WGS concentrator and graduating senior Jordan Villegas has been awarded a 2019-2020 Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the English Language for his essay, "They are called ‘brown people,’ ‘greasers,’ et cetera’": Mexican-American Racialization and Pocha Feminist Critique in the Letter from Chapultepec. 

The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most prestigious student awards, are designed to recognize essays of originality and high literary merit, written in a way that engages both specialists and non-specialists. Established in 1791, the Bowdoin Prizes have been awarded to many notable Harvard students, among them the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the former Harvard presidents Charles Eliot and Nathan Pusey, the historians Henry Adams, Susan Pedersen, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the novelist John Updike, and the journalist Faith Salie. Read the list of 2019-2020 prize winners here. 

Please join us in congratulating Jordan on this recognition of high-quality scholarship.