# Class of 2016 ## expand\_more ![class_of_2016_group_photo_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/histlit/files/class_of_2016_group_photo_0.jpg) **Karol Alzate Londono,**“*Tiene Miedo Que Se Homosexualice la Vida*?: Homosexuality as Dissent in Cuba and Chile**”** **Julianna Aucoin,**“The Liberal Captain America: The Birth, Life, and Death of an American Heroic Leader" **Claire Blumenthal**,“Words of War: The Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Great Depression Military Rhetoric” **Lucyanna Burke**, “‘Sin Entregar la Lengua’: Censorship and the Construction of Narrative in the Caso Padilla” **Merilin Castillo**,“This Too Has Yet to Pass: Slavery and the Development of TwentiethCentury Black Radical Thought” **Alexander Danilovich**, “Grann, Fawcett, and the Value of El Dorado” **Tamara Fernando**, “*Tolle Lege, Tolle Pinge*: Printing Augustine in Seventeenth-Century Europe” **John Finnegan**, “Recasting the Revolution: Spectacle and Propaganda in Peru’s MRTA” **Mikhaila Fogel**, “Conceptions of Control: A Comparison of the American and British Birth Control Movements, 1910-1928” **Allejah Franco**,“‘I Like To Be In America’: Assimilation to the Postwar American City in *West Side Story*” **John Griffin**, “Writing the Past and Shaping the Future: Historical Revision and Local Color Fiction in Post-Reconstructional Louisiana” **Nicky Guerreiro**, “‘Mr. Congressman, Why Can’t You Understand?’: Johnny Cash and the Politics of Criminality” **Megan Jones**, “In Search of Sisterhood: The Centrality of Print Culture to Black Feminism, 1970-1983” **Tom Keefe**, “‘The Family Council’: The Influence on the Gilbreth Family on Management Practice in Early 20th-Century America” **David Kilstein**, “Dey Say If You Talk Pidgin You No Can: Linguistic Imperialism and Cultural Preservation in Hawai’i” **Henry Li**, “Peng-Chun Chang, American Pragmatism, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” **Anita Lo**, “The I-Hotel in Social Movement and Collective Memory” **Tessa Markewich**, “Dancing the Depression: American Identity and Federally Funded Dance” **Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence**, “Bodies in Formation: Contemporary Black Female Artists Confront the Post-Racial Fantasy” **Margaret McGovern**, “Double Antiquities: Humanist Historiography in the Reign of Henry VII” **Connor McKnight**, “Mediating Vietnam: Michael Herr from Saigon to Hollywood” **Sadie McQuilkin**, “‘According to the Needs of St. George’s’: Coeducation at an Elite Boarding School, 1968-1986” **Lucia Millham**, “Language and Legacy: British Nurses and Wartime Trauma on the Front Lines of World War I” **Andrea Mirviss**, “‘Is It True Then That I Have the Whole Race to Work For?’: Developing a Talented Tenth in *Brownies’ Book* Readers” **Rebecca Park**, “After the Midnight Sky: Witnessing Harriet Tubman” **Carol Powell**, “Calling All to Action: Seeing Protest in the Funk Era and the Black Lives Matter Movement” **Daniel Ryu**, “Frederick Douglass, His Autobiographies, and the Influence of the Garrisonian Abolitionists” **John Sakellariadis**, “Waiting for Vietnam: Vietnam-era Canvas Graffiti and American Combat Morale in the Pre-Tet Period” **Marguerite Solmssen**, “‘Clean In Deed’: Embodied Citizenship Training in the Boy Scout Movement 1908-1929” **Aliza Theis**, “‘For the Diversion and Use of the Fair-Sex’: Ladies’ Almanacs in Eighteenth-Century England and America” **Kia Turner**, “Revolt! Rally! Revise!: Reclaiming the Power of the Black Narrative in Activist Achievements Against Harvard” **AJ Unitas**, “Not Pulling Any Punchlines: American Humorous Propaganda in World War II” **Gabriela Weldon**, “*Para Inglês Ver*: Rio de Janeiro’s Conception of Self and the Contestation of the Favela" **Cary Williams**, “‘At Least We Have Our Name’: Free People of Color and the Struggle to Survive in Antebellum Louisiana and Mississippi” **Alicia Zamora**, “Transnational *Mestizajes*: Race, Place, and the Political in Vasconcelos’ *La Raza Cósmica* and Anzaldúa’s *Borderlands*” **Caroline Zhang**, “‘Let Us Kneel Where He Kneels’: The Reader as Stranger, Censor, Antagonist, and Creator in the Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh” **Magdalene Zier**, “Staging the Wake: Black Women Playwrights and the Fight Against Lynching, 1916-1940” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Prizes 2016 expand\_more Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - Cary Williams, “‘At Least We Have Our Name’: Free People of Color and the Struggle to Survive in Antebellum Louisiana and Mississippi” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, “Bodies in Formation: Contemporary Black Female Artists Confront the Post-Racial Fantasy” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize - Magdalene Zier, “Staging the Wake: Black Women Playwrights and the Fight Against Lynching, 1916-1940” Perry Miller Prize - Anita Lo, “The I-Hotel in Social Movement and Collective Memory” - Aliza Theis, “‘For the Diversion and Use of the Fair-Sex’: Ladies’ Almanacs in Eighteenth-Century England and America” David Rockefeller Center Prize - John Finnegan, “Recasting the Revolution: Spectacle and Propaganda in Peru’s MRTA” John Clive Prize - Lucia Millham, “Language and Legacy: British Nurses and Wartime Trauma on the Front Lines of World War I” Bowdoin Prize - Cary Williams, “'They Know Us Here': Contrasting Pattnerns of Movement and Stillness among Enslaved and Free People of Color" George B. Sohier Prize - Caroline Zhang, “‘Let Us Kneel Where He Kneels’: The Reader as Stranger, Censor, Antagonist, and Creator in the Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh” Elizabeth Maguire Memorial Prize - Magdalene Zier, “Staging the Wake: Black Women Playwrights and the Fight Against Lynching, 1916-1940” Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize - Cary Williams, “‘At Least We Have Our Name’: Free People of Color and the Struggle to Survive in Antebellum Louisiana and Mississippi” Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize - Megan Jones, “In Search of Sisterhood: The Centrality of Print Culture to Black Feminism, 1970-1983” Cornell West Prize - Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, “Bodies in Formation: Contemporary Black Female Artists Confront the Post-Racial Fantasy” Thomas T. Hoopes Prize - Aliza Theis, “‘For the Diversion and Use of the Fair-Sex’: Ladies’ Almanacs in Eighteenth-Century England and America” - Magdalene Zier, “Staging the Wake: Black Women Playwrights and the Fight Against Lynching, 1916-1940”