# Class of 2023 ## expand\_more **Araten, Rebecca**, “Singing Sexuality: How Jewish Wedding Bards Shaped Communal Values in 19th Century Imperial Russia” **Barton, Jordan**, “*The Goat Child Died*: Pat Parker and Poetic Revolution in Black Power” **Bloomer, Anne**, “From Monterey to the Gulf of CA: Steinbeck, the Sea, and Scientific Friendship” **Caspersen, Westby**, “Native American Student Writing at the Harvard Indian College Between 1655 and 1714: The Collison and Cohesion of Cultures” **Chen, Shirley**, “Chinatown, My Chinatown” **Chuang, Callia**, “‘The Story of Home:’ Utopian Ancestral Homelands and Global Ethnic Diasporas in Marvel’s *Black Panther* (2018) and *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* (2021)” **Cuadra, Celine**, “Displacement and Dispossession in the Los Angeles Whiteness Project or The People v Los Angeles City Council” **Cunningham-Perini, Lily**, “‘It Was the Wild Wild West Out There’: Queer Utopia and the Frontier at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, 1977-1996” **Davis, Lily**, “‘I’m Mad as Hell’: The 1977 Best Picture Nominees and the End of New Hollywood Cinema” **Dharmaraj, Nikhil**, “System Update: Biometric Surveillance, Facial Recognition Technology, and AI Ethics in India, 1858-2022” **Dragicevic, Jelena**, “‘Comrade Tito, We Swear to You’: Construction and Deconstruction of Josip Broz Tito, 1945-Present” **Dubinski, Katie**, “Surfin’ USA?: Colonization, Representation, and Gender in Surfing from 1890 to the Cold War” **Friedman, Jake**, “A Theory of Democracy for the Common Man: An Exploration of the Political Philosophy of Henry A. Wallace” **Glist, Saul**, “‘The Buildings Gone but We Are Standing Tall’: Defying the Demolition of Vaughn on St. Louis’ Near Northside” **Gorman, Keana**, “Seeking Nádleeh Wisdom: The Herzog Navajo Collection of Hosteen Klah” **Holzer, Harry**, “Against the Post-9/11 Cultural Ethos: Paranoia and PATRIOTism in Anthony and Joe Russo’s *Captain America: The Winter Solider*” **Honold, Andrew**, “‘Keep Talkin’ Happy Talk!’: The Obfuscation of Race in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s *South Pacific*, 1949-2008” **Jeong, Ejin**, “Hidden Images, Enduring Memories: Photographs of the Cultural Revolution Resurfaced” **Joseph, Marissa**, “Haitianas: Uncovering Migration, Memory, and (M)others in Cuba's Post-Revolutionary National Identity” **Kahn, Alec**, “The War on Rats: Rodent Control and the Ecology of Injustice in Harlem, 1945-1975” **Kim, Ryan**, “Systemic Misreadings of Black Music: An Analysis of The Relationship between Policing and West Coast Hip-hop in Los Angeles” **Krupp, Rasleen**, “Mrs. Margaret Howard on Trial: Marital Abuse, Insanity, and Murder in Nineteenth Century Cincinnati, Ohio” **Lanford, Emma**, “I Look Best When I Scream: A Horror Album” **McDougall, Maya**, “‘Blacks Would Love to Be Snakes / Shed Their Skins’: Melanesian Independence and a Women’s Black Pacific” **Medina, Anissa**, “Anti/Colonial Imaginaries: Statues, Public Memory, and Civil Religion in New Mexico” **Medrano, Nicholas**, “Epistemic Injustice at the ‘Canton Asylum for Insane Indians’” **Meza, Diana**, “The Road to as the Way of Knowing - Landscapes and Soundscapes of Guanajuato Highlands” **Monks, Emerson**, “No Hope: Joan Didion, New Journalism, and Cultural Pessimism, 1960-1980” **O’Connell, Samantha**, “‘Ripped from the Headlines’: 1990s Anxiety About Urban Crime, Race, and Policing in Dick Wolf’s Law & Order” **Oldham, Olivia**, “The City Is a Home: Wages for Housework in New York City, 1972-1978” **Orrange, Claire**, “‘She's Scared of Something:’ New Female Villains in the 20th and 21st Century Gothic” **Parkerson, Grace**, “‘Her Speech is Nothing’: Ophelia and the Image of Female Hysteria in Productions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet” **Poulson, Lucy**, “Propaganda, Politics, and Play: Fairy Tales in Early Communist Czechoslovakia 1950–1960” **Price, Andy**, “‘Montanans Know the Meaning of 3-7-77’: Vigilante Violence and Historical Tourism in Virginia City, Montana, 1917–1975” **Rawji, Kiana**, “Reaching for Intimacy, Entrenching Inequality: Race and the Culture of Servitude in Postcolonial East Africa” **Riordan, Connor**, “‘I Want More Life, Fucker’: Whiteness and the Depiction of Replicants in the Techno-Oriental Futures of *Blade Runner* and *Blade Runner 2049*” **Roth-Dishy, Amelia**, “‘Nuestra Kolonia:’ Presence, Americanization, and Belonging in Sephardic New York, 1910-1930” **Sears, Ryan**, “A Brief Moment in the Sun: Black Political Struggles in Postbellum Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-66” **Seda Gonzalez, Dharma**, “Specters of José Pérez Ocaña: Queer Mourning and Portraits of Intermittence in Post-Francoist Spain” **Sosland, Leah**, “Literary Do’ikayt: A Better ‘Here and Now’ and the Future of ‘Lived Jewish Spaces’ in Gershon’s America” **Sullivan, Paul**, “‘We Need to Redecorate’: Queerness Without Queer People in U.S. Visual Culture, 1991-2023” **Talley, Nia**, “Northern Discontent: Navigating and Resisting Respectability in the First Great Migration” **Tapper, Malaika**, “Strange Care in the War on Terror” **Taylor, Jack**, “A Tale of Two Portraits: Uncovering the Artifice of the Lavoisiers (1774-1805)” **Taylor-Arnold, Sawyer**, “Dietrich’s Dolls: The Postcolonial New Woman and the Creation of Marlene Dietrich’s Image from 1930-1932” **Thompson, Jaden**, “‘The Black Blood in His Mixed Inheritance Unquestionably Dominated the White’: George William Gordon and the Threat of the Duplicitous Mulatto in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica” **Travis, Kate**, “Gender, Genre, and Gay Sex in *But I’m a Cheerleader*” **Veneziano, A.J.**, “Saigon in 35 MM: How Hollywood Rewrote the Vietnam War” Open all sections Close all sections ### Senior Thesis Prizes 2023 expand\_more “The Bohemians” (New York Musicians Club) Prize in Composition - Lanford, Emma, “I Look Best When I Scream: A Horror Album” John Clive Prize - Thompson, Jaden, “‘The Black Blood in His Mixed Inheritance Unquestionably Dominated the White’: George William Gordon and the Threat of the Duplicitous Mulatto in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica” Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - Joseph, Marissa, “Haitianas: Uncovering Migration, Memory, and (M)others in Cuba's Post-Revolutionary National Identity” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Thesis Prize in History and Literature - Medina, Anissa, “Anti/Colonial Imaginaries: Statues, Public Memory, and Civil Religion in New Mexico” Senior Thesis Prize in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights - Joseph, Marissa, “Haitianas: Uncovering Migration, Memory, and (M)others in Cuba's Post-Revolutionary National Identity” Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize - Kahn, Alec, “The War on Rats: Rodent Control and the Ecology of Injustice in Harlem, 1945-1975” - Tapper, Malaika, “Strange Care in the War on Terror” - Lanford, Emma, “I Look Best When I Scream: A Horror Album” - Roth-Dishy, Amelia, “‘Nuestra Kolonia:’ Presence, Americanization, and Belonging in Sephardic New York, 1910-1930” - Taylor, Jack, “A Tale of Two Portraits: Uncovering the Artifice of the Lavoisiers (1774-1805)” Joan Morthland Hutchins Thesis Prize in Latino Studies - Medina, Anissa, “Anti/Colonial Imaginaries: Statues, Public Memory, and Civil Religion in New Mexico” Delancey K. Jay Prize - Sears, Ryan, “A Brief Moment in the Sun: Black Political Struggles in Postbellum Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-66” Christopher Killip Prize - Cunningham-Perini, Lily, “‘It Was the Wild Wild West Out There’: Queer Utopia and the Frontier at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, 1977-1996” Perry Miller Prize - Gorman, Keana, “Seeking Nádleeh Wisdom: The Herzog Navajo Collection of Hosteen Klah” - Kahn, Alec, “The War on Rats: Rodent Control and the Ecology of Injustice in Harlem, 1945-1975” Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize in History and Literature - Tapper, Malaika, “Strange Care in the War on Terror” Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - Roth-Dishy, Amelia, “‘Nuestra Kolonia:’ Presence, Americanization, and Belonging in Sephardic New York, 1910-1930” - Sears, Ryan, “A Brief Moment in the Sun: Black Political Struggles in Postbellum Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-66” Selma and Lewis H. Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies - Araten, Rebecca, “Singing Sexuality: How Jewish Wedding Bards Shaped Communal Values in 19th Century Imperial Russia”