Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Awarded in 2012
Hannah Jean Button-Harrison, Music (MUSC) 2012, Freeing the Music [paper], The Sound of Singing [composition/performance]
Lina Feuerstein, History (HIST) 2012, The Transformation of PaterFilia Dynamics and the Creation of the Masculinized “Daughter” of Christ in The Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua
Rachel Alison Foran, Religion (RELG) 2012, Made and Making: The Formation of Somali Muslim Selves in Rural Minnesota
Talia Ranit Goldenberg, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Fragmented Bodies
Evan Michael Johnson, Undeclared 2012, Egyptian Saints: The Referees of Asceticism
Griffin Reister Johnson, Undeclared 2014, Everyone Is Jumping off of This Bridge
Gnagna Lam, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of School Quality on House Values
Chelsea Lau 2012, Theater performances: Ariel in The Tempest; Clytemnestra in The Oresteia
Hannah C. Lucal, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Recognizing: Repetition for Reflection on Gender-Based Violence
Kathleen Hagan Roberts 2012, The Professional Series & 6 Poems
Griffin Arthur Williams, Geology (GEOL) 2012, The effect of annual cover crop growth on soil moisture of a temperate Minnesota Mollisol
Awarded in 2011
Todd S. Anderson, English (ENGL) 2011, Just Because There's Pieces Doesn't Mean It's a Puzzle
Katie Lynn Boudreaux, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Perceptual Categorization in Pigeons: Closed vs Open Geometric Shapes
Andrew Alan Chael, History (HIST) 2013, To Keep a Sleepless Emperor Awake: Alexios I Komnenos and the Imperial Ideal
Emmamarie Catherine Haasl, History (HIST) 2012, Conscience in Thomas More and the Age of Reformation: The Beginnings of Casuistry
Erin Jones Heydinger, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Impact of Drought on Mangrove Trophic Structures
Morgan Victoria King, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2011, Reimagining a Literary Heritage: Cultural transmission and religious division in Vandal North Africa
David Edward Kornfeld, Music (MUSC) 2011, Gilgamesh from a Third Stream Perspective
Katharine Marie Lindquist, Economics (ECON) 2011, Horizontal Educational Inequalities and Civil Conflict: The nexus of ethnicity, inequality, and violent conflict
Andrew Douglas Mering, Christopher Daniel Wilen, Celine Annabelle Yeh, and Hang Thi Viet Nguyen, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled Integrate-and-Fire Oscillators
Jesse Rothman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Bending the Arc: Reflections on Justice, Power, and Possibility
Gabriel Perri Silberblatt, English (ENGL) 2011, Revising, Re-visioning: Italo Calvino and the Politics of Play
Max Joseph Silver, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Chair
Awarded in 2010
Emma Kathleen Bentley 2010, [Three Poems]
Molly Alice Bresslour, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, When Do We Support Positions Advanced by an Opposing Political Party? The Effects of Political Party Labels on Attitudes
Lauren Elizabeth Burkhart, Japanese (JAPN) 2010, China Nights and Manchurian Dreams: Pan-Asianism in the Shiki Theater Company's Showa Trilogy
Audrey Yang Carlsen 2012, Falling
Sarah E. Crump, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Paleomagnetic data from the Rinconada fault in central California: Evidence for off-fault deformation
Anne Charlotte Doering 2010, Elemental Bodies: Female Self-image and the Elements
Andrea Nicole Donahue, History (HIST) 2010, We Once More Take the Liberty of Writting: Ex-Slaves Negotiating Freedom in Britain's Sierra Leone Colony, 1791-1800
Shannon Jean Audre Lucille Finnegan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, 8 Hour Drawings
Neil Foley, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes in the Formation of Mars
Mark William Hagemann, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Assessment of potential seasonal climate signals preserved in a late Pleistocene stalagmite from central Texas
Marjorie Harrington 2010, Trewe Techynge: Authority and Intermediaries in the Revelations of Divine Love
Erika Marie Huckestein, History (HIST) 2010, I'll Never Change. I'll Always Wear Green: New Representations of Erin in Irish Nationalist Political Cartoons, 1900-1921
Samuel A. Kanner, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Using Low and High Frequency Subbottom Surveys to Locate Cretaceous and Quaternary Sediments in Block Island Sound: an Analysis to Estimate the Cost of an Offshore Wind Farm
Caroline Aurelia Rosenfeld Millington 2012, Food and the Fall
Charlotte Grace Muzzi, English (ENGL) 2010, Poems from the North and West
Becky Jean Patrias, Matthew Bernard Cordes, Beatrice Burlingame White, and Zheng Zhu, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Shadows of the Cantor Set
Allison Pfeiffer, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Effects of soil disturbance on aggregation and mineral-associated carbon and nitrogen storage
Jordan Buchanan Smith, History (HIST) 2010, More Rude and Anticque than 'ere was Sodom: Piracy and the Tavern Community in Port Royal, Jamaica, 1680-1692
Smith Stuart Alan Sweeney, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Characterization of two atypical refractory inclusions from separate CV3 chondritic meteorites: Petrogenesis in the early solar system
Awarded in 2009
Rosalind Brayfield, Linguistics (LING) 2009, Daa gweyn Aa gweyn: questions and foci in the Belizean Creole
Andrew Edwin Chambers 2010, How to be a good Knight/Lady/Christian/Person : the lesson of social obligation in Chretien de Troyes The Knight with the Lion (Yvain)
Bonnie Cope 2009, La Vielle in the City of Ladies: an analysis of social, cultural and money capital in the narratives of Christine de Pizan and La Vielle
Rebekah Frumkin, Undeclared 2012, Stephen Dedalus attends a small liberal arts college
Temara Holt, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2009, Learning, performing, and embodying respectability in an all girls African American Catholic school
Leah C. Karels 2009, A new record
Thuy Le, Economics (ECON) 2009, Wrinkles in fiscal policy: an examination of the effects of aging demographics on public expenditures and revenues
Emily Litwin, History (HIST) 2009, Nationalism, feminism, and the women of Ireland's Revolutionary Period
Caitlin Magnusson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The animated feature film: encoding and decoding across cultures
Alexander Persaud, History (HIST) 2009, Rodney, history, and the dialectic: rethinking Walter Rodney's Marxist methodology
Kelly Williams 2009, The artist at work: Vermeer's Art of painting and Rembrandt's Artist in his studio
Awarded in 2008
Annelise Lawson, Theater Arts (THEA) 2008, Edward Albee's "Seascape"
Emily Schulman 2008, The Brazilianization of Brasilia : the relationship between center and periphery in the Brazilian Federal District