Index of Papers
Fall 2018 – Spring 2022
Write Now! A compilation of outstanding essays from University Writing Seminars.
Sam Ackerman
"A Living Document with Dead Ideals"
Lens Paper | Fall 2019
UWS 8b: The American Dream
Rotem Arie
"Academic Dishonesty and COVID-19: A Biological Explanation"
Research Paper | Spring 2021
UWS 37a Biology of Morality
Lígia Azevedo
“Male Stigmatization of Female Body Hair”
Research Paper | Fall 2021
UWS 2B: Darwinian Dating
Leeza Barstein
"Suffering Redefined: The Animal Liberation Front’s Subversion of Utilitarianism"
Research Paper | Fall 2019
UWS 34b: Undermining Power: Subversion and Resistance
Sydney Carim
"The Relative Truth"
Lens Paper | Fall 2019
UWS 42b: Images of Africa
Liam Carpenter-Shulman
"The Scoundrel's Journey: Visions of American Individualism in Star Wars"
Research Proposal | Spring 2021
UWS 22b: The Cosmos
Alexander J. Dragunoff
"Putin’s Propaganda: The Effect of Russian Propaganda on Masculinity"
Research Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising
Izzy Dupré
“Disney’s Frontierland Fantasy: How the Free Market Fabricates the Wild West”
Research Paper | Fall 2021
UWS 53b: Mythology of the American West
Ada de la Fuente-Akersveen
"Gene Editing: How Advancements in this Technology Highlight the Need to Redefine Disability"
Research Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 4a: Medical Ethics
Mandy Feuerman
“Podcasts and Parasociability”
Research Proposal | Fall 2021
UWS 58A The Age of Distraction
Kang Hankyul
"Code Black: Public Hospitals and Inequality in American Healthcare"
Research Proposal | Spring 2020
UWS 4a: Medical Ethics
Zoe Hermer-Cisek
"Transgender People in Advertisements, Transnormativity, and Corporate Wokeness"
Research Paper | Spring 2020
UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising
Caelen Hilty
“A Blind Spot in the Listening Ear”
Lens Paper | Fall 2021
UWS-57B: Racial Difference and the Senses
Jacob Knauer
"Soldiers on the Street: How Insecurity Can Justify Authoritarianism"
Lens Paper | Spring 2019
UWS 15b: Utopias/Dystopias
James Landeryou
“Taylor’s Aura: Ingrid Goes West and its Challenge to Walter Benjamin’s Views on Art”
Lens Paper | Fall 2021
UWS 58A: The Age of Distraction
Bridget Kennedy
“Pathologizing Bias: Racial Disparities in The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia”
Research Paper | Spring 2022
UWS-57B: Racial Difference and the Senses
Hana Klempnauer Miller
"Out West: The Queer Sexuality of the American Cowboy and His Cultural Significance"
Research Paper | Fall 2021
UWS 53b: Mythology of the American West
Carina J. Luo
"Condemnation of Female Hunger"
Lens Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising
Markia Neufville
"What Is a Nation?"
Lens Paper | Fall 2018
UWS 41b: Huddled Masses: Immigrants in America
Alexandra Pan
"Egalitarian Dating Initiation: Men’s View on Passive and Assertive Women"
Research Paper | Spring 2021
UWS 2B: Darwinian Dating
Roshni Ray
"Women’s Friendships and Feminism"
Research Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 24a: Conceptions of Friendship
Jeremy Schneider
“Escaping Online: Why World of Warcraft is the Most Addictive Game Ever Made”
Research Proposal | Spring 2022
UWS 58A The Age of Distraction
Jacob Silverman
"'The Most Dangerous Negro': Martin Luther King Jr. and the FBI"
Research Paper | Fall 2018
UWS 5b: From the 13th Amendment to Mass Incarceration
Jordan Sims
“Who am I? And Who Are You? The Role of Documents in Creating Identity in Transit”
Lens Paper | Fall 2021
UWS 54B Thinking About Borders Through Data
Harrison Sugarman
Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry”: Rap’s Ability to Influence Social and Political Activism
Research Paper | Spring 2021 | UWS 22a Black Voices in the 20th Century
Sam Timbers
"Working at Play in Dark Souls"
Research Paper | Spring 2019
UWS 31a: Fans, Culture, and Society