Index of Papers
Fall 2018 – Spring 2023
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
Lola Hamilton
“The Consequential Effect of Sexual Appeals on the Place of Women in Society”
Research Paper | Spring 2023
UWS 16A: Sex and Advertising
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
Nemma Kalra
“Laugh It Off”
Lens Paper | Fall 2022
UWS 65A: Everyday Apocalypse
Bridget Kennedy
“Pathologizing Bias: Racial Disparities in The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia”
Research Paper | Spring 2022
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
Jessica Li
“The Dangers of Nationalism”
Lens Paper | Fall 2022
UWS 65B: Coming to America
Nat Martin
“How Wide is the Wide World of eSports?”
Research Proposal | Fall 2022
UWS62A: Video Gameplay, Players, and Styles
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
Maya Kushner
“Brandy Clark: Country Music as an Avenue for Social Change”
Research Paper | Fall 2022
UWS-64B: The Resistance Mix-Tape
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
Ana Obradovic
“Breaking into the Future: The Significance of First-Generation Video Games”
Lens Paper | Fall 2022
UWS 62A: Video Gameplay, Players, and Styles
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
Sam Timbers
"Working at Play in Dark Souls"
Research Paper | Spring 2019
UWS 31A: Fans, Culture, and Society
Jaiden van Bork
“‘Love It If We Made It’: Experimental Pop and Societal Decay”
Research Paper | Fall 2022
UWS-64B: The Resistance Mix-Tape
Grace Danqing Yang
“Cognitive Dissonance, Social Psychology, and Unit 731”
Research Paper | Spring 2022
UWS 59B: Museums and Cultural Heritage