmers
Slippery Rock University (PA)
"Body Shedding"
Third Place ($150)
Audra Kjetland
North Central University (MN)
"A Theist Atheist"
- Creative Non-Fiction
First Place ($600)
Kathryn Waring
SUNY, College at Geneseo (NY)
"Transdifferentiating Cells"
Second Place ($300)
Abigail Ponder
Western Kentucky University (KY)
"In the Absence of Sound"
Third Place ($150)
Sean Enfield
University of North Texas (TX)
"Paper Shackles"
- Original Poetry
First Place ($600)
Emily Cole
Southern Illinois University (IL)
"After Oz - A Poetry Series"
Second Place ($300)
M'Bilia Meekers
Tulane University (LA)
"Ferguson, Missouri"
Third Place ($150)
Emilio Gomez
Palm Beach Atlantic University (FL)
"Between Bethel and Ai"
- Critical Essays: British Literature, and World Literature
First Place ($600)
Adam Quinn
Samford University (AL)
"Joyce's Portrait: Education & Colonial Status"
Second Place ($300)
Heba Jahama
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
"Conceptions of Rape in a Quranic Narrative"
Third Place ($150)
Jacob Roden
University of Alabama (AL)
"The Runaway and the Run-toward"
- Critical Essays: American Literature
First Place ($600)
Michelle Dempsey
University of Pittsburgh Greensburg (PA)
"Anonymous Women & Print Culture 1700s"
Second Place ($300)
Andrew Ryan
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
"Identity in Invisible Man: A Kind of Combat"
Third Place ($150)
Stephanie Pilipshen
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
"19th Century Homelessness & Twain's Huck Finn"
- Critical Essays: Theory, Education, Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Young Adult Literature
First Place ($600)
Ben Wach
SUNY, College at Geneseo (NY)
"Re-Categorizing: The Ethics of Technique"
Second Place ($300)
Maia Rodriquez
Pepperdine University (CA)
"Deconstructing Mexican-American Relations"
Third Place ($150)
Taylor Rudd
Centenary College of New Jersey (NJ)
"Hogwarts: Home, Horror, and History"
- Popular Culture, AltLit, and Film Studies
First Place ($600)
Hayley Wilson
Martin Methodist College (TN)
"Sight & Sound in 2001: A Space Odyssey"
Second Place ($300)
Emily Lund
George Fox University (OR)
"Betraying Jane? Austen Film Adaptations"
Third Place ($150)
Melissa Jessop
Dixie State University (UT)
"Sexual Symbolism in Joss Whedon's Firefly"
- Critical Essays: Southwestern, Latino/Latina, and Native American Literature
First Place ($600)
Erin Shannon
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
"White Privilege in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit"
Second Place ($300)
Christian Rogers
Western Carolina University (NC)
"Redressing Anthropocentrism in Ceremony"
- Common Reader: From Sand Creek by Simon Ortiz
First Place ($600)
Kristine Steddum
Missouri Southern State University (MO)
"Our Bones Speak, A Poetic Response"
Second Place ($300)
Dina AlQassar
American University of Kuwait
"Native Americans & Palestinians: Shared History"
Third Place ($150)
Jessica Witman
Missouri Southern State University (MO)
"The Colonel"
Other Convention Awards
Pedagogy Award ($250)
Mackenzie Adix
"Brand Marketing & Childhood Literacy"
George Fox University (OR)
Best Essay on Convention Theme
First Place ($600)
Inna Telkova
North Central University (MN)
"Maybe It's Not All Fairy Tales"
Alumni Epsilon Papers
Critical Paper ($375)
Carla Cannalte
"A Body of Protest"
Creative Paper ($375)
Rachael Fowler
"The Sunken Murmur"
Sigma Kappa Delta Award
Paige Ott
Cottey College
"Fire and Ice: A Dialectic"
Outstanding Chapter Displays
First Place ($100)
Dixie State University
Second Place ($75)
American University of Kuwait
Third Place ($50)
University of New Mexico