Library

Community-engaged research:

• Adah Anderson, Examining Reentry in Massachusetts: Perspectives from System-Impacted People and Those Working in Reentry

Research completed for an undergraduate senior thesis:

• Irina Znamirowski, Beyond the Character: An Examination of Dissimulation and Metatheatre in Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Hamlet

Student research related to racism and anti-racism:

• Noa Emi, Exilic Intimacy: Scenes of Erotic Performance and the Metaphysics of Rape

Climate change-related research:

• Hannah Laffer, Quantifying Climate Shifts Across Chilean Landscapes from the Andes to the Pacific and Atacama to Patagonia

Research completed in a University Writing Seminar (UWS):

• Dahlia Ramirez, How To Make Death Fun: Tyler Feder’s Genius In Dancing At The Pity Party

Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of UWS:

• Gustavo Nascimento, Gardens - A Vessel For Self-Fashioning

Research completed by a graduate student:

• Danielle Wallner, The Silent Women of the Future: A Comparative Case Study of Female Representation and Futurism in Early Science Fiction Films

Research that makes use of materials in the Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections:

• Abigail Roberts, Brandeis' First Folio: Ownership, Observation, and Opportunities

Digital research project:

• Yair Berzofsky, unfinished.wav

Prize for community-engaged research, offered in partnership with the Samuels ’63 Center for Community Partnerships and Civic Transformation (COMPACT):

• Elizabeth Simms, Rafael Abrahams, Joseph Weisberg, Wayland Library: 175 Years

Prize for research related to racism and anti-racism:

• Fritz-Gerald Duverglas, The Discrimination of Black People in The Tech Industry

Prize for climate change-related research:

• Armen Youssoufian, Dalen Weathersby, Dante Culmone-Durso, Ellie Greene, Fijare Plous, Temperate Forest - How Water-Related Climate Variables Impact Temperate Species & Habitats

Prize for research completed in a University Writing Seminar (UWS):

• Grace Danqing Yang, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Psychology, and Unit 731
• Allison Gentry, The American Imagination and the Space Age: How Pop Culture Took Man to the Moon
• Marianna Tsolias, Summer of Love: An Examination of Overambitious Solutions to Societal Injustices

Prize for research paper or project completed by an undergraduate student outside of UWS:

• Aiko Schinasi, Examining The Role of Education Non-Profits In Addressing Gaps In Federal Education Programs: A Look into The Education Non-Profit, SuitUp Inc.

Prize for research paper or project completed by a graduate student:

• Lydia Matthews, "They are bound for the milk station down the way:" Maternal Health, Infant Care, and Italian Women’s Claims to Belonging in 20th-Century Boston
• Nhi Le, Ăn cơm chưa?: Thinking With Rice and Embodying Vietnamese American Acts of Relatedness

Prize for research which makes use of materials in the Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections:

• Lila Goldstein, WGS at Brandeis: A Timeline

Prize for digital research project:

• Elie Ackerman, Vivien Fair, Michaela McCormack, Micah Seigel, Teresa Shi, Brandeis on Native Lands

Prize for research which makes use of materials in the Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections:

• Gavi Klein, Rewriting the Nation: Dorothy Thompson on Women, Anti-Fascism and American Journalism in the 1930s
• Jolecia Saunderson, Defying Gravity: Explorations of Liberation, Knowledge, and Pathways Towards Empowering Black Women Through the Eyes of Zora Neale Hurston’s Life

Prize for research which contributes to understandings of racism and anti-racism:

• Rebekah Kristal, Black Intellectuality: Challenging Conventions of Belonging in STEM

Prize for graduate student research: 

• Joseph Weisberg, As It Is Said: A Proposal to Use the WPA Interviews to Locate a Vernacular History of African American-Jewish Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century South
• Peizhao Li, Achieving Fairness at No Utility Cost via Data Reweighing

Prize for research conducted in a University Writing Seminar:

• Caelen Hilty, On Trial: Surveillance as Epidermalization and the Ahmaud Arbery Case
• Bridget Kennedy, Pathologizing Bias: Racial Disparities in The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Prize for research conducted by an undergraduate outside of UWS:

• Luca Swinford, “You’re Just Disabled”: Race-Avoidance In 1970s Special Education Legal Cases

Prize for a digital research project:

• Joshua Aldwinkle Povey, Boston's response to the AIDS crisis

• Brianna Lackwood, Imagining Black Food Justice Through a Black Femme Literary Hermeneutic, Prize for research which contributes to understandings of racism and anti-racism
• Rafael Abrahams, “Intimate With the Stars and the Trees”: Black Conservationism in the Progressive Era, Prize for graduate student research
• Logan Shanks, The Quest for Black Social Mobility and the Role of Black Women Leadership, Prize for research which makes use of materials in the Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections.  
• Lucca Raabe, “Rational” Racism: How the Math Department at Brandeis Functions to Reproduce Racial Inequality, Prize for research which makes use of materials in the Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections.  
• Logan Shanks, ‘Us had the kind of love couldn’t be improved’: An Exploration of Black Relationships in The Color Purple, Prize for research conducted in a University Writing Seminar
• Roshni Ray, Women’s Interpersonal Friendships: Grassroots to Impactful Feminist Movements, Prize for research conducted in a University Writing Seminar
• Jocelyn Gould, A ‘Pandemic Effect’? Women’s Candidate Emergence Amid the COVID-19 Crisis, Prize for research conducted by an undergraduate outside of UWS
• Caroline Greaney, The Palantír Project: Exploring Tolkien Criticism Through Distant Reading, 1970–Present, Prize for a Digital Research Project

• Rebekah F. Kristal (Research completed in a University Writing Seminar), “The North End Italian: Practicing Cultural Traditions to Maintain Ethnic Identity”
• Lucia Pugh-Sellers (Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of the University Writing Seminar), “Seeing Humans, Making Commodities: Slave Ship Rebellions on Film”
• Claire Ogden (Digital Research Project), “Funeral Care Work in Massachusetts: Community, Tension, and Change”
• Esther Bley (Research using materials from University Archives & Special Collections), “Calamity Jane: Ain’t No Buckin’ Around, the Woman Who Wore Buckskin. A Thesis on the Adaptations that Mythologized and Developed a Character’s Queerness”
• Alex Luu (research completed by a graduate student research), “Non-Topical Coherence in Social Talk: A Call for Dialogue Model Enrichment”

• Jacob Silverman (Research completed in a University Writing Seminar), “'The Most Dangerous Negro': Martin Luther King, Jr. and the FBI”
• Lynn-Tyia Porter  (Research using materials from University Archives & Special Collections), “The Exhibition of Blackness and the Role of Black Opera”
• Ona Wang (research completed by a graduate student research)
• Helen Wong (Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of the University Writing Seminar), “Forming Kraters in Cyprus: A Petrographic and 3D Scanned Exploration of Iron Age Cypriot Ceramic Continuity”
• Emily Glovin (Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of the University Writing Seminar), “Revisiting the “Three R’s:” Exploring the Effects of Religion, Race, and Regulation on America’s Public School Systems”

• Nakul Srinivas (Research completed in a University Writing Seminar), “Pugnacious Principals and Clever Kids: Child Dominance in Matilda and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
• Benjamin Schwartz (Research completed in a University Writing Seminar), “Is the Book of Job Tragic?”
• Lucia Pugh-Sellers (Research using materials from University Archives & Special Collections), “Coalition Building, Allyship, and Solidarity: Exploring Different Realizations of Success Through the Brandeis Ford Hall Movements”
• Anne Kat Alexander (Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of the University Writing Seminar), “The Emotional Nadir in English Renaissance Poetry”
• Ezra Cohen (Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of the University Writing Seminar), “Shaul Shochet’s Tiferet Yedidya: Towards an Understanding of Mid-American Jewry in the Early Twentieth Century”
• Cynthia Cheloff (Research completed by an undergraduate student outside of the University Writing Seminar), “A Voice of Their Own: A study on the strategic development of Anglo-Jewry’s political strategies and rhetoric concerning immigration policy, 1902-1906.”

• Xinyu (Annie) Li, "The Legacy of the South China Sea Arbitration: An Introduction of PCA Ruling in a Historical and Political Context"
• Saren McAllister, "Visual Discourses of Colonialism, Interracial Sex, Resistance, and Nation-Building in Mexico, 1711-1810"