We are very excited to announce that alumna Anna Duong-Topp has been selected as the 2020-21 Patricia Lindell Research Paper Award Winner! Anna has received $400 for her winning paper, Ontological Homelessness as a Phenomenology of Belonging: Comparing the Nihilisms of Martin 
Heidegger and Keiji Nishitani. Anna’s paper was selected from a very impressive compilation of submissions with Morgan Muldoon’s, The Backbone of the Vietnamese Nationalist Victory: The Motivations and Effectiveness of Vietnamese Women in the American War in Vietnam receiving First Honorable Mention and Marissa Marsolek’s, The Psychological Effects of Disclosure After a Sexual Assault receiving Second Honorable Mention. The library is now accepting submissions for the next research paper award to be announced in the fall of 2022.
More information about the prize and the nomination process can be found at: https://gustavus.edu/library/PatriciaLindell.php
Congratulations, Anna, Morgan, and Marissa!