The undergraduate student award was given to Jerrie Ceplina (U. of Wisconsin) for her study “Václav Havel’s Presidential Speeches as Hybrid: Reconciling Havel the Dissident and Havel the Politician”.
The graduate student award went to Ryan P. Kilgore (U. of Indiana) for his study “Avtorskaia Pesnia Through the Lens of Mukařovský’s Structural Aesthetics”.