The 2020 Julian Clement Chase Prize for undergraduate writing about
Washington, DC is awarded to: Beatrice Mount, for her capstone project in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
"Imagining One D.C.: Using Feminist and Queer Theory as a Basis to Combat Gentrification."
This year's virtual Julian Clement Chase Prize ceremony featured Parisa Norouzi, executive director at Empower DC, as the keynote speaker. This annual award and ceremony honor exceptional research writing about the District of Columbia. The ceremony kicks off the University Writing and Research Conference, during which undergraduates present research completed in their first-year writing courses.
Many community engaged scholarship courses include written assignments that could be submitted for the Chase Prize. Please encourage your students to do so.
The Julian Clement Chase Prize Award is named in honor of Sgt. Julian Clement Chase, a native of Washington, DC who graduated in 2008 from DC's Wilson High School. While serving with the United States Marine Corps, he was killed in action in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He was set to matriculate as a freshman GW in Spring 2013. He knew and relished his city. His family has established this prize in his honor to recognize others who explore DC with the intelligence and exuberance that he did.
