CIMS Names Kaitlyn Riggio as College Prize Winner 2022
The winner of the 2022 Cinema & Media Studies College Prize is Kaitlyn Riggio.
Kaitlyn will graduate this May with degrees in both Cinema & Media Studies and Journalism. An aspiring arts & culture journalist, she has produced pieces on arts & culture for BU’s Daily Free Press and BU News Service. She currently serves as a Staff Writer for “Theatrely”, an online news journal, where she reports on and reviews theater productions in Boston and elsewhere.
As a CIMS student, Kaitlyn produced outstanding work on everything from Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar to Laura Mulvey’s feminist film theory, and fully explored a diverse and international understanding of film and media history through courses on everything from Weimar cinema and Black Auteurs to the film traditions of Bollywood & Nollywood. In this she is a model of the kind of student that CIMS aspires to produce: insightful, perceptive, culturally curious and politically aware.
When she added a CIMS major onto her already busy schedule as a journalism student, Kaitlyn says, “It didn’t take long for me to fall completely in love with the program. I was exposed to films I may have never come across otherwise. The best thing I got out of my Cinema and Media Studies coursework was an understanding of how film, television and art in general connects to the world around us.”
Outside of coursework, she participated in the BU Band program, and is a member of Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority. This coming year, she will serve as the Vice President for Membership for the sorority’s Northeast District.
We are incredibly proud of the time she’s spent with us as a student.