Prizes for Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Students

For further information about the prizes listed below, click the links. Note that no application is required for prizes marked with an asterisk (*); eligibility will be considered automatically.

African and African American Studies	Elizabeth Maguire Memorial Prize*
Book/Art Collecting	William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Classics	Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Composition in Greek Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Composition in Latin
Commencement Orations	Graduate English Commencement Oration Prize
Comparative Literature	Susan Anthony Potter Prize
Constitutional Government and Free Institutions	Delancey K. Jay Prize
East Asia	Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies
Economics	Padma Desai Prize in Economic Science David A. Wells Prize in Economics
English	Helen Choate Bell Prize Helen Choate Bell Prize for Ph.D. Thesis Boston Ruskin Prize Howard Mumford Jones Prize Winthrop Sargent Prize
Essay in a Scientific Field of Learning	Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in the Natural Sciences
Essay in Any Field of Learning	Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the English Language
Geographic Information Science	Howard T. Fisher Prize
German	Bernhard Blume First-Year Graduate Award* Bernhard Blume Second-Year Graduate Award* Esther Sellholm Walz Prize*
Government	Edward M. Chase Prize Charles Sumner Prize Robert N. Toppan Prize
History	Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize*
Islamic Studies	Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize in Islamic Studies
Jewish and Hebrew Studies	Harry and Cecile Starr Graduate Prize in Jewish Studies
Medieval Studies	Committee on Medieval Studies Ph.D. Thesis Prize*
Music	“The Bohemians” (New York Musicians Club) Prize Francis Boott Prize John Green Prize* George Arthur Knight Prize Adelbert W. Sprague Prize
Philosophy	George Plimpton Adams Prize* Bechtel Prize in Philosophy Francis Bowen Prize Emily and Charles Carrier Prize*
Physics	The Cutting Prize* Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize* David J. Robbins Prize*
Scandinavian	Einar Haugen Prize*
Statistics	Arthur P. Dempster Award*
Theater	Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting
Undergraduate Teaching	Harvard Griffin GSAS Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates* Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in Germanic Languages*