Class of 2026
Benoit, Alexandre, “Propagande Chucotée: State-Sponsored Cinema During the French Nuclear Bombings of Algeria, 1960–1966”
Brennan, Maeve, “Mothering Magazine, Mommy Blogs, and Momfluencers: The Fashioning of the Natural Mother”
Britt, Avery, “‘The Ultimate Weapon’: How the GI Press Waged War for Civil Rights”
Chua, Eugene, “Coffin, Home: Death, Displacement and Development in Land-Scarce Singapore”
DeAscentiis, Lola, “Separatism and Sisterhood: Examining the Lives and Works of American Catholic Lesbian Nuns in the 1980s”
Gonzalez-Arias, Dulce, “Constructing Suburbia & Other Common Scripts: Gender, Labor, and Latinidad in the San Fernando Valley”
Hassane, Dalal, “From Baghdad to Slemani: The Poetics of Rememory in The Corpse Washer and The Last Pomegranate Tree”
Hoyte, Sterling, “Picturing the Irish Question: Punch Magazine and the Visual Grammar of Irish Self-Determination in England (1841 - 1870)”
Jepsen, Max, “Timba in the Contact Zone: Cultural Nationalism, Transculturation, and Hybridization of the Cuban Music Industry in the Special Period”vil Rights Photojournalism in Ebony Magazine, 1959-1965”
Kaufmann, Will, “A Mirror for the Nation: The Mexican-American War in American Historiography, 1876–1943”
Khan, Yasmeen, “‘The Real End of the Story’: Rewriting Rape Out of Prozac Nation”
Lashley, Isabella, “Necropoli(tic)s: A Semiotic Argument of Place-Based Political Death Through Postwar New York City Slum Clearance”
Lee, Ashley, “After Assimilation: Asian American Dystopian Fiction in the 21st Century”
Lemann, Jo, “Abrams v United States: Jewish Radicals, Progressives, and the Contested Meaning of Free Speech During World War I”
Livingston, Eleni, “Learning Through Fairytale Magic: The Evolution of the Cinderella Narrative Through 20th Century Literacy Pedagogy”
Nussbaum, Daisy, “Staging the Nation: The Self-Conscious Mythmaking of Oklahoma!”
O'Donoghue-McDonald, Lily, “‘Safe’-Guarding: Tracing the Connection Among Voter Registration, Fraud Narratives, and Immigration in California, 1866-1930”
Stanford, Jade, “From the Rocking of My Cradle: Intimacy, Recovery, and Cultural Memory in Slave Lullabies”
Stone, Ava, “‘Everything’s Copacetic’: Using Movement Analysis to Navigate Tap Dance, Black Cultural Memory, and Racial Constraint in Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson’s Hollywood Films (1930-1935)”
Tucker, Travis, “Together, Apart: A Cultural History of the American Condominium, 1958-1983”
Vasquez Rosado, Gabriela, “Beyond the Mariposa: Minerva Mirabal and the Silences in the Archive of Resistance in the Dominican Republic”
Woodward, Willow, “‘Go Your Own Way’: David Geffen, Irving Azoff, Mo Ostin and the 1970s Music Industry”
Yazeji, Amal, “‘It Was a Weeping Time’: Kinship, Community, and Agency at the Great Slave Sale of 1859”
Yeshitila, Leah, “‘I Do Not Want a Documentary’: Street Photography, Urban Life, and the Black Arts Movement”