LITS is pleased to announce that Catie Caya '26 has been awarded this year's Mount Holyoke Library Undergraduate Research Prize. Shannon Bazir '27 has been awarded the Honorable Mention Prize.
We received a large number of entries this year and it is an impressive achievement for Catie and Shannon to be chosen as award recipients due to their exemplary research, topic development and writing!
Catie has been awarded the Research Prize for her paper, “When the Dragon Dances on the Roof of the World: Chinese Influence on Tibetan Refugees in Nepal.” Catie wrote this essay for her Fall 2024 course, Geography-314: China in the Global South, taught by Professor Dinko.
Shannon was awarded the Honorable Mention Prize for her paper, “Weaponized Filmmaking in the Japanese New Wave”. Shannon’s essay was written for her Fall 2024 course FMT-230: Global Film and Media after 1960, taught by Professor Ballina.
The Mount Holyoke Library Undergraduate Research Prize is a new annual award to honor student work that showcases exemplary skills in writing a research paper using library or archival resources. The Library Undergraduate Research Prize carries a $300 award; an Honorable Mention Prize carries a $150 award. Both papers will be published in Mount Holyoke College’s Institutional Digital Archive.
The prize was administered by the library’s departments of Research Services and Archives and Special Collections with support provided by the Biological Sciences and History departments.