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!