Hoopes Prize Recognize Outstanding Senior Theses

Thomas T. Hoopes Prizes are given to undergraduates, along with their academic supervisors, to recognize outstanding scholarly work.

The students receive $2,500 prizes while their supervisors receive $750. The following are the winning students, who are listed along with their senior thesis titles and supervisors:

Noel Catharine Allen '96, "The Destruction of Self: The Poetry of Olga Orozco" -- Assistant Professor Bruno G. Bosteels

David Eric Benjamin '96, "Report From Iron Mountain: A Look at Modern American History, Narrative, and Culture through Extreme Right Use of New Left Text" -- Associate Professor James Goodman

Manjul Bhargava '96, "On P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind-type rings" -- Professor Barry Mazur

Joshua Simon Bloom '96, "Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Standard Candles and Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries as Dynamical Probes" -- Professor Jonathan E. Grindlay

Cliff Wu Chiang '96, " 'If Answerable Style I Can Obtain. . .': An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost" -- Professor Leo Damrosch

Daniel Thomas Chrzanowski '96 ('95), "Fertility in Western Kenya: Engendered Explanation and an Application of Human Rights" -- Donald Warwick, Senior Lecturer

Heather Lenore Clark '96, "Conquest is a lie: Joyce, Irish Identity, and the Politics of the Postcolonial in Araby" -- Dan M. Wiley, Teaching Fellow

Jill Anne Corcoran '96, "Beyond The Bell Curve and 'g': Rethinking Ability and Its Correlates" -- Professor Christopher Winship

Hugh Gordon Eakin '96, "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and Their Patronage" -- Benjamin Schmidt, Lecturer

Steven Andrew Engel '96, "The Legacy of American Hegemony: A Theory of Institutional Change" -- Assistant Professor Marc L. Busch

Eliezer Moshe Finegold '95, "Musika Mizrahit: From the Margins to the Mainstream" -- Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Selena Dawn Fowler '96, "Multiple Heritage Individuals: Patterns of Intergroup Relations and Their Mediating Factors" -- Professor Mary C. Waters

Michael Aaron Gelman '96, "Directed Combinatorial Organic Chemistry in Ligand Design" -- Gregory A. Weiss, Teaching Fellow

Diana Alexandra Gibson '96, "On the History of a Misunderstanding: The Hymenaios and the Etymology of the [hymen] refrain" -- Stephanie W. Jamison, Lecturer

Jay Robert Girotto '96, "How School Policies Can Affect Cognitive Skills: An Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Student Choices" -- Professor Paul E. Peterson

Aaron Philip Goldberg '96, "Naturalism and the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness" -- Professor Robert Nozick

Elissa Lynn Gootman '96, "Dialogue and its Discontents: Israeli and Palestinian Ethnonationalism and the `Therapeutic Paradox'" -- Stanley N. Kurtz, Lecturer

Michael Dan Gordin '96, " 'Trust, but Verify': Sverdlovsk, Yellow Rain, and the Crisis of Biological Arms Control, 1979-1994" -- Professor Everett Mendelsohn

Marya Hill-Popper '96, "From Market Building to Institution Building: The Development of Gender Equality Policy in the European Union" -- Andrew Martin, Research Affiliate

Chimene Ilona Keitner '96, "Revamping the Salomé Myth: The Femme Fatale and Sexual Power in Rachilde" -- Professor Naomi Schor

Thaddeus Benjamin Kousser '96, " 'Treating' the Poor" -- Professor James E. Alt

Alexander George Kozak '96, "The Myth of Hypsipyle in Greek and Roman Poetry" -- Visiting Professor Alessandro Barchiesi

David B. Lat '96, "Language and the Land: The Building of Community in Philippine Postcolonial Anglophone Literature" -- Professor Lawrence Buell

Natan Jaser Leyva '96,"The Tension Between Rights and Democracy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue" -- David Peritz, Teaching Assistant

James Benjamin Loeffler '96, "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945" -- Martin Peretz, Lecturer

Nathan E. Lump '96, " 'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller" -- Professor Joseph C. Harris

Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96, "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home" -- Professor Alan Heimert

James Nicholas Miller '96, " 'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa 1955-1957" -- Assistant Professor John T. McGreevy

Alexandra Marian Molnar '96,"Through the Lens of Tourism: Shaping Identity in a Cretan Town" -- Professor Michael Herzfeld

Roxanne Sui Tze Pan '96, "Searching for the New Citizen: Liang Qichao's Conception of Freedom" -- Professor Peter Bol

Michele Renee Pelot '96, "Mixed Chimerism and Adoptive Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Chronic Leukemias" -- Associate Professor Megan Sykes, HMS

Timothy Fortescue Platts-Mills '96, "Spatial Variation in the Chemical Composition of Surface Waters in the Front Range, Colorado" -- Professor Heinrich D. Holland

Samuel James Rascoff '96, "Cosmopolitan Critic: A Cultural Profile of Moses Ibn Ezra" -- Professor Bernard Septimus

Elizabeth Gayun Rhee '96, " 'Is it Art?': Changing Perceptions of Modernism and the Function of Art by the Public, Critics and Writers in Response to the 1913 Armory Show" -- Martha Jane Nadell, Teaching Fellow

Renee-Ann Richardson '96, "Oh Pressed Hair!: The Politicization of Black Hair Texture as Reflected Through Print Advertisements, 1940-1995" -- Leslie G. Cintron, Teaching Fellow

Catherine Simone Robe '96, "On The World's Stage: Nellie Bly and Nineteenth-Century Stunt Reporting" -- Thomas Edward Augst, Tutor

Jennifer Roost '96, "Calories Controlled: An Improved Approach to the Psychopharmacological Manipulation of Alcohol Preference in an Animal Model" -- Associate Professor Gene M. Heyman

Angela A. Sun '96, "For the Right to Be Heirs: An Examination of the New Territories Land (Exemption) Ordinance as a Case Study of Gender Politics, Village Unity, and the Law" -- Andrew Wilson, Teaching Fellow

Jennifer Tzu-Shuan Sun '96, "The Fourier Transform in Computational Learning Theory" -- Professor L.G. Valiant

Rachel Kerri Teukolsky '96, " 'Brief Exposures': Photography as Thematic and Technique in Joyce's Ulysses" -- Assistant Professor Jonah Siegel

Alice Yen-ping Ting '96, "Part one: New Catalysts for the Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation; Part two: Lanosterol Synthase Studies" -- Professor E.J. Corey

Ramin Toloui '96, "The Bias of Technical Change in Japanese Manufacturing, 1899-1938" -- Professor Jeffrey G. Williamson

Emily Joy Tsai '96, "Neural Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Intensity Discrimination: Responses of Auditory Nerve Fibers to Pure Tone Signals in the Presence of Notched-Noise" -- Associate Professor Bertrand Delgutte, HMS

Emily M. Tucker '96, "Animula Vagula Blandula: A Study in the Use and Formation of the Latin Diminutive" -- Professor Calvert Watkins

Jennifer Michele Ty '96, "Is Walking with Two Cheaper to Do? The Energetic Cost of Walking and Running in a Non-Human Biped" -- Visiting Associate Professor James H. Jones

Balint Virag '96, "Random walks on finite convex sets of lattice points" -- Professor Persi Diaconis

Adam K. Webb '96, "Community, Peasants, and the Shining Path Guerillas: A Field Study in Ayacucho, Peru" -- Professor David Scott Palmer (Boston University)

Geordie Young '96, "The Distribution of Void Sizes During Structure Formation in the Universe" -- Associate Professor Abraham Loeb

Timothy Pan Yu '96, "Angles of Submission: The Poetics and Politics of 'Language' Poetry" -- Joel Greifinger, Teaching Assistant

HONORABLE MENTION

John Alexander Abraham '96, "Regulation of phosphorylation of Microphthalmia by the c-Kit signalling pathway in melanoma cells" -- Assistant Professor David E. Fisher, HMS

Lynn M. Itagaki '96, "Parody and Narrative Doubling in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: Her Fake Book" -- Jonathan Fortescue, Teaching Fellow

Linsey Chen Marr '96, "A Fluorescent Torchiere and Energy Savings at Harvard" -- Professor Frederick H. Abernathy

Jeremy Leander Martin '96, "The Mathieu Group M12 and Conway's M13-Game" -- Professor Noam D. Elkies

Andrew L. Wright '96, " 'The Seeds of History, the License to Invent': Torquato Tasso Between History and Fiction" -- Assistant Professor Laura Benedetti