The Anita McConnell Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding performance on an essay or dissertation that is based on an object in the Whipple Museum's collection.
Winners
- 2023: Eleanor Brittain
- 2022: Thomas Runciman
- 2021: Rosie Williamson
- 2020: Francis Newman
- 2019: Lauren Killingsworth
- 2018: Tabitha Burden, Matthew Green and Hannah Resnick
- 2017: Alice Wang
Eligibility criteria:
Awarded for an outstanding performance on a research essay or dissertation in HSPM MPhil, HMS MPhil, or Partt III, that meets the following eligibility criteria:
- A. Substantially uses as source material/s any artefact/s from the collections of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and/or
- B. Substantially uses as source material/s any book/s from the Whipple Library’s Special Collections. Essays that engage with textual content alone will not be considered eligible: nominated essays must consider the book/s as object/s (which might include, for example, aspects of their material production, marginalia, or provenance).