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## Class of 2020

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**Carlos Agredano,** “Fotos y Recuerdos: A History of @Veteranas\_and\_Rucas and the Emergence of Latinx Instagram Archives”

**Gavin Baker-Greene**, “The Crescent Moon &amp; 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”



 

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###    Senior Prizes 2020  expand\_more  

 

 Edward Chandler Cumming Prize

- Rebecca Thau, “‘French’ Theory?: The Intellectual Reverberations of Hélène Cixous’ *Juiféminité"*

 Barbara Miller Solomon Prize

- Una Corbett, “‘Organize, Agitate, Educate’: Making Political Meaning of the American Women’s Suffrage Centennial”
- Daniel Rosenblatt, “‘Déjame Que Te Cante Yo También’: Constructing Working-Class Puerto Rican Identity in New York City, 1917-1936”

 Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize

- Isabel Parkey, “‘The Right to Tell All Stories’: Copyright Law, National Development, and the Management of Folklore in Ghana”

 Perry Miller Prize

- Bradlee Few, “Witnessing the Archive: Representations of Black Women’s Lynchings in 1910s Oklahoma”
- 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”

 David Rockefeller Center Prize

- Juliana Lamy, “Rape and Masculine Reconstructions in the U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934)”

 John Clive Prize

- Simi Fajemisin, “A Literary Nation: Education Reform and Cultural Conceptions of Britishness, 1997-2015”

 Capstone Award for the best senior oral exam materials

- Carlos Agredano

 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize

- Una Corbett, “‘Organize, Agitate, Educate’: Making Political Meaning of the American Women’s Suffrage Centennial”
- Jamie Halper, “‘Imagination Joggers’: Women’s Fight to Eliminate Sex-Segregated Classified Advertisements from American Newspapers, 1964-1973”
- Hillary Mclauchlin, “State of the Art: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Age of Surveillance”
- Daniel Rosenblatt, “‘Déjame Que Te Cante Yo También’: Constructing Working-Class Puerto Rican Identity in New York City, 1917-1936”

 Joan Morthland Hutchins Thesis Prize

- Daniel Rosenblatt, “‘Déjame Que Te Cante Yo También’: Constructing Working-Class Puerto Rican Identity in New York City, 1917-1936”

 Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize

- Kristine Guillaume, “‘Revolution, George’: Examining Angela Y. Davis and George Jackson’s Dream of a Communist Revolution Through Prison Life-Writing”

 Alain LeRoy Locke Prize for Academic Excellence

- Kristine Guillaume, “‘Revolution, George’: Examining Angela Y. Davis and George Jackson’s Dream of a Communist Revolution Through Prison Life-Writing”

 Swapna Dev Thesis Prize

- Isabel Parkey, “‘The Right to Tell All Stories’: Copyright Law, National Development, and the Management of Folklore in Ghana”

 Senior Thesis Prize in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights

- Daniel Rosenblatt, “‘Déjame Que Te Cante Yo También’: Constructing Working-Class Puerto Rican Identity in New York City, 1917-1936”

 Gordon Parks Foundation Essay Prize

- Cecilia Nunez, “Exhibiting Blackness: Museums and Societal Visibility”

 Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize

- Jensen Davis, “With Jeremy Kofman”

 Lee Patrick Award in Drama

- Skylar-Bree Takyi

 Jonathan Levy Award

- Julius Wade

 Phi Beta Kappa

- Una Corbett
- Anna Kuritzkes
- Isabel Parkey
- Daniel Rosenblatt
- Rebecca Thau