2014-2015
Maria Del Rosario Castro Diaz
Food: The Hard Work of Separating Families While Keeping It All Together
Instructor & Course: Holly Schaaf, Introduction to College Reading and Writing in English (WR 098)
Lauren Kesler
Painting the Real Picture: The Benefits of Autoethnographic Filmmaking for Children with Life-Threatening Illness
Instructor & Course: Marisa Milanese, “Global Documentary” (WR 150)
Maya Terhune
A Good Little Monkey: Curious George‘s Undercurrent of White Dominance and the Series’ Continued Popularity
Instructor & Course: Anna Panszczyk, “Aesthetic Constructions of Childhood” (WR 150)
James Sbordone
Is violence–
Instructor & Course: Jessica Bozek, “Poetry Now” (WR 100)
2013-2014
Andrea Foster
Crossbones: Forensic Osteology of the Whydah Pirates
Instructor & Course: Kathryn Ness, “Pirates of the Atlantic: History, Archaeology, and Pop Culture” (WR 150)
Thomas Laverriere
Cross-dressing in Renoir’s La Grande Illusion and Europe’s Wartime Masculinity
Instructor & Course: Sarah Madsen Hardy, Studio 2 (KHC ST 112)
Hannah Pangrcic
Borat: Controversial Ethics for Make Better the Future of Documentary Filmmaking
Instructor & Course: Marisa Milanese, “Global Documentary” (WR 150)
2012-2013
Katie Griswold
Down the Street and Around the World: an Exploration of Everyday Exoticism in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Instructor & Course: Daniel Hutchins, “Travel Writing: Genre, History, and Politics” (WR 100)
Danyang Li
Justice for the Mother
Instructor & Course: Maria Zlateva, English Grammar and Composition (WR 097)
Sabrina Patrizio
Wouldn’t You Like to be Loved by April Wheeler: Suburban and Feminine Containment in Revolutionary Road
Instructor & Course: Gwen Kordonowy, “Postwar American Literature” (EN 220)
2011-2012
George Danis
‘The Waste Land’: Beyond Good and Evil
Instructor & Course: Jason Tandon, “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry” (WR 150)
Sophie Spiers
Frederick Douglass, The (In)credible Orator
Instructor & Course: David Shawn, “Oratory in America” (WR 100)
Ying Zhang
An Unanswerable Dilemma
Instructor & Course: Thomas Oller, Introduction to College Reading and Writing in English (WR098)
2010–2011
Laura Brubaker
Klimov’s Come & See As a Work of Cinematic Response
Instructor & Course: Ivan Eubanks, “Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema” (WR 100)
Krissy King
A Key to His Consciousness: Smell in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man
Instructor & Course: Michael Degener, “James Joyce: Voicing Modernity” (WR 100)
Sean Manton
Paper: Disorganized Attachment and the Orbitofrontal Cortex as the Basis for the Development of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Instructor & Course: Stephen Scheuerman, “The Nature of Consciousness” (WR 150)
2009–2010
Benjamin Cohen
Protecting Speech or Copyright: A Question of Balance
Instructor & Course: Bradley Queen, “The First Amendment” (WR 150)
Georgianne Maroon
Dostoevsky and Gogol’s Acknowledgments of Writers’ Limitations
Instructor & Course: Vlada Brofman, “Russian Prose Classics” (WR 100)
Jielin Yu
Rethinking Humanity: the Chimera Debate
Instructor & Course: Rebecca Kinraide, “Debates in the History of Medicine” (WR 150)
2008–2009
Michele Buonanduci
‘These – never stir at all –’: The Static and Dynamic in Dickinson
Instructor & Course: Thomas Otten, “American Gothic” (EN 220)
Natalie Lam
Reaching for the Axe: Kafka and the Language of Power
Instructor & Course: Michael Degener, “Kafka! Monstrous Modernity” (WR 150)
Chris Meyer
The FSA Photographs: Information, or Propaganda?
Instructor & Course: Amy Chmielewski, “Art and Politics in the Twentieth Century” (WR 150)
Gordon Towne
Peak Oil: Priorities in Alternative Energy Development
Instructor & Course: Deborah Breen, “Innovation in Technology and Science: Historical Perspectives” (WR 150)