Class of 2025
Albors, Felipe, “Dancing with the Bulls: Tauromachy as Technique and Transcendence in Hemingway and Almodóvar”
Arshad, Muskaan, “Love Jihad: Masculinity, Resentment, and Hindu Nationalism”
Baldwin, Karson, “Heists, Hold-Ups, and Hostages: American Individualism and Black Visibility in Contemporary Films”
Bilski, Allison, ““What Little Girls Are Made Of”: Hillbilly Feminism in Country Music, 1990-2015”
Casimir, Yves, “Playing the Field: Football’s Complicated Role in Nigerian Identity, Politics, and National Affiliation”
Chan, Jolin, “Chinese Restaurants and White Picket Fences: Language, Race, and Place-Making in ‘The First Suburban Chinatown’”
Cocklin, Jaylen, “A Very Ill-Theology: Nas’s Illmatic as a Theology of Black Survival and Resistance”
Del Val Gonzalez, Kate, “‘¡Blowouts, Baby, Blowouts!”: Chicano Journalism at the Center of the 1968 East Los Angeles Walkouts”
Diallo, Aissatou, “Black, White, and Ebony: Strategic Navigation of Black Women’s Beauty Advertisements and Civil Rights Photojournalism in Ebony Magazine, 1959-1965”
Do, Julia, “‘Con Gái, Con Đứa!’ Controversy in the Aesthetics of Vietnam’s Gái Mới (1929-1940)”
Doan Nguyen, Ryan, “(Re)Framing Imperial Flight: The Making of Vietnamese War Refugees in U.S. Cultural Memory”
Farrell, Kieran, “‘Help Me, George Lucas. You’re My Only Hope.’: Auteur Theory, Fandom, and the Polarization of Star Wars Fan Communities, 1977 to Present”
Forst, Katherine, “How to Have Sex in a City That’s Changing: Sex and the City and the Pluralistic Depiction of Lifestyle Feminisms in 1990s Manhattan”
Gadway, Hannah, “Laughter in the Mirror: The Reflective Use of Humor in Vladimir Nabokov’s Campus Novels”
Gines, Christian, “Blue (Note) Book of Law: Musical Aromatics Proximate to the Scene of Spirit, Body, and Flesh, 1890-1930”
Given, Matt, “Girls on Film: Investigating Gender and Desire in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs”
Givens-Padilla, Rico, “Registers of Resistance: Narrative Strategies of Sexual Trauma and Survival in Corregidora and Beloved”
Goldstein, Issy, “‘Dar Es Vivir’: Jewishness, Gender, and National Belonging in Argentina, 1910-1936”
Gonzalez, Evelyn, “Trapicheo, Tapaderas, & Trajín: Everyday Life in 1970s Communist Cuba”
Herszenhorn, Miles, “Staging Dissent: Teatr.Doc as an Alternative Public Sphere in Putin’s Russia”
Ho Fong, Kanny, “Stitching Histories: Narratives of Gendered Chinatown Garment Labor”
Jampel, Serena, “Capturing Hannah Duston: The Making of an American Legend”
Johnson, Nash, “‘Somewhat a Conundrum’: World’s Fairs as Sites of Melancholic Hope For Black Americans in the New South, 1897-1904”
Jones, Ella, “The Gifts They Gave Us: Cultural and Social Capital as the Inheritance of the African American Great Migration”
Katz, Arik, “‘They’re After You!’: Queer Panic in 1950s Cinema”
Koenig, Mimi, “Oppression, Victimhood, Violence, and the Right to a National Homeland: A Consistent Framework for Jean-Paul Sartre’s Views on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, 1945 to 1980”
Krause, Annabelle, “Oh (Br)Other: The ‘De-Demonization’ of the French Far Right and Its Implications for the Reception of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints”
Larson, Taylor, “Nullius in Verba: Visualizations of the Corpse and Tragedy in and Beyond Enlightenment England”
Lehman, Carly, “The Changing Strategy of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party Insurgency at the Turn of the 21st Century”
Lerner-Gill, Siena, “The Fault in Our Stories: Disability and Illness in Contemporary Young Adult Storytelling”
Levis, Amber, “Manufacturing Modernity: The 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony and China’s Rebranding”
Mandell, Kyle, “Writing the Nations of 1898: Literary Perspectives on Cuban Independence and the Spanish Crisis”
Marinaccio, Olivia, “Illumination Through Adaptation: Cao Hanmei’s Jin Ping Mei as a Commentary of Shared Materiality in Premodernity and Modernity”
Mirza, Imaan, “‘Never Had It So Good’: Women, Modernity & Ayub Khan’s Pakistan”
Niles, Harry, “‘Concatination’: The Aesthetics of David Drake’s Inscribed Vessels”
Oh, Jane, “Voices from the Margins: Hmong Children’s Literature as a Site of Memory and Resistance”
Pasalis, Sophia, “Filmmaking for the Future: Documentary as Political Intervention in 1960s Newfoundland”
Perl, Lauren, “Artistic Explorations of the Cold War American Family: Motherhood and Juvenile Delinquency in Gypsy (1959) & West Side Story (1957)”
Phan, Ethan, “Rethinking Our River: Superfund and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Post-War Environmentalism”
Saint-Cyr, Soleil, “Punks in the Beerlight: Photography and Gentrification at the Mudd Club 1975-1983”
Sesay, Anya, “‘Evidence of our Continual Existence’: Ancestral & Artistic Preservations of the Black Imagination Amidst Lynching Terror & Carceral Confinement (1916-1972)”
Silliman, Margo, “Emotional Men: How Vampirism on the Small Screen Provided an Outlet for Shifting Gender Dynamics in the United States in the 1960s and 1990s”
Solis, Abbeny, “Rewriting the Border: South Texas Borderland Identity Construction Through Gloria Anzaldúa & Community Voices”
Solomon, Rebecca, “Between the Lines: Examining the American Basketball Literary Tradition”
Sorscher, Jonah, Expectations
Tinker, Lena, “The Osage Nation Museum: Building Identity and Community”
Tuka, Bari, “The Distortion of the Erotic, the Afterlife of Slavery, and Social Death’s Impact on the Psyche of Black Women in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season”
Wall-Feng, Bea, “‘We Have Never Left Our Land’: Ohlone Organizing and Sacred Sites, 1964–1975”
Weil, Sam, “Richard Evans Schultes’s Taxonomical Treasure Hunt: Translating Psychedelics in the 20th Century”
Williams, Jem, “Death by a Thousand Cut Scenes: The Dismantling of the Hollywood Production Code (1934-1968)”