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**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)”



 

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###    Senior Thesis Prizes 2025  expand\_more  

 

John Clive Prize

- Jampel, Serena, “Capturing Hannah Duston: The Making of an American Legend”

Edward Chandler Cumming Prize

- Chan, Jolin, “Chinese Restaurants and White Picket Fences: Language, Race, and Place-Making in ‘The First Suburban Chinatown’”

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Thesis Prize in History and Literature

- Wiel, Sam, “Richard Evans Schultes’s Taxonomical Treasure Hunt: Translating Psychedelics in the 20th Century”

Perry Miller Prize

- Givens-Padilla, Rico, “Registers of Resistance: Narrative Strategies of Sexual Trauma and Survival in Corregidora and Beloved”

Barbara Miller Solomon Prize

- Mirza, Imaan, “‘Never Had It So Good’: Women, Modernity & Ayub Khan’s Pakistan”