2025 Student Prizes
The France-Stanford Center is pleased to announce the 2025 student recipients for the James Baldwin and Louise Bourgeois Prizes.
There are two winners of our 2025 Louise Bourgeois Essay Prize for a research essay by a graduate student in Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences: Lucy Stark and Haby Ka.
Audrey Martel-Dion
James Baldwin Essay Prize
Our 2025 James Baldwin Essay Prize for a research essay by an advanced Stanford PhD student in Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences goes to Audrey Martel-Dion for her paper “Undefined Sexes in Undisclosed Locations: Displacing the Hermaphrodite Society in Early Modern French Thought.”
Lucy Stark
Louise Bourgeois Essay Prize
Our 2025 Louise Bourgeois Essay Prize for a research essay by a graduate student in Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences goes to Lucy Stark for “Capturing, Selling, Using, and Liberating: The Four Acts of Senegalese Childhood Slavery in the Late 1850s”.
Haby Ka
Louise Bourgeois Essay Prize
Our 2025 Louise Bourgeois Essay Prize for a research essay by a graduate student in Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences goes to Haby Ka for “The Citizenship Question in Colonial Algeria and the Cremieux Decree of 1870”.