Three Classics Seniors Awarded Hoopes Prize!
Congratulations to our Hoopes Prize winners in Classics & all the winners across the College! Read on to learn more about our winners, their theses, and the Hoopes Prize!
- Emma Finn - “Quantifying the Past: Empirical Tropes in Greek Historiography” (Advised by Emily Greenwood; Asst. Advisor: Connor North)
- Elena Lu - “From Authority to History: Comparison and its Limits in 17th- and 18th-Century Homeric Scholarship” (Advised by Ann Blair (Harvard History Department) & David Elmer)
- Olivia Ma - “Voices of Ambition and Critique: Contrasting Historical Inquiry in Herodotus’ Histories and Sima Qian’s Shiji” (Advised by Emily Greenwood & Benjamin Orion Laundauer (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
About the Hoopes Prize: From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research.
The fund provides undergraduate prizes to be given for the purpose of “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under [f]aculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the [f]aculty.”
Learn more about the Hoopes Prize.
Pictured left to right: Emma Finn, Elena Lu, and Olivia Ma.
