Previous Awards Recipients

2023 Award Recipients

Aryn Rivers ’25 has won a First Year Award for their WRIT 144 paper, “Save Our Children: Florida’s LGBTQ Panic from the 1950s to Today.” Supporting Faculty: Jeaninne Johnson [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Tayae Rogers ’25 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 134 paper, “Driving Families Forward: The Role of Demographic Changes and Coalition-Building in Winning Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants in Massachusetts in 2022.” Supporting Faculty: Erin Battat [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Ilinca Drondoe ’26 has won a 100/200-level award for her MATH 123 paper, “Reforming the United Nations Security Council: A Quantitative and Political Analysis.” Supporting Faculty: Ismar Volić [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Maya Mau ’25 has won a 100/200-level award for their ANTH 214 paper, “'Physique as Destiny': The Significance of The Eugenics Movement to Wellesley’s Posture Program Throughout the Twentieth Century.” Supporting Faculty: Adam Van Arsdale [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Caroline Francois ’23 has won a 300-level award for her HIST 376 paper, “'Conqueror of Yellow Fever': Cooperation and Colonialism in the War Against Yellow Fever, 1878-1901.” Supporting Faculty: Alejandra Osorio [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Sophie Shobeiri ’25 has won a 300-level award for her LAT 302 paper, “In Pursuit of Tabula Rasa: An Experimental Archaeology Approach to the Ancient Wax Tablet.” Supporting Faculty: Ray Starr [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Jessica Maciuch 22 has won an Independent Study award for her PHIL 350 paper, “The Epistemic Injustice of the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” Supporting Faculty: Alison McIntyre [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Jules Spector ’22 has won an Independent Study award for their ARTH 250 project, Jewish Architecture & Iconography.” Supporting Faculty: Kimberly Cassibry [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Jade Doerksen ’26 has won an Honorable Mention for her HIST 254 paper, "Prejudice v. Progress: Sentiments towards Japanese and Japanese-American People at Wellesley College during World War II. Supporting Faculty: Brenna Greer [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Rachel Moberg ’22 has won an Honorable Mention for her ES 325 paper, “An Analysis of the Effectiveness of The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78).” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

 

2022 Award Recipients

Hannah Grimmett ’25 has won a First Year Award for her SOC 212 paper, “Structural Barriers to Rural Poor Educational Attainment: A Response to the Cultural Argument.” Supporting Faculty: Joe Swingle [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Mia Silberstein ’24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 134 paper, “A Battle for the Soul of Our Courts: The Case for a Biden Administration Article I Independent Immigration Court System.” Supporting Faculty: Erin Battat [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Ida Beckett ’24 has won a 100/200-level award for her MES/REL 264 paper, “The Sufi Origin and Serious Threat of Coffee and its Houses: How a Stimulant Stimulated Revolt in the Ottoman Empire.” Supporting Faculty: Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Kate Habich ’22 has won a 100/200-level award for their ES 214 paper, “Understanding and Eliminating Atmospheric Benzene Pollution in Pasadena, TX.” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Jacquelyn Cai ’22 has won a 300-level award for her NEUR 300 paper, “​​Exploring Probiotics and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Two Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease in a Mouse Model.” Supporting Faculty: Michael Wiest [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Natalie Li ’23 has won a 300-level award for her HIST 334 paper, “Taking Up the Banner of Austerity: Visions of Economic Transition on the 1970s Italian Left.” Supporting Faculty: Quinn Slobodian [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Rebecca Cox ’22 has won an Independent Study Award for her ES 250 project, “Plankton of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.” Supporting Faculty: Jackie Matthes [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Rebekah Hobbs ’22 has won an Independent Study Award for her PSYC 350 paper, “​​A comprehensive examination of associations between childhood trauma and psychosis in African Americans.” Supporting Faculty: Christen Deveney [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Niamh Bayliss ’22 has won an Honorable Mention for her ES 312 paper, “Street Trees and City Planning: Exploring the Inequitable Distribution of Urban Tree Canopies Across the U.S.” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

Sarah Charpentier ’22 has won an Honorable Mention for her CAMS 302 video essay, “Decompositions: The Lifetimes, and Life-ends, of an Image.” Supporting Faculty: Codruța Morari [full text in Wellesley College Digital Repository]

 

2021 Award Recipients

Fatima Djalalova '24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 112/ECON 104 paper, "Increasing the Representation of Low-income High-Achievers at Elite Colleges." Supporting faculty: Casey Rothschild  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Adeline Van Buskirk '24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 144 paper, "‘Virtually Nobody': Protecting Older Adults in the COVID Era."  Supporting faculty: Jeannine Johnson  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Ky Fuller '21 has won a 100/200-level Award for her ENG/AMST 248 paper, “‘Let’s exchange the experience’: Kate Bush’s Bodily Metamorphoses in Lyric and Voice.” Supporting faculty: Kathleen Brogan  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Kayla Kane '22 has won a 100/200-level Award for her ARTH 259 paper, “Tadmor in Ruins: How Ruins of Palmyra Defaced a Living City.” Supporting faculty: Liza Oliver  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Kelsey Dunn '21 has won a 300-level Award for her ES/POL2 312 paper, "Seeing Green: An Analysis of Influences on Green Space in U.S. Cities.” Supporting faculty: Elizabeth DeSombre  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository

Caylee Pallatto '21 has won a 300-level Award for her ARTH 345 paper, “Through the Eyes of the Federal Writers’ Project: Alabama’s African American Domestic Architecture and the ‘Old-Time Negro.’” Supporting faculty: Martha McNamara  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Charlotte Diamant '22 has won an Independent Study Award for her ES 350 project, “The Environmental History of the South Natick Dam.” Supporting faculty: Jay Turner  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Ella Matticks '21 has won an Independent Study Award for her WGST 313 paper, “Consumerism in the Cult of Domesticity: An Analysis of The House Beautiful Publication Following the First World War.” Supporting faculty: Rosanna Hertz  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Abby Ow '21 has received an Honorable Mention for her REL 350 paper, “Intimacy and Masculinity: The Body in Song of Songs 5:10–16.” Supporting faculty: Eric Jarrard  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2020 Award Recipients

Anya Sheldon ’20 has won the 100/200-level Award for her AFR/ARTH 264 paper, "Pair of Crayfish Claws: The Journey to Immortalization." Supporting faculty: Nikki Greene [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Kari Gottfried ’23 has won the First Year Award for her POL1 317 paper, "Conversations Matter: Why Medicare (Unlike Medicaid and the Veterans Health Administration) Cannot Negotiate Prescription Drug Prices." Supporting faculty: Tom Burke [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Megan McNally ’20 has won the 300-level Award for her ARTH 328 paper, "Sorrel in God’s Garden: Fra Angelico’s Frescoes at San Marco." Supporting faculty: Jacqueline Musacchio [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Anna Mervosh ’22 received an honorable mention for her ES/HIST 299 paper, "'From Freeway to Greenway’: The Story of Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway." Supporting faculty: Jay Turner [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2019 Award Recipients

Sanjana Kothary '21 has won the 100/200-level Award for her EDUC 215 paper, "I Am, Because We Are: Intersubjectivity and the Ethics of Care in Student-Teacher Relationships." Supporting faculty: Deepa Vasudevan [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Victoria Cottrell '22 has won the First Year Award for her WRIT 187 paper, "Sanitationists, Sewers, and Shoe-Leather: Political and Social Subtexts in British Cholera Epidemiology, 1848-1855." Supporting faculty: Simon Grote [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Emily Martin '21 has won the Independent Study Award for her ANTH 350 paper, "Veganism, Race, and Soul Food: Evaluating Reproductions of Race in Vegan Spaces." Supporting faculty: Justin Armstrong [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Angela Coco '19 has won the 300-level Award for her HIST 352 paper, "The Powerful Mind is the Healthy Mind: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Representative Men (1850) and the History of Mental Health." Supporting faculty: Simon Grote [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Clare Doyle '20 received an honorable mention for her ECON 350 paper, "Tax Havens and Multinational Corporate Income Tax Avoidance." Supporting faculty: Akila Weerapana [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2018 Award Recipients

Margaret Flemings ’18, Rachel Pak '18, and Shanzay Kazmi '18 have won the 300-level award for their CS 320 project, “Crimson Wave: Shedding Light on Menstrual Health.” Supporting faculty: Orit Shaer [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Kate Hansen ’19 has won the 100/200-level award for her AMST 101 paper, “Haunting Legacies: Sundown Towns of the American Midwest.” Supporting faculty: Michael Jeffries [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Sophie Barowsky ’21 has won the First Year Award for her POL 123 paper, “Scientology: The Art of Cultic Persuasion.” Supporting faculty: Christopher Candland [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Linda Zhou ’18 has won the Independent Study Award for her EAS 350 paper, "Development and Growth without Property Rights in China's Transition Econom: Aijian Corporation and CITIC.” Supporting faculty: C. Pat Giersch [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Katharine Gavitt ’21 received an honorable mention for her LAT 311 paper, “The Disappointment of the Ass: A Study of Food in Apuleius.” Supporting faculty: Jeffrey Ulrich [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2017 Award Recipients

Meredith Wade ’17 has won the 300-level award for her HIST 311 podcast, “A New Birth of Freedom: Native Ballad.” Supporting faculty: Ryan Quintana  [full audio in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Samantha Hoang ’19 has won the 100/200-level award for her ES 299 paper, “The Environmental History of Solar Photovoltaic Cells.” Supporting faculty: Jay Turner [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Alexandra Boles ’19 has won the First Year Award for her WRIT 291 paper, “To Teach and Entertain: An Exploration of Overlapped Trends in 19th Century Children’s Literature through the Eyes of the Minns Collection.” Supporting faculty: Jeannine Johnson [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Margaret Justus ’17 has won the Independent Study Award for her ARTH 350 project, "Classical Antiquities at Wellesley College.” Supporting faculty: Kimberly Cassibry [link in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Nasreen Al-Qadi ’18 received an honorable mention for her BISC 210 paper, “Investigating the antibacterial properties of mollusks native to the Boston Harbor and Wood Neck Beach: developing a comparative study between Mytilus edulis and Ensis directus.” Supporting faculty: Jeff Hughes [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2016 Award Recipients

Alice Palmer ’17 has won the 300-level award for her HIST 302 paper, “Dunkirk: The Defeat That Inspired a Nation.” Supporting faculty: Nina Tumarkin  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Zarina Patwa ’18 has won the 100/200-level award for her REL 204 paper, “The Scopes and Kitzmiller Trials: Legitimacy of Religious Dialogue in Court.” Supporting faculty: Ed Silver [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Sabrina Liang ’19 has won the First Year Award for her POL 208 paper, “The People's Liberation Army Navy: An Emerging Dragon of the Seas.” Supporting faculty: William A. Joseph [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Caitlin Coyiuto ’16 has won the Independent Study Award for her PSYC 350 paper, "Resting EEG Asymmetries and Levels of Irritability.” Supporting faculty: Christen Deveney [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Angelina Li ’19 received an honorable mention for her ECON 213 paper, “The Trans Pacific Partnership in Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam: Explaining the impact of the Trans Pacific Partnership on Asia-Pacific countries with differing income levels and exchange rate systems.” Supporting faculty: Akila Weerapana [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2015 Award Recipients

Bianca Morris ’17 has won the First Year Award for her WRIT 163 paper, “The Common Core: A Solution or a Burden for Disadvantaged Students?” Supporting faculty: Ann Velenchik  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Leah Nugent ’16 has won the 100/200-level award for her ES 299 paper, ”Cleaning Up and Painting Up: A Cultural and Environmental History of Paintshop Pond” Supporting faculty: Jay Turner [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Carrington OBrion ’15 has won the 300-level award for her HIST 312 paper, "'The Fourth of July is Ours': The Transformation of Independence Day in the Civil War South." Supporting faculty: Ryan Quintana [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Idalmis Vaquero ’16 has won the Independent Study Award for her AFR 350 paper, "Fighting for Environmental Health and Justice: A Case Study of Exide Technologies in Southeast Los Angeles, California.” Supporting faculty: Filomina Steady [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

AnnaJoy Gillis ’15 received an honorable mention for her POL2 336 paper, ”When Support for Pinochet Has Not 'Desaparecido'.” Supporting faculty: Michal Ben Josef Hirsch [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2014 Award Recipients

Kendrick Smaellie ’14 has won the 300-level award for her ENG 325 paper, "Dressed to the Nines: Queen Elizabeth I and the Power of Her Clothing.” Supporting faculty: Sarah Wall-Randell 

Anita Li ’15 has won the 100/200-level award for her MUS 225 paper, ”Yellow Music: A Transcultural Musical Genre’s Role in Heterogeneous Community Unification.” Supporting faculty: Tamar Barzel

Adjoa Kudoadzi ’16 has won the First Year Award for her AFR 252 paper, “Wife Seclusion in Niger in the 20th century: finding the crossroads between tradition and women’s agency.” Supporting faculty: Donna Patterson

Chelsey Baturin ’14 has won the Independent Study Award for her FREN 350 paper, "La terre, facteur déterminant du pouvoir au Cameroun et le rôle de la Mutuelle d’Epargne et du crédit pour la promotion de l’entrepreneuriat féminin (MUDEF) dans son obtention par la femme.” Supporting faculty: Anjali Prabhu

Haley Ling ’14 received an honorable mention for her HIST 302 paper, ”Crime and Punishment: Legacies of Nuremberg and the War Crimes Trials in Postwar Germany.” Supporting faculty: Nina Tumarkin 

 

2013 Award Recipients

Sarah Trager ’13 has won the 300-level award for her HIST 302 paper, “Shaping Memory with Monuments: Diverging Representations of Holocaust Commemoration.” Supporting faculty: Nina Tumarkin  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Kalina Yingnan Deng ’14 has won the 100/200-level award for her WRIT 290 paper, "Fundamentally Moral: A Philosophical Defense of Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. and Morgan v. Hennigan.” Supporting faculty: Lynne Viti  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Shweta Patwardhan ’16 has won the First Year Award for her WRIT 143 paper, “Individual and the Family in Athenian Society.” Supporting faculty: Raymond Starr  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Laurence Toal ’14 has won the inaugural Independent Study Award for her POL 350 paper, “Their Soviet Elder Brothers: The Soviet Union’s Hand in Shaping Reunification Policy for East Germany and North Korea.” Supporting faculty: Katharine Moon  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

Aryanne de Silva ’13 and Karina Chung ’13 received an honorable mention for their PSYC 350 paper, “Effects of a Pretend Play Intervention on Executive Functioning Tasks.” Supporting faculty: Tracy Gleason  [full text in Wellesley College Institutional Repository]

 

2012 Award Recipients

Claire McRee '12 has won the 300-level award for her ARTH 350 paper, "Mobilizing Fashion: Nationalism and Utopia in George Barbier's Falbalas et Fanfreluches." Supporting faculty: Patricia Berman

Rebecca Rubinstein '15 has won the 100/200-level award for her SPAN 242 paper, "La guerra del tiempo: Una historia del carpe diem en la literatura hispánica." Supporting faculty: Elena Gascón-Vera

Bianca Lin '15 has won the First Year Award for her WRIT 125 paper, "Shakespeare's Legacy: The Impact of Hamlet on Eugène Delacroix's Life and Work." Supporting faculty: William Cain

Rachel Shuen '12 received an honorable mention for her HIST 312 paper, "San Francisco Chinatown's Path of Resistance: Challenging Health Measures in Federal Court During the Plague Outbreak of 1900." Supporting faculty: Ryan Quintana

 

2011 Award Recipients

Katie Sheahon '11 has won the 300 level award for her FREN 349 paper, "La prostituée et la belle époque: comment les images de la prostituée soulignent les peurs de la dégénérescence de la société française au dix-neuvième siècle." Supporting faculty: Venita Datta

Caitlin Toole '11 has won the 100/200 level award for her WRIT 290 paper, "Fatally Faithful: The Implications & Consequences of Dennis & Lorie Nixon’s Conviction in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Nixon." Supporting faculty: Lynne Viti

Mika Asaba '13 and Karen Su '13 have won the First Year Award for their CS 114 paper, "The Democratization of Visual Art on the Web." Supporting faculty: Panagiotis Metaxas 

Laura Marrin '11 received an Honorable Mention for her POLS 350 paper, "Shaping U.S. Public Opinion on Armed Humanitarian Intervention Policies: A Case Study of President Clinton's Framing of the Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides." Supporting faculty: Stacie Goddard

 

2010 Award Recipients

Lillian Wies '10 has won the 300 level award for her ARTH 341 paper: "The Political Narrative as Expressed through Northern Song Landscape Painting: An introduction to the topic by examining Guo Xi's Early Spring and Old Trees, Level Distance." Supporting faculty: Heping Liu

Joanna Concessao '13 has won the 100/200 level award for her POL1 200 paper: "The Government-Backed Bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler: A Case of Trusteeship Democracy in Action." Supporting faculty: Tom Burke

Rachel Doyle '13 has won the new First Year Award for her PSYC 101 paper: The Evaluation of Contradictory Studies and Concepts Regarding Sleep-Talking." Supporting faculty: Linda Carli

 

2009 Award Recipients

100/200 level: Ran Tao '09 EXTD 240 : "Jacobus Publicius's Artes Orandi, Epistolandi. Memorandi: A Bibliographic Analysis"

300 level: Maria Lisiakova '10 POL3 379 paper: "A Triumph of Doctrine: the Story of the Brusilov Offensive"