The Caroline I. Wilby Prize was founded in 1897 in memory of Caroline I. Wilby, by her friends and former students. The prize is given annually to the student who has produced the best original work within any of the departments of Radcliffe College, Cambridge in Massachusetts.[1] The prize is only awarded if a dissertation or thesis is considered worthy enough.
The prize was given for the first time in 1899 to Kate Oelzner Petersen, for her thesis On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale.[2] Other winners include the medievalist Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), for her thesis Morgain, la fée, a study in the fairy mythology of the middle ages,[3] the historian Grace Lee Nute (1895-1990) for her thesis American foreign commerce (1825-1850)[4] and also the astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-2007), for her thesis On the Spectroscopic Determination of Absolute Magnitudes….[5] Florence Shirley Patterson Jones's dissertation, Surface photometry of external galaxies[6] [7] won the Wilby Prize in 1941.[8]
| 1899 | Kate Oelzner Petersen | ||
| 1900 | Lucy Allen Paton | ||
| 1904 | Belva Mary Herron | ||
| Caroline Strong | Tail-Rhyme Strophe in English Poetry | ||
| 1905 | Eleanor Harris Rowland | ||
| 1906 | Frances Hall Rousmaniere | ||
| 1907 | Mabel Ellery Adams | An Inquiry into the Condition of one hundred deaf persons who have been pupils at the Horace Mann School in Boston | |
| 1909 | Kate Fairbanks Puffer | ||
| 1910 | Maud Bassett Gorham | ||
| 1911 | Ruth Holden | ||
| 1912 | Charlotte Farrington Babcock | ||
| 1913 | Elizabeth Church | ||
| 1915 | Evelyn Spring[9] | Quo Modo Aeschylus in Tragoediis Suis Res Antecedentis Exposuerit: | |
| 1916 | Frances Isabella Hyams[10] | ||
| 1917 | Caroline Frances Tupper[11] | ||
| 1918 | Olive B. White[12] | The Verse Translations of John Dryden | |
| 1919 | Marian Irwin[13] | ||
| Nellie Gertrude Chase | |||
| 1920 | Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks[14] | ||
| Bernice V Brown | |||
| 1921 | Grace Lee Nute[15] | ||
| 1922 | Hannah G. Roach[16] | Sectionalism in American Politics from the Reconstruction Period to 1890 | |
| 1923 | Mary Ballantine HumeEva Matthews Sanford | (shared prize)[17] | |
| 1924 | Cecilia H. Payne[18] | Ionization in the Atmosphere of the Hotter Stars | |
| 1926 | Olive B. WhiteEleanor Lansing Dulles | The Background of English Renaissance in 15th Century OxfordThe French Franc Since the War (shared prize)[19] | |
| 1928 | Marine Leland[20] | ||
| 1929 | Katherine Hartwell[21] | The Influence of the Latin Church Father, Lactantius, on the Works of John Milton | |
| 1930 | Marjorie K. Carpenter[22] | Greek Hymnography: A Study of the Christmas Hymn | |
| 1931 | Mary Frances Williams[23] [24] | Contemporary German Architecture | |
| 1933 | Gerda Richards Crosby[25] | The Transformation of the Tory Party after 1780: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Party Politics | |
| 1934 | Catherine E. Boyd[26] | A Cistercian Nunnery in Italy in the 13th Century | |
| 1935 | Marie L. EdelLaTourette Stockwell | The Relations Between Prose and Metrical Composition in Early Irish Narrative LiteratureThe Dublin Theatre, 19637-1820 (shared prize)[27] | |
| 1936 | Sarah Margaret Cousins[28] | ||
| 1937 | Dorothy Kneeland Clark[29] | Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, Lord Treasurer | |
| 1938 | Dorrit Hoffleit[30] | ||
| 1939 | Muriel E. Hidy[31] | George Peabody, Merchant and Financier | |
| 1941 | Florence Shirley Patterson | ||
| 1942 | Sylvia Leah Berkman[32] | Katherine Mansfield: A Study of Her Life and Work | |
| 1943 | Dewilda Naramore[33] | The Arriereban in Medieval France | |
| 1944 | Cora C. Mason[34] | The Ethics of Wealth in Early Greek Thought | |
| 1946 | Evelyn Hodes Wilson[35] | Antimalarials | |
| 1947 | Alice Rose Stewart[36] | The Imperial Policy of Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada's First Prime Minister | |
| 1948 | Ilse Novak[37] | On the Consistency of Goedel's Axioms for Class and Set Theory Relative to a Weaker Set of Axioms | |
| 1949 | Cecelia Marie Kenyon[38] | Conceptions of Human Nature in American Political Thought, 1630–1826 | |
| 1950 | Adrienne Rich | for her poetry; first undergraduate to win the Wilby[39] | |
| 1951 | Barbara Bell[40] | A Study of Doppler and Damping Effects in the Solar Atmosphere | |
| 1952 | Dorothy E. Bliss[41] | Endocrine Control of Metabolism in the Decapod Crustacean, Gecarcinus Lateralis | |
| 1953 | Margery W. Adams[42] | Art in the 11th and 12th Centuries | |
| 1954 | Isabel Emory Gamble[43] | ||
| 1955 | Judith N. Shklar[44] | Fate and Futility: Two Themes in Contemporary Political Theory | |
| 1958 | Patricia Hochschild Labalme[45] | ||
| 1959 | Roberta F. Colman[46] | Studies on Dicarboxylic Amino Acids | |
| 1960 | Rulan Chao Pian[47] | Sung Dynasty Music Sources | |
| 1961 | Jean H. Wheeler[48] | Freedom and America | |
| 1962 | Evelyn Ann Pottinger[49] | Napoleon III and the German Crisis |