The 2021 Honors Thesis Program featured these capstone projects:
Ania Alberski, “Mother Will Not Help You Now, Book One: As Blades Grow from Trash”
Advisor: J †Johnson
Nikita Bastin, “Family House”
Advisor: Syd Zolf
Anjali Berdia, “Spilling into Politics: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Affects Local Legislation”
Advisor: Kristen Martin
Simone Burde, “Some Sort of Something”
Advisor: Kathy De Marco Van Cleve
Dylan Cook, “Down the Shore: A Novella in Stories”
Advisor: Karen Rile
Eliana Doft, “Is Your Suffering Dear to You?”
Advisor: Carmen Maria Machado
Sophia DuRose, “NFT (Non-Fungible Text)”
Advisor: Simone White
Sarah Goldfarb, “A Lady With”
Advisor: Scott Burkhardt
Yonatan Gutenmacher, “disorder”
Advisor: Max Apple
John (Jack) Kiyonaga, “Always We Begin Again”
Advisor: Deborah Burnham
Rachel Kulik, “What Once Was Shore”
Advisor: Ron Silliman
Elizabeth (Lizzy) Lemieux, “Two Paradises and Other Stories” (Thesis Prize winner)
Advisor: Karen Rile
Kelly Liu, “2046”
Advisor: Carmen Maria Machado
Misha McDaniel, “Finding Solstice”
Advisor: Carmen Maria Machado
Kelsey Padilla, “Facing the Red Rocks: Exploring Generational Trauma in the ‘Heart of Indian Country’”
Advisor: Taije Silverman
Seung Won Park, “Return to Sender: Letters I Can Never Write You”
Advisor: Anthony DeCurtis
James Peterson, “Virgil”
Advisor: Ricardo Bracho
Sofia Rabate, “Screens: A Short Story Collection”
Advisor: Max Apple
Lauren Reiss, “A Hundred Moments: Family Stories of Survival”
Advisor: Weike Wang
Isabella Simonetti, “Eating My Rats: A memoir on growing up without a mother”
Advisor: Jamie-Lee Josselyn
Ana West, “You Can Be Better”
Advisor: Max Apple
Margaret Zhang, “All That Was Missing: Reconstructing Intimacies ‘Truer than the Truth’ through Strange and Fantastical Worlds”
Advisor: Carmen Maria Machado
To read abstracts of everyone's work, please click here for a pdf of the program.