# Class of 2019 ## expand\_more ![Class of 2019](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/histlit/files/class_of_2019_senior_thesis_party_0.jpg) **Jonny Adler**, “American Voices: Redefining Citizenship Through Radio, 1938-1942” **Karla Alvarado**, “Building a Thriving Community in the Face of Fear: The Story of Honduran Immigrants in Chelsea, Massachusetts” **Ashley Anderson**, “Alienating Aesthetics and the Existential Critique of Modernity in *2001: A Space Odyssey*” **Gareth Anderson**, “Another Brick in the Fall of Britain: Britain’s Decline in Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1979)” **Ian Askew**, “A Reflection on the Direction of *: A Story Project*” **Kathleen Barrow**, “‘She’s More Shameless Than Ever!’: Women’s Lives at the Intersection of Literature, Law, and Practice in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro” **Eleanor Bragg**, “Representing Fat Interiority Through American Memoir: The Challenges of Roxane Gay’s *Hunger* and Lindy West’s *Shrill”* **Julia Carstens**, “Angels With(out) Wings: Female Subjugation and Creative Liberation in 1960s Socialist Film by Larisa Shepitko and Vera Chytilová” **Holly Carter**, “Vindicating Villains: The Mafia Boss and the Street Peddler on the Silver Screen in the 1970s” **Sally Chen**, “‘Take Root’: Community Formation at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library” **Emily Choi**, “Idealized Visions of a Homogenous America in Postwar Pan-American Coffee Bureau Advertisements” **Susie Clements,** “‘Stay Dirty’: Exploring the Grime Music Scene as an Organic Rearticulation and Reassertion of the East London Council Estate’s Worth” **Charlotte Davis**, “Contemporary Understandings of Past Racial Terror: Examining Popular Memory of Female Mexican American Lynching Victims” **Genesis De los Santos**, “‘Yo Amo Mi Pajón’: Beauty, Racialization, and Dominicans in Diaspora” **Brandon Dixon**, “Queerness on the Wings of Midnight Angels: Black Panther, Queer Futurity, and the Struggle to Choose” **Elizabeth Duncan**, “The Case of ‘The German Princess’: Mary Carleton’s Exceptional Lives” **Julia Fine**, “‘Civilized Man Cannot Live Without Cooks’: Food and Empire in Colonial India” **Fiona Fitzgerald**, “‘The Weight of Words’: Migrant Literature Turned Activism in Contemporary Italy” **Tess Fitzsimmons**, “Saints, Gauls, and Sicily: An Analysis of Three Spaces in the *Dialogues* of Gregory the Great” **Marella Gayla,** “Watching Paint Dry: How Boston Tradesmen Invented Home Renovation Television” **Annie Goldsmith**, “‘The Path of Knowledge’: How Sorosis and Professional Women’s Literary Circles Redefined the Female Reader, 1860-1900” **Alec Grigorian**, “‘They Serve No Useful Purpose’: Refugees, Resettlement, and the Making of Modern Hong Kong” **Hannah Hardenbergh**, “Gordon Parks’ Subtle Style and Impact on Civil Rights Photography, 1942-1963” **Wyatt Hayden**, “Unity Makes Strength: Americanization in the German Community of Lawrence, Massachusetts” **Julissa Higgins**, “Pushing the Limits of Materiality: How Marina Abramović Set the Stage for the (Immersive) Art of the 1960s and Beyond” **Sophia Hunt**, “‘The Black Queenie of Harlem’: Stephanie St. Clair’s Pragmatic Racial Activism in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s” **John Conor Kennedy**,“The Man Nobody Knows: Oral Roberts, The Prosperity Gospel, and the Spiritual Marketplace” **Minahil Khan**, “Authenticity and the POC Writer: A Creative Exploration Via the Wright-Hurston Debate” **Natasha Lasky**,“Laskyland: A Hollywood Autobiography” **Tiffany Lau**, “Beyond Performance and Control: Triangulating History, Theory, and Identity in *figures*” **Michelle Liang**, “Playing With Power: Kink, Race, and Desire” **Siqi Liu**, “Dreaming of Cyborgs: The Gendered and Racialized Body in Postwar Artificial Intelligence” **Molly Nolan**, “‘Open Spaces’: Settler Colonialism, Cold War Nuclear Testing, and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara of South Australia” **Meghan Onserio**, “Hollywood and the Harlem Renaissance: Reimagining Black Womanhood in *Bubbling Over* (1934)” **Camila Ortiz**, “Digital Landscape, White Foundation: Performing the Post-Racial in Online Visual Culture” **Ruben Reyes**, “‘Please / No American Mierdas’: Shattering Silences, Salvadoran (In)Visibilities, and Imagined Nation in Javier Zamora’s *Unaccompanied*” **Claire Rivkin**, “B’Way’s Most Disgusting Play’: Transgressive Sexuality in Sholem Asch’s *God of Vengeance*” **Bella Roussanov**, “Bulgarian Identity and Anti-Turkism: The Revival Process and Its Cultural Legacy, 1980-2017” **Liat Rubin**, “‘I’ll Be Dogged If I Want To Get Loose’: Roy Decarava and Langston Hughes Constructing Positive Self-Image in *The Sweet Flypaper of Life”* **Emma Scornavacchi**, “‘Two Kinds of Pills’: Intersections and Racial Inequities in Birth Control Activism, 1965-1972” **Elana Shen**, “Whiz Kids, Hackers, and Nerds: Representation of Child and Teen Programmers in the 1970s and 1980s” **Inaara Shiraz**, “The Entanglement of the *Gully Boy* with Bollywood and the BJP” **Jacob Stone**, “The Brut Tradition and Historical Disruption: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Mythic Historiography in the National Identity of Early Modern England” **Christopher Ulian,** “‘To Serve the Public: Rhetorics of Charity and Practices of Imperialism in the BBC’s Collaboration With Comic Relief” **Alexandra Warshay,** “The Wright Way: Cultural Politics and the Fight for Federal Drug Policy in Progressive-Era America” **David Wexner**, “The Blank Slate: Joan Didion and the 1960s West” **Qianqian Yang,** “Fragmenting the Female Body: The Postwar Photomontages of Toshiko Okanoue (1950-1957)” **Leah Yared**, “Manufacturing High Visibility: Street Lamps and the Black Body in the Age of Electricity” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Prizes 2019 expand\_more Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - Julia Fine, “‘Civilized Man Cannot Live Without Cooks’: Food and Empire in Colonial India” - Leah Yared, “Manufacturing High Visibility: Street Lamps and the Black Body in the Age of Electricity” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Bella Roussanov, “Bulgarian Identity and Anti-Turkism: The Revival Process and Its Cultural Legacy, 1980-2017” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize - Claire Rivkin, “B’Way’s Most Disgusting Play’: Transgressive Sexuality in Sholem Asch’s *God of Vengeance*” Perry Miller Prize - Marella Gayla, “Watching Paint Dry: How Boston Tradesmen Invented Home Renovation Television” David Rockefeller Center Prize - Ruben Reyes, “‘Please / No American Mierdas’: Shattering Silences, Salvadoran (In)Visibilities, and Imagined Nation in Javier Zamora’s *Unaccompanied*” John Clive Prize - Elizabeth Duncan, “The Case of ‘The German Princess’: Mary Carleton’s Exceptional Lives” Capstone Awards for the best senior oral exam materials - Inaara Shiraz - Qianqian Yang Thomas T. Hoopes Prize - Julia Fine, “‘Civilized Man Cannot Live Without Cooks’: Food and Empire in Colonial India” - Claire Rivkin, “B’Way’s Most Disgusting Play’: Transgressive Sexuality in Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance” - Qianqian Yang, “Fragmenting the Female Body: The Postwar Photomontages of Toshiko Okanoue (1950-1957)” - Leah Yared, “Manufacturing High Visibility: Street Lamps and the Black Body in the Age of Electricity” Bowdoin Prize - Marella Gayla, "Blue-Collar Workers, White-Collar Viewers, and the Birth of the Home Renovation Show" Joan Morthland Hutchins Thesis Prize - Charlotte Davis, “Contemporary Understandings of Past Racial Terror: Examining Popular Memory of Mexican American Female Lynching Victims” Ames Award - Sally Chen Le Baron Russell Briggs Commencement Prize - Genesis De Los Santos Sophia Freund Prize - Julia Fine Kwame Anthony Appiah Prize - Meghan Onserio, “Hollywood and the Harlem Renaissance: Reimagining Black Womanhood in *Bubbling Over* (1934)” William Plummer French Prize - Minahil Khan Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize - Liat Rubin, “‘I’ll Be Dogged If I Want To Get Loose’: Roy Decarava and Langston Hughes Constructing Positive Self-Image in *The Sweet Flypaper of Life”* - Leah Yared, “Manufacturing High Visibility: Street Lamps and the Black Body in the Age of Electricity” Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize - Leah Yared, “Manufacturing High Visibility: Street Lamps and the Black Body in the Age of Electricity” Clifton Lincoln and Irene Bias West Prize - Leah Yared Lee Patrick Award in Drama - Ian Askew Louise Donovan Arts Award - Inaara Shiraz Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize - Tiffany Lau Robert E. Levi Arts Prize - Claire Rivkin Phi Beta Kappa - Jonny Adler - Julia Fine - Siqi Liu - Claire Rivkin - Bella Roussanov - Leah Yared