2017 Prize Winner:
This year's Presidential Master's Prize for Best Graduate thesis on a Comparative Topic goes to Karolina Watroba (University of Oxford) for her thesis, "World Literature and Literary Value: Is 'Global' the New 'Lowbrow'?".
2017 Presidential Master's Prize Committee:
Anna Kornbluh (Commitee Chair 2016-2017), University of Illinois, Chicago
Zita Nunes, University of Maryland
Susannah Gottlieb, Northwestern University