Model Papers from the Disciplines

English 114

“Occupy Wall Street: Creating a Successful Movement from a Chaotic Structure,” by Kelsea Jeon ’20. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Annie Killian.

“The Limits of Moral Ideology in Foreign HIV/AIDS Intervention,” by Akielly Hu ’19. ENGL 114: Acting Globally, Professor Karin Gosselink.

"Treat the Problem, Not the Disease: The Necessary Shift from Vertical Programs to Horizontal Programs for Treating HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa," by Xiuqi Cao ’17. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Karin Gosselink.

“Muahaha!: Defining Evil Laughter,” by Spencer Katz ’13. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Ryan Wepler.

“‘The Moral Meaning of a Pause’: Ethics Committees and the Cloning Debate,” by Lindsay Gellman ’12. ENGL 116: Writing Seminar, Professor Raymond Malewitz.

“My Secret,” by Lydia Martin ’12. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Paula Resch.

“The Camera as Dictator: Photography and Fascism at Abu Ghraib,” by Stephanie Lynch ’09. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Raymond Malewitz.

“Israel’s Withdrawal from Gaza: Legitimizing Civil Disobedience from Both Sides,” by Aya Shoshan ’10. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Andrew Ehrgood.

“The Curiosity of Humanity,” by Michael Rodriguez ’10. ENGL 114: Writing Seminars 1, Professor Suzanne Young.

“The Corrective Lens of Satire,” by Benjamin Solarz ’09. ENGL 114: Writing Seminars I, Professor Alfred E. Guy Jr.

Literary Analysis

“Obscuring Gender into Oneness: in Canto 21 of ‘Song of Myself,’” by Minh Vu ’20. ENGL 127: Readings in American Literature, Professor Caleb Smith.

“Vision, Voice, and Women in The Winter’s Tale,” by Oriana Tang ’19. ENGL 200: Shakespeare, Comedies & Romances, Professor Catherine Nicholson, Teaching Fellow Clay Greene.

“License to Build: Readership and Authorship in Pynchon and Melville,” by Marc Shkurovich ’19. ENGL 127: Readings in American Literature, Professor John Durham Peters.

"‘A Pattern of Your Love’: Sainthood as Erotic Example in ‘The Canonization’ and ‘The Relic,’" by Eve Houghton ’17. ENGL 125: Major English Poets, Professor Benjamin Glaser.

“How Mary Hillhouse Read Her Gray: Commonplacing the Elegy, 1768 – 1816,” by Eve Houghton ’17. ENGL 238: Poetry and Modernity, Restoration to Romantic, Professor Jonathan Kramnick.

“The Governess Question: Modes of social engagement in Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre,” by Helen Knight ’13. ENGL 431: The Brontes & Their Afterlives, Professor Linda Peterson.

“Whither Hast Thou, Fortune, Led?,” by Daniel Pollack ’16. ENGL 129: Tragedy, Professor Margaret Homans.

“The Limited Potential of True Reform,” by Bianca Yuh ’12. ENGL 117: Literature Seminars II, Professor Andrew Karas.

“The Prophet Who Protested Too Much,” by Sam Ayres ’09. ENGL 395: The Bible as Literature, Professor Leslie Brisman.

“Want, Need, and Reason: Milton and Cause,” by Annie Atura ’11. ENGL 125: Major English Poets, Professor Christopher Miller.

“Within You, Without You: Cannibalism and Consciousness in the Transatlantic World,” by Carina del Valle Schorske ’10. ENGL 420: Literature of the Middle Passage, Professors Shameem Black and Caryl Phillips.

“Holiest Love: The Spiritual Valediction in ‘A Hymne to Christ,’” by Alexandra Schwartz ’09. ENGL 125: Major English Poets, Professor George Fayen.

“Harmony of the Flesh: The Primitivist Poetry of Disgrace,” by Samuel Ayres ’09. ENGL 328: Fiction Without Borders, Professor Shameem Black.

“Creation, Destruction, and Stasis in Three Poems by Shelley,” by Noah Lawrence ’09. ENGL 249: Eng Lit & the French Revolution, Professor David Bromwich.

“The Collapse of Difference in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,” by Maria Spiegel ’09. ENGL 129: The European Literary Tradition, Professor Andrea Walkden.

“From Ass to Audience: Imagination as an Act of Translation,” by Carina del Valle Schorske ’09. ENGL 129: The European Literary Tradition, Professor Laura Frost.

“The Convergence of American Identity and Experience: Walt Whitman’s Concept of Democracy in ‘Song of Myself’,” by Alexandra Schwartz ’09. ENGL 127: Introduction to the Study of American Literature, Professor Elizabeth Dillon.

“Love Overheard,” by Tian Ying “Tina” Wu ’08. ENGL 125: Major English Poets, Professor Matthew Giancarlo.

“Heart and Soul,” by Meredith Williams ’09. ENGL 125: Major English Poets, Professor Leslie Brisman.

“When Hell Freezes Over: Dante as Pilgrim and Poet in Inferno XXXII,” by Lukas Cox ’19. DRST001: Literature, Professor Kathryn Slanski.

“The essay (which others call the List),” by Caroline Sydney ’16. DRST 002: Directed Studies Literature, Professor Mark Bauer.

“Paradise Lost, Again,” by Eliana Dockterman ’13. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Mark Bauer.

“‘Both Soles of Every Sinner Were On Fire’: Contrapasso in Canto XI,” by Alice Baumgartner ’10. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Shameem Black.

“Knocking Down the Puppet Show: Dangerous Readers in Cervantes’ Don Quixote,” by Katy Waldman ’10. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Richard Maxwell.

“Sanity’s Dream: Reason and Madness, Modernity and Antiquity in King Lear and Don Quijote,” by Joshua Tan ’09. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Charles Hill.

"The Preserved Party: A Metonymical Still Life," by Janine Chow ’15. LITR 202: Nabokov and World Literature, Professor Marijeta Bozovic, Teaching Fellow Daria Ezerova.

“A-Foot and Under-Foot: Peripheries and the Footnote,” by Catherine Reilly ’08. LITR 142: World Literature, Professor Barry McCrea.

Directed Studies

“When Hell Freezes Over: Dante as Pilgrim and Poet in Inferno XXXII,” by Lukas Cox ’19. DRST001: Literature, Professor Kathryn Slanski.

"Formulating Maxims to Test Their Morality: Sources of Ambiguity in Kant's Moral Philosophy," by Dan Friedman ’17. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Daniel Greco.

“Charlotte’s Finite Web: Causality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” by Anya Richkind ’16. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Epifanio Elizondo.

“The essay (which others call the List),” by Caroline Sydney ’16. DRST 002: Directed Studies Literature, Professor Mark Bauer.

“A Reconstruction and Critique of the Refutation of Idealism,” by Minh Alexander Nguyen ’15. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Matthew Noah Smith.

“Paradise Lost, Again,” by Eliana Dockterman ’13. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Mark Bauer.

“‘Both Soles of Every Sinner Were On Fire’: Contrapasso in Canto XI,” by Alice Baumgartner ’10. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Shameem Black.

“Knocking Down the Puppet Show: Dangerous Readers in Cervantes’ Don Quixote,” by Katy Waldman ’10. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Richard Maxwell.

“The Cost of Duty-Free and Duty: John Stuart Mill’s Failed Critique of Immanuel Kant, and Further Critiques of Both Philosophers,” by Noah Lawrence ’09. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Jonathan Gilmore.

“Telling a Lie to Save a Life: Kant’s Moral Failure and Mill’s Mere Suitability,” by Brian Earp ’10. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Gregory Ganssle.

“Sanity’s Dream: Reason and Madness, Modernity and Antiquity in King Lear and Don Quijote,” by Joshua Tan ’09. Directed Studies: Literature, Professor Charles Hill.

Personal Essays

“Self-Service,” by Lucy McCurdy ’21. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Andrew Ehrgood.

“Remembering the Treehouse: The Magic Between the Lines,” by Oscar Lopez Aguirre ’20. ENGL 115: Literature Seminar, Professor Ryan Wepler.

"Laura Lee, Ink on Skin, Personal Collection of the Artist," by Maia Hirschler ’17. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Briallen Hopper.

“To Rufus, Who Was a Shitty Gerbil,” by Abigail Bessler ’17. ENGL 255: Writing Humor, Professor Ryan Wepler.

"Not Today," by Emile Greer ’15. ENGL 121: Styles of Academic and Professional Prose, Professor John Loge.

“Why I Powerlift,” by Chelsea Savit ’13. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Andrew Ehrgood.

“Collecting Time,” by Kathryn Culhane ’15. ENGL 121: Styles of Academic and Professional Prose, Professor John Loge.

“Choice,” by Joanna Zheng ’14. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Kim Shirkhani.

“The Flood,” by Michael Schulson ’12. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Barbara Stuart.

“Choosing Terms,” by Sarah Nutman ’11. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Richard Deming.

“My Secret,” by Lydia Martin ’12. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Paula Resch.

“Mid-winter Walk on the Beach,” by Kathryn Mathis ’07. ENGL 248: Nature Writing in Britain and the Colonies, Professor Linda Peterson.

“Reindeer Bells,” by John Thornton ’09. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor William Broun.

Journalism

“The History of a Mushroom Enthusiast,” by Sita Sunil ’19. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Kimberly Shirkhani.

“Waking Up the Warriors: The Rise of Cancer Immunotherapy,” by Malini Gandhi ’17. ENGL 121: Styles of Academic and Professional Prose, Professor Randi Epstein.

"Choosing to Walk the Tightrope," by Emma Fallone ’16. ENGL 240: Writing Narrative Nonfiction, Professor Edward Ball.

"Laura Lee, Ink on Skin, Personal Collection of the Artist," by Maia Hirschler ’17. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Briallen Hopper.

"Unthinkable," by Karen Tian ’15. ENGL 121: Styles of Academic and Professional Prose, Professor Randi Epstein.

“A Security Debriefing with R. Rosarbo on the Subject of Wilbur Cross High School,” by Sophie Dillon ’17. ENGL 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Professor Ryan Wepler.

“Prove It,” by Jeremy Lent ’11. ENGL 467: Journalism, Professor Jill Abramson.

“Round Up These Characters,” by Presca Ahn ’10. ENGL 469: Advanced Nonfiction Writing, Professor Anne Fadiman.

“When Culture Trumps Law,” by Emma Sokoloff-Rubin ’11. ENGL 454: Non-Fiction Writing, Voice & Structure, Professor Fred Strebeigh.

“Vignettes From a Carpetbagger: Four Parables of the Katrina Era,” by Easha Anand ’08. ENGL 454: Non-Fiction Writing, Voice & Structure, Professor Fred Strebeigh.

“17 Genesis,” by Isaac Selya ’08. ENGL 450: Daily Themes, Professor Bill Deresiewicz.

“Rapha,” by Allison Battey ’08. ENGL 454: Nonfiction, Voice and Structure, Professor Fred Strebeigh.

“Breaking Rock,” by Paul Gleason ’06. ENGL 469: Advanced Non-Fiction: At Home in America, Professor Anne Fadiman.

“La Barbieria,” by Edward Scheinman ’07. ENGL 469: Advanced Non-Fiction: At Home in America, Professor Anne Fadiman.

Cultural Criticism

“Prom King,” by Aaron Orbey '19. ENGL 121: Cultural Critique: Style as Argument, Professor Kimberly Shirkhani.

“Remembering the Treehouse: The Magic Between the Lines,” by Oscar Lopez Aguirre ’20. ENGL 115: Literature Seminar, Professor Ryan Wepler.

"The Beauty of Illness," by Jacquelyn Nakamura ’15. ENGL 121: Styles of Academic and Professional Prose, Professor Kim Shirkhani.

“Muahaha!: Defining Evil Laughter,” by Spencer Katz ’13. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Ryan Wepler.

“The Corrective Lens of Satire,” by Benjamin Solarz ’09. ENGL 114: Writing Seminars I, Professor Alfred E. Guy Jr.

“Within You, Without You: Cannibalism and Consciousness in the Transatlantic World,” by Carina del Valle Schorske ’10. ENGL 420: Literature of the Middle Passage, Professors Shameem Black and Caryl Phillips.

History

“Privatization as Violence: Iraqi Oil and a Contractor Army,” by Rosa Shapiro-Thompson ’19. HIST 042: Oil and Empire, Professor Rosie Bsheer.

"Silencing the Past by Michael-Rolph Trouillot: A Revolutionary History," by Chentian (Lionel) Jin ’18. HIST 007: The History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, Professors Jennifer Van Vleck and Taylor Jardno.

“Selling Dentifrice from New Delhi: Chester Bowles in India, 1951-53,” by Harrison Monsky ’13. HIST 134: Yale and America, Professor Jay Gitlin.

“Silent Protection and the Burden of Silence,” by Emma Sokoloff-Rubin ’11. HIST 160: Topics in Lesbian and Gay History, Professor George Chauncey.

“Modern Blood Libels and the Masking of Egyptian Insecurities,” by Matthew Bozik ’10. HIST 434: Anti-Semitism in Modern Times, Professor Paula Hyman.

“The Progressives’ Attempts to Link America’s Rural Past and Modern Future,” by Brooks Swett ’09. HIST 496: Nationalism in American Politics and Culture, Professor Samuel Schaffer.

“Meanings in Canada’s Vimy Ridge Memorial,” by Michael Birnbaum ’08. HIST 423: Cultural History of World War I, Professor Bruno Cabanes.

“Lollard Bible Translation: Severing the Connection Between Language and Intellectual Privilege,” by Louisa Inskip ’08. HIST 406: Medieval Heresy and Inquisition, Professor Brian Noell.

“The Samuel and Mary Attempted Piracy Outside the Port of Cephalonia: A Case Study of Piracy Law as a Transitional Factor Away from Lex Mercatoria,” by Michael A. Gousgounis ’06. HIST 416: Venice & The Mediterranean, 1400-1700, Professor Francesca Trivellato.

“Entrepreneur, Democrat, Patriot: Sameness and Difference in Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum,” by Jordan Cutler-Tietjen ’20. HUMS 220: Collecting Nature and Art, 1500–1850, Professor Paola Bertucci, Teaching Fellow Sarah Pickman.

“The Impossibility of P. Grad. 4 in the Thebaid and Implications for Ptolemaic Rule,” by Jennifer Barrows ’12. CLCV 204: Alexander and the Hellenistic World, Professor Joseph Manning, Teaching Fellow Caroline Stark.

History Junior Seminar

“Following Thread: Understanding History and Materiality in Frida Kahlo’s Clothes,” by Deborah Monti ’19. HIST 358J: Mexico Since Independence, Professor Gilbert Joseph.

“‘The Tories of 1812’: Decoding the Language of Political Insults in the Early Republic,” by Zoe Rubin ’17. HIST 133J: Creation of the American Politician, Professor Joanne Freeman.

"Big Trouble in the Big Easy: The Battle of Canal Street and the Independence of Black Political Power," by Jacob Wasserman ’16. HIST 139J: The American South Since Reconstruction, Professor Glenda Gilmore.

"Thomas Clap, Ezra Stiles, and Yale's First Revolution," by Thomas Hopson ’16. HIST 135J: The Age of Hamilton and Jefferson, Professor Joanne Freeman.

"The Trolley Problem: The Demise of the Streetcar in New Haven," by Jacob Wasserman ’16. HIST 116J: Roads and Cars in American Life, Professor David Spatz.

“‘In the Fold of America’: Immigration Politics in the Alien and Sedition Era,” by Jacob Anbinder ’14. HIST 135J: Age of Hamilton and Jefferson, Professor Joanne B. Freeman.

“Managing History: The Federalist Attempt To Shape the Hartford Convention’s Legacy,” by Nathaniel Zelinsky ’14. HIST 133J: The Creation of the American Politician, 1789–1820, Professor Joanne Freeman.

“Hearts of Darkness: Opium Dens and Urban Exploration in Late Victorian London,” by Teo Soares ’13. HIST 225J: London and Modernity, Professor Becky Conekin.

“Mr. Madison Meets His Party: The Appointment of a Judge and The Education of a President,” by Ryan Jacobs ’11. HIST 135J: The Age of Hamilton and Jefferson, Professor Joanne Freeman.

“Stages of Modernity: The Thaw-Nesbit-White Scandal, the New York Press and the Drama of the Century,” by Randall Spock ’11. HIST 126J: Murder and Mayhem in Old New York, Professor Mary Lui.

“Dissidence in China and Eastern Europe and the Search for a New Pragmatism,” by Eli Bildner ’10. HIST 231J: Responses to Totalitarianism, Professor Marci Shore.

Humanities

“Dancing with Knives: Voguing and Black Vernacular Dance,” by Eliza Robertson ’18. THST 380: History of Dance, Professor Brian Seibert.

“Entrepreneur, Democrat, Patriot: Sameness and Difference in Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum,” by Jordan Cutler-Tietjen ’20. HUMS 220: Collecting Nature and Art, 1500–1850, Professor Paola Bertucci, Teaching Fellow Sarah Pickman.

“Having Her Pie and Eating It Too: Sara Bareilles’ Representation of Women through the Convergence of Singer-Songwriter, Stage Character, and Composer in Waitress: The Musical,” by Sofía Campoamor ’20. MUSI 335: Women on Stage, Professors Gundula Kreuzer and Annelies Andries.

“City of Elms: The Myth of the Urban Pastoral,” by Rebecca Ju ’21. EVST 120: American Environmental History, Professor Paul Sabin, Teaching Fellow Kelly Goodman.

“Avoiding the sublime: Photography and the ongoing legacy of nuclear technology,” by Colin Hemez ’18. HSAR 401: Critical Approaches to Art History, Professors Erica James and Monica Bravo.

“Public health in the age of nuclear fallout: St. Louis and the Baby Tooth Survey 1958-1963,” by Kathleen Yu ’17. HSHM 448: American Medicine and the Cold War, Professor Naomi Rogers.

“Walking With, Moving Through,” by Holly Taylor ’17. THST 244: Writing about Movement, Professor Brian Seibert.

"From Sanctuary to Cemetery: The Fate of Astoria and the Italian Immigrant Community," by Giovanni Bacarella ’15. AMST 348: Space, Place, & Landscape, Professor Laura Barraclough.

"The Preserved Party: A Metonymical Still Life," by Janine Chow ’15. LITR 202: Nabokov and World Literature, Professor Marijeta Bozovic, Teaching Fellow Daria Ezerova.

“‘That’s What It Is’: Musical Potential and Stylistic Contrast in Act One, Scene One of The Most Happy Fella,” by Dan Rubins ’16. MUSI 246: American Musical Theatre History, Professor Daniel Egan.

“An Unattainable Salvation: Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York,” by Catherine Carson Evans ’13. AMST 207: American Cultural Landscapes, Professor Dolores Hayden, Teaching Fellow Chloe Taft.

“Pruitt-Igoe: Utopic Expectations Meet Tenement-Infused Realities,” by Evan Frondorf ’14. AMST 207: American Cultural Landscapes, Professor Dolores Hayden, Teaching Fellow Liz Bondaryk.

“The Numerous Faces of South Korea’s Burgeoning Medical Tourism Industry,” by Lisa Wang ’12. AMST 192: Work and Daily Life in Global Capitalism, Professor Michael Denning.

“The Impossibility of P. Grad. 4 in the Thebaid and Implications for Ptolemaic Rule,” by Jennifer Barrows ’12. CLCV 204: Alexander and the Hellenistic World, Professor Joseph Manning, Teaching Fellow Caroline Stark.

“The Prisoner Dis-Analogy as a Defense of Stem Cell Research on Spare Embryos,” by Ilana Yurkiewicz ’10. CSDC 362: Bioethics and the Law, Professor Dov Fox.

“Regarding the Body: The Spectacle of Dissection and Its Uses in the 18th Century,” by Mihan Lee ’10. HSHM 431: Science/Spectacle in Enlightenment, Professor Paola Bertucci.

“Ignoring the Call to Murder: The Evolution of Surrealist French Cinema,” by Christopher Adler ’09. FILM 240: World Cinema, Professor Dudley Andrew.

“A-Foot and Under-Foot: Peripheries and the Footnote,” by Catherine Reilly ’08. LITR 142: World Literature, Professor Barry McCrea.

“The Photograph: A Personal Exploration,” by Hannah Shearer ’09. FILM 099: Film and the Arts, Professor Dudley Andrew.

“That Make the Strong Heart Weak,” by Justin Jannise ’09. FILM 099: Film and the Arts, Professor Dudley Andrew.

Philosophy

“‘The Moral Meaning of a Pause’: Ethics Committees and the Cloning Debate,” by Lindsay Gellman ’12. ENGL 116: Writing Seminar, Professor Raymond Malewitz.

“Israel’s Withdrawal from Gaza: Legitimizing Civil Disobedience from Both Sides,” by Aya Shoshan ’10. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Andrew Ehrgood.

“The Curiosity of Humanity,” by Michael Rodriguez ’10. ENGL 114: Writing Seminars 1, Professor Suzanne Young.

"Formulating Maxims to Test Their Morality: Sources of Ambiguity in Kant's Moral Philosophy," by Dan Friedman ’17. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Daniel Greco.

“Charlotte’s Finite Web: Causality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” by Anya Richkind ’16. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Epifanio Elizondo.

“A Reconstruction and Critique of the Refutation of Idealism,” by Minh Alexander Nguyen ’15. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Matthew Noah Smith.

“The Cost of Duty-Free and Duty: John Stuart Mill’s Failed Critique of Immanuel Kant, and Further Critiques of Both Philosophers,” by Noah Lawrence ’09. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Jonathan Gilmore.

“Telling a Lie to Save a Life: Kant’s Moral Failure and Mill’s Mere Suitability,” by Brian Earp ’10. Directed Studies: Philosophy, Professor Gregory Ganssle.

“The Prisoner Dis-Analogy as a Defense of Stem Cell Research on Spare Embryos,” by Ilana Yurkiewicz ’10. CSDC 362: Bioethics and the Law, Professor Dov Fox.

“Save Yourself from Yourself,” by Ryan Hollander ’12. PLSC 114: Intro to Political Philosophy, Professor Steven Smith, Teaching Fellow Meredith Edwards.

“Feel Like a Natural Human: The Polis by Nature, and Human Nature in Aristotle’s The Politics,” by Laura Zax ’10. PLSC 114: Intro to Political Philosophy, Professor Steven Smith, Teaching Fellow Justin Zaremby.

“Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” by Jurist Tan ’09. BENG 090: Stem Cells: Science & Politics, Professor Erin Lavik.

Film, Visual Arts, & Performing Arts

“Dancing with Knives: Voguing and Black Vernacular Dance,” by Eliza Robertson ’18. THST 380: History of Dance, Professor Brian Seibert.

“Having Her Pie and Eating It Too: Sara Bareilles’ Representation of Women through the Convergence of Singer-Songwriter, Stage Character, and Composer in Waitress: The Musical,” by Sofía Campoamor ’20. MUSI 335: Women on Stage, Professors Gundula Kreuzer and Annelies Andries.

“Avoiding the sublime: Photography and the ongoing legacy of nuclear technology,” by Colin Hemez ’18. HSAR 401: Critical Approaches to Art History, Professors Erica James and Monica Bravo.

“Walking With, Moving Through,” by Holly Taylor ’17. THST 244: Writing about Movement, Professor Brian Seibert.

“‘That’s What It Is’: Musical Potential and Stylistic Contrast in Act One, Scene One of The Most Happy Fella,” by Dan Rubins ’16. MUSI 246: American Musical Theatre History, Professor Daniel Egan.

“Ignoring the Call to Murder: The Evolution of Surrealist French Cinema,” by Christopher Adler ’09. FILM 240: World Cinema, Professor Dudley Andrew.

“The Photograph: A Personal Exploration,” by Hannah Shearer ’09. FILM 099: Film and the Arts, Professor Dudley Andrew.

“That Make the Strong Heart Weak,” by Justin Jannise ’09. FILM 099: Film and the Arts, Professor Dudley Andrew.

“The Camera as Dictator: Photography and Fascism at Abu Ghraib,” by Stephanie Lynch ’09. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Raymond Malewitz.

Political Science

“A Tale of Two States: Takeaways from Massachusetts and Louisiana in the Quest for a New Federal Education Policy,” by Emil Friedman ’20. PLSC 214: Politics of U.S. Public Policy, Professor Jacob Hacker, Teaching Fellow Baobao Zhang.

“Fools & Self-Representation: A Defense of Faretta v. California,” by Daniel Cheng ’13. PLSC 252: Crime & Punishment, Professor Gregory Huber, Teaching Fellow Jeremy Kaplan-Lyman.

“Reconsidering Broken Windows: A Critique of Moral and Pragmatic Justifications,” by Aseem Mehta ’14. PLSC 252: Crime and Punishment, Professor Gregory Huber, Teaching Fellow Jeremy Kaplan-Lyman.

“Save Yourself from Yourself,” by Ryan Hollander ’12. PLSC 114: Intro to Political Philosophy, Professor Steven Smith, Teaching Fellow Meredith Edwards.

“Pressured Justice: Activating the Courts for the Protection of Female Laborer,” by David Wheelock ’09. PLSC 373: Comparative Judicial Politics, Professor Frances Rosenbluth, Teaching Fellow Stephen Engel.

“Feel Like a Natural Human: The Polis by Nature, and Human Nature in Aristotle’s The Politics,” by Laura Zax ’10. PLSC 114: Intro to Political Philosophy, Professor Steven Smith, Teaching Fellow Justin Zaremby.

“Fixing Poverty: What Government Can and Cannot Do To Make America Better,” by James Kirchick ’06. PLSC 203: Inequality and American Democracy, Professor Jacob S. Hacker, Teaching Fellow Nicole Kazee.

“Suffering and Redemption in the Eyes of Lincoln,” by Katerina Apostolides ’06. PLSC 314: Lincoln—Principle, Statesmanship, and Persuasion, Professors Steven Smith and David Bromwich.

Sociology, Anthropology, & Linguistics

“The Presentation of Disability in Everyday Life,” by Jack Lattimore ’20. SOCY 152: Topics in Contemporary Social Theory, Professor Ron Eyerman, Teaching Fellow Roger Baumann.

“Across the Islands: Lexical and Phonetic Variation in Hawai‘ian Dialects,” by Jackson Petty ’21. LING 112: Historical Linguistics, Professor Jonathan Manker, Teaching Fellow Martín Fuchs.

"A Diachronic Perspective on Semantic Maps," by Robert Yaman ’15. LING 121: Historical Linguistics, Professor Claire Bowern, Teaching Fellow Sean Gleason.

"Preserving Values in a Market for Kidneys," by Cynthia Hua ’15. SOCY 321: Sociology of Markets, Professors Devin Singh and Frederick Wherry, Teaching Fellow Andrew Cohen.

"Unweaving the ‘Development Narrative’: Bt Cotton and Farmer Suicides in India," by Alina Aksiyote Bernardete ’16. ANTH 276: South Asian Social Worlds, Professor Sara Shneiderman.

“Imagined Identities: The Tibetan Government-in-exile and the Western Vision of Tibet,” by Emily Kruger ’08. ANTH 455: Religion and Globalization in East Asia, Professor Gareth Fisher.

“Silent Protection and the Burden of Silence,” by Emma Sokoloff-Rubin ’11. HIST 160: Topics in Lesbian and Gay History, Professor George Chauncey.

"From Sanctuary to Cemetery: The Fate of Astoria and the Italian Immigrant Community," by Giovanni Bacarella ’15. AMST 348: Space, Place, & Landscape, Professor Laura Barraclough.

“An Unattainable Salvation: Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York,” by Catherine Carson Evans ’13. AMST 207: American Cultural Landscapes, Professor Dolores Hayden, Teaching Fellow Chloe Taft.

“Pruitt-Igoe: Utopic Expectations Meet Tenement-Infused Realities,” by Evan Frondorf ’14. AMST 207: American Cultural Landscapes, Professor Dolores Hayden, Teaching Fellow Liz Bondaryk.

“The Numerous Faces of South Korea’s Burgeoning Medical Tourism Industry,” by Lisa Wang ’12. AMST 192: Work and Daily Life in Global Capitalism, Professor Michael Denning.

Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

“Congratulations, It’s a Social Construct: Production and Reproduction of (Trans) Gendered Bodies,” by Laura Goetz ’17. WGSS 340: Feminist and Queer Theory, Professor Margaret Homans.

"Chronicles of My Life: A Minority Reading of the Dominant Narrative," by Cathy Shen ’17. WGSS 327: Constructing Self: Autobiography, Professor Geetanjali Chanda.

Environmental Studies

“City of Elms: The Myth of the Urban Pastoral,” by Rebecca Ju ’21. EVST 120: American Environmental History, Professor Paul Sabin, Teaching Fellow Kelly Goodman.

Psychology

“Sex-Based Effects of Positive vs. Negative Message Framing on Intended Alcohol Use,” by Sarah Stein ’19. PSYC 235: Research Methods in Psychology, Professor Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Teaching Fellow Natalie Wittlin.

“Effect of Excuses on Making Moral Judgments,” by Angela Choi ’12. PSYC 235: Research Methods in Psychology, Professor Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Teaching Fellow Sarah Hailey.

“Positive, Math-Unrelated Priming and Women’s Math Performance,” by Jason Parad ’12. PSYC 235: Research Methods in Psychology, Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn, Teaching Fellow Jacqueline Smith.

“Infants’ Use of Kind Information in Object Individuation and Implications for Conceptual Development,” by Elizabeth Rawson ’07. PSYC 140: Developmental Psychology, Professor Frank Keil.

Health Studies

“Waking Up the Warriors: The Rise of Cancer Immunotherapy,” by Malini Gandhi ’17. ENGL 121: Styles of Academic and Professional Prose, Professor Randi Epstein.

"Treat the Problem, Not the Disease: The Necessary Shift from Vertical Programs to Horizontal Programs for Treating HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa," by Xiuqi Cao ’17. ENGL 114: Writing Seminar, Professor Karin Gosselink.

“Public health in the age of nuclear fallout: St. Louis and the Baby Tooth Survey 1958-1963,” by Kathleen Yu ’17. HSHM 448: American Medicine and the Cold War, Professor Naomi Rogers.

“The Numerous Faces of South Korea’s Burgeoning Medical Tourism Industry,” by Lisa Wang ’12. AMST 192: Work and Daily Life in Global Capitalism, Professor Michael Denning.

“Regarding the Body: The Spectacle of Dissection and Its Uses in the 18th Century,” by Mihan Lee ’10. HSHM 431: Science/Spectacle in Enlightenment, Professor Paola Bertucci.

"Nutrition in Zambia," by Christina de Fontnouvelle ’16. HLTH 230: Global Health Challenges and Responses, Professor Richard Skolnik, Teaching Fellow Jordan Emont.

"Importing Prescription Drugs from Canada: A Public Health Solution," by Stephanie Heung ’15. PHYS 320: Science and Public Policy, Professor Bonnie Fleming.

“Cardiovascular Disease in China,” by Sudhakar Nuti ’13. HLTH 230: Global Health: Challenges and Responses, Professor Richard Skolnik, Teaching Fellow Nidhi Parekh.

Biology

“Neurometabolic Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease,” by Ludivine Brunissen ’19. BENG 485: Fundamentals of Neuroimaging, Professors D.S. Fahmeed Hyder and Douglas L. Rothman, Teaching Fellow John J. Walsh.

“The Construction of a Universal Entry Vector to Facilitate Genetic Modification of Rhizobia,” by Sarah McAlister ’16. MCDB 201L: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Professor Maria Moreno.

“Visualization of localization and expression of Arabidopsis thaliana gene AT1G52340, an ortholog of Tasselseed2,” by Kevin Hochstrasser ’15. MCDB 201L: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Professor Maria Moreno, Teaching Fellow Christopher Bartley.

“Cloning of the Oryza sativa ferric chelate reductase promoter-terminator fusion into a pYU2735 plasmid: generation of a universal construct toward rice biofortification,” by Micah Johnson ’13. MCDB 201L: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Professor Maria Moreno, Teaching Fellow Michael Turner.

“Cloning of the Yellow Stripe 1 gene and of the promoter of a Tapetal Development and Function gene in Oryza sativa japonica,” by Sabrina Gill ’13. MCDB 201L: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Professor Maria Moreno.

“Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” by Jurist Tan ’09. BENG 090: Stem Cells: Science & Politics, Professor Erin Lavik.

Evolutionary Biology

“Antimicrobial Amyloid-β: The Antagonistic Pleiotropy between Innate Immunity and Alzheimer’s Disease,” by Emma Healy ’18. E&EB 235: Evolution and Medicine, Professor Stephen Stearns, Teaching Fellow Stephen John Gaughran.

"The Sooner, the Better: Modeling Evolutionary Recovery Following Isolated Incidents of Environmental Pollution," by Laura Goetz ’17. BIOL 104: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Professor Leo Buss.

"The Influence of Egg Crypsis on the Broken-Wing Display of the Killdeer," by Casey McLaughlin ’15. E&EB 240: Animal Behavior, Professor Suzanne Alonzo, Teaching Fellow Stacy Arnold.

“The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Increase of Cancer in the 20th Century,” by Stacy Scheuneman ’14. E&EB 235: Evolution and Medicine, Professor Stephen Stearns, Teaching Fellow Vanessa Lamers.

“Research Proposal: Do Octopuses Think Like Vertebrates? A New Comparative Test,” by Dakota E. McCoy ’13. E&EB 122: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Professor Stephen Stearns, Teaching Fellow Amanda Subalusky.

“‘Junk’: Breeding Innovation and Complexity,” by Jared Shenson ’12. E&EB 122: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior. Professor Steven Stearns, Teaching Fellow Andrea Hodgins-Davis.

“Evaluating the influence of evolution on human brain size,” by Sarah Foote ’10. E&EB 122: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior. Professor Steven Stearns, Teaching Fellow Katy Richards-Hrdlicka.

“Fly Sex: Adaptive manipulation of offspring sex ratio in Drosophila melanogaster,” by Tse Yang Lim ’11. E&EB 240: Animal Behavior, Professor Suzanne Alonzo, Teaching Fellow Andrea Hodgins-Davis.

“Recombination in Mitochondrial DNA: Nonzero but Rare,” by Christina Hueschen ’10. E&EB 122: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, Professor Stephen Stearns, Teaching Fellow Jeremy Draghi.

“Reconstructing Calamites: Building Giants from Fragments,” by Alena Gribskov ’09. E&EB 171: Collections of the Peabody Museum, Professor Leo Buss.

Physical Sciences

"Electrospray Synthesis of Graphene Oxide-Mized Metal Oxide Nanocomposites for Energy Storage," by Brandon Ortiz ’18. STARS, Professor Alessandro Gomez, Teaching Fellow Justin Tang.

"Importing Prescription Drugs from Canada: A Public Health Solution," by Stephanie Heung ’15. PHYS 320: Science and Public Policy, Professor Bonnie Fleming.

“Determining the Ages, Metallicities, and Star Formation Rates of Brightest Cluster Galaxies,” by Hannah Alpert ’15. SCIE S101: Scientific Research: Process and Presentation, Professor Maria Mareno.

“An Introduction to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,” by Andrew Yang ’12. CHEM 251L: Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Professor Jonathan Parr.

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