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2025
Carina Greene, The Gifts We Keep On Giving
Anastasia Zhu, Vodou and The Haitian Revolution: Resistance in the Mystique
Jordana Treisman, Discussing Jesus over Chicken: Business and Religion at the Dinner Table
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2024
Phineas McCabe, The Issue of the Spectacle: Considerations and Alternatives
Anthony Ganci, Every Knee Shall Bend and Every Hospital Shall Abide
Vandana Ravi, “A Wail and a Whelp of Joy”: The Song as Self in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
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2023
Ruby Freidman, Sex, Drugs and Crime: Purity Culture Across Wesleyan’s Supposedly Transcendant Liberal Bubble
Mel Cort, Literacy, Deafhood, and Loving a Language That Doesn’t Love Me
Tamiraa Sanjaajav, Bilingual Education in Mongolia: Balancing English Proficiency and Native Language Preservation
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2022
Akhil Joondeph, Transcendence and toxicity: The paradox of queerness in Indian classical dance
Josie West, The Murder of Matthew Shepard: Why a Small-Town Tragedy Affected an Entire Nation
Coline McEachern, Entering the Incelosphere
Madeline Mahoney, A Comprehensive Review of Prayer and Its Neural Correlates
Michaela Somers, See it, Squish it!: The Scourge of the Spotted Lanternfly
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2021
Jacob Gale, Symbols but Not People: An Examination of Mass-Rape in the Pale of Settlement
Lola Murnighan, Healing and Humor in Warsan Shire’s Poetry
Will Schenck, Untitled
Emerson Jenisch, Passage Analysis: Tragedy’s Effects on Romeo and Juliet’s Discourse
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2020
Nathan Foote, Anti-Gospel
Gissel Ramirez, Gissel Not Giselle: Language as an Identity
Michelle Seaberg, Your Gender, Hand it Over: Imposing Gender Categories as a Means of Control
Honorable Mention
Alexis Papavasiliou, Was Oxygen the Only Player in the Cambrian Explosion?
Natalie Shen, Critical Analysis of the Defensive Asylum Seeking Process from a Linguistic Perspective -
2019
Alex Piazza, Poetry and Philosophy to Change the World
Ben Silverstone, Ville Rose: An Ecosystem Worth Preserving
Will Slater, Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Dynamics of American Secularism
Honorable Mention
Soleil Devonish, Written for Amy Dunn and Mrs. Sims: Their World Was A Ghetto
Sofia Khu, Individual Power in Goethe’s Faust
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2018
Sarah Backer, Rethinking Evil: Rhetorical Power of ‘Evil’ and The Importance of Framing
Sam Libberton, Fighting for Personhood in a Medicalized Trans Body
Fritz Spofford, American Violence Becomes a Horror Story
Kimberly Wipfler, The Environmental Movement: From the Privileged’s Romanticization to the Marginalized’s Necessity
Honorable Mention
Ethan Addis, The Connecticut Industrial School for Girls
Julia Rose Atkinson, Rookie Mag: Complicating the Teenage Girl’s Image
Olivia Siegal, Sorrow and Company