Deans' & Chancellor's Awards 2019-2020
The Deans’ and Chancellor’s Awards encourage and stimulate outstanding scholarship and creativity among undergraduate students, based on work developed in courses or programs in the normal pattern of 2019-2020 academic activity at UC Santa Cruz.
Ten undergraduate projects from the Humanities Division received a Deans’ Award, and three Chancellor’s Awardees were selected from the Deans’ Award recipients.
CHANCELLOR'S AWARD RECIPIENTS 2019-2020
SAMRAWIT TARIKU AYELE
Philosophy
“One Does Not Simply Define Memes: A Prototypical Theory to Understanding Internet Memes”
IRMA BARBOSA
Feminist Studies
“Pure Potential”
ANGELA CORTES
History
“An Intellectual History of Public Discourse in the Post-Civil War Era: Infanticide and Emerging Reproductive Regulations”
SAMRAWIT TARIKU AYELE
Philosophy
“One Does Not Simply Define Memes: A Prototypical Theory to Understanding Internet Memes”
IRMA BARBOSA
Feminist Studies
“Pure Potential”
ANGELA CORTES
History
“An Intellectual History of Public Discourse in the Post-Civil War Era: Infanticide and Emerging Reproductive Regulations”
CYNTHIA LISSETE GONZALEZ
Philosophy/Literature
“Aristotle’s Politics and The Charge of Egoism”
CLARA MCMAHAN
Linguistics
“A Pragmatic Account of Singular They”
LANDON AUSTIN MITCHELL
Philosophy
“Goodness without God is Good Enough”
FARRAH SAFARI
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
“The Grey Area: Rethinking the Problem of the Color Line in Vietnam War-era Korea and Japan”
MAX TARLOV
Linguistics
“Properties of Match and Align in Kinyambo”
BAILEY JONATHAN TROTH
History
“A Vice Contrary to Nation: The Emerging Heteronormative Nationalism of the French Revolution”
CHARLES WAGONER
History
“The Far Eastern Republic and Historical Memory”
DEANS' AWARD RECIPIENTS 2019-2020
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