2012 Prize Winners
Best in the Lower Division
Hannah Spero
"Typhoid: Lessons from India and Pakistan"
Reflective Essay
Honors Collegium 14: Interaction of Science and Society
Advisor: Jeffrey H. Miller
Best in the Upper Division
Sohaib Baig
"Traditional Islamic Learning in Colonial India: The Madrasa through the Eyes of a Twentieth-century Islamic Reformer"
Bibliography
Reflective Essay
History 198 A-C: History Honors Senior Thesis
Advisor: Nile Green
Hsuan-hsiu Annie Chen
"Wind Turbines and Ghost Stories: The Effect of Infrasound on Human Auditory System"
Reflective Essay
Physiological Science 177: Neuroethology
Advisor: Peter M. Narins
Ethan Scapellati
"Protestantism and Politics in the Civil War and Postbellum Period"
Bibliography
Reflective Essay
History 198 A-C
Advisor: Joan Waugh
Best Research using UCLA Special Collections
Lee Jasperse
"'A plenitude of subtle matter': Reproduction, Gender, and Value in A Lover’s Complaint and Anthony and Cleopatra"
Bibliography
Reflective Essay
English 182B Seminar 3 (The Ahmanson Clark Library Seminar)
Advisor: Jonathan F. S. Post
Best Research using Library Resources related to Los Angeles
Stephanie Dyar
"The 1933 Dressmakers Strike: An Early Twentieth-century Example of Female Immigrant Unionism"
Bibliography
Reflective Essay
History 198C
Advisor: Tobias Higbie
2011 Prize Winners
Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Upper Division
Myer Alexander Rickless
"Protection of British Overseas Property: 1870-1914" Submitted for publication
Honors Research Paper
Advisor: Albion Urdank
Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Lower Division
Ellen Watkins
"Sick with Fear: Popular Challenges to the Vaccine Controversies of the 21st Century"
Honors Collegium 14
Advisor: Jeffrey H. Miller
Judge's Discretionary Award
Lincoln H. Pitcher
"The Geography of Reelection: Incumbency Advantages, Redistricting, Compactness, and Electoral Responsiveness in the United States House of Representatives. 1901-2005"
Poli Sci 191H F2010 and Poli Sci 198 W2011
Advisor: Jeff Lewis
2010 Prize Winners
Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Upper Division
Sophia Y. Gu
"Giving Up the Ghost: The Jacobean Elizabeth in The Revenger's Tragedy and Henry VIII, or All is True"
Senior Thesis
Advisor: Gordon Kipling
Ruth Simon First Place Award in the Lower Division
Madeline Yung
"Combating Hysteria: Blacklisting in Los Angeles, California"
General Education Cluster M24: Education and Social Justice
Advisor: Zevi Gutfrend
Judge's Award
Jesse R. Erickson
"The History of the Malleus Maleficarum: A Bibliographical Study"
Senior Thesis
Advisor: Teofilo Ruiz
Honorable Mention in the Upper Division
Karen Aanensen
"A Study of Names Used in Halldór Laxness's Iceland's Bell"
Scandinavian 148: Halldór Laxness
Advisor: Kendra Willson
Honorable Mention in the Lower Division
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel
"A Fascist in the White House: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Interventionism in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America"
English 88: American Historical Novel
Advisor: Austin Graham
Special Recognition
Sam Strong
"We the Undersigned: A Basketball Team's Struggle to be Heard"
GE Cluster 60B: America in the Sixties
Advisor: Jeremy Schmidt
2009 Prize Winners
Ruth Simon First Place Award
Edgar Hermosillo Gaytan
"A Community of Shared Goods as Presented in the New Testament Book of Acts of the Apostles: Pre-industrial Urban Reality"
Directed Research History 199
Advisor: Scott Bartchy
Honorable Mention Award
Michaela Hulstyn
"The Algeria Syndrome, or 'Writing in Flight': Land, Language, and Self through the Autobiographical Lens of Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar"
Comparative Literature 197
Advisor: Francoise Lionnet
Judges' Discretionary Award
Elisabeth Michaels
"Undergraduate Student Work in Institutional Repositories: An Analysis and Policy Recommendation for the UC eScholarship Repository"
Information Studies 199
Advisor: Christine Borgman
Certificates of Special Recognition
Maria Abesa
"Living on a Prayer: An Oral History"
Sociology 153
Advisor: Min Zhou
Nicholas Bartesch
"Swedish Industrialization and its Preconditions in Historical Perspective"
European Studies 191
Advisor: Ivan Berend
Thomas Caldwell
"The Possibility for Life and the Implications of its Discovery on Enceladus and Europa"
Honors Collegium 35
Advisor: William Newman
Allison DePasquale
"The Human Development Effects of Economic Sanctions"
Economics 199B
Advisor: Aaron Tornell
Rene Tiongquico
"Merritt(ocracy): History of Merritt College's Student Activism, 1960-78"
History 198ABC
Advisor: Scott Brown
Kara Trowell
"French Colonial Influence on the North African Jewish Identity"
History 191L
Advisor: Sarah Abrevaya Stein