Scholars Receive End-of-Year Honors
December 24, 2020
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As the spring semester has come to a close, we congratulate the 21 graduating Ashbrook Scholars on the successful completion of their degrees. Additionally the evening before graduation the following Scholars received awards at the Ashbrook Scholar Senior Reception:
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Dantan Wernecke receives the top honor of the James Madison Award, Outstanding Ashbrook Senior Scholar.
Ashbrook Scholar Program’s Charles Parton Award for Outstanding Theses:
Becky Brown for “A History of the Anglo-American Special Relationship”
Alyssa Bornhorst for “Noise Pollution: The Effects of Rock Music on a Liberal Education”
James Velasquez for “Boundless Vision: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium”
Dantan Wernecke for “The Happy Empire: Aristotle, Publius, and the American Regime”
You can find these and past Parton Award winners here.