Holly Nelson takes First Prize in the annual competition.

Holly Nelson is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where she triple-majored in English, History, and Medicine, Science, and the Humanities. Her research interests include literature, performance studies, historiography, and the medical humanities. An avid dancer, choreographer, and actress herself, Holly has written several conference papers on twentieth-century theatre and dance, founded primarily on archival research she conducted as a Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow. Holly is excited to begin her Ph.D. studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan this fall.