The Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition encourages students at Washington University to read for enjoyment and to develop personal libraries throughout their lives.
The competition started in 1988 and the collection contains the award-winning essays of both undergraduate and graduate students from 2003 to present. Details about the Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition are announced through the University Libraries.
Essays from 2018
Ja, Ben, I, Je: A Book Collection in Translation , Ena Selimovic
Graduate winner: 2nd place, 2018, 31st Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
The Messy Truth: A Portrait of a Girl through Her Books , Natalie Snyder
Undergraduate winner: 2nd place, 2018, 31st Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
I Want to Say It Plain , Paul Tran
Grauate winner: 1st place, 2018, 31st Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Essays from 2017
Early Modern Europe: The Female Perspective , Mary Andino
Graduate winner: 1st place, 2017, 30th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Picked from the Pews: A Religiously Inspired Book Collection , Jennifer Greenberg
Undergraduate winner: 1st place, 2017, 30th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Our Books Are Important to Us , Meg Russell
Undergraduate winner: 2nd place, 2017, 30th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
How to Live in a World with Others , Alan Zhang
Graduate winner: 2nd place, 2017, 30th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Essays from 2016
Baseless: Reassessing My Past Through Feminist Utopias , Claire M. Class
Graduate winner: 1st place, 2016, 29th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition. Claire is a Ph.D. candidate in English.
Race and Book Collecting in Colombia on the Eve of Digitization , Alex Eastman
Graduate winner: 2nd place, 2016, 29th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition. Alex is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish.
Anachronisms , Michael Henderson
Undergraduate winner: 1st place, 2016, 29th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition. Michael is majoring in English.
Life in Paper: How Words Can Build a Person , Jennifer Wu
Undergraduate winner: 2nd place, 2016, 29th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition. Jennifer is majoring in communication design and philosophy-neuroscience-psychology.
Essays from 2015
Across Seas, Across Shelves , Leona Chen
Undergraduate winner: 2nd place, 2015, 28th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Taking Madness off the Shelf , Rose Miyatsu
Graduate winner: 2nd place, 2015, 28th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Small Girl, Big Nudes: Helmut Newton and the Voyeur , Catalina Ouyang
Undergraduate winner: 1st place, 2015, 28th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Paul's Wife: Messages from the Past , Gabriel Shechter
Graduate winner: 1st place, 2015, 28th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Essays from 2014
A Self Portrait , Joyce Hankins
Undergraduate winner: 1st Place, 2014. 27th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Ordering Chaos in the Novels of P.G. Wodehouse , Kelly Oman
Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2014. 27th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Combining Fact and Fiction: My Collection of German-Jewish Writing , Corey Twitchell
Graduate Winner, 1st Place, 2014. 27th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
The Old-Fashioned Girls , Talya Zax
Undergraduate winner: 2nd Place, 2014. 27th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Essays from 2013
A Muse for Recollection: On Collecting Ancient Greek Textbooks , Brian Feldman
Undergraduate Winner: 1st Place, 2013. 26th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Arturo Belano and the Storybook War , John Gauthier
Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2013. 26th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Asthmatic and Alone: How Books Became My World , Lauren Henley
Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2013. 26th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Keeping Abreast of the Literature... , Sarah Sobonya
Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2013. 26th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.
Essays from 2012
Notes from the Post-Apocalypse , Alexandra Barger
Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2012. 25th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be: the collected works of Haruki Murakami , Anne Jensen-Urstad
Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2012. 25th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition