MAPH Thesis Awards

2024 | 2023 | 2022

2024 THESIS AWARD WINNERS

Eleanor Cunningham | Advisor: Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer | Preceptor: Tristan Schweiger
“The Haunting of Lucan’s Pharsalia: The Spectre of History, Cyclicality, and (Im)possible Futures in a Roman Historical Epic”
Sebastian Martinez-Montoya | Advisor: Michael Forster | Preceptor: Erica Warren
“Finding Our Own Values: Connecting Morality and Consciousness in the Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”
Sherry Huang | Advisor: Michael K. Bourdaghs | Preceptor: Darrel Chia
“Pleasure in Pain: Sadomasochism and the Aestheticizing Gaze in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s ‘Shisei’ and ‘Shōnen'”
Tony George | Advisor: Allyson Nadia Field | Preceptor: Chris Carloy
“Transgender Embodiment Through Genre in Singapore Sling
Alisha Coddington | Advisor: Stephanie Soileau | Preceptor: Sarah Kunjummen
The Garden Wall: A Novel (excerpt)”
Margaret Rose Smith | Advisor: Stephanie Soileau | Preceptor: Alexandra Fraser
“The Midway Point: A Novel”
Will Most | Advisor: Hilary Strang; Julie Iromuanya | Preceptor: Megan Tusler; Darrel Chia
“Pitch-Black Birdsong”
Jack Cramer | Advisor: Augusta Read Thomas | Preceptor: Chris Carloy
“Lessons Learned: Reflections On a Year of New Compositions”
Jennie Dawn Morris | Advisor: Ben Laurence | Preceptor: Andrew Pitel
“Beyond Manifest Destiny: Cultivating an Ethical Approach to Space Exploration”
Thomas M. Pflanz | Advisor: Margaret Geoga | Preceptor: Darrel Chia
“Reanalysis of Ptahhotep Maxim 32: Homosexuality, Non-Mutuality, and
Queer Egyptologies
Luh Natalia Granquist | Advisor: Carl Fuldner | Preceptor: Erica Warren
“Reframing Trance and Dance in Bali
Yves Cao | Advisor: Christine Mehring | Preceptor: Erica Warren
“Eva Hesse’s Hang Up as Relational Form”
Christian Bumala | Advisor: Christine Mehring | Preceptor: Alexandra Fraser
“Sound as It Ought to Be Seen: Looking at Sound Art Again through Christine Sun Kim”
Caroline Funk | Advisor: Josephine McDonagh | Preceptor: Tristan Schweiger
“Capital, Patriarchy, and Kinship: The Epistemological Evolution from Marital Risk to Communal Redemption in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
Rena Lin | Advisor: Mee-Ju Ro | Preceptor: Tristan Schweiger
“Temporal Potentialities: The Immigrant Family and the Epistolary Site of Resistance in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Leah Robins | Advisor: Peggy Heffington | Preceptor: Agnes Malinowska
“Building Community with the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance”

2023 THESIS AWARD WINNERS

Emma Adler | Advisor: Kenneth Warren | Preceptor: Tristan Schweiger
“Social Narrative, Disability, and Race in Stephen Crane’s The Monster
M Angel | Advisor: Jason Riggle | Preceptor: Chris Carloy
“The Phonology of Emoji: An Analysis of the B Button Emoji”
Diana Freundl | Advisor: Wu Hung | Preceptor: Jessical Landau
“The Lives of Others– Chinese Artists and the Archive in Twentieth Century British Columbia”
Elisha Hamlin | Advisor: Ellen McKay | Preceptor: Sarah Kunjummen
“‘Cruel, Ireligious Piety:’ Eucharistic Tropes and Witnessing Whiteness in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Tariq Karibian | Advisor: Rachel Cohen | Preceptor: Darrel Chia
“Expelled from Eden a Second Time: The Watermelon Men and the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish”
Nataša Kvesic | Advisor: Megan Tusler | Preceptor: Alexandra Fraser
“Encountering the Latin Bridge: Place, Performance, and National Identity”
Colin Lavery | Advisor: Hilary Strang | Preceptor: Andrew Pitel
“until sentience moves us”
Simon Lenoe | Advisor: Michael Bourdaghs | Preceptor: Helina Mazza-Hilway
“Racialization as Gaze Across Languages and Disciplines in the Early Works of Mori Ōgai”
Jenna Novosel | Advisor: Hilary Strang | Preceptor: Tristan Schweiger
“Doctor and Disciple: Heterodoxic Science and Epistemological Optimism in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan (1894)”
Nia Pappas | Advisor: Mark Payne | Preceptor: Megan Tusler
“From Meditations to Manifesto and Beyond: A Speculative? Correspondence Between Rene Descartes and Donna Haraway”
Leo Ross | Advisor: Patrick Jagoda | Preceptor: Megan Tusler
“Jane Schoenbrun and the Phenomenology of the Loading Screen”
David Rubin | Advisor: Sergio Delgado Moya | Preceptor: Tristan Schweiger
“Direct Speech and Resistance in Nicanor Parra’s Lear, Rey & Mendigo”
Cam Wade | Advisor: Kaneesha Parsard | Preceptor: Chris Carloy
“(Un)Becoming Human”
Rena Zhang | Advisor: Wu Hung | Preceptor: Darrel Chia
“Fashion and Archaeology on the Chinese Attire Restoration Team’s ‘2020 Chinese Attire Restoration Show'”

2022 THESIS AWARD WINNERS

Sophia Coyne-Kosnak | Advisor: Kiersten Neumann | Preceptor: Alexandra Fraser
“The Humanity of Ancient Egyptian Mummified Persons: Addressing Current Curatorial Practice and Proposing a Person-Centered Approach”
Claire Dettelbach | Advisor: Niall Atkinson | Preceptor: Alexandra Fraser
“Seeing and believing: Christ Crowned with Thorns and the Circumspect Viewer in Early Modern Rome”
Celi Glastris | Advisor: Will Boast | Preceptor: Jessica Landau
“Molodietz (Mолодец): A Family Story”
Jake Hansen | Advisor: Hilary Strang | Preceptor: Darrel Chia
“Beyond the Family-Farm Paradigm: A Critical Response to Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan”
Yuehan Liu | Advisor: Stephanie Soileu | Preceptor: Agnes Malinowska
“To the Border”
Saumya Malhotra | Advisor: Megan Tusler | Preceptor: Rowan Bayne
Hum Dekhenge (We Will Watch): Witnessing the Affective and Networked Life of Anti-CAA and NRC Protests”
Caileigh Stephens | Advisor: Jennifer Scappettone | Preceptor: Chris Carloy
“‘Do not move! Just engage’: A Poetics of Metamorphosis in Hijikata’s Dance-Writing”
Yu Zheng | Advisor: Margaret Ross | Preceptor: Megan Tusler
“Sing You The Reasons Behind Our Ancestors’ Trudge”