#  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”



 

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###    Senior Thesis Prizes 2026  expand\_more  

 

John Clive Prize

- Hoyte, Sterling, “Picturing the Irish Question: *Punch Magazine* and the Visual Grammar of Irish Self-Determination in England (1841 - 1870)”

Edward Chandler Cumming Prize

- Khan, Yasmeen, “‘The Real End of the Story’: Rewriting Rape Out of *Prozac Nation*”

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

- Jepsen, Max, “Timba in the Contact Zone: Cultural Nationalism, Transculturation, and Hybridization of the Cuban Music Industry in the Special Period”

Perry Miller Prize

- Lemenn, Jo, “*Abrams v United States*: Jewish Radicals, Progressives, and the Contested Meaning of Free Speech During World War I”

Barbara Miller Solomon Prize

- Brennan, Maeve, “*Mothering* Magazine, Mommy Blogs, and Momfluencers: The Fashioning of the Natural Mother”