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Anthropology: Wyatt MacGaffey Thesis Award

Year Author Title Access
2020 Lillian Joelle Alonzo An Exploration of Identity Formation Through Service: POC Volunteers' Experience on Short-Term Medical Missions  
2019 Jiaxin Lin Memory Politics and National Identity Formation: Problematizing German Erinnerungskultur  
2018 Aldis Richards Gamble Women’s Rights and Unborn Life: The Development of Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Activists’ World Views
2017 Caleb Francis Eckert Unsettling Spring Health
2016 Kaziah Grace White Speaking Abortion: Understanding Stigma, Support Networks, and Faith Within the Lives of Abortion Care Providers
2015 Eve Fisher Gutman Cerros Falsos: Rembering and Dreaming of One's Place in Valparaiso, Chile  
2014 Kathleen Marie Ulrich Problematizing the Future: Brazil, Biofuels, and Basic Science  
2013 Jemma Rachel Benson Revolutionary Transgressions: Gendering the Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade
2013 Susannah Lee Butters Production of the Past: Understanding Durham, N. Carolina’s History in the Tobacco Industry
2012 No prize awarded    
2011 Joy Heller    

Classics: Daniel Gillis and Joseph Russo Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Hope Elizabeth Johnson The Virtues of the Dead: Women’s Funerary Monuments in Classical Attica
2019 Jake Samuel Kwon The Platonic Defense of Homeric Allegoresis in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs
2018 Cristian Eduardo Espinoza and William Jules-Yves Grosholz Edwards A Slippery Matter: Reproduction and a Radical Hierarchy of Gender in the Apocryphon of John and The Two Levels of Discourse in Plato’s Protagoras
2017 Hannah Weissmann A Contemporary Cartoon Epic: Classical Reception and Homeric Epic in Bone by Jeff Smith
2016 Nathaniel Rehm-Daly Framing Classical Objects through Comic Book Theory
2015 Marielle Elizabeth Boudreau Jeeves and the Servus Callidus: Scheming Servents in Wodehouse and Plautus
2014 Shannon L. Horn The Battlefield of History: Megara, Athens, and the Mythic Past
2013 Jacob Leland Horn "Legends Malleable in His Intellectual Furnace": Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book, Mythological Adaptation, and Children's Literature
2012 Hannah Rose Silverblank Dangerous Fugues: Sirens, Divas and the Dangerous Voice
2011 Alexander J. Lopatin The Pivotal Theios Aner: (Re)invented Conservatism in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
2010 Meghan LeFrancois Love as Recollection in Plato's Symposium

Comparative Literature: Barbara Riley Levin Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Not Awarded
2019 Not Awarded
2018 Not Awarded
2017 Miriam Soo Young Hwang-Carlos and Van Le (BMC) Locating Belonging in Postcolonial Space: Homeland Narratives in René Philoctète’s Le Peuple des terres mêlées and Kim Lefevre’s Retour à la saison des pluies
2016 Honglan Huang The Narrativity of the Medium: the Architecture of Book Space in Picture Books
2015 Catherine Casem There are Frogs falling from the sky: Divining the Essence of Lived Experience through Creative Acts in Magnolia and Proust
2015 Anna Louise Pedersen So is This the End?: The Unfinishability of Quixotic Play
2014 Brian Christopher Brown Pais de Ganadores: Tracing the Roots of Neoliberal Propaganda from Chile’s Si Campaign to Iron Man
2013 Jacob Leland Horn "Legends Malleable in His Intellectual Furnace": Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book, Mythological Adaptation, and Children's Literature
2013 Daniel James Ikeda Between Ser and Parecer: Reality and Subjectivity in Cervantes, Unamuno, and Borges
2012 Elizabeth Mary Pierson Revealing the Flaws in National Narratives through Stories of Individual Trauma: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Arturo Fontaine’s La vida doble
2012 Hannah Rose Silverblank Dangerous Fugues: Sirens, Divas and the Dangerous Voice
2011 Thea Hogarth A Process of Becoming: Wandering, Identity, Authorship
2010 Maya Elizabeth Cabot Life from Death
2010 Rebecca Lynn Miller [Im]pure : Investigating the Relationship between Language and Nation in Amin Maalouf's Les Identites meurtrieres and Milan Kundera's Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli
2009 Not Awarded
2008 Gina Paller Delvac The story of a wound that cries out : Trauma and Storytelling in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Nellie Campobello's Las Manos de Mamá
2008 Jennifer U. Lin History, Memory and Power
2007 Megan E. Finn From "Il y'avait une fois ..." to "En ce temps-là ..." : childhood, children's literature, and the early Avant-Garde
2007 Anna Velia Mancusi Investigating the "postcolonial" : tracing the body and voice connection in L'Amour, la fantasia and Meatless days
2006 Anne Marie Flor-Stagnato Reconciliation and Creation: Literary syncretism in the Testimonio and the Slave Narrative
2006 Christopher Baxter Leonard Kozey ...And Survived to Tell the Tale: Trauma and Personal Narrative
2005 Ana Salzberg
2004 Rebecca Lynne Fullan This is My Body: Spiritually Inspired Gender-Crossing in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse and the poems of San Juan de la Cruz
2003 Vasiliki Despnia Ariston Theater of the Disaster: Performing Apartheid and Authoritariansim in Athol Fugard's The Island and Griselda Gambaro's Information for Foreigners
2002 James Saunders Carr II Toward an Architectural Literature and a Literary Architecture: Reflections on Kahn, Nabokov and Borges
2001 Katherine Lowery Leuschke A Truth with Points of View
2001 Ruth A. Palmer Cross-dressed narratives : gender, genre and nationality in The Female Review and Hasta no verte Jesús mío
2000 Juliet Sara Nusbaum Reading Between the Lines: Intertextuality and the Freedom of Interpretation in A.S. Byatt's Possession: a Romance and Umberto Eco's Il nome della rosa
2000 Suzanne Anna Scala How to use a User's Manual and ignite a Pale Fire: the relationship of hypertextuality to metafiction in Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi and Nabokov's Pale Fire
1999 Emily Ann Vides Literature's criticism; an intertextual exploration of Jorge Luis Borges's "Pierre Menard, autor del Quixote" and John Barth's "Echo"
1998 Mamiko Cynthia Suzuki
1997 Sarah Elizabeth Marx
1996 Elisabeth Martinson Fogt
1996 Juan Manuel Mora y Araujo
1995 Amanda Elizabeth Irwin Connecting Time in Proust and Stoppard
1994 Amy Lynn Keltner
1993 Allison Gallaudet Cohen The Antifederalists: Democrats or Aristocrats?

Economics: Holland Hunter '43 Thesis Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Antonia Meyers Coastal Flood Hazards and Housing Markets: How Do Changes to the National Flood Insurance Program Affect Single-Family Home Values in Coastal Areas?
2020 Maya Lauren Ahmed Does Retail Choice Affect the Renewable Energy Price Premium of Residential Electricity Plans?
2019 Christopher Douglas Goings Federal Credit Market Intervention as Fiscal Policy: Federal Credit and Its Impact on Commercial Bank Lending and Liquidity, 1976-2018
2018 Christopher Allen Richards Political Bias in the Literature on Minimum Wages: A Meta-Analysis
2018 Hunter Elizabeth Rendleman (Bryn Mawr College)
2017 Diana Randol Schoder Trade Openness and the Illegal Ivory Trade
2017 Jennifer Kay Kowalski The Effects of New Urbanism Amenities on Residential Property Values: The Case of Philadelphia
2016 Jeanna Helen Kenney Neighborly Competition in Real Estate Transactions
2016 Walid James Young Nashashibi Supporting the Whiteline: Differences in the Probability of being Fined in the NFL by Race
2015 Joshua Benjamin Nadel Equilibria in Firearm Ownership: Modeling a Partially Coordiated Market
2015 Caleb Klein Wroblewski The Tariff-Jumping Effect Revisited: Regional Integration, Trade Costs, and Competition for Foreign Direct Investment
2014 Isaac Mason Anthony E-book Overcharge: The Effect of U.S. v. Apple Inc. et al. (2013) on e-book Prices
2014 William Oscar Riiska, Jr. On the Effectiveness of Central Bank Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market: The Case of Slovakia, 1999-2007
2013 Matthew Michael Mazewski Nash Equilibria in a Hotelling-Type Model with Non-Uniform Consumer Density
2013 Yue Shao Banking Competition and Access to Finance in Developed Countries
2012 Joshua Michael Weiss Exploring Income Inequality in the U.S. and the Effects of Selection Bias
2011 Kathleen Ann Bui The impact of macro-economic conditions on transitions into and duration of self-employment
2011 Nicholas Ford Reynolds Exploring the effect of wealth distribution on efficiency using a model of land tenancy with limited liability
2010 Douglas Charles Edelman Modeling voter responses to campaign expenditures
2010 Bard Thopson Ricciardi Female-Led Firms and the Gap in Executive Compensation: A Study of Pay and Promotion Practices in the Financial Sector
2009 Paul Augustine Anand Minnice Heterogeneous national allocation plans in the EU Emission Trading Scheme under imperfectly competitive markets
2009 Munik Kumar Shrestha Behavioral growth theory : a neoclassical approach
2008 Daniel William Sacks Stuck for life : a firm-specific human capital explanation of the male marraige [i.e., marriage] premium
2007 Nathaniel Marc Ballenberg Clutch pitching in baseball : does it exist?
2007 Jessica S. Pevzner Hospital conversions to for-profit status : implications for charges, patients, and communities
2006 Adam Matthew Shapiro Jim Cramer's Mad Money : effects on stock returns
2005 Caitlin Goldwater Coslett Can women have it all? : gender differences in the relationship between career and family for top corporate executives
2005 Andrea Robbett Behavioral economics and the Coasian result: an experimental test of fairness

English: Newton Prize in English Literature

Year Author Title Access
2020 Drew Cunningham This Intolerable Incubus: The Melancholia of Bartleby, the Scrivener
2019 Christopher Joseph Gandolfo-Lucia The Language Stump: Language and Loss in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
2018 Emily Rose Chazen Do Not Abandon Us, Hear Our Pleas’: (Re)sounding Loss in Anna Rabinowitz’s Darkling: A Poem
2017 Amira Aladin Abujbara Theatres of Threat: Modern Feeling and Post-9/11 Consciousness in McEwan’s Saturday
2016 Jessica Hayden Libow Prosthesis Repurposed in Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”
2015 Sydney Unell Jones Bodies Under Construction: Architectures of Pleaseure and Whiteness in Chesnutt's Po Sandy
2014 Joshua Bucheister Vanity Fair and the Ethics of Staying Put
2013 Cole K. Fiedler-Kawaguchi Dickinson's Sound Machine
2012 Lydia Fiske Emery "A line there, in the centre": Temporality, Narrative, and the Rewriting of Loss in To the Lighthouse
2011 Karina Puttieva Myth and its double : re-reading, re-vision, and repetition in Angela Carter's The Sadeian woman
2010 Andrew James Lanham Shakespeare contra Nietzsche or how to playwrite with a hammer
2009 Daniel P. O'Toole "A word is also a picture of a word": the imagistic consciousness and historical representation in Don DeLillo's Libra
2008 Daniel Theodore Guilfoyle Mark Twain's literary unconscious(ness): humor, textuality, and deadpan performance
2007 Brittany E. Pladek Gewritu secgað: "the sensible inscription" in Old English poetry
2006 Ross Benjamin Lerner Loss, Interruption, and Melancholia in Miltonic Lyric
2005 Michael H. Rowe A blackface masque: blackface and the 'claim' of lyric identity in John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs
2004 Matthew Jackson Weiss Not so simple tales : the historicity and ambiguity of Equiano's anecdotes
2003 John K. Frisbee Breaking up the border: Ciaran Carson's urban narratives
2002 Daniel Robert Block
2001 Stephen Michael Yeager
2000 Suzanne E. Warren
1999 Eleanor Lowenthal
1998 Brent S. Sirota
1997 Jason Wayne Stevens
1996 Nathaniel Michael Zimmer
1995 Hilary Allison Edwards On the submission to narrative and the sufficiency of ruin: memory, madness and museums in Ruskin's last years
1994 Teresa Carol Parker
1993 Juan J. Rivero
1992 Nicholas Benjamin Tsocanos
1991 Leslie India Lefkow
1990 Anna Elisabeth Engle
1989 Diane M. Castelbuono
1988 Katherine C. Dwyer
1987 Naomi Elizabeth Morgenstein
1987 Kate Kennedy Shatzkin

English: Terry M. Krieger '69 Memorial Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Ellis Maxwell The Tumbled
2019 Olivia Charis Legaspi How to Become One With Your Borderline Personality Disorder: Stories
2018 Elizabeth Sheridan Royer A ‘Fatal Enquiry’: Narratorial Subversion and the Sexual Contract in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess
2017 Sarah Rose Shatan-Pardo South of Broadway Bridge
2016 Eve Gamble Gillison The Stoner Witch Chronicles
2015 Stephen Jacques Profeta The earth was locked up tight: Reading Cat's Cradle Through Climate Criticism
2014 Daniel James Wriggins alt-country: poems
2013 Lucia Marie Kearney Life like Smoke: Stories
2012 William Schwab Stone Technophiles and the Savage Machinery of Loss in Blood Meridian
2011 Kyle Michael McCloskey Draughts of space : an original screenplay
2010 Noel David Capozzalo Senior Thesis for the Haverford English Major with Creative Writing Concentration
2009 Emma Eisenberg This is Not the Whole Story
2008 Ben Lansky The ox-cart
2007 Julia Erdosy "On screen" : Shakespeare and the adaptive lens in Star trek VI: The undiscovered country
2006 James Reid Weissinger Text-cremental Visions: The Body as Locus for Intertextual Negotiation in James Joyce's Ulysses
2005 Jesse N. Mesner-Hage Children of the flux: the individual and collective consciousness in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
2004 David Laurence Fask Stains
2003 Susannah Marian Morrow The desire for Orpheus and Eurydice: returning to the end to return to the beginning
2002 Beth Ellen Ziemacki
2001 Helena Elizabeth Levitt
2000 Jason Scott Fritz The leaves referred to when shaking
2000 Lamon Harkness Jewett
1999 John Arden Tracy
1999 Isaac Berkman Zaur
1998 MacKenzie Cadenhead
1997 Sonam Singh
1996 Tara Meinhard
1996 Julia McLean Napier
1995 Melisa Ann Frederick
1994 Daniel Charles Rafferty
1993 Arvin Wagas Casas
1992 Leslie A. Power
1991 Anthony John Philips
1990 Anya Krugovoy

History

Year Author Title Access
2020 Hayle Mathia Meyerhoff America the Beautiful: U.S. Imperial Beauty Politics in Hawaii, From World War II to Statehood
2019 Paloma Marie Paez-Coombe Arbitrary, Capricious, and Without Reasonable Relation to Any Purpose’: Pérez v. Sharp, Miscegenation Laws, and the Interracial Consciousness of Post-War Los Angeles
2018 Rosemary Ryden Cohen But I Am Not Ashamed of Any Act I Have Ever Done’: The 1880 Apsàalooke (Crow) Delegation to Washington, D.C.
2017 Sarah Rose Roth Looking to ‘the Successful Example of a Sister State’: Philadelphia’s Influence on New Jersey Abolitionism, 1793-1809
2016 Sunny Zheng “Image”-ing Otherwise: the Ambivalent Politics of Asian American Visual Self-Representation in the post-1965 Era
2015 David Maximillian Findley Laboratories of the American Century: How Coral Atolls Became Models for American Environmental Thought
2014 Neilay Bharat Shah The Luce-Celler Act of 1946: White Nationalism, Indian Nationalism, and the Cosmopolitan Elite
2013 Charlotte Bianca Bax The Empire of Appearance: Imagery, Identity, and Autonomy in La Toilette of Eighteenth-Century France
2012 Nathan Kaplan Karnovsky The Other Cultural Revolution : The Academic Uprising of the American China Scholar in the 1960s
2011 Meaghan Ryan The exceptional body of Veronica Franco : gender, art, and power in 16th-Century Venice
2010 Noel Day Ottman License to cure : policing women's healing in the trials of Ysabel de Montoia
2010 Avi Wolfman-Arent Dance floor democracy : American Bandstand and the formation of a youth body politic
2009 Eric James Lundblade "The fruits of imperialism, be they bitter or sweet ..." : "America's mission" and the rhetoric of the imperialism debate (1898-1900)
2008 Henry Alexander Wiencek "An alien or a Frenchman or an Irishman" : William Duane, the Federalists and conflicting definitions of national identity in early American politics
2007 Joshua Adam Kass A royal disappointment : the private scandals of George IV, 1785-1820
2006 Veronica T. Faust Music has learn'd the discords of the state' : the cultural politics of British opposition to Italian Opera, 1706-1711
2005 Marisa Miriam Wilairat Myths of Mau Mau: the construction of nationalism and the contested legacy of Mau Mau in independent Kenya
2004 Jonathan Michael Rosner Edelson Minds the dead have ravished: shell shock, British society, and the military death penalty
2003 Celeste Day Moore Black like Boris : Boris Vian's fictions of identity in post-World War II Paris
2002 Caroline Stratton Boyd Beyond the line of redemption : the Philadelphia waterfront in urban life, 1790-1820
2001 Mary Ryan Stryker Queen Elizabeth I as the 'Virgin Queen': Visualizing Power and Legitimacy Through Pageantry and Portraiture
2000 Davis Hoskins Forsythe
1999 John P. Papay Differential Disease Experience in the Atlantic Slave Trade: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Atlantic Plantation Complex
1998 Scott Richard Heacock

Linguistics: Outstanding Thesis

Year Author Title Access
2018 Lyra Piscitelli (Bryn Mawr College) A Pragmatic Account of Demands for Recognition

Linguistics: Prize in Application

Year Author Title Access
2019 Shuang Guan (Swarthmore College) Referential Predictability and Topicality Diverge in Implicit Causality
2019 Amanda Izes (Swarthmore College) #MeToo, Discursive Injustice, and Shifting Social Norms: A Linguistic Case Study of Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby Jr.
2018 Catherine Kandrysawtz (Swarthmore College) The Vitality of the Hangzhou Dialect of Mandarin
2017 Jordan Sciascia (Swarthmore College) Rules Versus Objectives: What is Most Salient in Toddlers' Language Acquisition?
2017 Miki Gilmore (Bryn Mawr College) Insider Perspective: Attitude and Motivational Orientation among Heritage Learners of Japanese

Linguistics: Prize in an Experimental Topic

Year Author Title Access
2020 Rylee Anne Fennell Underinformative Implicature Derivation on the Broader Autism Phenotype

Linguistics: Prize in Description

Year Author Title Access
2018 Kathryn Goldberg (Bryn Mawr College) Music and Meaning in Three Zapotec Songs
2017 Claire Benham (Bryn Mawr College) Morphosyntax of the Bangla Affix –ta

Linguistics: Prize in Linguistics Theory

Year Author Title Access
2020 Benjamin Bruce MacKichan Paul Learning ill-formed loanwords in Optimality Theory
2019 Juhyae Kim (Swarthmore College) Speech Act Intensification in Mandarin
2018 Ziting Shen (Bryn Mawr College) Incorporating Phonological Knowledge into a Computational Model for Language Family Homeland Identification
2017 Emily Drummond (Bryn Mawr College) Possession and Agentivity in Nukuoro
2016 May Helena Plumb Conjunction in Colonial Valley Zapotec
2016 Melanie Louise Bahti (Bryn Mawr College)
2015 Mariana Irby (Bryn Mawr College)
2014 Micah John Walter Morphosyntax and Semantic Type of Noun Phrases in Turkish
2014 Mattie Grace Wechsler The Stacking Behavior of Valence-Increasing Verbal Extensions and Their Arguments in Shona
2013 Elizabeth D. Wiseman More than C's and V's: A Moraic Approach to Phonological Templates for Japanese Mimetics
2012 Rebecca Lincoln Knowles Vowel Harmony: Statistical Methods for Linguistic Analysis

Mathematics: The Mathematics and Statistics Thesis Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Jennifer Ferine Jolivert Fuchsian Groups and Gromov Hyperbolicity: A Solution to the Word Problem
2020 Farid Abraham Azar León The Nielsen-Thurston Classification of Mapping Classes
2019 Charlotte Simpson Eisenberg Modeling the Opioid Overdose Crisis
2018 Olivia Sabat The Classification of Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras
2018 Jennifer Ferine Jolivert Fuchsian Groups and Gromov Hyperbolicity: A Solution to the Word Problem

Philosophy: Charles Schwartz Memorial Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Isabel Floyd Generation(s) of Self: Understanding the Nietzschean Alternative to Self as Causal Substratum
2019 Nwa Amaka A. Eze (Bryn Mawr College)
2018 Isabelle Hsu Gotuaco On the Problem of Aesthetic Judgment
2017 Francesca Brianna Felder Accounting for Identity with Alcoff and Butler
2016 Dylan James Verner-Crist Scenographies of Sexuality: Laplanchean Seduction and Racialized Desire
2015 Zachary W. Gabor Extending, Expanding, and Laying Bare: A Unified Account of Generalization in Mathematics
2013 Ashley Nicole Vanderbeck Having a (Fregean) Sense of Concepts
2012 Erin Islo In Nature and in God: Spinoza and Blessedness
2011 Sydney May Keough Having a taste for what's there
2010 Andrew James Lanham Shakespeare Contra Nietzsche or How to Playwrite with a Hammer
2009 Joseph Paul Bernardoni Knowing Nature Without Mirrors: Thomas Kuhn's Antirepresentationalist Objectivity
2008 Eva Glenn Rodriguez Making Sense of Socrates in a Dialogue of Contradictions: Studies in Plato's Protagoras
2007 Jonathan C. Pober The multiplicity of the moment : an analysis of the ethical aspect of temporality in Nietzsche and Levinas
2007 Alexandra Lindsey Smith There's no place like home : an analysis of borderland identity as an alternative to the psychic home
2006 Michael Dov Kassler-Taub Me and my surveillance-image: structuring disciplinary subjectivation in the new space of techno-surveillance
2005 Lilian Burgler Speak: What Ought I to ________? : Freedom Revealed in Radical Inquiry
2004 Robert Joseph Jones Beckett and the Philosopher
2004 Andreja Novakovic Uncovering the Conditions for Understanding Another : An Examination of Translation, Interpretation, and Understanding in Gadamer's Truth and Method
2003 Daniel J. Elstein The social construction of species and the moral indefensibility of speciesism
2002 Daniel Robert Block From mourning to melancholia : voicing authorship in its loss
2002 Nathan S. Zuckerman Rorty and McDowell: two therapeutic takes on traditional epistemology
2001 Anthony James Minko Should Philosophy Provide Procedure for the Political Process or Constraints for its content? Political Liberalism and the fact of Pluralism
2000 Matthew Sorenson Philosophy and the Standpoint of Absolute Knowing
1999 Samuel David Floyd Kant's Moral Theory and Its Relationship to Aristotelian Ethics
1998 Stephen Michael Vasil
1997 Andrew H. Gilman Toward a Relativized Epistemology: Three Logical Frameworks and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
1996 Sarah Clark Miller Touch pleasuring, eros becoming: Moving toward a new sexual dynamic
1996 Jessica Joanna Ruegg Becoming Subjective: Theories of Knowledge in Coleridge and Wittgenstein
1995 Not Awarded
1995 Stephen Andrew Whitton Self-Deception and the Ironic Consciousness
1993 Not Awarded
1992 Mary Elizabeth Cunnane Making Sense of Sense
1991 Benjamin P. Siegel A Prolegomena to a Possible Future Pedagogy
1990 Jean-Gabriel Neukomm
1990 Brian Knatz The Virtual Self and Others
1989 Henry Chang
1988 Mark E. Chaiken Why the Future is Not: A Logical and Metaphysical Investigation
1988 Kenneth A. Richman Persons and Space: Space, the Self, and Identification of Objective Particulars
1987 Charles Mario Russell
1986 Martha Kendal Woodruff
1985 Jyl Kely Gentzler
1985 Molly Finn
1984 Lawrence A. Holmberg
1984 Amy Morgan Schmitter
1983 Michael Angelo Dignazio
1983 Kevin Michael Foley
1982 Alfred H. Essa
1982 Geoffrey Martin Rockwell
1981 Farid Rafael Maluf
1981 Jonathan D. Polkes

Political Science: Herman M. Somers Prize

Year Author Title Access
2020 Phoebe Cribb (Bryn Mawr College) Why Do States Comply With International Law Even When They Don't Have To? Examining Variation in the Adoption of Migrant Education Policies in the European Union
2020 Peter McLaughlin Baroff Inclusionary Zoning in New York City: Examining a Low-Cost Solution to the Urban Crises of Affordability and Integration
2019 Emily Sonia Levine Herzfeld Excessive Force and Barriers to Justice in the Courts: How and Why Liability Fails
2019 Alexandra Margaret Corcoran Mobilizing Medicaid: Understanding Advocacy Group Action at the State Level
2018 Nicholas R. Barile Risk Takers and Risk Makers: The Strategy of Tripwire Deterrence
2017 Hannah Emily Rice Public Health in Post-Colonial Nations: A Case Study of Ethno-Religious Health Disparities in Nigeria
2017 Michael Nicholas Furey Trumping Trump: Understanding the 2016 Election and the Right-Wing Populist Response
2016 Dhario Walter DeSousa Every Nation’s Refugee? A Comparative Analysis of Asylum Policies towards Syrians among Hungary, France, and Germany
2016 Ty Eireann Joplin Doing the Right Thing: Investigating How Individuals Radicalize
2016 Dylan Samuel Reichman Affect and the Individual Post-9/11: Societies of Control, Spinoza, and the Homeland Security Advisory System
2015 Larissa Grace Eyman Antonisse Overcoming Partisan Opposition to Federal Policy Implemantation: The Role of Interest Groups in State Fights to Expand Medicaid
2015 Ian Ross Athelstane Oxenham A Game of Preference: The Origins of U.S. Unwillingness to Commit to Signicantly Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2014 Elizabeth Lily Carp Habitation or Domination: Land Ownership and Subjectivity
2014 Daniel Arthur Gordon Up to Eleven: How For-Profit Colleges “Tapped” Political Channels to Inhibit the Department of Education
2014 Jacob Alexander Lowy Good Fences Do Not Alone Make for Good Neighbors: A Call for Enlightened Immigration Reform
2014 Dylan T. Runde The Return of the Franchise: Resurgence in the Domestic Insurgencies of al-Qaeda Affiliates
2013 Rupinder K. Garcha A Slippery Slope: State Approaches to Water Management and Development Policies
2013 Sarah Jessica Guyer Above and Beyond Bureaucracy: Examining the Association Between Motivation and Prosocial Behavior in the United States Border Patrol
2013 Daniel Aaron Salem The Tides of Nationalism: Accounting for the Successes and Failures of Regional-Nationalist Political Parties and Coalitions in Catalonia and Galicia, Spain
2012 Gabrielle Christiane Logaglio Violence without Borders: An Analysis of State Responses to Threatening Transitional Violent Non-state Actors
2012 Molly Minden From Withdrawal to Engagement: Civil Society Participation in Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Argentina
2011 Chris Joseph Chasin Path Dependence and Amtrak: How the Nation's Passenger Railroad Has Stayed On Track
2011 Rachel Alyssa Schwartz Mobilizing Victimhood: Reparations as a Site of Contentious Politics in Post-Conflict Guatemala
2010 Julia Emmet Heald Decoupling: Ensuring Access to Entitlements After Welfare Reform
2010 Rosalyn May Mendenhall Al-Qaeda: Who, What, Why? : Database Applications for the Al-Qaeda Statements Index
2010 Nicholas W. Sher When Power Fails: The Causes of Authoritarian Strong State Defeat in Asymmetric War
2010 Benjamin Thomas Takemoto Constituting a Rational Public Sphere: The Tea Party Counterpublic
2009 Rachel Clare Van Tosh The public sphere and the "non-place": investigating the affect of controlled architecture on discourse in the Reading Terminal Market and the Greyhound Bus Station
2009 Christopher William Pasakarnis Public challenges, private solutions: defining the link between private military companies and democracies
2008 Devon Amanda Hercher The primary question: is the presidential nominating process sufficiently democratic?
2008 Brian Michael Till Ghosts of Afghanistan: lessons from the return of the Arab Afghans in the post-Soviet period
2007 Jeremy N. Babener Presidential Political Rhetoric: A Case Study in George W. Bush's Social Security Reform Campaign
2007 Ellen J. Mooney Towards an End Result: Comprehensive Health Care Reform in Massachusetts and California
2006 Claire Fawcett The Zapatista conflict: Mexico's political paradox
2005 Andrew Gordon Williams Planning Albuquerque: land use reform in the urban southwest
2004 Jennifer Constantino Of black squirrels, purple cows, and flying dutchmen: a political and economic analysis of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
2004 Ye Jin Lee Terrorist or revolutionary? : an enquiry into the moral and legal grounds for political violence
2004 Kyle Edward Amoriya Smiddie Laundromat politics : Why don't poor people participate in politics?
2003 Jennifer Rene Lucas The crafting of democratic institutions & justice : analyzing the role of peace agreements in the peace processes of Northern Ireland and South Africa
2002 Ilya Edward Enkishev harter schools: a Philadelphia study
2001 Ersbak, Jamie Indigenous resources, elite division, and the emergence of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China
2001 Kaufman, Joseph J. American Grand Strategy and Peripheral Aspirant Regional Hegemonic States: U.S.-India Security Relations in the Early 21st Century
2000 Bernard Fischlowitz-Roberts The Politics of Enacting Environmental Tax Reform in the U.S. Obstacles, Strategies, and the Movement for Sustainability
1999 David L. Axelrod Influencing Congress: Big Tobacco's Pipe Dream?
1999 Zoe N. Rind Educating for Radical Power: Rethinking Notions of Democracy and Citizenship
1998 Benjamin Duda Cutler The 1996 Tax Break for the Massachusetts Mutual Fund Industry: A New Model for Public-Private Sector Interactions
1997 Philip Perilstein The Miserly Politician vs. The Good Doctor: Two Governors, Two States, Two Radically Different Programs for Medicaid Reform
1997 Asim Rehman Islam & Democracy: The Compatibility of Islamic Government and Democracy in Theory and Practice
1997 Fred Bentley Overhauling Medicaid: The Managed Care Experiments in Tennessee and California
1996 Orion Kriegman The Potential for Democratic Enterprises in the United States
1995 Jessica R. Piombo Uncovering the Legacies of the Past: The Significance of Truth Commissions in Democratic Transitions
1994 Dustin Ballard Can Habitat Conservation Planning Solve the Problems of the Endangered Species Act?
1993 Peter Andrew Furia Humanitarian foreign aid and morality in international relations
1993 Benie D. Colvin Minority-majority districts: addressing representation and equality in government through districting
1992 Benjamin Weber Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
1991 Henry J. Ehrsam
1990 John Marshall Cook The South African Business Community and their Role in the Erosion of Apartheid
1990 David Richard Jones
1989 Robyn Sue Gilman The Demographics of Voting for Black Men and Women, In the Presidential Elections: 1964-1988
1989 Arthur Hinton Rosenfeld
1988 Thomas E. Hartmann The 1987 Soviet Electoral Experiment and its Impact on Local Government in the USSR
1987 Susannah Ruth Goodman Reagan and Thatcher: The Politics of Individualism and Inequality

Religion

Year Author Title Access
2020 Julia Gan The Study of Lived Religion Through Different Interpretations: An Ethnography on Perceptions of Singaporean Malay-Muslims’ Islamic Prayer Ritual Practice
2020 David King Parochially Political: An Examination of the Political Nature of the Eucharist in the Thought of St. Augustine
2020 Zoe Small (Bryn Mawr College)
2020 Sam Taveras (Bryn Mawr College)
2020 Lucy Ann Tortolani America's Pastor: Billy Graham, the Civil Rights Movement, and Religion in American Politics
2020 Paige Walton YSA, Why I Stay: An Exploration of Belief, Ritual, Practice, and Policy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
2020 Allison Wise Two Cowardly Ruffians Committed the Coldest-Blooded Murder in the History of the World: Constructing Criminality, Sexuality, and Jewish Masculinity in the Leopold and Loeb Case
2019 Michael Aaron Weber With God’s People’: Individual Paths and Communal Belonging in an LGBTQ+ Church
2018 Emily Rose Chazen On the Eighth Day: Ethics and the Face in Samuel Bak’s Adam and Eve Collection
2017 None
2016 Jeremy Benjamin Steinberg “Here is a people that dwells alone, and that does not consider itself among the nations”: Balaam ben Beor and the National Boundaries of Ancient Israel
2016 K.C. McConnell (Bryn Mawr) “Everybody Knows ‘She is Mataji:’” The Relationships of Jain Sadhvis as Instruments of Empowerment and Identity Formation
2015 Maya Nojechowicz I am a Wall and My Breasts are towers: Female Resistance to Patriarchal Oppression in the Song of Songs
2015 Lindsey Reed Palmer Reading Rumi: The Collapse of the Real, the Imaginal, and the Literary in Jalal al-Din Runi's Masnavi i-Ma'navi
2014 Violet Baron Pluralism, Hegemony and Communitas: Moishe House and the Changing American Jewish World
2014 Mary Alice Freeman Familial Loss in the Context of Quaker Faith
2013 Waleed Shahid Building Faith: The Postwar Moment, Cold War Diplomacy, and the Islamic Center of Washington D.C.
2012 Candace Yasmeen Nicole Jordan Resentment and “Ressentiment”: Resentment as a Valuable Moral Sensibility
2012 Cecelia Blair Sizoo-Roberson Constructing Sacred History: The Islamic Conquest of Jerusalem 638 CE and the Narrativization of Religious Identity
2011 Margaret Ernst You Can't Chop down a Tree without Exposing its Roots: Slavery, Multiculturalism, and the Possibility of Anti-Racism in a High School History Textbook
2011 Katharine Bakke "The Opposite of Poverty is Not Plenty, but Friendship:" Dorothy Day's Pragmatic Theology of Detachment
2011 Diane Sarah Tracht Identity, morality, and politics : American Reform Jews and the State of Israel
2010 Adam Pendleton Lewis Reconceptualizing Khomeini: The Islamic Republic of Iran and U.S. Democratization Policies in the Middle East
2009 Jessie Lauren Post Writing Against the Grain: Representations of Muslim Women in Leila Aboulela's Minaret
2008 Elana Rose Bloomfield Conceiving Motherhood : The Jewish Female Body in Israeli Reproductive Practices
2007 Jeanne M. Dreskin Deconstructing Primitivisions: appropriations of black religiosity and the subversive aesthetics of juxtaposition in Georges Bataille's Documents
2006 Katherine E. Cheng Beyond Looking: Sebastião Salgado's Religious Response to a World in Crisis
2005 Kira Rachel Intrator The Day of the Dead and the Devil: The Act of Assimilation and Appropriation in the weavings of the Tarabuco Jalq'a.
2005 Frank Harrill Pittenger John Crowe Ransom and the Sacralization of the Aesthetic
2004 Patricia A. Blaha Israel, the Niddah: an exegesis of Ezekiel 36:16-17
2004 Promise B. Partner Valiant Warrior & Worthy Herald: Aimee Semple McPherson's Automobile as an Evangelical Tool
2003 Anna Amelia Mudd Fathers in Christ: an Analysis of Kinship Rhetoric and Celibate Priestly Identity in Documents of the Second Vatican Council
2002 Heidi L. Witmer The serpent as healer: religion and the vernacular translation of peacebuilding theory in Rwanda
2001 Jeffrey Sherman Meyer Action-Guiding Principles: Gandhi's Use of the Bhagavad-Gita in his Movement to Eliminate Untouchability
2001 Katharine M. Gordon Anti-Triumphalist Theology of Liberation: Juan Luis Segundo's Appropriation of Pauline Introspection
2000 Abigail Emily Graseck Through the Mouth: Creating Navajo Identity The Emergence of Wind from Thought to Speech
2000 Laura Elizabeth McTighe Painting Memory: Mural Painting in Northern Ireland: Windows to the Past, Images of the Present, Visions for the Future
1999 Susan N. Russell-Smith Bistami and Metatron: Mystics Cut From the Same Primordial Mold Deal With the Legacy of God's Image
1998 Alan Joseph Smith Martin Luther King Jr.: Re-Telling the American Story
1997 Ashley Walker The Wiles of Women: the Slander Against A'isha and the Seduction of the Prophet Yusuf
1997 Kristen Rudisill From Darkness into Light: Illuminating the Relationship of Agni and Sita in the Ramakatha
1997 Nina Maria Cinquemani Poetic Structure as Theology: Gerald Manley Hopkins
1996 David M. Sasson Judaism as a Rhetorical Device in Augustine's Literary Construction of Pelagianism
1996 Ann Christine Rivera God Must Dance: Exploring Santeria Through the Ritual of Dance
1995 [Name withheld]
1994 Patrick Kevin McCulloch The Martyrdom of Misunderstanding: Mark Taylor, Søren Kierkegaard and the Context of Faith
1993 Anna Maika Blau A Theology of Tension: Kart Barth on Israel and the Church
1993 Kathryn Allison Felmet Alterity and Obligation in M.M. Bakhtin's "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity"
1992 Sean M. O'Brien
1992 Namratha Kandula Miraculous Deliverance and Malicious Mischief: a Narrative of Gender Reversal in the Mahabharata
1991 Benjamin Hoorn Barton Ode to the incommensureable : Kierkegaard's paradox in a dialectical lyric
1991 Frederick Stephen Colby The Flight of the Innermost Heart: Sufi Terms, Images and Concepts in The Mi`raj of Abu Yazid al-Bistami
1990 Victoria Nixon The Disappearance of Dinah: Marginalization and Deception in Genesis 34
1989 Elizabeth Shanks The Kol Nidre: an Analysis of Liberation
1988 Kenneth Alan Fromm Raskolnikov as Lazarus Figure in Fedor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
1988 Peter Alexander Kay Midrashic Hermeneutics: An analysis of the Rabbinic reading of Koheleth
1987 Naomi Elizabeth Morgenstern
1987 Seemi Yasmin Ghazi

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2020 Joseph Spir Rechani “¿Majestad Negra? Understanding Puerto Rican Racial Politics in Philadelphia through Diasporic Performances of Bomba
2019 Lilian Hawley Domenick Los discursos de autoridad y la construcción de la figura de la comadrona en Guatemala
2018 John-Francis Villines Diego Rivera, arte y revolución: La transformación del arte a una de herramienta poderosa reforma social
2018 Susan Inez Kelly Enraizado en la memoria chilena: El Estadio Nacional como escenario nacional
2017 Isabel Alessandra Gross Que no se adore ninguna señora ni señorita’: la poética de la feminidad en las canciones políticas de Violeta Parra
2016 Kelly Boylan Una institución penetrable: agencia y disidencia en comunidades de subalternos durante la Inquisición en el Nuevo Mundo (1569- 1780)
2015 Marcela Sbongile Niemczyk Breaking the Norms: An Analysis of the Impact of the Catalan Independence Movement on the Spanish Political System
2014 Siena Claire Williams Mann El poder de la poesía política: La poesía de Vidaluz Meneses, Michele Najlis y Daisy Zamora en la Revolución Sandinista
2013 Kate Oliver Irick Acérquense pibes, Washington Cu-culto va a contarles la verdad: Lo canónico, lo nuevo y lo radical en la obra de Santiago Vega
2013 Jacob Wiesenthal Mentiras y malanga: Un análisis de la evolución del testimonio
2012 Ivana Regina Evans La autoconstrucción de Sarmiento: un sistema de educación entre la civilización y la barbarie
2011 Grace Samantha Smith Viduarre
2010 Noel Day Ottman Las enemigas de honestidad : la Inquisición de la Curandera-Alcahueta en los casos de la Centella y la Celestina
2009 Andres Daniel Plaza La educación bilingüe como herramienta para superar la reproducción de desigualdad causada por la hegemonía lingüística
2008 Isaac Benjamin Anders Osceola Cote Lutze
2008 Rebecca Anna Rudnick Zeldin
2007 Alison Ivy Stoffregen Raices desenterradas: El esencialismo estrategico en la poesia mapuche
2006 Samara Renee Thomas Representaciones, reflejos y reflexiones : el triunvirato de la desconstrucción del mito de Carmen en la pelicula Carmen de Carlos Saura
2005 Nicholas Rashad Jones Dentro de la Iglesia San Martín le dicen Ay, negrita, vente tú, danos consuelo! : las visiones y las oraciones de Catalina Muñoz
2005 Erica Katherine Knight La política del abismo, coronaci{226)}on y la libertad de Hannah Arendt
2004 Michael E. Sweeney Infinitos caballeros : Quijano, Welles, Gilliam
2003 Sara Elizabeth Wolf
2002 Caroline Stratton Boyd
2001 Megan Elizabeth Lancaster
2000 Ari Jacob Wassner
2000 Brendan Harrison Lanctot
1999 Sarah DeWitt Gilbert