ASCE Student Prize Award Previous Recipients
Since its inception, this prize has been awarded to the following individuals and their papers have been published in the Association's Annual Proceedings. Copies are available electronically in our page.
- 1993. Joshua Himes, University of Pennsylvania,
for his essay on “Cuban Development and the Sugar Economy.”
- 1994. Ivette Marie Barbeite, University of Miami,
for her essay on “Economic Outlook for Cuba After Castro, Emphasis
on the Sugar and Tourism Industries.”
- 1996. Félix Blanco Godínez, Drew
University, for his essay on“The Cuban Revolution: A Socio-Economic
and Political Analysis of the System."
- 1997. Yosem Companys, Yale University, for his
essay on “Institution Building: A Regulatory and Supervisory
Framework for Cuba’s Financial Sector Reform.”
- 2000. Two prizes were awarded: Charles
Trumbull, Darmouth College, for his essay on “Social
Contradictions in Cuba” and Feliza Medrano,
University of New Mexico, for her essay on “Ni chicha ni limonada:
Depictions of the Mulatto Woman in Cuban Tobacco Art.”.
2002. Ted Henken, Tulane University, for his essay
on “A Taste of Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Havana’s
Private Restaurants Paladares)”.
- 2003. Graduate: Catherine Caouette, University
of Virginia, for her essay “The Politicization of Cuban Healthcare”;
First Honorary Mention, Gisela Fosado, University of Michigan, “A
Women's Journey into the World of Male Sex in Cuba”, Second
Honorary Mention, Kristin Sorensen, Indiana University, “Post
Revolutionary Cuban Cinema: A Historical Analysis.”
Undergraduate: Sarah Kleiner, Barnard College,
for her essay “Economics and Desire: Sex and Power in Cuba”;
First Honorary Mention, Robin Ghertner, Wesleyan University, “Rumba
and the International Music and Tourist Industry”; Second Honorary
Mention, Eric C. Lincoln, Georgetown University, for “Observations
on Direct Investment in Cuba, 1994-2003.”
- 2004. Graduate: First Prize: David Penny, Oxford University, UK, "Castro's Cuba: Ideological Themes in Rhetoric" and Andrea Colantonio, University of Readings, UK, "Tourism in Havana during the Special Period: Impacts, Resident's Perceptions and Planning Issues."Undergraduate: First Prize: Kezia McKeague, Wake Forest University, "Institutional Continuity in Cuba: Predicting the Legacy of Communist Institutions in a Democratic Transition."
2005. Graduate: First Prize: Lindsey Frank, Fordham University School of Law, "Maintaining Its Commitment: A Focus on Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights in Cuba's New Foreign Investment Law". Undergraduate First Prize: Enrique Romero, El Colegio de Mexico, "Demystifying a Bilateral relation: Rise and Fall of the Mexican-Cuban Political Understanding".
2006. Graduate 1st Prize: Elizabeth Kath, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia, " Cuba's Proactive Approach to Healthcare" .Undergraduate 1st Prize: Kelsey Vidaillet, University of Wisconsin, "Violations of freedom of the Press in Cuba: 1952-1969".
2007
Brenden M. Carbonell "FAR" from Perfect: The Cuban Military and the Potential for Corporatism in Post-Communist Cuba."
Matthew Craig " Making Sense of Dissidence and Repression in Cuba: A Game Theoretic Analysis."
2008
Laura García Freyre "De la Iglesia a la Plaza: Las Damas de Blanco y la Lucha por el Espacio Público en La Habana." Joan Carreras Timoneda "Dollar Diplomacy: Fallacies and Consequences of Foreign Investment in Cuba 1909-1924."
2009
Brenden Carbonell "Cuban Corporatism: Batista’s Three-Year Plan and a Nation Betrayed."
Ana Cristina Maldonado "Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba" Silvia Dreher "Monetary Policy in Cuba."
Christian Santiago Patiño " Cuba's Sugar Dilemma: The Prospects for a Green Future."
Rachel Alt " Cuba's Tourism and its Effects on the Import Sectors"
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