2011 Dixon Award Winners

Junior English majors Casey Newbegin and Warren Kluber were both recipients of the 2011 Dixon Award.  Each student will receive a $2,500 grant to conduct research associated with their English studies. Casey will study the personal files of Virginia Woolf’s husband, Leonard Woolf, at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. Warren will travel to Gambia, Mauritania and rural parts of Senegal to explore how local oral traditions relate to the African novel.

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 a $2,500 research and travel grant to enrich his or her current studies in preparation for senior year.

“This award stimulates intellectual curiosity and seems to me to propel students forward in their passion not only for literature, but also for research.  It expands their horizons in a unique way; their understandings are distinct from what they glean either in the classroom or on a study-abroad program.  We see them blossom through this award.”

- Rishona Zimring, English Department Chair

Applications for the 2012 Dixon Award will be available in November.