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University Honors

 

University honors is awarded to less than one percent of the graduating class and is the highest academic award Wesleyan bestows. University Honors are awarded to students who have earned departmental or general scholarship High Honors and have performed with unusual distinction in an oral examination before members of the Committee on Honors.

 

To be eligible, a student must fulfill general education expectations, earn high honors (either departmental or in general scholarship), be recommended for University honors, and qualify in an oral examination administered by the Committee on Honors.

 

University Honors Recipients, 2001-2013:

 

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YEAR		RECIPIENT	THESIS TITLE	DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM
2013
		Aria Danaparamita	British Borobudur Buddha: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Orientalist Antiquarianism, and a Material Historiography of Java (1811-1816)	History
		Zoe Mueller	The Interstate System in the American Cultural Memory: The Creation and Contestation of the Highway Spaces of Cleveland and Detroit, Postwar to Present	General Scholarship
		Kyra Sutton	Islam's Turn on the Couch: The Psychoanalytic Theorizing of Muslim Identity in France	College of Letters and French Studies
2012
		Ali Chaudhry	To Float, to Peg, or to Hide? Deciphering de facto Exchange Rate Regimes in South Asia	Economics
		Anna McKinsey	"Vascular" - a creative printmaking thesis	General Scholarship
		Ariel Schwartz	Composing the Autistic Self - Current and Emerging Autism Discourses	General Scholarship
2011
		Solomon Adler	"I Belong to Every Country": John James Audubon and the Multivalence of National Identity	History
		Laura Geronimo	Cultural Policy and Economic Development: Empirical and Political Complexities of Relating Arts to Growth in Cities	General Scholarship
2010
		Samuel Max Cohen	Exploring the Chemical and Biological Nature of Sonic Hedgehog Dependent Cell Proliferation	Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
		Brendan Thomas Conuel	"The Contradiction at the Heart of the World": Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Detonation of Denotation	Religion
		Peter Davenport Hull	Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Constraints of the Open-Economy Trilemma	Mathematics-Economics
2009
		Joseph Maximilian Krafft	Mighty Fine	English
		Alison Epstein Ringel	Tdh3 (a GAPDH isozyme) is a novel regulator of Sir2	Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
2008
		Daniel Robert Austin	The Role of STEP in Regulating Excitotoxic Cell Death	Neuroscience & Behavior
		Cedric Howshan Bien	The Barefoot Doctors: China's Rural Health Care Revolution	East Asian Studies
		Emma Anne Komlos-Hrobsky	"A Self to Recover, A Queen": The Subjects and Poesis in Sylvia Plath's Ariel	English
		Kathleen Ellen Mollison	"Men are Made Here": Prosthetic Technologies After WWI	History
		Emily Ambrose Wang	Nikolai Gumilev, Modernist Mythmaker	Russian Languages & Literatures
2007
		Jacob Stuart Goldin	Rationality and Self-Conflict	Government, Economics
2006
		No recipients
2005
		Robert Laird Judson	Secondary Structure in the Replication of Hepatitis Delta Virus RNA	Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
		Mark William Vorkink	An Imagined Umma: Discourse, Ideology, and the Islamic Nation	Religion
2004
		Brittany Joyce Allen	Trans/scendence: Ethical Possibility in Intersex Management	Science and Society, Women's Studies
		Megan Elizabeth Brown	Erasures: 'Chalking' at Wesleyan University, 1992-2003	College of Letters
		Eli Solomon Staub	Formalization and Its Discontents	College of Social Studies
		Ka Yat Yuen	Platform Competition with Must-Have Components	College of Social Studies, Economics
2003
		Colin Echeverria Aitken	Characterization of the DNA B-A Transition	Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
		Elizabeth Anne Hoffecker	Rethinking Settlement	College of Social Studies
2002
		Benjamin Stewart Allen	The New Brazilian Land Reform	Latin American Studies
		Colby Brown	Reinventing the Wheel: Social Structure and Urban Expressways	Sociology
		Olivia Alton Weisser	The Compleat Pratice of Physick: Astrology and the Art of Healing in Seventeenth-Century England	History
2001
		Joseph Raymond Casey	Relocating Culture: Da-sein and the "Hui" People	Philosophy, College of Letters
		Brandon Bailey Dotson	The Council of Tibet: A Political Analysis of Early Tibetan Buddhism	Religion
		Adam Robert Goss	Magmatic Evolution of Volcan Copahue, Neuquen, Argentina	Earth & Environmental Sciences