Boothe Winners by Discipline and Subject

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Art and Design
Education
Environment
Gaming
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Law and Politics
Literature and Poetry
Media
Psychology and Philosophy
Sociology
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Economics

Art and Design 

• Alexis Lefft (Winner, Spring 2017), “"If Black Lives matter, they deserve to be in paintings:" Kehinde Wiley's Lamentation as Ontological Resurrection”Instructor: Jamie O'Keeffe
• Tyler Haddow (Honorable Mention, Fall 2010): “Art as the Key to an Intellectual Conscience”
• Kris Sankaran (Winner, Winter 2010): "Theater Between Borders: Navigating Cultures in an Interconnected World"
• Kelly Vicars (Winner, Winter 2010): "Intertwining Art"
• Fannie Watkinson (Winner, Spring 2009): "The Role of Aesthetics: Green Skyscrapers in the 21st Century"
• Jacob Stern (Winner, Fall 2008): "If You Give an Artist an Apron"
• Dixon Bross (Honorable Mention, Fall 2007): "How Interesting: Interest and the Quotidian in Art Cinema"
• Annelise Blum (Honorable Mention, Winter 2007): "Hugo Chávez’s Debut: Rhetoric and Petro–Politics in the World Theater A Dramatic Essay in Three Acts"
• Jessica Galant (Winner, Fall 2006): "Keeping Tableaux Vivants Alive"
• Cecilia Yang (Winner, Winter 2006): "The Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre: Rhetoric in the Face of Tragedy"
• Jennifer Chin (Winner, Fall 2005): "Reaffirming, Not Redefining: A Look at Rem Koolhass' New Seattle Central Library"
• Jessica Lee (Winner, Spring 2005): "Death of the Faces of God"
• Yun Chu (Winner, Winter 2005): “The Analysis of Rational Violence in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Goethe’s Faust across Three Mediums: Literature, Music, and Art.”
• Wendy Hagenmaier (Winner, Spring 2004): “‘To render it:’ Acts of Structural Passion in Levertov’s ‘An English Field in the Nuclear Age’.”
• Anne Wyman (Honorable Mention, Fall 2004): “Art Refracts Life.”
• Eric Yieh (Winner, Spring 2002), "Back to the Future: Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Contextualized."

Education 

• Jasmine Liu (Honorable Mention, Spring 2017): "From E Pluribus Unum to E Pluribus Plures : Examining Assimilationist and Nationalist Narratives in American History Textbooks" Instructor:  John Peterson
• Claudia Hanley (Honorable Mention, Winter 2016 ): "Eight Hands Up: Re-Evaluating the Meritocratic Nature of College Admissions"
• Elisa Vidales (Winner, Winter 2015): "Time to Welcome Chaos: The Intersection of the Trickster, Creativity, and the Math Classroom"
• Diego Hernandez (Honorable Mention, Spring 2014): "Humanization and Dialogue in El Sistema and American Adaptations: Socially Minded Music Education through a Freirian Lens"
• Ansh Shukla (Honorable Mention, Winter 2013):  "The Four-Year Plan:  A Reframing of Contemporary Debate Regarding the "Death" of American Undergraduate Liberal Education"  Instructor:  Mark Taylor
• Charlotte Geaghan-Breiner (Honorable Mention, Spring 2012):  "Where the Wild Things Should Be:  Healing Nature Deficit Disorder through the Schoolyard"  Instructor:  Sarah Peterson Pittock
• Tonya Yu (Honorable Mention, Fall 2010): "One Laptop per Child: A Need to Help Teachers Help Students"
• Kimber Lockhart (Winner, Spring 2005): "Women in Computer Science: A Skill-Specific Analysis"
• Molly Cunningham (Honorable Mention, Winter 2005): “Colonial Echoes in Kenyan Education: A First Person Account.” Instructor: Jennifer Trainor
• David Craig (Honorable Mention, Winter 2003),“Instant Messaging: The Language of Youth Literacy.”

Environment 

• Emma Dohner (Honorable Mention, Fall 2011): "Putting a Price on Nature" Instructor: Erik Ellis
• Eric Slessarev (Winner, Winter 2008): "Nature Takes New York: A Secret Rebellion"
• Sasha Engelmann (Honorable Mention, Winter 2008): "Breaking the Frame: Olaf Eliasson's Art, Merleu Ponty's Phenomenology, and the Rhetoric of Eco-Activism"
• Nick Parker (Honorable Mention, Spring 2005): "The Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell: Mistakes Worth Fixing"

Gaming 

• Kaitlyn Williams (Honorable Mention, Fall 2012):  "When Gaming Goes Bad:  An Exploration of Videogame Harassment Towards Female Gamers" Instructor:  Christine Alfano
• Tina Roh (Winner, Spring 2011): "Gaming Through Glitches: How Glitches Open New Experiences to Players" Instructor: Christine Alfano
• Alex Ryan (Honorable Mention, Winter 2010): "MMORPGs: A Medium for Utopian and Experimental Genesis"

Health and Medicine 

• Esther Omole (Winner, Spring 2018): "Medical Trauma and the Black Female Body: Enacting Clinical Justice for African American Female Victims of Sexual Assault" Instructor: Sarah Pittock
• Clarice Nguyen (Winner, Spring 2010): “Advertising Antidepressants: The Rhetoric of Pharmaceutical Marketing”
• Nicole Gordon (Honorable Mention, Spring 2008): "When a Silent Killer Confronts a Silent Society: Stanford University's Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic from 1980-1989"
• Matthew Gribble (Honorable Mention, Fall 2005): "Gender, Art, and the Nursing Shortage: The Effect of Gendered Visual Rhetoric on the American Healthcare System"
• Prabhu Balasubramanian (Winner, Fall 2002), “Pharmaceutical Patents: Life Savers or Profit Makers?"

History and Culture

• • Nadav Ziv (Honorable Mention, Winter 2019):  "Never Again Means Never Forgetting: The Shoah in Polish Society and Education" Instructor: Samah Elbelazi
  • Jackson Parell (Winner, Fall 2018): "Free at Last, Free at Last: Civil War Memory and Civil Rights Rhetoric" Instructor: Andy Hammann
  • Ethan Chi (Honorable Mention, Fall 2018): "Singlish: Language, Power, and Identity in a Post-Colonial World" Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
  • Sydney Westley (Winner, Fall 2017): "Conversing with Silence: Destabilizing Understandings of the Linguistic Reverberations of the Japanese Internment Camps" Instructor: Tesla Schaeffer
  • Veronica Kim (Honorable Mention, Winter 2017): "It's My Mom's Recipe and She Got it from a Video:" How Food Videos are Changing Home Cooking Culture"
  • Xinlan Emily Hu (Winner, Fall 2016): "Endangered Languages: Rescuing the World's Invisible Libraries"
  • Vienna G. Kuhn (Honorable Mention, Fall 2016): "Fighting for Choice" Instructor: Lindsey Felt
  • Antariksh Mahajan (Honorable Mention, Winter 2015): "The Emergence of Konfrontasi in Singapore’s National Narrative" Instructor: Magdalena H. Gross
  • Grace Klein (Honorable Mention, Fall 2014): "Queer Christina of Sweden: How Evolving Accounts of a Long Dead Queen’s Sexuality Reflect More Upon Us Than He"  Instructor: Robert Stephan
  • Kat Gregory (Winner, Fall 2012): "Wanted in Every Sense of the Word:  Deconstructing the Romanticized Outlaw Hero" Instructor: Donna Hunter
  • Jake Sonnenberg (Winner, Spring 2012): "Legend and Legacy: A Rhetorical History of Lewis and Clark" Instructor: Gabrielle Moyer
  • Gillie Collins (Winner, Winter 2011): “The Neo-Taliban’s Neo-History: Re-Cognition and Resurgence”
  • Gabriele Carotti-Sha (Honorable Mention, Winter 2011): “Caught in the Causal Net: A Reflection on Fichte’s Lecture on Man’s Vocation in Society”
  • Lucy Richards (Honorable Mention, Spring 2010): “The Importance of Developing a More Inclusive Role for Archeology in Jerusalem and Ayodhya"
  • Fiona Hinze (Winner, Spring 2009): "An Encounter with Angel Island"
  • Anne Datesh (Honorable Mention, Fall 2006): " The Decision to Drop the Bomb: Where Hindsight is Not 20/20"
  • Sarah Johnson (Winner, Winter 2006): "Breaking the Watch Along With the Wedding Glass: Conceptions of Time in the Transition from Biblical to Rabbinic Judaism" 
  • Jasmine Hanifi (Honorable Mention, Fall 2003), "Belonging to America: Rhetoric of the Second Generation"
  • Steph Abegg (Winner, Spring 2003), "Rome: The City of Gods."
  • Heather MacKintosh Sims (Winner, Spring 2002), "Reflections of an Empire: The British Celts as Indicators of Roman Self-Perception."
  • Mari Hayman (Honorable Mention, Spring 2002), “Adoption Issues in Latin America: Behind the Silence and the Secrets.” Instructor: Carolyn Ross.
  • Jason Glick (Honorable Mention, Spring 2002), "Trading Land for Cultural Power: Anazaldua's and Cardenal's (Re)constructions of Mestiza Identity." 

Law and Politics 

• Nicholas Branigan (Winner, Winter 2017): "Michelle K. Lee v. Simon Shiao Tam." Instructor: Paul Bator
• Ho Kyung Sung (Winner, Fall 2015): “Declaring Amnesty on Prostitution: A Marxist Feminist Defense of Amnesty International’s Call for Decriminalization of Sex Work” Instructor: Ben Wiebracht
• Eleonora Pinto (Honorable Mention, Spring 2015): “Demythologizing the TransMilenio: Why the Bus Rapid Transit System in Bogotá, Colombia has Underserved the Urban Poor” Instructor: Luke Parker
• Kirstin Wagner (Winner, Spring 2012): "Managing the Mean Girl:  California's Incomplete State Policy on Social Aggression" Instructor: Sarah Peterson Pittock
• Adam Perelman (Winner, Fall 2011): "Child's Play: Historical Agency and the New York City Playground Movement"  Instructor: Sarah Pittock
• Karen Shen (Fall 2009 Winner): "The Paradox of Public Support for 'Quality-of-Life' Policing"
• Adam Adler (Winner, Fall 2008): "Wisconsin v. Yoder: Maximizing Religious Choice"
• Keith Schwarz (Honorable Mention, Spring 2007): "Eminent Domain and Anti-Trust: A Proposal to Remedy Kelo's Excess"
• Jason Dunford (Honorable Mention, Winter 2006): "Empowering the Oppressed: The Role of Language in the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa"
• Andrew Leifer (Winner, Winter 2004), "Harry Potter and the Battle of International Copyright Law."
• Hammad Ahmed (Honorable Mention, Winter 2004), "Grafting Cuba Onto the American Body Politic: The Intersection of Natural Science and Foreign Policy in the Annexationist Era."
• Rui Xiong Kee (Winner, Fall 2003), "Exploring the 'Communist' in the Communist Insurrection in Malaya."
• Joshua Smith (Winner, Spring 2003), "Conflict Diamonds: Resolving Africa's Worst Resource Wars."

Literature and Poetry 

• Nadav Ziv (Honorable Mention, Winter 2019): "Never Again Means Never Forgetting: The Shoah in Polish Society and Education" Instructor: Samah Elbelazi
• Maya Krishnan (Winner, Winter 2011): “Launch out on the story, Muse”
• Evan Storms (Honorable Mention, Winter 2010): "Antigone and the Social Contract Theory of the Crito"
• Ben Pittenger (Honorable Mention, Fall 2009): "Trains, Pains, and Automobiles: The Liminal Trek beyond Survival in The Piano Lesson and Maus I"
• Lauren YoungSmith (Fall 2009 Honorable Mention): "Communication Beyond Loss: Lorca's Triangular Rhetoric"
• Mia Newman (Honorable Mention, Spring 2009): "Under the Yoke: The Institution of Marriage in Middlemarch"
• Rachel Kolb (Winner, Winter 2009): "Thought Aids Acting, Not Action: Laurence Olivier's and Franco Zeffirelli's Versions of Hamlet"
• Jacob Vandermeer (Honorable Mention, Winter 2009): "Identity Manipulation in Candide andThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano as Model for the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
• Sarrah Nomanbhoy (Winner, Spring 2008): "Embracing Ambiguity in 'Bartleby the Scrivener'"
• Patrick Leahy (Winner, Fall 2005): "The Three Furies of Dublin"
• Nathan Pflueger (Honorable Mention, Fall 2005): "Hamlet's Imagined Filial Love"
• Julie Byren (Honorable Mention, Spring 2005): "If You're Lost Enough to Find Yourself: Unveiling Nature's Secrets in Robert Frost's 'October' and 'Directive'"
• Emily Dalton (Honorable Mention, Fall 2004): “William Tyndale’s Biblical ‘Translation"
• Lia Hardin (Honorable Mention, Spring 2004): “Hear the Thunder: Isolation and Emotional Power in Kafka and Eliot.”
• Patrick R. Callier (Winner, Winter 2004), "Matter, Systems, and Alternatives from the Americas by Borges."
• Jennifer Cribbs (Honorable Mention, Spring 2003), "Darkness in the Vicious Kitchen: An Analysis of Feminist Themes and Suicidal Imagery in Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's Poetry."
• Luke Lindley (Winner, Winter 2003), “A Heap of Broken Images: Conflicting Narratives of Nature in Milton's 'Lycidas.'”
• Andre de Alencar Lyon (Honorable Mention, Fall 2002), “The Question of Textual Ideology in Changing Lanes.”
• Andre de Alencar Lyon (Winner, Fall 2002), “Traversing the Gap Between Reality and the Individual in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse”

Media 

• Sierra Wells (Winner, Winter 2019): "De Paisano a Paisano: What a Legendary Mexican Band Has to Say About the Lives of Its Listeners and Why It Matters" Instructor: Sarah Perkins
• Roxy Bonafont (Winner, Winter 2018): "Push Factors: The Complicity of Traditional News Organizations in the Age of Ambient Media" Instructor: Chris Kamrath
• Julia Sakowitz (Winner, Spring 2016): "'We're A Lot More Than Gospel Singing:' Small Tourism Businesses in Harlem and Policy Proposals for the UMEZ." Instructor: Irena Yamboliev
• Wyatt Mullen (Honorable Mention, Fall 2015): “Imagining the Infinite: The Evolution of Space in the American Visual Imagination” Instructor: Meg Formato
• Kima Uche (Kevin U. Imah) (Honorable Mention, Spring 2011): "Yaoi and Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Identity, Divergence, and Discourse" Instructor:  Rhiannon Lewis
• Patricia Ho (Winner, Fall 2010): “Citizen Journalism: Locally Grown, Community-Owned”
• David Wu (Honorable Mention, Spring 2010): “Virtual Property or Virtual Service?”
• Katherine Disenhof (Honorable Mention, Fall 2008): "Sweet Surprise: Visual Rhetoric and the Flawed Message of the Corn Refiners Association's Sweet Surprise Campaign"
• Kyie Tuosto (Honorable Mention, Spring 2008): "The 'Grunt Truth' of Embedded Journalism"
• Sophie Theis (Winner, Fall 2007): "Imitation vs. Internationalization: The Rhetoric of Teen Travel-Program Advertising for College-Bound Youth"
• Leslie Georgatos (Winner, Spring 2006): "Brand America: Exploring the Appropriate Role of Marketing Strategies in Public Diplomacy"
• Eyal Ophir (Winner, Winter 2005): “Kick Ass Culture: Ads Mirror an Anti-Dialogue American Discourse”
• Shivaram Lingamneni (Winner, Fall 2004): “Predicting the Future of Internet Advertising”
• Ali Batouli (Winner, Spring 2004): “The Free Internet: An Instrument of Control”
• Shannon Donahue (Honorable Mention, Spring 2004): “How Clean Are Green Ads? Evaluating Environmental Advertising in Contemporary Media”

Psychology and Philosophy 

• Amy Bearman (Winner, Winter 2013): "The Soul of a New Machine: The Social Psychological Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction" Instructor: Ryan Zurowski
• Kurt Chirbas (Honorable Mention, Winter 2011): “The Social Divide: David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin as Counterpoints in the Dialogue over the Internet”
• Kristian Davis Bailey (Winner, Fall 2010): “Empathy vs. Emptiness: An Investigation of Human and Divine Responses to Pain”
• Jake Zeller (Winner, Spring 2010): “The Idol of Prescriptive Normativity"
• Alex Hertz (Winner, Fall 2009): "A Challenging Invitation to Faith"
• Rachel Kolb (Winner, Winter 2009): "A Journey into the Heart of Silence: The Rhetoric of Expression, Gesture, and Thought"
• Anna Grummon (Winner, Spring 2008): "In Defense of Human Agency: Protection of Self-Image in the Milgram Obedience Experiments"
• Jocelyn Jiao (Winner, Winter 2007): "Madama Butterfly Gave Birth to a Monster: Exploring the Internalization of Racial Stereotypes within Asian American Women" 
• Christine Chung (Honorable Mention, Spring 2006): "'Hello Kitty Noodles' and Ramen Culture in the 21st Century"
• Aaron Quiggle (Honorable Mention, Winter 2006): "In Search of an Anorexic Rhetoric: A Theory of Language, Meaning, Society, and Mental Illness"
• Emily Dalton (Honorable Mention, Winter 2005): “Poetic Justice, Memory As A Moral Force."
• Salvatore Bonaccorso (Winner, Fall 2004): “Self-Discovery through Language in Omeros and Walden.”
• Annie Kalt (Honorable Mention, Winter 2004), "Male and Female Love Worlds: Inherently Separate Landscapes?"
• Anne Kalt (Winner, Fall 2003), "Perspectives on the Human Good."
• Bob Hough (Honorable Mention, Fall 2003), "Faith in Death."
• Gloria Nguyen (Honorable Mention, Spring 2003), "In Search of the Perfect Love."
• Brian Caliando (Honorable Mention, Winter 2003) “Don't Spazz: It's Not Rational and It's Not Moral”
• Liang Dong (Honorable Mention, Fall 2002), “State and Empire: (De)Construction of the National Identity.”
• Jennifer Kong (Honorable Mention, Spring 2002), “Fulfilling Stanford's Commitment to Diversity: Eliminating Gender Bias and Increasing the Number of Tenured Women Faculty.”

Sociology

• Ethan A. Chi (Honorable Mention, Fall 2018): "Singlish: Language, Power, and Identity in a Post-Colonial World" Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
• Esther Omole (Winner, Spring 2018): "Medical Trauma and the Black Female Body: Enacting Clinical Justice for African American Female Victims of Sexual Assault" Instructor: Sarah Peterson Pittock
• Shikha Srinivas (Honorable Mention, Spring 2018): "(Un)settled: Displacement in the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Social Model of Disability" Instructor: Lindsey D. Felt
• Rishabh Kapoor (Honorable Mention, Winter 2018): "'For My Old Kentucky Home, Far Away:' A Case for the Psycho-Sociological Dimension of Rural Brain Drain" Instructor: Lisa Swan
• Victoria White (Winner, Fall 2014): "Changing the Brothers: Constructions of Masculinity, Sexual Assault, and How to Fix the Frats" Instructor: Karli Cerankowski
• Gloria Chua (Winner, Spring 2014): "Salvaging the Self: The Selfie’s Reclamation of the Unified Self in a Postmodern World" Instructor: Wendy Goldberg

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Economics 

• Lucas Sato (Honorable Mention, Fall 2017): "Not with a Bang but a Computer: An Investigation in Promoting Safe AI Research Based on Lessons Learned from the History of Nuclear Technology Development" Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
• Alex Maben (Honorable Mention, Spring 2016): "Crafting CRISPR Fantasies: Flaws in Current Metaphors of Gene-Modifying Technology." Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
• Joan Creus-Costa (Winner, Winter 2016): “Beating a Dead-And-Alive Cat: Perspectives of Quantum Mechanics in Popular Science” Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
• John Sholar (Winner, Spring 2015): "Bitcoin as Currency and Catalyst or Why Bitcoin Will Fail, Why You Shouldn’t Care, and What We’re Missing" Instructor: Eric vandal Bussche
• Oriekose Idah (Honorable Mention, Spring 2012): "BB Me Najia: The 'Forgotten Nigerian Man' and the Blackberry Phone" Instructor: Sohui Lee
• Tiffany Dharma ( Winner, Winter 2011): “And Then There Was Money: The Godliness and Godlessness of Acquisitive Economy”
• Caitlin Colgrove (Honorable Mention, Winter 2009): "Fugue in A minor for Carbon and Silicon"
• Justin Solomon (Winner, Spring 2007): "Programmers, Professors, and Parasites: Credit and Co-Authorship in Computer Science"
• Eric Adamson (Winner, Winter 2003), “Malleability, Misrepresentation, Manipulation: The Rhetoric of Images in Economic Forecasting.”