# Class of 2021 ## expand\_more **Andrew Aoyama**, “Family Matters: Spinning the Story of Tunisia’s Transnational Jihadists” **Che Applewhaite**, “A New England Document: Proto-Cinematic Practice against Genocidal Acceptability” **Esteban Arellano**, “Dancing in the Dark: The Burden of Liveness at G.G.’s Barnum Room” **Elijah Berlin**, “‘A Symbol of Inexhaustible Potency’: A Cultural History of the American Credit Card, 1958-1974” **Martin Bernstein**, “French Theory and American Liberalism” **Maggie Berry**, “Starving for Approval: The Evolution of Disordered Eating Practices in Victorian England” **Anna Kate Cannon**, “Toward Futures Free from Violence: Responses to Violence Against Indigenous Women and LGBTQ2S People in the United States” **Alexandra Chaidez**, “Without Fear or Favor: The Evolution of American Journalism During World War I” **Ruva Chigwedere**, "For Daughters of Ezili: A Meditation on Black Women, Subjectivity, and Romantic Love" **Yena Cho**, “From GI Chocolate Bars To $13,000 a Week: The Spectacular Performances of the Kim Sisters on a Transnational Stage, 1954-1967” **Hannah Craig**, “The Peace Wall Paradox: Trauma, Memory, and Social Healing in Belfast” **Jilly Cronin**, “The Chicago Motive of the Magazine: Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ezra Pound in Poetry Magazine and in Chicago” **Mariana De Leon Dominguez**, “Women and Children First – La Virgen de Guadalupe’s Role in Creating a Life-Affirming Mexican-Catholic Culture” **Ejayy De Vaughn**, “Tactician, Theorist, and Trailblazer: Shirley Chisholm’s Black Power in Practice” **Hannah Drew**, “Consuming Communism: Competing Visions for Post-Socialist Berlin, 1990-2010” **Hannah Fontaine**, “Let Down by Legislation: Women’s Advocacy as a Response to State-Sponsored Violence in Guatemala” **Owen Foulkes**, “‘Out of the Dust and Mire’: Settler Colonialism and City Planning in 1920s Tulsa” **Natalie Gale**, “The Temporal Lens: Photographs and Settler Colonialism in Western Oregon Self-Determination Movements, 1972-1982” **Ava Hampton**, “‘The Rich and Rare from Every Clime and Land’: Collecting and Display at the Peabody Academy of Science, 1868-1880” **Ciara Hervas**, “Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin” **Alejandra Iglesias**, “The Exotic Latina and the Good Neighbor: A Comparative Analysis of Media Representations of Latina Women and U.S.-Latin American Relations **Caitlin Jones,** "Mediating a Feminist Stance in Pornography: Gloria Leonard at *High Society*" **Katherine Lempres**, “Gendering *La Resistenza*: Representations of Female Resistance in Italian Cultural Memory, 1945-1997” **Ellie Loigman**, “‘I Enjoy Being a Girl’: Phyllis Schlafly’s ‘Positive Woman’ and Anti-Feminist Influence” **Francesca Malatesta**, “Birthed in the Culture of Slavery: Exploitation and Empowerment in Black Women’s Reproductive Health in Rural Alabama, 1808-1976” **Brian Mott**, “All Roads Lead to České Budějovice” **Diana Myers**, “Mater Matris Domini: Holy Motherhood and the Early Cult of St. Anne” **Katie Okumu**, “Vast and Lonesome: Agrarian Activists and Reformers in the Twentieth Century United States” **Derek Onserio**, “Comedy, Commentary, and Community: Exploring the Portrayal of Black Families in UPN’s *Everybody Hates Chris*” **Emily Orr**, “Marriage, Money, and the Specter of Miscegenation: Whiteness as Inheritance in 1930s American Fiction” **Larisa Owusu**, “Iconic Market Women: The Unsung Heroines of Post-Colonial Ghana (1960s-1990s)” **Nina Pasquini**, “‘Why Return?’: Fragmentation, Repetition, and Memory in the Works of Marguerite Duras and Assia Djebar” **Jamie Paterno Ostmann**, “Scenes of Smoke and Scarlet: Cochineal and Tobacco in the Early Modern English Theater” **Dani Perez**, “(In)Comunicadxs: Online Community Amid Barriers to Communication in the Venezuelan Diaspora” **Devonne Pitts**, "Playwriting Is Not a Luxury: The Black Feminist Tradition of Dealing with Death on the American Stage" **Emily Romero Gonzalez**, “‘Felons, Not Families’: The Construction of Immigrant Criminality in Obama-Era Policies and Discourses, 2011-2016” **Reade Rossman**, “They Say Dominicans Can Do the Best Hair: Towards an Afro-Dominican History of the Beauty Salon” **Rachel Sadoff**, “Terror, Trust, and T-2: How Science, Human Rights, and Chemical Weaponry Shaped U.S. Perceptions of the ‘Yellow Rain’ Controversy, 1975 – 1985” **Abigail Sage**, “Lions, Tigers, and Bears: Masculinity, Queerness, and the Movement for Home Rule in British India, 1920-1940” **Melisa Santizo**, “Marian Icons, Myths, and Memory: Virgen de Guadalupe Murals and Their Role in Identity Formation in Los Angeles” **Emily Shen**, “A Dream Before the Dawn of the Digital Age? *Finnegans Wake*, Media, and Communications” **Marshall Sloane**, “Between Techno-Tyranny and Techno-Utopia: Individualism and Information Amidst the Rise of Computer Culture” **Yasenimary Velazquez Carrasquillo**, “A Son de Plena y Poesía: How Boricua Artists Expose and Resist Catastrophic Coloniality Through Music and Poetry” **Gabriel Wadford**, “McLeod Plantation: An Examination of Space and Meaning” **Sarah Wexner**, “Tillie Olsen and the Construction of a Proletarian Feminist Counter-Canon, 1970-1989” **Ming Li Wu**, “Death, Dislocation, Dance: Theorizing Queer Floatiness Through Queer Latino Urbano Music Videos” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Prizes 2021 expand\_more Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - Andrew Aoyama, “Family Matters: Spinning the Story of Tunisia’s Transnational Jihadists” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize - Diana Myers, “Mater Matris Domini: Holy Motherhood and the Early Cult of St. Anne” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Ciara Hervás, “Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin” - Katie Okumu, “Vast and Lonesome: Agrarian Activists and Reformers in the Twentieth Century United States” Perry Miller Prize - Owen Foulkes, “‘Out of the Dust and Mire’: Settler Colonialism and City Planning in 1920s Tulsa” David Rockefeller Center Prize - Mariana De Leon Dominguez, “Women and Children First – La Virgen de Guadalupe’s Role in Creating a Life-Affirming Mexican-Catholic Culture” John Clive Prize - Jamie Paterno Ostmann, “Scenes of Smoke and Scarlet: Cochineal and Tobacco in the Early Modern English Theater” Capstone Award for the best senior oral exam materials - Esteban Arellano Thomas T. Hoopes Prize - Che Applewhaite, “A New England Document: Proto-Cinematic Practice against Genocidal Acceptability” - Elijah DeVaughn, “Tactician, Theorist, and Trailblazer: Shirley Chisholm’s Black Power in Practice” - Owen Foulkes, “‘Out of the Dust and Mire’: Settler Colonialism and City Planning in 1920s Tulsa” - Ciara Hervás, “Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin” - Larisa Owusu, “Iconic Market Women: The Unsung Heroines of Post-Colonial Ghana (1960s-1990s)” - Jamie Paterno Ostmann, “Scenes of Smoke and Scarlet: Cochineal and Tobacco in the Early Modern English Theater” Bernhard Blume Prize - Ciara Hervás, “Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin” Robert T. Coolidge Thesis Prize in Medieval Studies - Diana Myers, “Mater Matris Domini: Holy Motherhood and the Early Cult of St. Anne” Susan Anthony Potter Prize - Jamie Paterno Ostmann, “Scenes of Smoke and Scarlet: Cochineal and Tobacco in the Early Modern English Theater” Honorable Mention for the Eugene R. Cummings Senior Thesis Prize in LGBT Studies - Natalie Gale, “The Temporal Lens: Photographs and Settler Colonialism in Western Oregon Self-Determination Movements, 1972-1982” Honorable Mention for the Senior Thesis Prize in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights - Anna Kate Cannon, "Toward Futures Free from Violence: Responses to Violence Against Indigenous Women and LGBTQ2S People in the United States" Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize for Poetry - Devonne Pitts Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize - Nina Pasquini, “Henry and Lydia” Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Award - Nina Pasquini, "Coda" Council Prize in Visual Arts - Dani Pérez Robert Levin Prize in Musical Performance - Martin Bernstein Jonathan Levy Award - Ruva Chigwedere Robert E. Levi Prize - Abigail Sage Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting - Devonne Pitts, “Reading Plays to Write Plays: A Collection of Black Dramatic Writing” - Ruva Chigwedere, “Ubuntu: A Look at the Women Who Raised Me” Phi Beta Kappa - Andrew Aoyama - Ava Hampton - Ciara Hervás - Diana Myers