In Their Own Words
McConnell Scholars come from all across Kentucky and represent a diverse list of academic, political and personal interests and world-views. Scholars share their experiences, research and creative writing on our blog. Our Readers' Choice Award honors one of these pieces each semester.
Readers' Choice Award
Past recipients of the McConnell Center's Readers' Choice Award include:
- Seth Pinson on "For Linda Pinson, my Meme" (Spring 2024)
- Seth Pinson on "The Future of Franklin-Simpson" (Fall 2023)
- Allie Rose Phillips on "When Life Gives You Lemons" (Spring 2023)
- Macy Waddle on “Doing everything right and nothing right, simultaneously” (Fall 2022)
- Mallory Slucher on "My First European Union Conference Experience" (Spring 2022)
- Shelby Disney on "Money is Not Real" (Fall 2021)
- Madelin Shelton on "No, My Hometown is Not Backward" (Spring 2020)
- Leah Hazelwook on "Angry" (Fall 2019)
- Emma Lawson on "An Open Letter to My Hometown" (Spring 2019)
- Alli Wade on "My Old Kentucky Home" (Fall 2018)
- Molly Baldock on "To My Teachers" (Spring 2018)
- Georgie Sook on "Spell Love G-I-V-E" (Fall 2017)
- Jared Thomas on "On the Kindness of Strangers" (Spring 2017)
- Colton Stinger on "In Memory of My Enemy" (Spring 2017)
- Isaac Feinn on "A Response to "Getting Married Is Not an Accomplishment" (Fall 2016)
- Macey Mayes on "On Homosexuality, Religion, and Everything Else that Makes You Uncomfortable" (Spring 2016)
- Isaac Feinn on "Greek Life: The Ecclesiological Rush" (Fall 2015)
- Sean Southard on "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War" (Spring 2015)
- Jeremy Ball on "Appreciating Appalachia: It's Not What You Think" (Fall 2014)
- Chloe Zoeller on "Study Abroad in Buenos Aires" (Spring 2014)
- Advocate Scott on "10 Lessons in Community Leadership from 'The Hobbit'" (Fall 2013)
- Victoria Allen on "My Date with Clarence: A Literary Adventure with an Unlikely Suitor" (Spring 2013)