# Class of 2017 ## expand\_more ![2017 Senior Thesis Party](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/histlit/files/seniors_thesis_party_group_photo_2017_0.jpg) **Haley Baker**, “‘Culture Comes from the Family’: Tracing Constructions of Culture, Poverty, and Motherhood in Chile” **Meg Bernhard**, “A Storied History: Gabriel García Marquez’s Journalism, 1948-1996” **Eleanor Bridge**, “Renewals of the Past in the ‘Unexplored Present’: Slave Narratives in the Year 2016” **Bennett Capozzi**, “‘Yes But the People, What About the People?’: Depression-Era Hollywood Imagines Lincoln’s Democratic State” **Karen Chee**, “The Ghostly Grotesque: The Revolutionary Satire and Intersectionality of H.T. Tsiang’s *The Hanging on Union Square*: **Shao Wei Chew Chia**, “Confucius in the Yard: Longing and Belonging in a Chinese Myth of Harvard” **Jess Clay**, “Words of America: John James Audubon and the American Exceptionalism of *Ornithological Biography*” **David Coletti**, “Coming Out of the Ghetto: Class, Gender Identity, and Oppression in Gay São Paulo, 1964-1984” **Hana Connelly**, “Kidnap in the Caucasus: Rethinking Russian Imperialism in the 19th Century” **William Ezekowitz**, “Friday Night Rites: High School Football, American Values, and the Cold War” **Julia Fay**, “(Almost) Nothing is Sacred: Satire and Religion in *The Praise of Folly*” **Dana Ferrante**, “A Recipe for National Indifference: Ippolito Cavalcanti’s *Cucina Teorico-Pratica*” **Sidni Frederick**, “The Third Important Event: George Lamming’s Literary Critique of the West Indian Search for Citizenship” **Adrian Horton**, “Standing on Unsolid Ground: Appalachian Women and the Fate of the White Working Class in the 1970s” **Caroline Hubbard**, “Picturing Progress: Reimagining Black Identity and Racial Futurity Through the Politicized Aesthetics of the British Black Arts Movement” **Liz Huber**, “Agency Refracted Through the Frame: The Intermedial Intervention of Asco’s ‘No Movies’” **David Kurlander**, “‘Capture the Rapture’: A Cultural History of Malt Liquor, 1950-1980” **Tyrik LaCruise**, “The American Poet and the Postwar Mountain: Culture, Crisis, and Conformity in the Poetry of the Harlem and San Francisco Renaissances” **David Leeds**, “Pursuing Hope and Harmony in the Gorgeous Mosaic: Mayor David Dinkins, Public Language, Racial Discourse, and Urban Politics in New York City, 1989-1993” **Eileen Macron**, “Anna Freud and the Hampstead War Nurseries, 1941-1946: A Study on Displacement, Loss, and Reconciliation” **Kaipo Matsumoto**, “The Story of Kaluaiko’olau: Hawaiian Literature and Indigenous Melancholia” **Christopher McKenna**, "Frederick Douglass in Memoir and Memory, 1845-1900" **Ilian Meza-Pena**, “*Rupturas*: Zapatista Women Promote Multicultural Feminism During Political Crises” **Matthew Mollerus**, “Intellectual Interventions in Trials During the Algerian War” **Elizabeth O'Donnell**, “The Loud 1970s: Divorce, Homosexuality, and Authenticity in *An American Family*” **Kevin O'Donnell**, “A Free Future: The Movement for Black Self-Determination on Edisto Island, 1861-1882” **Dylan Perese**, "Looking Up to Look Within: Queer Astrology and the Art of Collective Meaning Making 1969 - Present" **James Piltch**, “Training the Worker-Citizen: Boston Public Schools and Changing Educational Values during the Great Depression” **Auguste Roc**, “‘With Every Tear Comes Redemption’: Heartbreak as a Form of Protest in Blues, Beyoncé, and #BlackLivesMatter” **Talia Rothstein**, “*La Mulata* and the Nation: Narratives of Fear and Desire in Post-Revolutionary Mexico” **Michael Savarese**, “Gods and Rats in the Empire City: Pennsylvania Station, Public Memory, and Preservation in 20th-Century New York” **Charles Scherr**, “Domesticating the Wild West: Reimagining Regional Identity in Late-Nineteenth Booster Literature” **Henry Shah**, “Begging Outside the ‘Dream Factory’: Urban Order and the Wandering Poor in Bombay, 1898-1959” **Audrey Shi**, "Pen and Picture: Sino-American Women’s Education and the Epistolary Envisioning of a New Body Politic, 1917-1944” **Maia Silber**, “River of Living Water” **Panchi Simeto**, “Shifting Visions: The Generic and Gender Legacy of the Female Outlaw in Ridley Scott’s *Thelma & Louise*” **Frances Swanson**, “‘Civil Defense in Women’s Work’: Gender and Citizenship in the Early Cold War” **Ian Van Wye**, “Proper Intellectuals: The Self-Doubt of Maurice Blanchot and Albert Camus” **Paige Wallace**, “‘No Free Rides, No Excuses’: Hollywood Depictions of Teachers and Schools from the 1980s and 1990s” **Abby Westover**, “Hair and Female Agency in the European Middle Ages” **Nick Wood**, “Imperial Insecurities, Nationalism, and Islander Voices: The Falkland Islands War of 1982 Reimagined” **Katie Wu**, “Curating Citizens: Educating Through Visual Culture at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Prizes 2017 expand\_more Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - David Kurlander, “‘Capture the Rapture’: A Cultural History of Malt Liquor, 1950-1980” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Hana Connelly, “Kidnap in the Caucasus: Rethinking Russian Imperialism in the 19th Century” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize - Michael Savarese, “Gods and Rats in the Empire City: Pennsylvania Station, Public Memory, and Preservation in 20th-Century New York” - Katie Wu, “Curating Citizens: Educating Through Visual Culture at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893” Perry Miller Prize - Kaipo Matsumoto, “The Story of Kaluaiko’olau: Hawaiian Literature and Indigenous Melancholia” - Maia Silber, “River of Living Water” David Rockefeller Center Prize - Haley Baker, “‘Culture Comes from the Family’: Tracing Constructions of Culture, Poverty, and Motherhood in Chile” John Clive Prize - Henry Shah, “Begging Outside the ‘Dream Factory’: Urban Order and the Wandering Poor in Bombay, 1898-1959” Bowdoin Prize - Maia Silber, “River of Living Water: The Croton System and the Transformation of Westchester, 1841-1896” George B. Sohier Prize - Hana Connelly, “Kidnap in the Caucasus: Rethinking Russian Imperialism in the 19th Century” Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize - Kevin O'Donnell, “A Free Future: The Movement for Black Self-Determination on Edisto Island, 1861-1882” Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize - Auguste Roc, “‘With Every Tear Comes Redemption’: Heartbreak as a Form of Protest in Blues, Beyoncé, and #BlackLivesMatter” Jonathan M. Levin Prize - Jamie Piltch Thomas T. Hoopes Prize - Hana Connelly, “Kidnap in the Caucasus: Rethinking Russian Imperialism in the 19th Century” - David Kurlander, “‘Capture the Rapture’: A Cultural History of Malt Liquor, 1950-1980” - Kevin O'Donnell, “A Free Future: The Movement for Black Self-Determination on Edisto Island, 1861-1882” - Michael Savarese, “Gods and Rats in the Empire City: Pennsylvania Station, Public Memory, and Preservation in 20th-Century New York”