2013 Senior Award Recipients
Greek Letter Awards
Phi Beta Kappa | J. Bria Biesman-Simons, Tara Contractor, Kayla Dalsfoist, Rachel Darby, Poonam Daryani, Caitlin Edmunds, Lauren Ellzey, Sara Estevez-Cores, Katherine Evans, Sophia Forman, Mariel Frechette, Kelsey Frost, Elsa Hammons-Watland, Karis Hanson, Alicia Hendrix, Rachel Kuenzi, Kathleen LaManna, Christina Noriega, Taryn Ohashi, Stephanie Park, Emilia Perez-Orselli, Ilona Phipps-Morgan, Julia Ritchie, Caitlin Sweeney, Stacy Wheeler, Manon Zouai |
Sigma Delta Pi | Emily Areta, J. Bria Biesman-Simons, Sophie Brooks-Ames, Elizabeth Crumpacker, Catlin Dennis, Lyanne Dominguez, Alexandra Feldhausen, Kelsey Frost, Lindsay Gutierrez-Leal, Caitlin Hanavan, Amy Hollander, Elizabeth Jones, Emily Jovais, Roshni Kakaiya, Elizabeth McGinnis, Nina Pincus, Madeline Sheldon, Anna Silverman, Hope Simpson, Sophia Willis-Conger, Anna-Marie Wood, Jacqueline Yamanaka |
Sigma Xi | Poonam Daryani, Caitlin Edmunds, LeeAnn Louie, Julia Ritchie, Anna Silverman, Sarah Vitak, Laura Wyatt |
Psi Chi | Jessica Baker, Brianna Buhaly, Catlin Dennis, Sara Estevez-Cores, Melissa Margolis, Chelsea Russell |
Theta Alpha Kappa | Megan Everett, Kari Geiger, Bryn Morgan |
Omicron Delta Epsilon | Misato Suzuki |
Latin Honors
Summa Cum Laude | Jocelyn Biesman-Simons, Tara Contractor, Poonam Daryani, Kelsey Frost, Alicia Hendrix, Rachel Kuenzi, Kathleen Lamanna, Christina Noriega, Stephanie Park |
Magna Cum Laude | Kayla Dalsfoist, Rachel Darby, Monica Dreitcer, Anne Dreshfield, Caitlin Edmunds, Lauren Ellzey, Sara Estevez Cores, Katherine Evans, Alexandra Feldhausen, Sophia Forman, Mariel Frechette, Devin Grenley, Elsa Watland, Karis Hanson, Morgan Mayer-Jochimsen, Claire Mazahery, Taryn Ohashi, Emilia Perez-Orselli, Ilona Phipps-Morgan, Julia Ritchie, Camille Robins, Molly Serizawa, Caitlin Sweeney, Stacy Wheeler, Manon Zouai |
Cum Laude | Rosa Ahn, Carolyn Angius, LaThelma Armstrong, Alexis Barab, Rachel Bodansky, Alyssa Boyle, Sophie Brooks-Ames, Susan Bryant, Brianna Buhaly, Emily Bulley, Natalie Cannon, Juliet Carnoy, Kathleen Carter, Kelly Chang, Dail Chapman, Michelle Christovich, S. Myung-Su Chun, Elizabeth Crumpacker, Catlin Haley Dennis, Justine Desmond, Megan Everett, Sarah Fisher, Savannah Fitz, Elena Ginebreda-Frendel, Lindsay Leal, Morgan Halley, Caitlin Hanavan, Faith Heffernan, Kristie Hernandez, Mary Hershewe, Mary Hogue, Amy Hollander, Julia Hughes, Jacqueline Humphries, Allison Jones, Emily Jovais, Roshni Kakaiya, Meredith Kertzman, Yuliya Lantsman, Tracy Layden, Skyler Lipscomb, Leeann Cheng-Yee Louie, Julia Markham-Cameron, Hannah Mason, Ann Mayhew, Elizabeth McGinnis, Alyssa Mello, Courtney Miranda, Ana Mitchell, Refilwe Moahi, Bryn Morgan, Alexandra Moyzis, Sarah Murtaugh, Roxanne Narasaki, Allison Nkwocha, Gavin Odabashian, Madison Pathe, Jessica Rosenthal, Danya Macmellon Rubin, Chelsea Russell, Avantika Saraogi, Jade Silver, Anna Silverman, Peri Tenenbaum, Rachel Weiner, Claire Wilson, Evelyn Wong, Anna-Marie Wood, Laura Wyatt, Emily Yau |
Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships
Fulbright Fellows | Susan Bryant, Art and Architecture in Austria Poonam Daryani, English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia Alexandra Feldhausen, English Teaching Assistantship in Brazil Jessica Fong, English Teaching Assistantship in Korea Marika McClenahan, English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia Stephanie Park, English Teaching Assistantship in Korea Joi Ward, English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia Claire Wilson, English Teaching Assistantship in Jordan |
Thomas J. Watson Fellows | Pambana Gutto Bassett, Witnessed by Weaving: Lives and Eco-Stories Told by Hand Melissa Margolis, Alienating or Empowering? Exploring Community Responses to HIV/AIDS Edutainment |
Napier Fellows | LaThelma Armstrong, The Call Me By My Name Project |
Alumnae Athletic Award | Rachel Darby |
Annual Alumnae Award | Lyanne Dominguez |
Anthropology Senior Thesis Award | Anna-Marie Wood, Drinking at the Claremont Colleges: Pregaming, Partying, and Why Rules Don't Matter |
Art Department Innovation Award | Avantika Saraogi, Art and Dance: Sediments, Segments, and Movement |
Athlete of the Year | Madison Shove |
Barbara McClintock Science Award | Courtney Miranda, Facilitative Interactions Among Native Perennial Shrubs and Native and Exotic Annuals in Recovering Coastal Sage Scrub |
Chicana/o-Latina/o Senior Thesis Award | Evelyn Duarte, In Search of Consciousness: Latinos in a Struggle Against a School to Prison Pipeline |
Edith Potter German Award | Katherine Evans, The Self-Representation of the State in the Olympic Games: Munich 1972 and Seoul 1988 |
Edward A. White Award in American Studies | Carolyn Angius, The Concrete River: Industry, Race, and Green Justice on the Banks of the Los Angeles River |
English Senior Thesis Award | Tara Contractor, The Aesthetics of Sympathy: George Eliot's Representations Of the Visual Arts |
Margaret Siler Faust Psychology Senior Thesis Award | Jessica Baker, Siblings of Individuals with Autism: Levels of Social Anxiety and Social Skills |
Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Scholarship | Tara Contractor |
Gender and Women's Studies Award | Roshni Kakaiya, Campeonas de Cambio: Exposing Structural Violence in Healthcare Through Narratives of Farm Working Women in Coachella Valley |
Gladys Pattison Music Award | Rachel Bodansky, Rebel Girls: Feminist Punk for a New Generation |
Hispanic Studies Senior Thesis Award | Elizabeth McGinnis, Feminine Identity During the Franco Period: The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa and Carmen Martin Gaite |
History Senior Thesis Award | Willa Oddleifson, A Façade of Most Exquisite Gallantry: French Educational Reforms of the Late Nineteenth Century and Their Impact on Women's Education |
Kathleen Wicker Religious Studies Senior Thesis Award | Megan Everett, Ritual Potential: A Queer Interpretation of the Mikvah Utilizing Victor Turner's Liminality Kari Geiger, How You Have Fallen: Exploring the Benevolence of an Early Christian God as Seen Through a Progressively Embodied Satan |
Latin American Studies Senior Thesis Award | Amy Hollander, Exceptions to Costa Rican Exceptionalism: National Identity, Race, and Nicaraguan Labor Migration in Costa Rica's Tourism Industry Marian Miller, Building Bridges to Transcend Borders: Radical Transnational Feminist Praxis in Response to US Systems of Incarceration and Violence Fabiola Ceja-Cervantes, Academic Achievement of Latino Students in the Lennox School District |
Legal Studies Senior Thesis Award | Rachel Darby, Compromising Face-to-Face Confrontation: Does the Protected Child Witness Threaten Impartial Juror Decision-Making? |
Lois Langland Psychology Award | Sara Estevez-Cores, Female Political Participation in Women's Colleges vs. Coeducational Institutions |
Lucia Suffel Crafts Award | Sophia Forman, Bringing Back Color, Bringing Back Emotion: Exploring Phenomenological Empathy in The Reclamation of the Female Nude in Painting Devin Grenley, Visual Abstractions: A Close Photographic Reading of the Female Body |
Marguerite Pearson Drama Award | Roxanne Cook, Pitzer College |
Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award | Manon Zouai |
Payton Watkins '09 Media Studies Award | Naomi Moser, A Cautionary Tale Mother to Daughter and Talk Over Me |
Peter Kiang Senior Thesis Prize in Asian American Studies | Catherine Wang, Stress, School Satisfaction, Attitudes Toward Professional Help-Seeking, Levels of Perceived Social Support, and Involvement in Race/Ethnic Based Organizations for Asian Americans at The Claremont Colleges |
Politics and International Relations Senior Thesis Award | Kristie Hernandez, Policing Public Schools: The Multilayered Expansion of the Carceral State in the Los Angeles Unified School District, as a Response to Black and Brown Students' Tradition of Radical Resistance |
Robert B. Palmer Classics Award | Sarah Murtaugh, Gibbon's Guides: The Scholarly Reception of Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea after The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award | Poonam Daryani, Identification and Analysis of Contextual Factors Impacting Polytobacco Use Among Young Adult South Asians |
Sallie Suzanne Tiernan Memorial Award | Michelle Christovich |
Sara Ladwig Prize in Italian Studies | Kelsey Frost, Who Are We?: Linguistic Choices and the Italian Immigrant in Latin America's Construction of Identity |
Slocum Award(s) | Ann Mayhew, From Otranto to the Overlook: A Collection of Gothic and Horror |
Sybil Smith Memorial Latin Prize | Kathleen LaManna, Power and Nostalgia in Eras of Cultural Rebirth: The Timeless Allure of the Farnese Antinous |
Writing Program Thesis Award | Ann Dreshfield, All Are Finally Fictions: Fan Fiction as Creative Empowerment Through the Re-Writing of "Reality" Lauren Ellzey, If Women Were Moments: A Novel |
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