#  Class of 2015 

 



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**Ariana Albanese**, "Terrible Beauty: The Question of Modern Tragedy in the Works of Sylvia Plath"  
  
**Erin Aoyama**, "Separate and Unequal: The Impact of Jim Crow on Japanese American Internment and Postwar Identity"  
  
**Annie Bishai**, "Les Évoluées et les Nouveau-Nés: French Colonial Medicine and the Transformative Role of Midwives"  
  
**Natalie Chang**, "Brave Young World: Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Literature"  
  
**Grace Chen**, "Ambiguous Authenticity and Culinary Connection: Joyce Chen’s Chinese Cuisine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949-1982"  
  
**Julia Cohn**, "Abandoned Pan American Ambitions: Diego Rivera’s Later Murals Demonstrate His Disillusionment with the Ideal"  
  
**Elizabeth Coleman**, "'Poison Whores' and 'Virtue Rewarded': Imagining Victims of 'Seduction' in the 18th Century”  
  
**Madeline Connors**, "Frontier Feminist: Sarah Palin’s Performance of Gender, Conservatism, and Motherhood"  
  
**Andrea Del Conte**, "Remembering the Father: Domestic Memorials to President Washington, 1799-1880"  
  
**Margaret Dillaway**, "Thomas Hobbes as Epic Poet: Poetic Faculties and the Political State"  
  
**Dominic Ferrante**, "*Voci Dell'Anima*: Resistance and Exile Literature in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1550"  
  
**Daniel Fitzpatrick**, "Beatles for Sale: Consumer Identity and Commercial Rebellion in the British Invasion"  
  
**Christopher Frost**, "Black to Black-ish: Post-Racial Constructions of Black Identity and Family on Network Sitcoms"  
  
**Moeko Fujii**, "Orienting Virginia Woolf: Japonisme in *To the Lighthouse*, *Orlando*, and *The Waves*"  
  
**David Hinshillwood**, "And I Am Telling You, You Can't Stop the Beat: Locating Narratives of Racial Crossover in Musical Theater"  
  
**Kristin Holladay**, "'Political, Not Pathological': Forcible Feeding and the Contested Sanity of Hunger-Striking Suffragists in British and American Prisons"  
  
**Madeline Holland**, "Stories for Asylum"  
  
**Frances Ikwuazom**, "Let the Memories Speak for Themselves: The Resurfacing of Memory in the Form of a Narrative Archive in the Works of Didier Daeninckx"  
  
**Ashleigh Inglis**, "Re-Educating the Anglo Majority: Ethnic Studies and White Allyship in the Ivory Tower"  
  
**Mattie Kahn**, "'A Magazine of High Character': Failure, Foresight, and the Literary Project of Edgar Allan Poe"  
  
**Tian Kisch**, "'In Touch with the World': Confederate Nationalism in Civil War Journalism"  
  
**Joy Seung Heon Lee**, "The Search for Politically Relevant Art in Times of Crisis: Tradition and Word-Music Synthesis in Richard Wagner, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht"  
  
**Charlotte McKechnie**, "North and South: A Journey of Political Action and Personal Re-Imagining in Scotland and Australia, 1792-1801"  
  
**George Mills**, "'The Game is Afoot': The Baker Street Irregulars and Sherlock Holmes Fandom in America"  
  
**Tom Nunan**, "Beginnings and Endings in Puritan Poetry"  
  
**Ebele Obi-Okoye**, "Navigating Space, Colonizing Minds: Victorian Women's Perceptions of Indian Women, 1857-1900"  
  
**Debbie Onuoha**, "Murky Waters on a Gold(en) Coast: Discourses of Pollution Along the Korle Lagoon Accra, Ghana"  
  
**Rachel Orol**, "High, Low, and Underground: Bringing Modern Art to the Masses in Frank Pick's London"  
  
**Bryan Padilla**, "A Dangerous Thesis: Death by the Spanish Pen in the Era of Trujillo"  
  
**Jasmine Panton**, "Playing the Race Card: Examining Blackness and Heart Disease in the 21st Century Through BiDil and the Slavery Hypothesis"  
  
**Valeria Pelet**, "A *Multi-Viral* Multitude: The Evolving Politics of Solidarity in the Music of Calle 13"  
  
**Samuel Richman**, "The Big Dream: Moral Fantasy in Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles"  
  
**Maria Romero**, "Pieces of Salomé: Mythic Motherhood in *In the Name of Salomé* and *Salomé U: Cartas a una Ausencia*"  
  
**Ethan Samet-Marram**, "As Ripe for Mischief as Any: Representations of Interracial Collaboration During Golden Age Piracy"  
  
**Anna Santoleri**, "'The University of the Woods': An Examination of Nature and Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps"  
  
**Claire Simon**, "W.E.B. Du Bois as Curator: Defining Race and Progress in *The Philadelphia Negro*, The American Negro Exhibit, and *The Souls of Black Folk*"  
  
**Samuel Sokolsky-Tifft**, "Calamity and the Problem of Tastelessness: Beckett, Adorno, and Writing After Auschwitz"  
  
**Stephanie Star**, "Not Just a Bedtime Story: Challenging Conservative Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century British Children's Literature"  
  
**Niv Sultan**, "'To Build the Impossible': The Video Game as Historical, Ideological, and Societal Entity in the *BioShock* Series"  
  
**Andrew Talbot**, "Rusticators, Regionalism, and the Representation of Locals on the Coast of Maine in the Late Nineteenth Century"  
  
**Carrie Tian**, "'To Point a Moral and Adorn a Tale': Frances Glessner Lee and the Reimagined Landscape of Death Investigation in America, 1931-1962"  
  
**Enzo Vasquez Toral**, "*Arena Conta Boal*: *Teatro de Arena* and Augusto Boal's Early Theater Works in Dictatorial Brazil, 1956-1971"  
  
**Amy Weiss-Meyer**, "*New York*, New York: Writing, Saving, and Selling the City, 1967-1977"  
  
**Anne Wenk**, "A Great Institution of Education, Democracy and Culture: Brooklyn and the Development of its Grand Museum"  
  
**Caroline Williams**, "'All Metre and Mystery Touch on the Lord': Multiple Traditions of Truth-Telling in *The Annals of the Four Masters*"



 

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###    Senior Prizes 2015  expand\_more  

 

 Edward Chandler Cumming Prize

- Erin Aoyama, "Separate and Unequal: The Impact of Jim Crow on Japanese American Internment and Postwar Identity"

 Barbara Miller Solomon Prize

- Ethan Samet-Marram, "As Ripe for Mischief as Any: Representations of Interracial Collaboration During Golden Age Piracy"

 Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize

- Samuel Sokolsky-Tifft, "Calamity and the Problem of Tastelessness: Beckett, Adorno, and Writing After Auschwitz"

 Perry Miller Prize

- Julia Cohn, "Abandoned Pan American Ambitions: Diego Rivera’s Later Murals Demonstrate His Disillusionment with the Ideal"

 David Rockefeller Center Prize

- Maria Romero, "Pieces of Salomé: Mythic Motherhood in *In the Name of Salomé* and *Salomé U: Cartas a una Ausencia*"

 John Clive Prize

- Moeko Fujii, "Orienting Virginia Woolf: Japonisme in *To the Lighthouse*, *Orlando*, and *The Waves*"

 Bowdoin Prize

- Samuel Sokolsky-Tifft, “Exercises in Guilt: Adorno, Heidegger, and the Impossibility of Poetry After Auschwitz”

 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize

- Erin Aoyama, “Separate and Unequal: The Impact of Jim Crow on Japanese American Internment and Postwar Identity”
- Amy Weiss-Meyer, “*New York*, New York: Writing, Saving, and Selling the City, 1967-1977”
- George Mills, “‘The Game is Afoot’: The Baker Street Irregulars and Sherlock Holmes Fandom in America”
- Debbie Onuoha, “Murky Waters on a Gold(en) Coast: Discourses of Pollution Along the Korle Lagoon Accra, Ghana"
- Samuel Sokolsky-Tifft, "Calamity and the Problem of Tastelessness: Beckett, Adorno, and Writing After Auschwitz"