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Snyder Book Collecting Contest Sample Essays

Graduate Division

Rebecca K. Conn, Rhinelander, WI - graduate student in English;

             "Queer Life and Culture in England, c.1900-c.1940: A Bibliography of Queer Artists, Authors,

              Actors and Their Works"

Howard Graham , Cooperstown, New York - graduate student in American Studies;

             “Growing Up in the Home of Baseball”




Undergraduate Division




Derrais Carter, Kansas City, KS - Sociology/African and African American Studies

              "Black Fire: Art/Leadership/Protest Writings of the 60s/70s"

Bailey N. Pike, Lawrence KS - Musicology

"The Mythology of  Mozart

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