2023
Analog Horror: Authenticity, Immersion, and Hyperdiegesis in Digital Horror, Stevie Gatto, Honors Project
2022
Remembering Fae Richards, Inventing Fae Richards: Archival Imagination in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, Erin Walsh, Honors Project
2021
McDonald's : a case study in corporate responsibility in the age of Black lives matter, Jacqueline Richardson, Honors Project
2020
"I don't want everyone to vote"¹ : voter disenfranchisement and suppression in the American electorate, Emma Rose Guyette, Honors Project
"Pickled punks" and "God's unknown children" : fetal and infant specimen display in twentieth-century American sideshows, Sara Ann Hollar, Honors Project
2019
American dreamin' : critical perspectives on race and Black capitalism in Jay-Z's 4:44, Aliya Bailey, Honors Project
While I might be an Avenger... it's not like I have super-powers : negotiating representations of deafness and disability in Marvel's Hawkeye comics, Juliana Caroline Bauerle, Honors Project
2018
An analysis of citizenship status as a tool to regulate migrant labor streams, Celeste M. Clerk, Honors Project
The YWCA and US imperialism in the Philippines : whiteness, racialized affect, and anti-Black stereotypes, Illaria R. Dana, Honors Project
2017
Rewriting absence : appropriation and identity in the art of Hung Liu, Kehinde Wiley, and Glenn Ligon, Samantha Grace Page, Honors Project
No John Trumbull : social, political, and cultural resonance of Hamilton: an American musical, Maria Dougherty Wood, Honors Project
2016
Dancing westwards : depictions of the American west in the mid-twentieth century ballets of Balanchine and de Mille, Katelynn Anne Mikulka, Honors Project
"The wife, the widow" : narratives of grief in contemporary American memoir, Madison McFadden Tierney, Honors Project
2015
Performing liminality : embodying disability and trans identity onstage, Ana Ruffino Darrow, Honors Project
Tolerance and trade : multiculturalism in seventeenth century New Amsterdam, Tess Kathleen Frydman, Honors Project
Community center to concert hall : youth outreach, classical music publics, and institutional discourse, Anna Lee Hirschi, Honors Project
2014
"Being a part of something special makes you special, right?" : creating a Glee-ful community of Jewishness on American television, Jeanne Alison Lowrey, Honors Project
History on display : commemoration at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Anna Olkovsky, Honors Project
2013
Could I be Miss America? : an Asian American's experience with the Miss America organization, Xiaojia Hua, Honors Project
A mixed memory : Mexican American studies in the borderlands, Gerilyn Anne Hubbe, Honors Project
Recovered memory : the making of profit, place, and person at Sierra Tucson rehab facility, Lisbet Hope Portman, Honors Project
2012
Breaking the "jolly negro" : racist material culture and white domesticity in the era of Jim Crow, Kaitlin Cecily Hovanes, Honors Project
2011
Six-nippled sheep and other eugenic oddities : exploring voices of the American eugenics movement in the Northeast from 1883 to the mid-1920s, Ceilidh Robin Auger-Day, Honors Project
Reminisching with rhymes : (re)imagining (r)evolution within Asian America through arts and activism and Dividing lines, a play, Judy J. Lei, Honors Project
Motivation, meritocracy, and the model minority rights myth : representations of Asian Americans in spelling bees, Kimberly Anne Probolus, Honors Project
Contesting U.S. feminist imperialism : the transnational activism of Mexican feminist Elena Arizmendi, 1911-1938, Darcy Rendon, Honors Project
Doing time is money : the economic crisis, criminal justice ideology and sentencing reform in Michigan,, Leah Jane Sakala, Honors Project
2010
The consumption of leisure : decoding Travel and leisure magazine and Architectural digest, Meera Ashok Khandkar, Honors Project
Surpassing loveliness and grace : knitting culture in nineteenth-century New England, Laura Katherine Putnam, Honors Project
2009
Networked at the intersection : street protest, communications technology and the 2008 Republican National Convention, Candace Clement, Honors Project
Women of promise, lives of distinction : memoir of a low income student and analysis of class culture at Smith College, Kendra Colburn, Honors Project
Race, radicalism, and the wandering Jew : rethinking Emma Goldman, Olivia Grace Cummings, Honors Project
Cloverfield and the monstrosity of postmodernity, Hannah W. Leung, Honors Project
The park and the spirit of the city : an analysis of the cultural function of three urban parks, Becky Reinhart, Honors Project
James Baldwin : Black American expatriate, Anna R. Young, Honors Project
2008
The Spanish Civil War in film, 1938-2006 : history and memory in a transnational perspective, Molly Chadis, Honors Project
Re-interpreting faith, challenging tradition : the impact of feminist theology on the Episcopal Church in the United States, Hillary Collins-Gilpatrick, Honors Project
Housing American history : the architecture of southern memory in Faulkner, Christenberry and Morrison, Kathryn Sutton, Honors Project
1996
Growing Up and Becoming a Woman in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Series, Charity Kemp Mack, Honors Project