Katryna Alexis—“West Indian Gospel Music as Resistance”
Aaliyah Hinckson—“Black Women in Dancehall: Bodies and Power”
Dejahre Lettman—“A New Genre of Family and the Caribbean Writer in the Diaspora”
Classics
Kely Christmas and Victoria Ritchie—“Rare, but Not Unknown! Filling in the Blanks in “Coinage of the Roman Republican Online”
Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders
Jaritza Curet and Ayah Hassan—“Cracking Cognition! How Dynamic Engagement of Cognitive Control Affects Language Processing”
Aaliyah Sealey—“Addressing DEI in Graduate Programs in Speech-Language Pathology”
English
Kely Christmas—“Le Lai de l’Ombre: To See, to Dream, to Touch”
History
Bianca Alvarez, Ahami Chaney-Smith, Yahia Elhag, Lina Mazioui, and Bianca Alexis Rolston—“Oral History Ethics: Problems, Solutions, and Practice”
Rivkah Bryski—“A Jewish Homeland, With Socialism Too: Birobidzhan in the Jewish Communist Imagination
Gurveen Dhallu—“The Paradox of Tragic Art”
Joseph Edelheit—“The Astronaut, Man of Today’s Tomorrow: The American Dream in Space”
Philosophy
Sarah Dagmy—“Plato’s Allegory of the Cave”
Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies
Miguel Figueroa—“The Rebels of Wallmapu: Environmentalism, Land, and Legitimacy”
Urban Sustainability
Sofia Mariyamis—“Adapting to Rising Tides: Understanding the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Crab Meadow and Coastal Wetlands in the Long Island Sound Estuary”
2023 Winners
Africana Studies
Kimberly Felix—“El Amor Porhibido: The Lives of Black Lesbian Women in the Dominican Republic”
Iemoni Moses—“Mirror of the Great Migration”
American Studies
Rhema Mills and Xiaoen Liang—“Asian American Student Activism History at Hunter College”
Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders
Katelyn Baudille and Daniel Grace—“A Preliminary Investigation of a Method for Classifying Conversational Breakdowns in Language Samples From Preschool Children”
Isabella Crawford—“Ethical Obligations in Anonymous Communication across Social Networking Services”
Rawan Hanini, Pheobe Law, Lynn Stetson, and EngieToson—“Models and Expectations for Clinical Supervision in Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Programs: A Systematic Review”
Leann Senat and Madeleine Campbell—“Audiology: A Rewarding Healthcare Field”
English
Athena Fernandez—“Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 and the Transgender Body”
Yitzchak Friedman—“Herge and I”
Finley Miller—“How Writing Composition Theory Informed My Visual Arts Practice”
Stephanie Soltanova—“The Informal Lens: How Creative Writing Has Strengthened My Approach to Academic Writing”
History
Rivkah Bryski—“Jewish Graffiti: A Broad History”
Rachel Khmeknitsky—“Spoken and Silent Veteran Homecomings: The Differences and Similarities Between Understandings of Twentieth-Century Men Veterans and Contemporary Women Veterans”
Micah Sander—“They’re Americans and They Like Me, Rufo!: U.S. Imagination of Fidel Castro During His 1959 and 1960 U.S. Trips”
History and Classics
Fatima Arif, Lisa Fils, Vera Madey, Micah Sander, and Rivkah Bryski—“Magisterial Feminae: How Women Who Studied the Ancient World Innovated Brooklyn College, the Latin Greek Institute, and Beyond”
Philosophy
Andre Howell—“Responding to Povinelli and Vonk: A Theory of Mind in Chimpanzees?”
Chaim Janani—“Standing In the Light of Death: Terminal Illness, Hope, and the Clinical Encounter”
Rayan Mamoon—“Analyzing the limitations of Karl Popper’s Answer to the Demarcation Problem”
Political Science
Melanie Baum—“Riding the Waves: How American Politicians Propagate Anti-Migrant Feelings”
Urban Sustainability
Christopher Arias—“Resilience or Resistance: Post-Disaster Recovery in the Rockaways”
Jamelle Tucker—“Green Energy: Can Offshore Wind Become an Environmental Powerhouse?”
