The 2026 Undergraduate Student Essay Award goes to Attri Dey (Rabindra Bharati University) for the essay, “The Iron Necessity: Emerson’s ‘Fate’ and the Secularized Calvinist Theodicy.”
2nd Place: Elan Cohen
3rd Place: Emily D. Holtrop
More information at: emersonsociety.org/awards/under...
Undergraduate students are welcome to submit 1,000-1,500-word academic essays on any topic relevant to the study of Emerson—his life, work, national and
