CHC Thesis Award Winners 2020

Clark Honors College 2020 Thesis Award Winners

Illustration by Ashley Kim

 

President's Award

Hillary Ellman
A Thousand and One Thresholds of Ardor: A Critical Analysis of Female Madness in 21st Century Western Literature 
Primary Advisor: Mary Wood 
Clark Honors College Representative: David Frank 

Nelly Nouboussi Nkenfack
Glomerular Signals Underlying Olfactory Navigation
Primary Advisor Matt Smear
Clark Honors College Representative Elizabeth Raisanen

Joshua Pearman
What Types of Status Matter? Consensus, Accuracy, and Personality Antecedents of a Two-Component Model of Status
Primary Advisor Sanjay Srivastava
Clark Honors College Representative Nicole Dudukovic

 

Robert D. Clark Award

Makenna Pennel
Assessing the Role of Monomer Flux and Oleic Acid Concentration in a Continuous Growth, Nanocrystal Synthesis
Primary Advisor Jim Hutchison
Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

Miriam Thielman 
"You Shall not Oppress a Resident Alien": The Conception of Immigrants in the Hebrew Bible
Primary Advisor Deborah A Green
Clark Honors College Representative David Frank

 

Barbara Corrado Pope Award

Simone Hally
Implementation Analysis of Campus Sexual Violence Prevention Programming
Primary Advisor Laura Leete
Clark Honors College Representative Monique Balbuena

Jordan Harden
Understanding Native Hawaiian Land Relations through Kanaka Maoli Literature
Primary Advisor Kirby Brown
Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

Ashley Kim
Thao: Expanding the Horizons of the Food Justice Movement Through Storytelling
Primary Advisor Daniel Buck 
Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

 

Social Justice Thesis Award

Jed Moody
Incorporating Exceptions: Re-Linking Environmental and Accessible Design in Practice
Primary Advisor Esther Hagenlocher
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Daphne Gallagher

Momo Wilms-Crowe
"Desde Abajo, Como Semilla": Puerto Rican Food Sovereignty as Embodied Decolonial Resistance
Primary Advisor Daniel Tichenor
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Tim Williams

 

International Thesis Award

Nikos Jordan 
Sámi and the Climate Crisis: The Colonial Anthropocene
Primary Advisor David Meek
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

Alex Mentzel 
Rehearsing the Revolution: Franz Kafka's Minor Literature and the "Other" Bertolt Brecht in an Original Translation and Anti-Authoritarian Adaptation of Kafka's "The Trial."
Primary Advisor Michael Malek Najjar
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Gabe Paquette

 

Aaron Novick Award

Natalie Beatie
Exploring Depth Estimation from Motion Parallax in a Mouse Model
Primary Advisor Cristopher Niell
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Dare Baldwin

Rennie Kendrick
The Effect of Learning Condition on Memory for and Integration of Related Information
Primary Advisor Dasa Zeithamova Demircan
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Mark Carey

Nelson Perez Catalan 
Jack of All Trades, The Role of Astrocytes in Circuit Formation and Plasticity
Primary Advisor Chris Doe
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Samantha Hopkins

 

Scientific Frontiers Award

Sage Albright
Quantifying the Extent of Culturing Bias in Prokaryotic Taxonomies
Primary Advisor Stilianos Louca
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Roxann Prazniak

Madi Scott 
Quantifying the Spatial Morphology of Organic Films through Polarization-dependent Imaging
Primary Advisor Cathy Wong
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Elizabeth Raisanen

Abbey Ward
Language Dominance and Lexical-Semantic Processing in Bilingual Toddlers
Primary Advisor Stephanie De Anda
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative

 

Applied Research Award

Noah Mifsud
Going the Distance: Increasing Aerodynamic Efficiency in Electric Motorcycles with the Addition of a Rear Fairing
Primary Advisor Ben McMorran
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

Kayla Walker
The Role of Semantic Predictability in Adaptation to Nonnative-Accented Speech
Primary Advisor Melissa Baese-Berk
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Tim Williams

 

Henry Melton Alley Literary Thesis Award

Madeleine Monkewicz
Women Breaking Bad: A Portfolio Investigation Into Prose and Comic Storytelling
Primary Advisor Ulrick Casimir
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Daphne Gallagher

Andrew Tesoriero
The Passing of Time: A Novel and How to Advertise One
Primary Advisor David Koranda
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

 

Creative Thesis Award

Allison Schukis
AFTERLIVES (Gender) queer Photographic Self-Representation and Reenactment
Primary Advisor Colleen Choquette
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Casey Shoop

Sophia Wentlandt
The Springfield (OR) Public Library
​​​​​​​Primary Advisor Virginia Cartwright
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Dare Baldwin

 

Interdisciplinary Thesis Award

Julia Liu
Quantifying Diabetes Disparities Related to American Indian and Alaskan Native Residency on Reservations
Primary Advisor Clare Evans
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

Julia Mueller
Guidelines for the Representation of Women in Written News
Primary Advisor Lori Shontz
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

Peregrine Painter
Induction of Histone H3K27 Methylation by Non-native Telomere Repeats in Neurospora crassa
Primary Advisor Eric Selker
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Barbara Mossberg

 

Robert D. Clark Service Award

Sophie Bange
More Than (Only) Words: The Enduring Influence of Catharine MacKinnon's Antipornography Feminism
​​​​​​​Primary Advisor Peter Alilunas
​​​​​​​Clark Honors College Representative Tim Williams