PAST RECIPIENTS

First Year Award

Tenzin Karma ‘26 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 165 paper, "China and Tibet in the Eyes of Hergé." Supporting Faculty: Pat Giersch

Leah Valentiner ‘26 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 134 paper, “State Policies and Undocumented Workers’ Rights.” Supporting Faculty: Erin Battat 

100/200-level Award

Kiki Chen ‘23 has won a 100/200-level award for her MES 261 paper, “Modernity and Dubai: Skyscrapers of Tradition.” Supporting Faculty: Louise Marlow

Emma Cohen ‘25 has won a 100/200-level award for her ES/HIST 299 project, “The Nature of Energy: An Environmental History of the Hoh River.” Supporting Faculty: Jay Turner

300-level Award

VV Chua ’25 has won a 300-level award for their ARTH 325 paper, “Material Performance and the Sensory Experience: Use and Production of Velvet in Fifteenth Century Renaissance Italy.” Supporting Faculty: Jacqueline Musacchio

Anna Nesbitt ‘25 has won a 300-level award for her POL1 328 project “Guaranteeing Comprehensive Public Healthcare Coverage for Pregnant Immigrants.” Supporting Faculty: Maneesh Arora

Independent Study Award

Mira Kumar ‘24 and Phoebe Weisiger-Vallas ‘24 have won the Independent Study Award for their PHIL 350 paper, “Resonant Norm in Sites of Conflict: Gender and the Carceral State.” Supporting Faculty: Mary Kate McGowan

Honorable Mention

Suzanna Schofield ’24 has won an Honorable Mention for her WGST 267 paper, "The Gendered Experience in the Granada War Relocation Center in Granada, Colorado: Looking through the Lens of the Amache Co-op, Individual Stories, and Vocational Agriculture Training through Future Farmers of America." Supporting Faculty: Elena Creef

Sage Widder ’26 has won an Honorable Mention for her ES 214 paper, “PFAS Contamination in Massachusetts Groundwater.” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre 

First Year Award

Aryn Rivers ’25 has won a First Year Award for their WRIT 144 paper, “Save Our Children: Florida’s LGBTQ Panic from the 1950s to Today.” Supporting Faculty: Jeaninne Johnson

Tayae Rogers ’25 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 134 paper, “Driving Families Forward: The Role of Demographic Changes and Coalition-Building in Winning Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants in Massachusetts in 2022.” Supporting Faculty: Erin Battat

100/200-level Award

Ilinca Drondoe ’26 has won a 100/200-level award for her MATH 123 paper, “Reforming the United Nations Security Council: A Quantitative and Political Analysis.” Supporting Faculty: Ismar Volić 

Maya Mau ’25 has won a 100/200-level award for their ANTH 214 paper, “'Physique as Destiny': The Significance of The Eugenics Movement to Wellesley’s Posture Program Throughout the Twentieth Century.” Supporting Faculty: Adam Van Arsdale

300-level Award

Caroline Francois ’23 has won a 300-level award for her HIST 376 paper, “'Conqueror of Yellow Fever': Cooperation and Colonialism in the War Against Yellow Fever, 1878-1901.” Supporting Faculty: Alejandra Osorio 

Sophie Shobeiri ’25 has won a 300-level award for her LAT 302 paper, “In Pursuit of Tabula Rasa: An Experimental Archaeology Approach to the Ancient Wax Tablet.” Supporting Faculty: Ray Starr

Independent Study Award

Jessica Maciuch ’22 has won an Independent Study award for her PHIL 350 paper, “The Epistemic Injustice of the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” Supporting Faculty: Alison McIntyre

Jules Spector ’22 has won an Independent Study award for their ARTH 250 project, “Jewish Architecture & Iconography.” Supporting Faculty: Kimberly Cassibry

Honorable Mention

Jade Doerksen ’26 has won an Honorable Mention for her HIST 254 paper, "Prejudice v. Progress: Sentiments towards Japanese and Japanese-American People at Wellesley College during World War II.” Supporting Faculty: Brenna Greer

Rachel Moberg ’22 has won an Honorable Mention for her ES 325 paper, “An Analysis of the Effectiveness of The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78).” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre

First Year Award

Hannah Grimmett ’25 has won a First Year Award for her SOC 212 paper, “Structural Barriers to Rural Poor Educational Attainment: A Response to the Cultural Argument.” Supporting Faculty: Joe Swingle

Mia Silberstein ’24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 134 paper, “A Battle for the Soul of Our Courts: The Case for a Biden Administration Article I Independent Immigration Court System.” Supporting Faculty: Erin Battat 

100/200-level Award

Ida Beckett ’24 has won a 100/200-level award for her MES/REL 264 paper, “The Sufi Origin and Serious Threat of Coffee and its Houses: How a Stimulant Stimulated Revolt in the Ottoman Empire.” Supporting Faculty: Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu 

Kate Habich ’22 has won a 100/200-level award for their ES 214 paper, “Understanding and Eliminating Atmospheric Benzene Pollution in Pasadena, TX.” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre 

300-level Award

Jacquelyn Cai ’22 has won a 300-level award for her NEUR 300 paper, “​​Exploring Probiotics and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Two Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease in a Mouse Model.” Supporting Faculty: Michael Wiest 

Natalie Li ’23 has won a 300-level award for her HIST 334 paper, “Taking Up the Banner of Austerity: Visions of Economic Transition on the 1970s Italian Left.” Supporting Faculty: Quinn Slobodian

Independent Study Award

Rebecca Cox ’22 has won an Independent Study Award for her ES 250 project, “Plankton of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.” Supporting Faculty: Jackie Matthes 

Rebekah Hobbs ’22 has won an Independent Study Award for her PSYC 350 paper, “​​A comprehensive examination of associations between childhood trauma and psychosis in African Americans.” Supporting Faculty: Christen Deveney 

Honorable Mention

Niamh Bayliss ’22 has won an Honorable Mention for her ES 312 paper, “Street Trees and City Planning: Exploring the Inequitable Distribution of Urban Tree Canopies Across the U.S.” Supporting Faculty: Beth DeSombre

Sarah Charpentier ’22 has won an Honorable Mention for her CAMS 302 video essay, “Decompositions: The Lifetimes, and Life-ends, of an Image.” Supporting Faculty: Codruța Morari 

First Year Award

Fatima Djalalova '24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 112/ECON 104 paper, "Increasing the Representation of Low-income High-Achievers at Elite Colleges." Supporting faculty: Casey Rothschild 

Adeline Van Buskirk '24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 144 paper, "‘Virtually Nobody': Protecting Older Adults in the COVID Era." Supporting faculty: Jeannine Johnson  

100/200-level Award

Ky Fuller '21 has won a 100/200-level Award for her ENG/AMST 248 paper, “‘Let’s exchange the experience’: Kate Bush’s Bodily Metamorphoses in Lyric and Voice.” Supporting faculty: Kathleen Brogan 

Kayla Kane '22 has won a 100/200-level Award for her ARTH 259 paper, “Tadmor in Ruins: How Ruins of Palmyra Defaced a Living City.” Supporting faculty: Liza Oliver  

300-level Award

Kelsey Dunn '21 has won a 300-level Award for her ES/POL2 312 paper, "Seeing Green: An Analysis of Influences on Green Space in U.S. Cities.” Supporting faculty: Elizabeth DeSombre  

Caylee Pallatto '21 has won a 300-level Award for her ARTH 345 paper, “Through the Eyes of the Federal Writers’ Project: Alabama’s African American Domestic Architecture and the ‘Old-Time Negro.’” Supporting faculty: Martha McNamara 

Independent Study Award

Charlotte Diamant '22 has won an Independent Study Award for her ES 350 project, “The Environmental History of the South Natick Dam.” Supporting faculty: Jay Turner  

Ella Matticks '21 has won an Independent Study Award for her WGST 313 paper, “Consumerism in the Cult of Domesticity: An Analysis of The House Beautiful Publication Following the First World War.” Supporting faculty: Rosanna Hertz   

Honorable Mention

Abby Ow '21 has received an Honorable Mention for her REL 350 paper, “Intimacy and Masculinity: The Body in Song of Songs 5:10–16.” Supporting faculty: Eric Jarrard