2013 Winners
Tisch Library Undergraduate Research Awards

First year writing
program category
First Place Winner

first year winner
  • Jacob Merrin '16
  • For his paper "Campaign Finance Reform and the Problems with the Citizens United v Federal Election Commission Supreme Court Case" (English 1)

001-099 course category
First Place Winner


001-99 winner
  • Lia Weintraub ‘14
  • For her paper "The Link between the Rockefeller Foundation and Racial Hygiene in Nazi Germany" (History 29)

100-200 course category
First Place Winner


  • Andrew Lang '13
  • For his paper "Maniacs on the Floor? Explaining the Northern Danicing Mania of the Middle Ages and Renaissance" (History 196)

001-099 level course category
Second Place Winner

  • Carlota Fernandez-Tubau Rullo '15
  • For her paper "Action Plan for Preventing Electoral Violence and Instituting Good Governance in Somalia" (Political Science 039)

100-199 level course category
Second Place Winner

  • Hayden Lizotte '15
  • For his paper "Reconciling Influence and Agency: Renewal and Adaptation in Two Colonial Encounters in British India" (Religion 149)

Honorable Mention

  • Rebekah Liebermann '13, Anna Vanderspek '15, Gillian Leitch '13, Jessica Laporte '14, and Mark Rafferty '13
  • For their video "We Be the Niger Delta" (Political Science 138)
  • Karen Chen '13
  • For her paper "Benzodiazepine-Heightened Aggression and Sociability in GABA-A Receptor Point-Mutated Mice" (Biology 193)
  • Paige Bollen '14
  • For her paper "The Mau Mau Rebellion, Kikuyu Women, and the Evolution of Gender Roles" (History 191-AF)


2012 Winners

First year writing program category
First Place Winner

  • Emily McDowell '15
  • For her paper "Faulty Evidence" (English 2)

001-099 level course category
First Place Winner

  • Julia Richieri ‘15
  • For her paper "From Sengoku to Sexy: How Japanese Culture is Preserved in Anime" (Japanese 81)

100-199 level course category
First Place Winner

  • Jacob Denney '13
  • For his paper "The Service of the Mashpee Indians in the American Revolution" (History 193)

001-099 level course category
Second Place Winner

  • Karen Chen ‘13, Khanin Yu ‘13, Avinash Asthana ’12 and Sean Nilan ‘12 (not pictured) For their video "The Critical Period of Language Acquisition" (Psychology 64)

100-199 level course category
Second Place Winner

  • Allister Chang '12
  • For his paper "The Opening of Galleries at the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1766" (History 193)

001-099 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Molly Weinstein '14
  • For her paper "Indian Gaming: A 'New Buffalo' or a 'Trojan Horse?': The Socioeconomic Effects of Gaming Enterprises on American Indian Populations" (Political Sciences 13)

001-099 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Alex Wallach Hanson '14
  • For his paper "The Silver 'Lie:' How Mass Transit Choices Altered Two Communities in Boston" (Political Sciences 13)

100-199 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Caroline Sherrard '14 and Anna Lyons '15
  • For their paper "The Impact of the 1849 Cholera Epidemic on the Boston Irish" (Sociology/Community Health 108)

100-199 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Karen Chen '13
  • For her paper "African-American Multiple Birth Infants and Retinopathy of Prematurity" (Biology 193)

100-199 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Lauren Godles '12
  • For her paper “When The Ties Don’t Bind: Gendered Social Networks Among Latino Immigrants in East Boston” (Sociology 102)