On Thursday, October 13th from 4-6pm ET, the Julian Clement Chase Prize Award will be awarded to Izy Carney at the GWU Museum- Textile Museum (701 21st Street NW, Washington DC). RSVP link.
This year's Julian Clement Chase Prize winner is Izy Carney, for her Honor’s History Thesis, "’Dirty Work’ Pay: Environmental Racism and the 1970 Washington, D.C. Sanitation Strike."
Honorable Mention goes to Wyatt Kirschner for his History Senior Thesis, "“45 Hardcore, Ass Bustin’ Radicals” and Three Infiltrators: Students for a Democratic Society at George Washington University and the FBI’s Counterintelligence Efforts Against Them."
The Julian Clement Chase Prize is named in honor of Sgt. Julian Clement Chase, a native of Washington, D.C., who graduated in 2008 from DC’s Wilson High School. While serving with the United States Marine Corps, he was killed in action at the age of 22 in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He was set to matriculate as a freshman at GW in the spring of 2013. Born in Washington, Julian knew and relished his city. His family has established this prize in his honor to recognize others who explore D.C. with the intelligence and exuberance that he did.
This ceremony launches this year’s University Writing and Research Conference, hosted by the GWU University Writing Program.
