2007-2008 Winners
Peter Leibensperger
"Musical Ambiguity as Poetic Reflection: Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, No. 1, 'Nunn will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n!'" (Music Studies)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Edward Latham, Dr. Cynthia Folio
Natalia Smirnov
"Before and After Photography: The Makeover Method to Discipline and Punish" (Film and Media Arts)
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Paul Swann
Maureen Whitsett
"Fenianism In Irish Catholic Philadelphia: The American Catholic Church's Battle for Acceptance" (History)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Petra Goedde, Dr. Elizabeth Varon
2007-2008 Honorable Mention
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" (American Studies)
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Lisa Rhodes
Brian Chambers
"Consolidating Dictatorship: The Pinochet Regime in Retrospect " (History)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Petra Goedde, Dr. Elizabeth Varon
Cynthia Gingrich
"The Schola Cantorum and Le Chat Noir Juxtaposed in Paris, 1880-1914" (Music Studies)
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. David Cannata
Sarah Van Anden
"The Collection of Charles I: A Symbol of Royal Power from Formation to Rejection" (History)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Petra Goedde, Dr. Travis Glasson
2006-2007 Winners
Joseph Basile
"Ending the 'Inhuman Traffic': The Role of Humanitarianism in the British Abolition Movement" [PDF]
Interview [download MP3 file] 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 [download MP3 file] 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 [download MP3 file] 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
"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
"Two Movements for String Quartet"
Faculty Sponsor: Richard C. Brodhead
Course: Music Studies 248
"Perception and Architecture: A Museum for the Senses"
Faculty Sponsor: Kate Wingert-Playdon, Kate Cleveland, Brigitte L. Knowles
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