Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Awarded in 2024
Audrey BadjouenDzouabet, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, “Even the Loudest Black Girls are Silenced in Schools”: Black Girlhood, The School-to-Confinement Pathway, & Reimagining Education
T'airra Champliss, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Cultivating Healing Within: Spirituality, Self-Love, and Personal Empowerment for Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary Folks
Luisa F. Cichowski, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Seeing “A Landscape of Genocide:” Decolonial Aesthesis and the Aesthetics of Agricultural Landscapes
Soren Eversoll, English (ENGL) 2024, Minotaur
Bella Frost, English (ENGL) 2024, A Parable of Reproductive Rights: (Re)reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in Light of Louisa Hall’s Reproduction
Ren D. Manuel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Painting Punctum
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, Orienting, Disorienting, Reorienting: Revisiting Queerness in Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Emma Roskopf, Economics (ECON) 2024, From Selfies to Resumes: The Impact of Online Privacy Concerns on Unemployment Duration
Max Serota, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Autocratic Radicalization: The The Strategic Choices of Autocratic Executives and the Death of Democracy
Awarded in 2023
Maya Donovan, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Extending Loving Attention to Strangers
Shannon Liu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, Generalization of Attention and Working Memory Skills from Cognition Training Games by Elderly Clients: Does Lumosity Really Work?
Emma MacArthur, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, If You're Not Reading This, Are Unicorns Real? The Truth Conditions of Indicative Conditionals with False Antecedents
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, AIDS, Affect, and Alternative Realities: Paranoid and Reparative Readings of Thom Gunn’s The Man With Night Sweats”
Jason Min, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Modernity as a Moral Experience: Articulation of Mingyun in a Chinese County
Andriana Taratsas, English (ENGL) 2023, The Miscarriage
Awarded in 2022
Michael Albrecht, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Lou
Lauren Carothers-Liske, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2022, Media Representations of Transwomen: White Masculinity and Pretty Privilege
Maia Danks, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Making Connections Through Functional Design
Soren Eversoll, English (ENGL) 2024, Jean-Pierre Melville is Dead
Marianne Gunnarsson, English (ENGL) 2022, It's Raining Suitors
Ayaka Moriyama, Dance (DANC) 2022, ψ( )
Win Wen Ooi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “We Believe in Intercultural rather than Multicultural”: Negotiating Place-based, National, and Global Cultural Imaginations
Narayani Thijm, Religion (RELG) 2022, LO AND BEHOLD! Limits and Uses of Linguistic Perspectives on Mantra use in Tantric Sādhana Deity Meditations
Jed Villanueva, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, You Can’t Get Groovier Than This: A Replication of Janata et al. (2012)
Sam Wingfield, English (ENGL) 2022, "Before I am, I was": Narrating Time in Angle of Repose
Awarded in 2021
Will Gleason, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2021, Tirailleur Sénégalais, Chasseur Mandingue: la Mémoire Postcoloniale et l'Épopée de Malamine Camara
Sarah Hussain, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Intersection of Gender Norms and Intra-Household Bargaining Power: Evidence from Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Elwood Olson, English (ENGL) 2021, Constructions of Closeted Authorship in Dorian Gray and Dracula
Octavia Washington, English (ENGL) 2022, For My Dad
Octavia Washington, English (ENGL) 2022, Maggot
Awarded in 2020
Tyler A. Chang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Emergence of Hierarchical Syntax in Neural Machine Translation
Emma Gautier, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2020, Nowness: A Space for the Unfolding of Queer Politics
Lucy Horrell, English (ENGL) 2020, Lilith
Tyler Hruby, Philosophy (PHIL) 2020, Mediating the Procreation Asymmetry Through the Distinction Between Existent and Potential People
Junyi Min, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Majulah Singapura
Fengrui Zhang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Search
Awarded in 2019
Jack Hardwick, Music (MUSC) 2019, Afslørende For Violin & Interactive Electronics
Julian Hast, English (ENGL) 2019, Dada and Modernism: How the Great War Changed Fiction
Melanie Kane, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, "I Have the Utmost Respect for Women": A Content Analysis of the Celebrity Sexual Misconduct Response Statement
Will Loner, English (ENGL) 2019, Simple Thoughts on How Best to Lose the World
Charles K. Lutvak, Political Science (POSC) 2019, "Devils With a Cause": How Rural and White Working Class Resentment Made Trump President
Elliot Schwartz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2019, Coming apart at the Seems: Intuition, Skepticism, and Self-defeat
Ezra Sergent-Leventhal, History (HIST) 2019, "Neighborhood Schools" and "Willis Wagons" Ghettoization in Urban Space in 1960's Chicago
Sarah Ward, Geology (GEOL) 2019, Textural Characteristics of Pumice from a Postglacial Plinian Eruption at Laguna del Maule, Southern Chile: Implications for Magma Ascent Dynamics
Octavia Washington, English (ENGL) 2022, On Love
Awarded in 2018
Taylor Moore Barnhill, Religion (RELG) 2018, SallekhanA, Suicide, and Selfhood: Constituting Religious Freedom in a Secular Indian Nation-State
Trixie Dao, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2018, The Child as a Consumer: Issues with Child-Directed Advertising
Peter Alfonso de Hueck, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Trump Leaves of Grass
Avinash Moorthy, Economics (ECON) 2018, Do Students Benefit from an Extra Year of High School? A Study of Ontario's Removal of Grade 13
Laura Joan Rafferty, Economics (ECON) 2018, Can Bad Unemployment News Be Good for Stocks? A Sectoral Analysis of the Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment Rate Announcements
Flora S. Richey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Paradox in Akademia: Senses of Place in the Cowling Arboretum
Eliza May Thomas, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Bank stability of Spring Creek, Northfield, Minnesota, between 1999 and 2017: A comprehensive analysis of natural bank recovery after substantial flooding
Awarded in 2017
Violet Aurora Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, More Than Meets the Ear: Contributions of Vision to Spoken Word Recognition
Ann Treesa Joy, Studio Art (ARTS) 2017, Growing Out
Elissa Ann Koele, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Effect of Emotional Valence on Primacy/ Recency Memory in College Students, Geriatric Patients, Alzheimer's Patients, and Cotton-Top Tamarins
Laura Katherine Soter, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Is Lying Less Wrong in a Foreign Language? Everyday Moral Reasoning and the Moral Foreign Language Effect in the Absence of Outcome Information
Isabel Sophia Storey, Political Science (POSC) 2017, The Effects of Partisanship on Police Killings of African-American Youth
Eric Bruce Tallman, Economics (ECON) 2017, The Environmental Impact of Single-Use Zoning: A Case Study of the Relationship between the Built Environment and Private-Vehicles in Chandigarh, India
Awarded in 2016
Noah Barak Bunnell, English (ENGL) 2016, Presidential Sonnets
Noah Barak Bunnell, English (ENGL) 2016, The Re-Birth of the Critic: Deconstructing Metacriticism in House of Leaves
Alexandra Katherine Chang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Self-as-Process: Towards and Existential Account of Agency
Grace Liang Johnson, English (ENGL) 2018, River Representations: Viewing Nature in a Human Context
Nora Anderson Katz, History (HIST) 2016, Mapping Norumbega: Aesthetics of Barren and Bountiful Landscapes in Samuel de Champlain's New France, 1607-1632
Robert Dakota Krossa, Economics (ECON) 2016, Skill Spills: A Cross-Skill Group Analysis on Wage Spillovers of Good Jobs
Joseph Deierhoi Lowry, History (HIST) 2017, King William II of Sicily, Muslim King? Ibn Jubayr and his Conflicted Attitudes toward Christians
Madison Lee McBride, History (HIST) 2016, "The Circle is Complete': Adoptive Heritage Tourism as a Structure in the International Adoption Complex
Sarah Miriam Meister, English (ENGL) 2016, How May I Compare this Prison ... unto the World? The Interpretive Value of Prison Shakespeare
Sarah Miriam Meister, English (ENGL) 2016, “Surprised” in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Annie Adele Sinner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Navigating the Liminally-Classed Self: First Generation, Low-Income Carleton College Students' Reflections on the Impact of Class
Sarah Hui Ying Tan, Theater Arts (THEA) 2016, Perpetrators
Lindsey Kay Walters, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2016, Obruni! Obruni!: African American Experiences in Ghana and the Politics of Diaspora
Awarded in 2015
Sara Elizabeth Brooks, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Pile
Grace Fremont, English (ENGL) 2015, Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetic Geography of Shakespeare's Travelers
Katherine Anne Shaffer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2015, Informed but Not Consenting: The Construction and Negotiation of Embodied Knowledge Among Vaccine Refusers in Minnesota
Julian Robert Skotheim 2015, Modern Love
Jackson Vanfleet-Brown, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Plant dynamics and soils influencing ecological restoration of Potentilla hickmanii at Rancho Corral de Tierra, San Mateo County, California
Ashanti Raheem Wavy-Soldier, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Voice
Awarded in 2014
Jeffrey Jordan Berg, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, A Bat and a Ball and a Ballot: Proposing a Cognitive Foundation for Partisan Ambivalence
Emily Catherine Epperson, French (FREN) 2014, La Sonorité de la violence dans « Les Misères » d’Agrippa d’Aubigné
Griffin Johnson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Get Your Anthropocene On
Annette Martin, Philosophy (PHIL) 2014, Truth and Proof: Defending a Provability Account of Mathematical Truth in Light of Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem
Ariane Rebecca Mass, English (ENGL) 2014, Ventriloquated
Soon Kai Poh, Studio Art (ARTS) 2014, Build Carleton I
William Schedl, Classics (CLST) 2014, That Limb May Be Joined Together with Limb: Joining the Notion of Imperial Power and Religious Power in Defining the Role of the Emperor in Church Affairs
Winona Weindling, Political Science (POSC) 2014, School Choice as a Method of Reducing the Achievement Gap: Comparing the Effectiveness of Desegregation Programs and Charter Schools
Benjamin Daniel Weiss, Undeclared 2016, Early Modern Irish Cohesion and Division
Awarded in 2013
Benjamin Raymond Bedore, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Behavioral Effects Of Early Intervention For Children From Low- Income Households
Molly Elizabeth Curtiss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Cosmopolitanism and Hybrid Identities: The Case of the Pieds Noirs
Christopher Dana Densmore and Emily Altschul, Theater Arts (THEA) 2013, Macbeth [a Carleton Theater Arts performance]
Brooke Dianne Granowski, Religion (RELG) 2013, Wholly Other, Other Holies: Rudolf Otto's Religious Pluralism in Conversation with Contemporary Religious Studies Criticism
Rafadi Hakim, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Countless Ramayanas: Language and Cosmopolitan Belonging in a South Asian Epic
Charu R. Kulkarni, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Muhammad Iqbal's National Vision for the Indian Subcontinent: An Analysis of the Conceptual Boundaries between Indian and Muslim Nations
Michael James McClellan and Deborah Gross, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, After the Spray: Investigating the Fate of Particles from Cyclodextrin-Containing Air Fresheners
Erin Elizabeth McDuffie, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Developement of a New Single-Particle Research Instrument: The Coupling of ATOFMS and LIBS
Sarah Drage Olson, English (ENGL) 2013, Truth in Lies
Danielle Dougnac Smogard, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The Evolution of International Criminal Justice: A Hybrid Solution is Born
Brian Daniel Spisiak, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Spiritual Illumination: Milton and Blindness in Paradise Lost
Jacob Jordan Styburski, English (ENGL) 2013, Lacking the Will to Repent: Bedeviled Freedom in the Satanic Soliloquy
Berett Alexa Wilber, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Lesser Known Marine Mammal's Lesser Known Love Songs
Awarded in 2012
Nicholas Jordan Bellos, History (HIST) 2012, Crowded Cars, Contested Turf: Race-Making and the Everyday on Chicago Public Transit During World War II
