Jordan Chauncy, a PhD candidate in Medieval Studies, has been awarded the 2026 Tom Hill Prize for "Reason and the Egg: A Trans Feminine Roman de Silence". The prize was announced at the annual Quodlibet Lecture on April 24, 2026.
The Tom Hill Prize, established in 2024 in honor of Professor Emeritus Tom Hill, who taught in the Medieval Studies Program and the Department of Literatures in English from 1967 until 2022, is awarded to a Cornell graduate student in any field who is judged to have written the best essay in any area of Medieval Studies.
