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ASCE Student Prize Award Previous Recipients

Since its inception, this prize has been awarded to the following individuals:
  • 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.”
  • 2003. 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."
  • 2004. Undergraduate: First Prize: Kezia McKeague, Wake Forest University, "Institutional Continuity in Cuba: Predicting the Legacy of Communist Institutions in a Democratic Transition."