# Class of 2022 ## expand\_more **Mollie Ames**, “‘Les Militants Ne Sont Pas de Machines’: Didar Fawzy-Rossano’s Relations of Revolution” **Dara Badon**, “Imagining a Tomorrow While Looking to Yesterday: Afrofuturism, Education, and the Organization of Black American Culture” **Michael Baick**, “Re-Weaving Longmeadow: Black and Indigenous History and Memory in Rural New England” **Davis Bailey**, “The Religion and Politics of ‘Greeneland’: A Bridge Between Graham Greene’s Catholic Novels and Entertainments” **Jenna Bao**, “News from ‘The Jungle’: The Impacts, Limitations, and Advocacy Potential of 1970s Prison Journalism in the Angolite” **Sophie Bauder**, “‘Down the Pits Seventy-Two Fathoms Deep’: Mining and Colonial Legacy in Three Novels by Michael Ondaatje” **Shoshanna Boardman**, “Babylonian Incantation Bowl Onomastics” **Camille Caldera**, “‘It Has Always Been This Way’: Change and Continuity in Birth Practices Among the Diné in the Twentieth Century” **Alice Chang**, “The Illusion of Belonging: Media and Legal Representations of Korean Orphans from Refugee to Immigrant, 1952-1961” **Liana Chow**, “Postmemory Plays and Refugee Representations in *Vietgone*, *Cambodian Rock Band*, and *140 LBS”* **Rocket Claman**, “‘I’m Chile-Domini-Curican, But I Always Say I’m From Queens!’: *In the Heights* Offers Broadway a New American Dream” **Sydnie Cobb**, “On the Frontlines and at the Margins: The Role of Mothers and the ‘New Right’ in the Boston Anti-Busing Movement” **Allegra Colman**, “‘A Repudiation of Everything America Is’: Opium and America’s War in Afghanistan, 1979-1989” **Brian Conwell**, “Remembering Attu: Imperialism and the Contested Memory of the ‘Forgotten War’” **Char Deslandes**, “The Meaning of the Mandem: Multicultural London English and Black British Community in Film and Television Since 2011” **Isabella Di Pietro**, “‘Our Entire Future Was at Stake’: From Neo-Malthusian Environmentalism to Anti-Immigration Activism in the Cold War United States” **Sonia Epstein**, “‘To Build and To Be Built’: Tuberculosis Control and the Zionist Movement, 1922-1957” **Jesus Estrada-Martinez**, “Persecution and Transendence in U.S. K-12 Schools: Illegality/Fugitivity as a (De)Colonial Wound” **Samantha Frenkel-Popell**, “The ‘Successors and Inheritors’ of George Washington and James Madison: American Inaugural Addresses During Wartime, 1812-1985” **Paul Georgoulis**, “From Sea to Shining High C: Opera in the American West Through the Lens of *The Song of the Lark* and *The Ballad of Baby Doe*” **Pablo Gomez Garcia**, “The ‘Moor’ in the Civil War: Left-Wing Depictions of Moroccans and the Creation of Wartime Spanish Republican Identity” **Annie Harrigan**, “Mother Monster and Queen Bey: Racialized Gender Performance in the 2010s Careers of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé” **Timothy Im**, “Monsters and Modernity in Edo and Meiji Japan” **Howard Johnson**, “Quarterbacking Inequality: The Evolving Terms of Blackness in the NFL” **Myint Kyi**, “‘They Were Expendable Too’: The Fetish of Personhood in *Alien*, *Aliens*, *Alien3*, and Abortion Discourse, 1973-1992” **Iris Lewis**, “‘Intelligence Sharpened by Love’: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Pedagogy of the American Middlebrow” **Isabelle Liao**, “‘Asian American Pioneer,’ ‘Oriental Cinderella,’ ‘Hollywood Legend’: Reframing Stories of Anna May Wong (1905-1961)” **Sarah Lightbody**, “Shop Union: 1960s ILGWU Labor Films” **Fariba Mahmud**, “Selim the ‘Algerine’: Exploring an Odyssey in Early Colonial America” **Molly Martinez**, “Our Stories, Our Power: Agency Despite Imprisonment in the Autobiographies of James Carr and Susan Burton” **Xochitl Morales**, “*Living* and Learning Through a Peculiar Poetics of Cumbia: A Contemplation of Individual / Collective Agency, Makeshift Ceremony, and Communion” **Charlie Olmert**, “The Origin of Independent Central Banking: Marriner Eccles and the Evolution of the Modern Federal Reserve, 1932-1951” **Babi Oloko**, “Divine Reclamation: Black Female Subjectivity in the Work of Renee Cox” **Sarai Perez Camacho**, “‘¡Ni Una Más!’: Exploring the Intersections of Womanhood, Identity, and Violence in Mexico/U.S., 2007-2021” **Jaileen Pierre-Louis**, “To Be Safe in One’s Body: Tracing Abolitionist Desires in Black Feminist Contemporary Film” **Noah Redlich**, “A NAFTA Consensus: How Our Culture, Media, and Political Leaders Came Together to Decimate the Working Class” **Andrew Sacks**, “‘The Frauds and Tricks of the Quacks and Fakers in the Medical Profession:’ American Anti-Vaccinationism in the Progressive Era” **Freddie Shanel**, “Red Westerns: Socialist Values, Native American Imagery, and Holocaust Memory in East German *Indianerfilme*” **Casey Soto**, “Angela Davis 1970-1973: A Beacon of Hope in the Fight for Justice and the Aftermath of Her Trial” **Aurora Straus**, “Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac: The Cultural History of Cadillac’s Consumers of Color” **Amanda Su**, “Real Lives, Reel Narratives: The Articulation of Ambivalent Identities in Asian American Home Movies” **Fatima Taj**, “‘Graveyard of Empires’ or Lush Landscape? Afghanistan’s Environment in Cultural Productions, 1971-2021” **Owen Torrey**, “‘Breaking the Barrier of Flowers’: The Nature of Punishment at the Mettray Penal Colony” **Andie Turner**, “Homes, Homos on the Range: Suburban Development and the Gay Rodeo, 1976-2021” **Matteo Wong**, “Up the Stairs to the Basement Workshop: Sustaining Art, Activism, and an Asian American Community in New York City, 1970–86” **Selina Xu**, “Sinofuturism: Dreams and Nightmares in Postsocialist China” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Thesis Prizes 2022 expand\_more Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - Sonia Epstein, “To Build and To Be Built: Tuberculosis Control and the Zionist Movement, 1922–1957” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize - Owen Torrey, “Breaking the Barrier of Flowers: The Nature of Punishment at the Mettray Penal Colony” John Clive Prize - Charles Davis Bailey, “The Religion and Politics of ‘Greeneland’: A Bridge between Graham Greene’s Catholic Novels and Entertainments” Perry Miller Prize - Michael Bers Baick, “Re-Weaving Longmeadow: Black and Indigenous History and Memory in Rural New England” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Thesis Prize - Sarai Paola Pérez Camacho, “¡Ni Una Más! Exploring the Intersections of Womanhood, Identity, and Violence in Mexico/U.S., 2007–2021” Thomas T. Hoopes Prize - Sonia Epstein, “To Build and To Be Built: Tuberculosis Control and the Zionist Movement, 1922–1957” - Amanda Su, “Real Lives, Reel Histories: The Articulation of Ambivalent Identities in Asian American Home Movies” - Owen Torrey, “Breaking the Barrier of Flowers: The Nature of Punishment at the Mettray Penal Colony” - Matteo Wong, “Up the Stairs to the Basement Workshop: Sustaining Art, Activism, and an Asian American Community in New York City, 1970– 1986” James Gordon Bennett Prize - Jenna Xu Bao, “News from ‘The Jungle’: The Impacts, Limitations, and Advocacy Potential of 1970s Prison Journalism in the Angolite” Bowden Prize - Sonia Epstein, “To Build and To Be Built: Tuberculosis Control and the Zionist Movement, 1922–1957” Class of 1955/Robert T. Coolidge Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Medieval Studies - Shoshanna F. Boardman, “Babylonian Incantation Bowl Onomastics” Department of the Classics Prizes - Fariba Mahmud, “Selim the ‘Algerine’: Exploring an Odyssey in Early Colonial America” Senior Thesis Prize in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights - Matteo Wong, “Up the Stairs to the Basement Workshop: Sustaining Art, Activism, and an Asian American Community in New York City, 1970– 1986” Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry - Owen Torrey, “CV” Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize - Jaileen Asmara Pierre-Louis, “To Be Safe in One’s Body: Tracing Abolitionist Desires in Black Feminist Contemporary Film” Harry and Cecile Starr Undergraduate Prizes in Jewish Studies - Shoshana F. Boardman, “Babylonian Incantation Bowl Onomastics” Selma and Lewis H. Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies - Shoshana F. Boardman, “Babylonian Incantation Bowl Onomastics” - Sonia F. Epstein, “To Build and To Be Built: Tuberculosis Control and the Zionist Movement, 1922–1957” George B. Sohier Prize - Owen Torrey, “Breaking the Barrier of Flowers: The Nature of Punishment at the Mettray Penal Colony” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Matteo Wong, “Up the Stairs to the Basement Workshop: Sustaining Art, Activism, and an Asian American Community in New York City, 1970– 1986”