Dixon Award

The Dixon Award was established in 2002 by the Dixon Family Foundation, thanks to the generous efforts of alumni Hillary ('99) and Adam ('01) Dixon.  Each year a junior English major is awarded $2500 to enrich his or her current studies in preparation for senior year.  Please contact Debbie Richman at drichman@lclark.edu if you have questions.

2009 Dixon Letter (Word format)

2009 Dixon Application (Word format)

Past winners:

2009: Marley Badolati traveled to Massachusetts to study the influence of Robert Lowell on the poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

2008: Jessica Cartwright traveled to the Alex Turnbull Library in New Zealand to study Katherine Mansfield.

2007: Katrin Gibb studied John Fowles' The Magus at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

2007: Stephanie Beechem attended the 2007 MLA Annual Convention to gain a greater understanding of French influences on Wallace Stevens' poetry.

2006: Jason Robertson traveled to England to visit British libraries and historical sites for his project, “Spenser’s Reformation: Researching Iconoclasm and Literature in London.”

2005: Jason Simms traveled to Massachusetts to research the original manuscripts of Emily Dickinson in the Houghton Library at Harvard and the Frost Library at Amherst College.

2004: Stasia Honnold traveled to and conducted research while attending the 14th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference held at the University of London.

2003: Ariel Holman traveled to and conducted research at the Special Collections at the University of Sussex, UK.