Mary Hatch Marshall Award

Each year, Library Associates presents the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award for the best essay written by a graduate student in the humanities at the University. The award, first presented in 2004, honors Mary Hatch Marshall, who in 1948 was the first woman to become a full professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Syracuse University and in 1953 was a co-founder of Library Associates. The award carries a cash prize of $500.

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After Mary Hatch Marshall's death, Library Associates wanted to acknowledge her deep commitment to the organization since its founding. The 100th anniversary of Mary's birth and the 50th anniversary of Library Associates in 2003 provided the opportunity to establish the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award as a permanent memorial that would connect her passions for literature and for the Library. Members of Library Associates, Mary's friends and family, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Central New York Community Foundation all contributed to the endowment that funds this annual award for the best essay written by a graduate student in the humanities at Syracuse University.

Eligible for the cash prize are part‑time and full‑time students from the following humanities departments and programs: African American Studies; English; Fine Arts; Languages Literatures, and Linguistics; Latino‑Latin American Studies; Religion; Philosophy; the Writing Program; and the Women's Studies Program. Nominations are submitted by each of these programs to a faculty panel selected to judge the essays.

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