McKenzie Cook wins Lowell Aptman Prize

McKenzie Cook won the Lowell Aptman Prize for her research essay "World War I and the London Theater," which she wrote as a sophomore in Prof. Kristen Neuschel's seminar, "Living Through the Great War." The essay considers literature and performance as a domain of memory about the war. McKenzie builds on the now-classic study by Paul Fussell,The Great War and Modern Memory, to argue that not only plays produced in the immediate aftermath of the war but also more recent ones, as well as their revival in later years on the London stage, must be understood as distinct phases of what Fussell termed “ironic recall” of the war.  

McKenzie also applied for and received research funds from the History Department to support a trip to London over spring break.