Past HSS Expo Winners

2024 Winners

Africana Studies

  • 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?”

2022 Winners

  • Aida Atherley
  • Emily Beregovich
  • Jean Chen
  • Maya Darwish
  • Caroline Dougherty
  • Maria Farag
  • Rawan Hanini
  • Annie Ho
  • Niara Johnson
  • Pheobe Law
  • Joshua Leonard
  • Wendy Martinez
  • Deborah Oratokhai
  • Nicholas Philpott
  • Alexander Radu
  • Mariyah Juzer Rajshahiwala
  • Jason Richter
  • Bridget Robshaw
  • Levi Satter
  • Bridget Squitire
  • Kinga Szalchcic
  • Cindy Zhang

Brooklyn. All in.