THE KINDER PRIZE FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN CRITICAL MEDIA
To commemorate the founding of their new Department of Media Arts & Culture in 2017, Occidental established this student award honoring Marsha Kinder, who (in collaboration with her faculty colleague Bill Moritz) introduced Oxy’s first film courses in the 1960s. Student recipients of the Kinder Prize include:- 2017 Toby Ellentuck
- 2018 Miranda Clancy
Occidental College
(1965-1980)
- Dennis Armstrong
- Paul Barquinero
- John Bates
- Melissa Lou Beal
- Denise Blue
- Steven Bull
- Elizabeth Butz
- Elizabeth Carl
- Dennis Castanares
- Tina Castanares
- Fred Chang
- Steve De Jarnatt
- Louis Fernandez
- Gelya Frank
- Mitch Giannunzio
- Bill Hawkins
- Linda Hoag
- Danny Lyons
- Tom Marino
- John McDonald
- Jim Miller
- Pat Morrison
- Jonathan Peck
- Bob Spears
- Nick Tingle
- Jesus Treviño
Communication University of China
(2006-2010)
- Judie Wang
- Wu Xin (Grace Wu)
- *Zhipeng Xu (Pong Pong)
- Li Zheng (Zeke)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(2012)
- Cinzia Bottini (Italy)
- Juan Camilo Gonzalez Jimenez (Colombia)
- Christine Veras de Souza (Brazil)
- Mohammad Javad Khajavi (Iran)
USC School of Cinematic Arts
(1980-2012)
- Christine Acham
- Jiwon Ahn
- *Jude Akudinobi
- Steven Anderson
- *Trudy Anderson
- Clark Arnwine
- *Susan Barber
- Harry Benshoff
- *Lily Berko
- *Tracy Biga MacLean
- Heather Blackmore
- Robert Bodle
- *James Boyda
- Ted Braun
- Peter Britos
- Nsenga Burton
- Daniel Bydlowski
- *Rich Cante
- Laura Cechanowicz
- *Robert Chen
- Eunsun Cho
- Rosemary Comella
- Owen Costello
- Donna Cunningham
- Zahra Dowlatabadi
- Gregg Daskalagogorakis
- Allison DeFrenne
- Mary Desjardines
- Robert Dickinson
- Stephen Dinehart
- *Jay Douglas
- Meredith Drake
- Richard Edwards
- Anna Everett
- Lauren Fenton
- Brody Fox
- Eric Freedman
- José Gallegos
- *David Garland
- Chris Gilman
- *Sean Griffin
- Pearle Goh
- *Eric Gordon
- Ian Gordon
- James Gray
- *Daniel Herbert
- *Osa Hidalgo-Riva
- *Velina Hasu Houston
- *Monica Hulsbus
- Brooke Jacobson
- Valerio Jalongo
- Guy Johnson
- Victoria Johnson
- Kristy H.A. Kang
- Larry Karaszewski
- *Janice Kaye
- Mary Kearney
- *Chera Kee
- Tom Kemper
- Mary Kuryla
- Nam Lee
- *Amy Lehr Lawrence
- *Dan Leopard
- Alex Lykidis
- Laird Malamed
- Sarah Matheson
- David Melbye
- Sean Metzger
- Jim Moran
- Walter Morton
- Joshua Moss
- Lauri Mullens
- Hilary Neroni
- Edward Noeltner
- Abe Marcus Nornes
- Aine O'Healy
- *HyeRyoung Ok
- *Priscilla Ovalle
- Gabriel Paletz
- Veronica Paredes
- Jinhee Park
- Robert Payne
- Nithila Punnen Peter
- Jack Porter
- *Angelo Restivo
- *Luisa Rivi
- Wayne Rothschild
- Susana Ruiz
- Myrton Running Wolf
- *Scott Ruston
- Lynn Sacco
- *Noelia Saens
- Laila Sakr
- *Lucia Saks
- *Aboubakar Sanogo
- *Bashkar Sarkar
- Sue Scheibler
- Jonathan Schwartz
- Noah Shenker
- *Sophie Siddique Harvey
- *Michael Sinclair
- Tassio Snyder
- *Hamidou Soumah
- Valentin Stoilov
- Ellen Strain
- *Gaylyn Studlar
- Shaoyi Sun
- Jia Tan
- Yungshun Tang
- Amanda Tasse
- Christian Thomas
- *Jim Tobias
- Roland Tolentino
- *Michele Torre
- Paul Torre
- Alison Trope
- *Stephen Tropiano
- Huy Nguyen Dinh Truong
- *Ioana Uricaru
- *Sean Uyehara
- Lena Vassileva
- *Cristina Venegas
- *Karen Vered
- David Viera
- Maria Viera
- Karen Voss
- *Jon Wagner
- *Chun-chi Wang
- Hal Wasserman
- Mary Whitely
- *William Whittington
- Holly Willis
- Mark Williams
- *Mark Wolf
- Chia-Chi Wu
- *Harmony Wu
- Monique Yamaguchi
- Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh
- Ashley York
- Ran Yu
- Lihui Zhang
* students whose doctoral committee I chaired