Class of 2020
Carlos Agredano, “Fotos y Recuerdos: A History of @Veteranas_and_Rucas and the Emergence of Latinx Instagram Archives”
Gavin Baker-Greene, “The Crescent Moon & Arawiyan Kingdoms: How Contemporary Arabian Fantasy Disrupts Preconceptions of the Arab World”
Sophie Barry, “‘Make America Fit Again!’: Superman #170 and the Rise of Youth Fitness Culture in Cold War America, 1953-1964”
Molly Baxter, “Dying for Change: Power and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Self-Elegy”
Aaron Bronfman, “Killing Monsters: Videoludic Narratives of Fatherhood in the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt”
Sofia Carvalho, “Women Like Her Cannot Be Contained: Representations of Black Women and Families in Beyoncé’s Lemonade”
Christopher Chow, “Designing Dystopia: A History of Global Hong Kong, 1960-2020”
Keziah Clarke, “European Encounters and the Harem System: Contesting Claims of Respectability and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Egypt”
Una Corbett, “‘Organize, Agitate, Educate’: Making Political Meaning of the American Women’s Suffrage Centennial”
Jensen Davis, “‘It’s Not Like Normal Women Can Have This Ass!’: A Cultural History of Liposuction in the U.S.”
Cahleb Derry, “The Category Is Love: Music and Representation in FX’s Pose”
Lucy Devine, “Wise Women in the World of ‘Mad Men’: The Forgotten Story of Jean Wade Rindlaub and Early Female Advertising Executives”
Isabella Di Pietro, “‘Our Entire Future Was At Stake’: From Neo-Malthusian Environmentalism to Anti-Immigration Activism in the Cold War United States”
Eleonore Evans, “‘Medicine That Comes With the Grieving’: The Reconstruction and Revitalization of New Orleans Music Culture After Hurricane Katrina”
Simi Fajemisin, “A Literary Nation: Education Reform and Cultural Conceptions of Britishness, 1997-2015”
Bradlee Few, “Witnessing the Archive: Representations of Black Women’s Lynchings in 1910s Oklahoma”
Kristine Guillaume, “‘Revolution, George’: Examining Angela Y. Davis and George Jackson’s Dream of a Communist Revolution Through Prison Life-Writing”
Jamie Halper, “‘Imagination Joggers’: Women’s Fight to Eliminate Sex-Segregated Classified Advertisements from American Newspapers, 1964-1973”
Kiran Hampton, “Doing Quagmire: Representations of American State-Building in Iraq, 2003-2011”
Samantha Heavner, “‘One of the Laborers’: Girlhood, Work, and Media in the United States, 1840-1860”
Noah Houghton, “‘'Gone looking” for female Viking warriors’: Reimagining Viking Gender and Sexuality Through Michael Hirst’s Vikings”
Gen Hu, “Made in the USA: The Cultural Production of China’s First Lady, Soong Mei Ling, in 1943”
Sunday Hull, “‘Elle se trouvait à la frontière’: Intercultural Identity Among French-educated Vietnamese Women in En s’écartant des ancêtres”
Isaiah Johnson, “Thinking Through the Mixed Race Self: Identity Construction in American Mixed Race Memoirs of the 1990s”
Rachel Kahn, “Red Hot Mamas: Racialized Sexuality, Appropriation, and Queerness in the Music and Legacies of Ma Rainey and Sophie Tucker”
Joe Kerwin, “‘Out of Step With the World’: The Construction of Cultural Boundaries In the Early Years of Straight Edge, 1979-1983”
Kaylee Kim, “‘We Will Not Be Barred!’: The Feminist Campaign Against Men-Only Bars and Restaurants”
Noah Knopf, “‘Bodies Upon the Gears of the Machine’: The Protest of Disabled Vietnam Veterans”
Caroline Kristof, “Tensions That Shaped Public Education: Bronson Alcott, Horace Mann, and American Truths”
Anna Kuritzkes, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Space, Out of Pocket: Outsourcing Juvenile Imprisonment in the Age of Mass Incarceration, California 1974-1988”
Juliana Lamy, “Rape and Masculine Reconstructions in the U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934)”
Derek Lee, “Remembering the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran: The Politics of Writing Savushun and My Uncle Napoleon”
Hannah Lemmons, “‘We’ll Find a Way to Heaven’: Aestheticizing Futurity in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer”
Charles Levene, “Metaphysical Meltdown: An Intellectual Prehistory of Psychedelia in the Transatlantic World”
Fiona Lewis, “Downhome Darlings: Women’s Changing Place in Country Music”
John Lim, “Entering an Immeasurable Space: Knowing and Representing the New York City Tenement House, 1900-1923”
McKinley Lovett, “The French Fragrance Empire: Orientalist Origins of Luxury Beauty Marketing”
Bobby Malley, “‘He Needs a New Belt’: Queerness, Homonationalism, and the Racial and Sexual Dimensions of Passing in Israeli Cinema”
Elizabeth Mann, “‘The Crown of Our Education System’: Authority and Assimilation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1870-1915”
Erin McCarthy, “Reclaiming the Spanish Narrative: Post-Franco Accounts of the Spanish Civil War”
Hillary Mclauchlin, “State of the Art: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Age of Surveillance”
Cecilia Nunez, “‘Como Arenitas Haciendo Una Playa’: Photography and Afro-Mexican Activism from the 1980s to 2019”
Shane O’Donoghue, “Jim Thorpe’s Celebrity Subversion: The Limits of Indigenous Representation in Creating His Post-Athletic Legacy”
Kenneth Palmer, “In the Name of the Dark Millions: Langston Hughes in Soviet Central Asia”
Isabel Parkey, “‘The Right to Tell All Stories’: Copyright Law, National Development, and the Management of Folklore in Ghana”
Jeannie Regidor, “Narrative Activism: Interrogating, Subverting, and Reclaiming Stories of U.S. Migrant Detention”
Anne Rosenblatt, “The Politics of Couture: High Fashion as a Tool of Resistance and Renewal in France, 1940-1947”
Daniel Rosenblatt, “‘Déjame Que Te Cante Yo También’: Constructing Working-Class Puerto Rican Identity in New York City, 1917-1936”
Kieran Shaw, “Centering Individual Agency Within the ‘Long Civil Rights Movement’: Earl Louis Brown as Pragmatic Activist in Depression-Era Harlem”
Eliya Smith, “‘What Am I Going to Do With All This Power?’: Dramatizations of Girlhood on the American Stage, 1934-1977”
Grant Stone, “The Gable of Our Stable: The Change, Function and Significance of Donald Duck’s Character from 1934-1945”
Alexandra Summa, “Corn Nationalism: Exhibiting Mythologies of ‘America’s Crop’ 1887-1918’
Skylar-Bree Takyi, "Blackgirljuju: An Animated Series"
Rebecca Thau, “‘French’ Theory?: The Intellectual Reverberations of Hélène Cixous’ Juiféminité”
Olivia Thurman Rivera, “Yuri Grigorovich and the Great Russian Ballet Tradition”
Alex Timerman, “Exhumed: Democratizing Sites of Memory in Modern Spain”
Jeremy Tsai, “My Brief and Wonderous Life as a Blood Elf Mage: Creating a Queer Counterpublic in World of Warcraft”
Laura Veira-Ramirez, “‘Almost Perfect’: The Cleansing and Erasure of Documented and Queer Identities Through Performance of Model Families and Citizenship”
Julius Wade, “A Reflection on the Direction, Design, and Performance of Terminal Hip: American Dream in High Definition”
Michael Won, “Reclaiming an Identity: Campus Leftism and Reaganite Conservatism in the Stanford Canon Debates”
Changie Yuri, “On AR Monsters and Queer Possibilities: Playing Pokemon Go and Zombies, Run!”
Molly Zeme, “Recognition and Voice in the Postcolonial Feminist Sphere: Warsan Shire on Womanhood and Historical Trauma”