The Margaret Dalton Curran Prize was established in 1986 by family and friends in honor of Margaret Dalton Curran ’26, who developed a lifelong interest in excellent writing while at Carleton. This prize is awarded annually to the student submitting the best academic essay, as determined by the English Department.
Curran Prize Winners
- 2023: Douglas Meeker
- 2022: Sam Wingfield
- 2021: Elwood Olson
- 2020: Not Awarded
- 2019: Julian Hast
- 2018: Jane Kelly
- 2017: Not Awarded
- 2016: Sarah Meister and Noah Bunnell
- 2015: Grace Marie Fremont
- 2014: Not Awarded
- 2013: Jacob Jordan Styburski
- 2012: Not awarded
- 2011: Gabriel Perri Silberblatt
- 2010: Jordan Buchanan Smith
- 2009: Emily Anne Litwin
- 2008: Emily Elizabeth Schulman
- 2007: Alyssa Emiko Shiraishi Lubet
- 2006: Martin William Miller
- 2005: Charles Arthur Petersen
- 2004: Hannah Embry Kaplan
- 2003: Andrew Lane Palmer
- 2002: Michael David Cohen
- 2001: Nicholas Gulick Reich
- 2000: Caryn Eleanor Cramer
- 1999: Nadia Wishne Underhill
- 1998: Robert Wittenmyer Lewis
- 1997: Andrew Ellis Johnson
- 1996: Jeanne Marie Briggs
- 1995: Jennifer White Emery
- 1994: Erika Lynn Sturgeon
- 1993: Timujin David Munson
- 1992: Margaret Elizabeth Steen
- 1991: Anne Elizabeth Schlosser and Alexander Robertson Textor
- 1990: Jacqueline Alice Vanhoutte
- 1989: Colleen Lynn McMullen and Sarah A. Snudden
- 1988: Christina M. McDougall
- 1987: Sarah Elizabeth Crippen
- 1986: Patrick Timothy Field