Jane's Essay Prize Winners
| Year | Winner | Topic |
| 2012 | Maya Jacob |
“De la Fragmentancion a la Unidad: Familias Transnacionales Cochabambinas y las Relaciones a Larga Distancie a Consecuencia de la Migracion a los Estados Unidos” |
| 2011 | Victoria Negus '12 | "Reconocimiento, aceptacion y apoyo de un pueblo sin voz: Migracion y organizaciones sociales en Santiago, Chile" |
| 2011 | Jared Fitterman '12 Honorable Mention |
"Ideologies of Negritude in Brazilian and American Hip Hop" |
| 2010 | Mariel Gruszko '10 | "Mediating Discourses on Indigeneity: Indigenous Media in Guatemala and the Struggle for Legalization" |
| 2009 | Juliana Buenaventura '09 | "An Assessment of President Alvaro Uribe's Counterinsurgency Measures Against the FARC in Colombia" |
| 2008 | Katie Kelly-Hankin '08
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"Mujeres en la Lucha: El papel de las mujeres en la resistencia contra la mineria del cobre en la zona de Intag"
"Decididos luchar: El impacto en la comunidad de confrontaciones entre una transnacional minera y comunidades locales" |
| 2007 | Pesha Black '07 |
"Growing in the Spirit: Framing the Pentecostal Expansion in Managua, Nicaragua" |
| 2006 | Loretta Stein '06 |
"Determinants of Disease: An Analysis of Health and Health Care in the Dominican Republic" |
| 2005 | Jonathan Landesman '05 | "The Transformation of Nicaraguan Guerilla Leaders into Democratic Political Actors" |
| 2004 | Paul Adler '04 |
"Fighting the Revolution Through Other Means: Guatemalan Leftist Political Parties in the Post-War Period" |
| 2003 | Sabrina Assayag '03 |
"The Reality of Immigration: The Brazilian Community in Massachusetts" |
| 2002 | Sarah Katel '02 | "The United States and the Trujillo Regime" |
| 2001 | Tova Neugut '01 |
"Grenada 'as One People, One Family' Healing Rifts of October 1983" |
| 2000 | Seth Passo '01 |
"The Importance of Jews and Conversos in the History of Colonial Brazil through the Dutch Conquest" |
| 1999 | Ben Singerman '99 |
"The Amazon Worlds Story" |
| 1998 | Susan Francis '99 |
"Factores culturales y sociales que contribuyen a la prevalencia del parasitismo en Los Martires de Santiago de Los Caballeros, Republica Dominicana" |
| 1997 | Matthew Freeman '97 |
"Tragedy at Tlatelolco" |
| 1996 | Wendy Burk '97 |
"Development and the Drug Trade in Colombia" |
| 1995 | Odessa Deffenbaugh '95 |
"Breaking Down the Doors of Docility: Women Workers and Corporate Impunity on the U.S.-Mexican Border" |
| 1994 | David Lawrence '94 |
"Coping with 1988: Carlos Salinas and the Battle for Legitimacy" |