2008-2009 Winners
Danielle G. Country
"Girl, Translated" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Danielle Country and Professor Laura Samponaro
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Laura Samponaro
Course: Latin 4082
Department: Greek and Roman Classics
George A. Keddie
"Catholic Eucharistic Theology and the Gospel of Judas: Exposing the Formative Value of Sethian Criticism" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner George Keddie and Professor Vasiliki Limberis
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Vasiliki Limberis
Course: Religion 4882
Department: Religion
Cara Shay
"The Neurobiology and Development of Compulsive Hoarding and Its Relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Cara Shay and Professor Diana S. Woodruff-Pak
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Diana S. Woodruff-Pak (primary) and Dr. Ingrid Olson
Course: Psychology 3306
Department: Psychology
2008-2009 Honorable Mentions
James H. Baraldi
"Gangliosidosis"
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Diana S. Woodruff-Pak (primary), Dr. Luis Del Valle, and Dr. George P. Tuszynski
Course: Psychology 3306
Department: Psychology
Megan Donnelly
"More than Whores and Housewives: Reconsidering Judith Leyster's The Proposition"
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Jonathan Kline
Course: Art History 2197
Department: Art History
2007-2008 Winners
Peter Leibensperger
"Musical Ambiguity as Poetic Reflection: Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, No. 1, 'Nunn will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n!'" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Peter Leibensperger and Professor Edward Latham
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Edward Latham, Professor Cynthia Folio
Course: Music Studies 4782
Department: Music
Natalia Smirnov
"Before and After Photography: The Makeover Method to Discipline and Punish" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Natalia Smirnov and Professor Paul Swann
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Paul Swann
Course: Film & Media Arts 4671
Department: Film & Media Arts
Maureen Whitsett
"Fenianism In Irish Catholic Philadelphia: The American Catholic Church's Battle for Acceptance" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Maureen Whitsett and Professor Elizabeth Varon
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Petra Goedde, Professor Elizabeth Varon
Course: History 4997
Department: History
2007-2008 Honorable Mentions
Robyn Baylor
"'We the Kinda Cats Like to Turn Hegel Upside Down Just to See the Pennies Fall Out': Yugen, The Floating Bear, and the Avant-Garde Poetry Community of the Lower East Side, 1958-1963"
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Lisa Rhodes
Course: American Studies 4097
Program: American Studies
Brian Chambers
"Consolidating Dictatorship: The Pinochet Regime in Retrospect"
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Petra Goedde, Professor Elizabeth Varon, Professor Art Schmidt
Course: History H4997
Department: History
Cynthia Gingrich
"The Schola Cantorum and Le Chat Noir Juxtaposed in Paris, 1880-1914"
Faculty Sponsors: Professor David Cannata
Course: Music Studies 4782
Department: Music
Sarah Van Anden
"The Collection of Charles I: A Symbol of Royal Power from Formation to Rejection"
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Petra Goedde, Professor Travis Glasson
Course: History 4997
Program: History
2006-2007 Winners
Joseph Basile
"Ending the 'Inhuman Traffic': The Role of Humanitarianism in the British Abolition Movement" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Joseph Basile and Professor Travis Glasson
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Travis Glasson, Professor Kathleen Biddick
Course: History W387
Department: History
Clay Boggs
"'The Jews' and 'The Pharisees' in Early Quaker Polemic" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Clay Boggs and Professor David Watt
Faculty Sponsor: Professor David Watt
Course: History 399
Department: History
Matthew M. Rodrigue
"Rethinking Academia: A Gramscian Analysis of Samuel Huntington" [PDF]
Interview [MP3] with Prize Winner Matthew M. Rodrigue and Professor Kathy Le Mons Walker
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Kathy Le Mons Walker
Course: History 385
Department: History
2006-2007 Honorable Mention
Michael Geida
"The Civilian Conservation Corps; Conserving Discrimination?"
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Sharon Ann Musher
Course: W386
Cherice Gordon
"Cervical Cancer: A Silent Threat in African-American Women"
Faculty Sponsor: Profesor Sarah Bauerle Bass
Course: Public Health W321
Department: Public Health
Stephanie L. S. Sikora
"The Great Escape: 21st-Century American Politics and the Kyoto Protocol"
Faculty Sponsor: Professor James Rohers
Course: History 385
Department: History
Penelope Waite
"The Struggle for an Inclusive Vision of America: Lorin W. Brown, the Federal Writer's Project, and the Definition of American Identity"
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Lisa L. Rhodes
Course: American Studies 393
Program: American Studies
2005-2006 Winners
Ryan Drummond
"Interstate Station Stop: A Voyage into the American Frontier Myth" [PDF]
Faculty Sponsors: John J. Pron (primary advisor), Sneha Patel (secondary advisor), Kate Wingert-Playdon, and Kate Cleveland
Course: Architecture 442
Steven Horowitz
"As Boundaries Fade: The Social Contract in Cyberspace" [PDF]
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Taylor
Course: Philosophy 298
Symbol Lai
"Defining Abolitionism: Antislavery Resistance among Philadelphia's African American Community and Women" [PDF]
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Varon
Course: History W397
2005-2006 Honorable Mention
Denene Michele Wambach
"Crimes Against Civil Liberty: An Analysis of the United States Government's Involvement in Guantanamo Bay"
Faculty Sponsors: Mark Pollack and Megan Mullin
Course: Political Science 391
Victoria White
"Queer Race in Herman Melville's Billy Budd"
Faculty Sponsor: Suzanne Gauch
Course: English 282
2004-2005 Winners
Warren Anderson
"Emotion and Gender in Reasoning and Decision Making" [PDF]
Senior, Psychology
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Willis Overton
Course: Psychology W394
Steven Horowitz
"Rethinking Lockean Copyright and Fair Use" [PDF]
Junior, Philosophy
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Robert Guay
Course: Philosophy 296
Tessa Izenour
"Celia Thaxter's Island Garden: a 19th Century Flower Garden & its Historic Restoration" [PDF]
Senior, Horticulture
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Sinclair Adam
Course: Horticulture W395
2004-2005 Honorable Mention
Wes Enzinna
"Discipline, Contradiction & the Mis-Education of Philadelphia: The African and African-American Curriculum in Philadelphia High Schools and the Challenge of Junior ROTC, 1967--2005"
Faculty Sponsor: Regina Gramer
Course: History H195/399
"Discipline, Contradiction & the Mis-Education of Philadelphia: The African and African-American Curriculum in Philadelphia High Schools and the Challenge of Junior ROTC, 1967--2005"
Faculty Sponsor: Regina Gramer
Course: History H195/399
Mena Hanna
"Two Movements for String Quartet"
Faculty Sponsor: Richard C. Brodhead
Course: Music Studies 248
"Two Movements for String Quartet"
Faculty Sponsor: Richard C. Brodhead
Course: Music Studies 248
Marci Shoemaker
"Perception and Architecture: A Museum for the Senses"
Faculty Sponsor: Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, Brigitte L. Knowles
Course: Architecture 442
"Perception and Architecture: A Museum for the Senses"
Faculty Sponsor: Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, Brigitte L. Knowles
Course: Architecture 442
Elissa Simonetti
"Tradition, Transition, and Innovation: Engaging the Present with the Past"
Faculty Sponsor: Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, Elizabeth Masters
Course: Architecture 442
"Tradition, Transition, and Innovation: Engaging the Present with the Past"
Faculty Sponsor: Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, Elizabeth Masters
Course: Architecture 442