# Class of 2018 ## expand\_more ![Senior thesis reception 2018](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/histlit/files/senior_thesis_photo_class_of_2018_0.jpg) **Nawal Arjini**, “*Banana Bottom* and the Anti-National Bildungsroman” **Ceylon Auguste-Nelson, “**Haircaring: The Significance of Black Hair in Contemporary Black Women’s Literature” **Matthew Brokaw**, “‘O’Brien Is Tryin’ to Learn to Talk Hawaiian’: Crafting the Image of Hawaii as New American Fantasia in the Popular Imagination” **Theresa Byrne**, “Encounter Magazine and Dissident Literature: Questioning Cultural Cold War Complicity” **Lily Calcagnini**, “The Culture of Clothes: Navigating Marc Jacobs, High Fashion, and Intercultural Exchange” **Emma City**, “The Coherence of Suffrage: Writing Towards the Vote in the British Women’s Suffrage Campaign, 1903-1913” **Josiah Corbus**, “‘We Ask No Favors’: The Founding of Deeds in Black Abolitionist Thought” **George Miles Counts**, “A House Is Not a Home: Heirs’ Property, Black Women’s Art, and the Intestacy of the Black Family in the South Carolina Lowcountry” **Caroline Cronin**, “The Prison as a Battlefield: Civil War Prisons, Union Leadership, and Camp Douglas, 1861-65” **Nathan Cummings**, “Reinventing the Liminal City: Seattle’s Western Urban Identity and the 1962 Century 21 Exhibition” **Alexander Deshuk**, “Movement and Dissent: How Andrei Amalrik Wrote Himself into the Soviet Dissident Movement” **Claire Dinhut**, “France, Fashion, and Femininity: Christian Dior and the Power of Distinction in Promoting the Idea of France” **Naima Drecker-Waxman**, “‘To Destroy Mankind’: Historical Memory of Nuclear Testing and Militarization in the Marshall Islands” **Andrew Duehren**, “‘Seriously?’: Celebrity Performativity and the Quest for the White Working Class in William F. Buckley’s 1965 and Norman Mailer’s 1969 New York Mayoral Campaigns” **Casey Durant**, “‘A Mood Picture of a Generation’: The Politics and Theater of Community in *Hair*” **Ramsey Fahs**, “‘Too Much Mencken’: A Cultural History of the American Mercury Magazine, 1924-1928” **Charles Gibson**, “Confederacy Without Confederates: The Imperial Legacy of Monuments to the Lost Cause in the Upper South, 1897-1914” **Jack Goldfisher**, “‘Smokers Are Jokers’: A Cultural History of U.S. Anti-Tobacco Campaigns, 1970-2000” **Jamie Herring**, “Once Upon a Time… in 1979: Revisiting Angela Carter’s *The Bloody Chamber* from its Immediate Historical Context” **Olivia Dixon Herrington**, “A Literary Education: Tanzanian Adolescence and HIV/AIDS Through Steve Reynolds’s *Orodha*” **Lee Hittner-Cunningham**, ““If You See Dostoevsky, Tell Him I Love Him”: The Philosophy and Friendship of Solovyov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky” **Catalina Ibarguen**, “Pulling Back the Curtain: Gender Performativity and Social Mobility in the Writings of Ursula de Jesús and Catalina de Erauso” **Minyoung Jang**, “Tracing Trauma: Discourses and Narratives of Experience in Post-Conflict Peru” **Madison Johnson**, “The Mis-Remembered Mountain: Memory, Embodiment, and Black Southern Life Against the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving” **Stephanie Johnson**, “Combatting the Specter of Silence: A Cinematic Quest for Historical Justice in Mexico’s ‘Perfect Dictatorship’” **Sophia Kiam**, “‘The First Rape Celebrity’: Susan Brownmiller’s *Against Our Will*and Anti-Rape Activism in America” **Mo Kim**, “We the Girls: K-Pop, Girl Groups, and Korean Identity, 1997/2017” **Natalie Kim**, “A Battle in Paris: October 17, 1961 and the Issues of Memorialization” **Lev Mamuya**, “The Right to Know: ‘Yes, Minister.’ Postmodern TV, and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Great Britain” **Madeline Nam**, “‘She Wants to Be Everything’: Sylvia Plath’s *The Bell Jar* and 1950s Women’s Higher Education” **Emma Noyes**, “Without Reservation: Women, Journalism, and the American Restaurant, 1900-1945” **Kelsey O'Connor**, “Claiming the Dead: How Obituaries Memorialized Their Subjects and Captured Community, 1895-1920” **Kyle O'Hara**, “The Essential Femininity of Anaïs Nin: The Genesis of and Reactions to Nin’s Creative Plan” **India Patel**, “The Ayahs’ Home: Contesting Belonging in Imperial London, 1880-1933” **Thomas Peterson**, “‘I Ain’t Never Gonna Die’: The Afterlives of Roy M. Cohen in American Memory and Performance” **Paulena Prager**, “The Groundless War: A Cultural History of the Helicopter in Vietnam” **Melissa Claire Rodman**, “Staging Disability in Twenty-First-Century American Theater” **Caleb Shelburne**, “Murmurs on the Orient Express: Ottoman Tracks in European Railway **Henry Shreffler**, “Indigenous Citizens: Algerian Jews Under French Colonial Rule” **Madeleine Stern**, “‘We Dare Maintain Our Rights’: Popular Resistance, White Supremacy, and the 1901 Alabama Constitution” **Rachel Talamo**, “‘Who Cares What the Black Woman Thinks of Rape?’: A Legal-Historical Reading of Black Feminist Anti-Rape Strategy in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” **Emma Talkoff**, “Storytelling in the Digital Age: Podcasts as New Narratives” **Jessica Tueller**, “A Reluctant Representative: Feminism and Dictatorship in the Films of María Luisa Bemberg” **Anastacia Valdespino**, “Cuerpo-Realities: Latina Embodiment in 21st Century U.S. Television” **Ava Violich**, “‘The Sunset of Mankind’: Dystopian Visions of Technology in the Early Works of H.G. Wells” **Francesca Violich**, “Technology and the Malleable Body in the Works of Mina Loy” **Alexandra Walsh**, “Pursuing the Second Odyssey: A Study in Homeric Renegotiation by Modern Greek Poets” **Anne Warnke**, “Political Ideology and the Image: Federal Power as Depicted in the Lives of Sharecroppers in the 1930s South” **Savannah Whaley**, “Space As the Limitless Frontier: How Presidents, Movies, and Entrepreneurs Justify Space Travel and What It Means For Earth” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Prizes 2018 expand\_more Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - Caleb Shelburne, “Murmurs on the Orient Express: Ottoman Tracks in European Railway History” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Miles Counts, “A House Is Not a Home: Heirs’ Property, Black Women’s Art, and the Intestacy of the Black Family in the South Carolina Lowcountry” - Naima Drecker-Waxman, “‘To Destroy Mankind’: Historical Memory of Nuclear Testing and Militarization in the Marshall Islands” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize - Mo Kim, “We the Girls: K-Pop, Girl Groups, and Korean Identity, 1997/2017” Perry Miller Prize - Paulena Prager, “The Groundless War: A Cultural History of the Helicopter in Vietnam” David Rockefeller Center Prize - Minnie Jang, “Tracing Trauma: Discourses and Narratives of Experience in Post-Conflict Peru” John Clive Prize - Olivia Dixon Herrington, “A Literary Education: Tanzanian Adolescence and HIV/AIDS Through Steve Reynolds’s *Orodha*” Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize - Rachel Talamo, "'Who Cares What the Black Woman Thinks of Rape?': A Legal-Historical Reading of Black Feminist Anti-Rape Strategy in Ntozake Shange's *For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf* and Alice Walker's *The Color Purple*" - Olivia Dixon Herrington, “A Literary Education: Tanzanian Adolescence and HIV/AIDS Through Steve Reynolds’s *Orodha*” Delancey K. Jay Prize - Josiah Corbus, “‘We Ask No Favors’: The Founding of Deeds in Black Abolitionist Thought” James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Thesis Prize in Latin American Studies - Minnie Jang, “Tracing Trauma: Discourses and Narratives of Experience in Post-Conflict Peru” Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African Studies - Olivia Dixon Herrington Thomas T. Hoopes Prize - Josiah Corbus, “‘We Ask No Favors’: The Founding of Deeds in Black Abolitionist Thought” - Miles Counts, “A House Is Not a Home: Heirs’ Property, Black Women’s Art, and the Intestacy of the Black Family in the South Carolina Lowcountry” - Paulena Prager, “The Groundless War: A Cultural History of the Helicopter in Vietnam” - Caleb Shelburne, “Murmurs on the Orient Express: Ottoman Tracks in European Railway History”