Wertheim Prize winners announced
- Jul 1, 2025
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Updated: Aug 6, 2025
The Wertheim Prize is awarded each year at the AAALS conference for the best paper by a graduate student. Al Wertheim was the first AAALS member to bring his graduate students to an AAALS conference.
The following co-winners were announced at the 2025 AAALS conference in Honolulu, Hawai`i:
Sayantika Mandal, University of Georgia
Pumehana Holmes, University of Hawai`i, Mānoa
Please join us in congratulating them on their outstanding scholarship! We look forward to seeing how their careers develop from here.
I read the post about the Wertheim Prize winners and how this journal celebrates the best student and creative writing each year, showing that hard work in literature really matters. I could feel how much study and care goes into writing and research from what they shared. Once during a busy week of classes I used pay someone to take my online Management Class so I could finish a big project and still keep up with reading. That made me think more about balance and finding support when work piles up.