First-Year and Sophomore Honorees

Junior and Senior Honorees

1st Place: Katherine Dolan—“Mirror, Mirror On the Wall”

for Ms. Jessica Lewis’ GWRTC 103

1st Place: Heidi Smith—“Crash”
for Mr. Michael Smith’s WRTC 325

2nd Place: Kelsey Douglass—“My Mother’s Legacy”

for Ms. Elisabeth Whitehead’s GWRTC 103

2nd Place: Vickie L. Burns—“Blue is the Color of Despair”
for Ms. Sarah O’Connor’s WRTC 325

Hon. Mention: Emily Bennett—“I Know of a Woman”

for Ms. Carol Del Vitto’s GWRTC 103

Hon. Mention: Emily Crothers—“The Snake”
for Ms. Heather Comfort’s WRTC 295

1st Place: Katherine Bulling—“A Schism in the South: The Formation of Slave Religion”

for Dr. Steven A. Reich’s HIST 395

1st Place: Annalina Kazickas—“Humanitarian Intervention, The Responsibility to Protect, and The Need to Better Protect Our Citizens”
for Dr. Robin Teske’s POSC 395

2nd Place: Jarrett Schindler—“Elvis the Pelvis: An Analysis of Elvis Presley’s Relation to the Sexual Revolution, 1945-1960”

for Dr. Steven A. Reich’s HIST 395

2nd Place: Katelyn Murray—“Decoding Theatricality: A Study of Early American Melodrama in the 19th Century”
for Dr. J. Chris Arndt’s HIST 395

Hon. Mention: Ross Hawkins—“An Unexpected Silver Lining: The
Use of POW Labor in the Central Shenandoah Valley during World War II”

for Dr. Steven A. Reich’s HIST 395

Hon. Mention: Laura Landry—“The Aztec Skull Necklace”
for Dr. John Ott’s ARTH 484

1st Place: Brooke Covington—“Only Through Men”

for Dr. Scott Lunsford’s WRTC 220

1st Place: Ian Woods—“Wikileaks: The Intractable Child of Jürgen Habermas”
for Ms. Heather Comfort’s WRTC 320

2nd Place: Scott Allen Oslin—“LGBT: Assimilationist, Liberationist, Humans”

for Dr. Shelley Aley’s WRTC 200

2nd Place: David Mann—“The Birth of a Written Musical Language”
for Dr. Lucy Bednar’s HON 300

Hon. Mention: Jennifer Fisher—“United States of Monsanto”

for Ms. Ashley Lauro’s GWRTC 103

Hon. Mention: Kelly Ostergren—“Fact and Imagination in ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ and Big Fish”
for Mr. Joseph Loyacano’s HON 300

1st Place: Ryan Sehrer—“James Joyce’s ‘Araby’: In the Dark”

for Dr. Thomas Martin’s GENG 236

1st Place: Tuba Ahmed—“Suspend the ‘Sentimental’?: The Resurgence of Repressed Emotions in Woolf ’s Three Guineas”
for Dr. Sian White’s ENG 410

2nd Place: Devan Maddox—“Heroes In Their Own Right: Enide, Lunete, and Assertive Language”

for Dr. Dabney Bankert’s ENG 311

2nd Place: Becca Chen—“Villa-Lobos at the Semana de Arte Moderna: An Examination of Andrade’s Modernist Traits in the Music of Villa-Lobos”
for Dr. Pedro Aponte’s MUS 480

Hon. Mention: Leanna Smithberger—“Zombie Consumerism - An Analysis of Consumer Culture in White Noise by Don DeLillo”

for Mr. Joseph Loyacano’s GENG 248