ISAACS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The Isaacs Scholarship at City College is an undergraduate scholarship for students at the College planning to pursue a major in English Literature. Isaacs Scholars are capable of serious work in humanistic studies. The program is built around a major in English literature with collateral work in Foreign languages and the Classics: the traditional disciplines of a liberal education. https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/isaacs
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARDS AND PRIZES
AY 2025 – 2026 Award Recipients
The Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing – Rachana Pathak
The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Fiction – Joseph Anderson and Chantal Martineau
The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Poetry – Angeliki Cintron
The Elyse L. Nass Scholarship – Enid Brain
The David Dortort Prize in Non-Fiction – Luke Sullivan
The Henry Roth Award in Fiction – Isko Mohamed
The Ross Alexander Memorial Award in Drama – Griffy LaPlante
The Geraldine Griffin Moore Memorial Scholarship:
graduate: Griffy LaPlante
undergraduates: Isko Mohamed and David Donald
The Goodman Fund Grants – Nicholas DiCostanzo and Peter Tirado
The Goodman Fund Short Story Award – David Donald
POETRY AWARDS
The Esther Unger Poetry Prize – Roxanna Cardenas Colmenares, Sophia Hull, and Fuad Rabbi
The Goodman Fund Poetry Award – Roxanna Cardenas Colmenares and Fuad Rabbi
ESSAY AWARDS
The Allan Danzig Memorial Award in Victorian and Romantic Literature – Fuad Rabbi
The David Markowitz Essay Award – Isko Mohamed
The Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award – Karen Montiel
The Meyer Cohn Graduate Essay Award in Literature – Enid Brain and Jefferson Everest Crawford
THE IRWIN & ALICE STARK AWARDS
The Stark Short Fiction Prize:
graduate: Rachana Pathak
undergraduate: Fuad Rabbi
The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson – Angeliki Cintron
The Stark Award for Essay in Literature – Alfie Hall and Lukas Zaleskis
The Stark English Composition Award in Memory of Mina Shaughnessy – Jimmy Hernandez
AWARDS FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE
The David Dortort Undergraduate Fellowship – Julia Malec
The Maria Bournas Student Fellowship – Rodrigo Sanchez
The Weiner Nusim Stairway to Excellence Award – Alfie Hall
The Edward C. and Ruth P. Mack Graduate Fellowship – Kaitlyn Murphy
The Abraham A. Bernstein Graduate Fellowship – Sophia Hull
The Margaret Halmy Prize – David Donald
THE MARILYN STERNGLASS AWARDS IN LANGUAGE & LITERACY
The Marilyn Sternglass Writing Award – Anna Shakova and Robin Baumgarten
The Marilyn Sternglass Overall Merit Award – Anna Shakova
TEACHING AWARDS
The Norman Levine Outstanding Teaching Award – Ashley Oros