The winner of this year's Nordev prize for the best graduate student preliminary examination essay is Max Engleman for his paper Reassessing Dilthey's Social Ontology. The runners-up are Yining Wu for her paper The Unconditioned in Naturphilosophie: Schelling's reception from Kant's Third Critique and Manasa Gopakumar for her paper Is Racial Ignorance the Same as Racial Ideology. 

Congratulations Max, Yining and Manasa!