Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA), in Sterling Memorial Library, offers the Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay on Yale. The prize is given in memory of our colleague Diane E. Kaplan, an archivist who worked creatively to introduce Yale College students to archival collections and was instrumental in the creation of the prize.
For more information see the prize website.
Prize-winning essays from previous years are available below.
Essays from 2017
Doctors, Death, and Denial: The Origins of Hospice Care in 20th Century America, Sarah E. Pajka
Essays from 2016
The Roots of Radicalism: Natural Rights, Corporate Liberty, and Regional Factions in Colonial Connecticut, 1740-1766, Thomas Hopson
Essays from 2014
Measuring "Problems of Human Behavior": The Eugenic Origins of Yale's Institute of Psychology, 1921-1929, John Doyle
Essays from 2013
Who Governed Yale? Kingman Brewster and Higher Education in the 1970s, Nathaniel Zelinsky
Essays from 2010
The Buckley-Coffin Crusade: Preaching the Gospel of Political Ideology to Yale and America in the 1960s, Danielle Kehl
Essays from 2007
Becoming a Yale Man: Intimacy among Yale Students in the Nineteenth Century, Matthew Busick