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  • Humanities Division Undergraduate Department Awards

     

    • Feminist Studies Department

  • ASHLEY N. MARSHALL

    ashley-marshall.jpeg2023 21st Century Feminist Scholars Award

    Ashley N. Marshall is a herbalist, mother, poet, and transfer student currently double majoring in Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies with a minor in Literature. She has a love and passion for higher learning. She plans to eventually attend graduate school after graduating from UCSC to further her literary analysis and learn to fulfill her dreams of teaching feminist literary retellings of African and Greek mythology. She desires to explore how mythological story retellings can forge new forms of self-identity, cultural blending, and belonging through literary expressions. Ashley spends time outdoors, connecting with nature through foraging pursuits and self-taught wild herbal crafts when she is not busy in deep academic study.

     

  • YAMILETH NAJERA

    2023 Sabrina Greenfield Memorial Award

     

  • ANN C. NILAND

    123.png 2023 21st Century Feminist Scholars Award, 2022/2023 Baskin Feminist Scholars Transfer Program Scholarship

    Ann Niland’s work seeks to analyze substantive character shifts that occur when a Science Fiction or Fantasy novel is adapted to the screen. The two research papers they have completed work through the Feminist lens to consider the intersections of literature, politics, neuroscience, film, digital media, and the ever-liminal space of what is considered mainstream. In the Fall of 2023, they will continue their research at the graduate level alongside other scholars engaged in the topic of adaptation at ENMU.

     

    • History Department

  • OWEN COOKSY

    cooksy-owen_412---owen-cooksy.jpg Linda Peterson Award in History of Nationalism

    Owen Cooksy is a graduating student of European and Eurasian history. His focus is on nationalism, state development, and languages. In addition to studying history, he has worked on education policy, international political violence journalism, and classical languages. He plans to continue research and promote knowledge of and participation in public history.

     

  • THOMAS FREIBURGER

    Linda Peterson Award in Cultural History

     

  • ELINA JUVONEN

    elina---elina-juvonen.jpeg Linda Peterson Award in Social History; History Department Hitchcock Award.

    Elina is a fourth year history and anthropology double major. During her time at UCSC, she has worked with the Okinawa Memories Initiative on archival and exhibits projects, and worked as the lead intern 2021-2023. Her research focuses on women's history and historical memory.

     

  • RUSSELL MOORE

    headshot---russell-moore.jpg History Department Linda Peterson Award in Infrastructural History and Urbanism

    I am a senior history major, primarily focusing on the industrial history of the US West. History has been a lifelong passion, and I am very grateful that I have been able to study it in college. I have been working at the California State Railroad Museum for almost three years, first as an intern and now a researcher and restoration specialist. Studying history and working at the museum has been a dream come true and I hope that I can continue my research on the impacts of industrial settler colonialism after graduation.

     

  • CLAIRE MORGAN

    6c264de9-60de-4646-834d-25f7ddcf4967---claire-morgan.jpg Linda Peterson Award in Material History

     

  • ARIK TALMON

    History Department Linda Peterson Award in Political History

     

  • HANA VRABLIK

    Linda Peterson Award in Multi-Species History

     

    • Jewish Studies

  • HEXE HARVEY

    2023 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Award

    "Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Fourth Reich"

     

  • RACHEL LEDEBOER

    2023 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Award

    "The Comedy of Carrie Fisher"

     

  • SHAVIT MELAMED

    2023 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Award

    "Mel Brooks's Legacy as a Pinnacle of Jewish Comedy"

     

  • JACOB PRESS

    2023 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Award

    "Jewish Diaspora in Colonial Jamaica and New York"

     

    • Languages and Applied Linguistics Department

  • REESE FRITCH

    Applied Linguistics

    Achim Perner Memorial Grant

     

  • CHAHA MUKHERJEE

    Applied Linguistics

    Achim Perner Memorial Grant

     

    • Literature Department

  • LILA MANDROS BELL

    Best Undergraduate Essay in Spanish (Critical), "Cuerpos hecho de texto: Como Mariana Enriquez refleja el trauma histórico de Argentina en sus cuentos"

     

  • LIA BONVER

    Best Undergraduate Essay, "Medea In-between"

     

  • GABRIEL CEBALLOS

    Best Undergraduate Creative Writing in Spanish or dual-languge format, "La Respuesta a Sor Juana y los EE. UU."

     

  • CARLY HEAGARTY

    Best Senior Essay, "Reconceptualizing the Ethic of Care Amidst Ecological Crisis"

     

  • LENA THAW

    Best Undergrad Essay, "Voyage of the Sable Venus: How the Intersectionality Between Race and Gender Has Shaped the Iconology of the Black Woman Figure."