Senior Thesis Archive

Class of 2023

 

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”

Nikhil, Dharmaraj, “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”

 

Senior Thesis Prizes 2023

“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”