With record-breaking submissions, nearly a hundred students offering up outstanding efforts of research and creativity produced under wildly adverse circumstances, the works honored here provide testimony to the resilience of the academy, where we channel energy towards learning and growth even when the soil feels rocky and the sun doesn’t shine. A year on now it’s spring; the sun is returning and your work manifests our hopes for the future.

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Multimedia Projects

Cathy Caamano and Olivia Colilli

Maya Lam

Emma Russo

Payton St. John

Kyle Velazquez

Emilee Wermenchuk

Sophia Aste

Riley McCarthy

Written Works

• Megan Arnold— Self-Image and Fatphobia: Insecurity’s Effect on Interpersonal Relationships Within the Modern Dating World
• Webb Bankemper— From Slapstick to Shuffle-Ball-Change: Analyzing the Antics and Adaptation of Arlecchino and Archetype in the American Musical Theatre
• Liza Bautista— Dear Diary
• Chloe Bowman—Everything I Had To Say Is Sticking To My Insides: The Language of Queerness in Comics
• Kamiya Bryce—Portrait of a Lady on Fire and The Female Gaze
• Carli Christian and Armando Martinez—Le Prix Marketing Plan
• Kasey Dugan—Mothers & American Horror Films: The Nuances of Mothering
• Jenna Fanelli — Neurodiversity Takes Center Stage: A Cultural Analysis of the Evolution of Mental Illness on Broadway
• Savannah Fischer—The United Nations on the Elimination of Child Marriage
• T’keyah Grant—Above the Law?: UN Peacekeepers, Sexual Exploitation & Accountability
• Mel Grasso—Attitudes Towards Deafness: American Sign Language v. Oral Schools
• Jack Hannon—Gory-telling: Portrayals of Violence in Transnational Cinema
• Vanessa Johnson—The ‘Birangona’ of the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Monica Joseph— The Kids Are Alright: Youths’ Exploration of Different Sexual Identity Markers Advances Sexual Orientation Discourse
• Heather Kroesche— A Comparison of Caste in India and Racism in America: Through the Lens of Religion and its Influence on Social Identity
• Nyesha McCormick—Gender Self-Analysis
• Kasey McNaughton—Providing the Blueprint: An Analysis of Precedent Set by the US’ Defense of Human Rights Abuses at GTMO
• Amanda Milo—Humans and Animals as Observed in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Gianna O’Connor—Quantitative Correlations of Severe Covid-19 Effects and Markers of Environmental Racism by New York City Neighborhood
• Adam Pedro—A Rainbow Vote: The rise of an LGBTQ+ Voting Bloc & a 21st-Century Queer Agenda
• Elizabeth Scott—Ecological Function of Urban Rooftop Garden as a Green Roof in New York City
• Melanie Sirota — ADHD and Girls: Dazzling and Distracted
• Karina Strom—Freeing TV’s Lesbians From The Male Gaze: Making A Queer Female Television Character Successful In The Eyes Of Queer Women
• Allie Talavera—Hold Onto Me

Honors Day Committee

Lauren Erin Brown, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Bethany Elkin, MFA, Co-Chair
Lennay Chapman, MBA
Dan Hunt, MFA
Cheryl Paradis, Ph.D.

Special Thanks

Cheryl Lynn Adriano
Tseday Alehegn
Hunter DeSimone
Stephen Eichinger
Lora Georgiev
Jacqueline Noel
Rabindra Rai
Carly Schneider
Richard Sheldon
Matt Straub