{"id":15701,"date":"2016-07-25T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2016-08-18T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:37:51","slug":"north-callahan-essay-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/north-callahan-essay-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Student wins the 2016 North Callahan Essay Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By Molly Todd, UTC Intern<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">William \u201cTripp\u201d Woolf has won the 2016 North Callahan Essay Prize. Woolf captured the $1000 award for his essay \u201cMammy\u2019s Children: Power, Agency, and Redemption in Dessa Rose.\u201d UTC English Professor <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/english\/profiles\/faculty\/rqr878.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aaron Shaheen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> directed Woolf\u2019s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Callahan Prize is awarded every year to an undergraduate whose exceptional essay addresses a subject related to art, music, philosophy, religion, rhetoric\/literature, history, theater, or studies that combine these disciplines. The essays submitted are evaluated by a committee of interdisciplinary professors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The prize money is funded by an endowment by the late Dr. North Callahan, distinguished professor, author, and alumnus of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William \u201cTripp\u201d Woolf has won the 2016 North Callahan Essay Prize. 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