The Selection Committee awarding the Philip Hofer Collecting Prize for Books or Art is pleased to announce this year’s results:
- First Prize ($3,000) to Alex Fisher, MA Candidate, GSD, Design Studies (Narratives Domain), for his entry “Collecting Along an Ellipse: Art and Ephemera from Eastern Europe”
- Second Prize ($1,500) to Rachelle Grossman, PhD Candidate, GSAS, Comparative Literature, for her entry “Yiddish Books from Communist Poland”
- Third Prize ($750) to Jonathan Galka, PhD Candidate, GSAS, History of Science, for his entry “Along Snail Trails: A Personal Natural History of Shell-Collecting”
- Third Prize ($750) to Laura Kenner, PhD Candidate, GSAS, History of Art and Architecture, for her entry “Dungeon Evidence: The Collected Writings of Terence Sellers, aka ‘Mistress Angel Stern’”
Nine students declared their intention to enter and were considered for this year’s competition.
The members of the Selection Committee were Peter X. Accardo, Scholarly and Public Programs Librarian, Houghton Library; Shalimar Fojas-White, Herman and Joan Suit Librarian, Fine Arts Library; David Godine, independent publisher (retired); Elizabeth Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums; and Miriam Stewart, Curator of the Collection, European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums.
The Philip Hofer prize, open to Harvard undergraduates and graduate students, is awarded each year to a student or students whose collections of books or works of art best reflect the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination exemplified by Philip Hofer, A.B. ’21, L.H.D. ’67. Hofer was the founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum.