The following Harvard College seniors have been named Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winners for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19. The recipients, including their research and advisers, are as follows:
Andersson, David for his submission titled “‘This Train Is Not a Playground’: Improv Everywhere and Urban Public Pranks” — nominated by Kiku Adatto
Atreya, Meera for her submission titled “Engineering Recombinase Enzymes to Emulate the CCR5-delta32 Mutation Conferring Resistance to HIV-1 Infection” — nominated by Professor David Liu
Barbieri, Pierpaolo for his submission titled “For Glory, for Money: Determinants of Fascist Intervention in the Spanish Civil War” — nominated by Professor Niall Ferguson and Professor Charles Maier
Barnett-Hart, Anna Katherine for her submission titled “The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis” — nominated by Professor Efraim Benmelech
Bartlett, Megan for her submission titled “The Impact of Physiological Adaptation on the Biodiversity of the Dipterocarpaceae at the Lambir Hills Tropical Forest Site” — nominated by Professor Noel Holbrook
Becker, Justin for his submission titled “Budding Yeast Bub1 and Sgo1 Have an Ip11-Independent Role in Promoting Sister-Chromatid Bi-Orientation That Is Essential in Cells of Higher Ploidy” — nominated by Professor David Pellman
Bluestone, Hattie for her submission titled “The Milk in the Pail” — nominated by Professor Stephen Marglin
Bollard, Lewis for his submission titled “Three Cages: The Animal Rights Movement and Corporate Reform in America” — nominated by John McMillian
Bronowicka, Joanna for her submission titled “A Fever of Hope: The Role of Emotions in the Sans-Papiers Movement in France” — nominated by Nicole Newendorp
Chen, William for his submission titled “Kinetic Measurements of Mitochondrial Respiration” — nominated by Professor Vamsi Mootha
Cheng, Jane for her submission titled “Imitation as Innovation: The Imitatio Christi 1450-1550” — nominated by Professor Jeffrey Hamburger
Clarke, Killian for his submission titled “Saying ‘Enough’: The Impact of Authoritarianism in Egypt on the Kefaya Movement” — nominated by Professor Jocelyn Viterna and Professor Emad Shahin
Duncan, Julie for her submission titled “Faith Displayed as Science: The Role of the ‘Creation Museum’ in the Modern American Creationist Movement” — nominated by Professor Janet Browne
Fisher, Marina for her submission titled “The Accusative and Infinitive Construction in Latin: An Integrated Approach” — nominated by Dianne Jonas
Fu, Roger for his submission titled “On the Interiors of the Water-Rich Super-Earths” — nominated by Professor Richard O’Connell
Goldschmidt, James for his submission titled “Sozzini’s Jerusalem: Civic Biography and ‘City as She’ in Alessandro di Girolamo Sozzini’s Diario delle Cose Avvenute in Siena (1587)” — nominated by Sally Livingston
Hagan, Kimberly for her submission titled “Considerations of Space in Zapatista Literature” — nominated by Rani Neutill
Hall, Matthew for his submission titled “Syntax, Time, and the Experience of Musical Meaning” — nominated by Professor Christopher Hasty
Hendren, Jeremiah for his submission titled “Two-Dimensional: Radical Subjectivity in the Early Marcuse” — nominated by Thomas Ponniah
Hinshelwood, Bradley for his submission titled “John Locke and the Problem of American Slavery” — nominated by Professor Eric Nelson
Hsu, Tiffanie for her submission titled “Three Beauties” [an animated film] — nominated by Professor Ruth Lingford
Huang, Ana for her submission titled “On the Surface: Conceptualizing Gender and Subjectivity in Chinese Lesbian Culture” — nominated by Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi
Hwang, Jung Eun for her submission titled “MIT or Tsinghua? A Panel Data Analysis of the Determinants of Domestic Higher Education and International Student Mobility” — nominated by Professor Richard Freeman
Jonke, Kevin for his submission titled “Hope Against Hope: The Unintended Consequences of Public Housing Policy in Mission Hill” — nominated by Professor Robert Sampson
Junior, Jean for her submission titled “The Gendered Experiences of African Physician Immigrants to the U.S.” — nominated by Professor Mary Waters
Kelley, Russell Phelps for his submission titled “Modulation of Gag-Specific Cellular Immune Responses to Prototype HIV Vaccines by Toll-Like Receptor Ligands in Mice” — nominated by Professor Dan Barouch
Kester, Kirsten for her submission titled “Investigating Genetic Variation in the Bacterial Symbionts of the Deep-Sea Mussel, Bathmodiolus thermophilus (Bivalvia: Mollusca)” — nominated by Professor Colleen Cavanaugh
Kim, Audrey for her submission titled “Crediting Empire: Politics, Policies and Perceptions of Japan in the London Bond Market (1900-1914)” — nominated by Professor Niall Ferguson
Kim, June-Ho for his submission titled “The Role of an Alternatively Translated Intracellular Isoform of Osteopontin in T Helper Cell Polarization” — nominated by Professor Harvey Cantor
Kimmey, Roy for his submission titled “Johnny Rotten Behind the Berlin Wall: Punk in East Germany, 1979-1989” — nominated by Professor Jonathan Bolton and Professor Alexander Rehding
Knickman, Teresa Anne for her submission titled “More Dead Than Dead: Perceived Mind of the Persistent Vegetative State” — nominated by Professor Daniel Wegner
Kominers, Scott Duke for his submission titled “Weighted Generating Functions and Configuration Results for Type II Lattices and Codes” — nominated by Professor Noam Elkies
Kornbluh, Evan for his submission titled “On the Margins of Nations: Chinese Factional Conflict and the Mexican State, 1911-1931” — nominated by Robert Karl
Laubacher, Grace for her submission titled “The Shock of the (De) Familiar: The Social Importance of Production Design in Julie Taymor’s Titus” — nominated by Professor David Rodowick
Lee, Stella for her submission titled “Thermotactic Navigation and Behavioral Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans” — nominated by Professor Aravinthan Samuel
Lei, Ying-Qui-Qi “Chelsea” for her submission titled “A World of Crisis: A Social Theoretic Reflection Through Conceptual Analysis of ‘Crisis’ and Weiji” — nominated by Paulo Barrozo
Leopando, Paul Jeffrey R. for his submission titled “‘Protected by Angels’: Ecology and Spirituality in a North European Intentional Community” — nominated by Professor Sheila Jasanoff
Li, Albert for his submission titled “Structural Studies of TRPV1 Activation by Capsaicin” — nominated by Professor Rachelle Gaudet
Li, Xianlin for her submission titled “Expression of the Ovarian Cancer Side-Population Is Induced by the Presence of Angiogenic Growth Factors” — nominated by Professor David MacLaughlin
Loh, Shi Lin for her submission titled “Commemorating Cities: The Divergent Legacies of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Postwar Japan, 1945 to the 1990s” — nominated by Professor Andrew Gordon and Jeremy Yellen
Lovely, Karen for her submission titled “Issues of Captivity and Conservation Surrounding Pantherine Cats with a Focus on the Lion (Panthera leo) and the Tiger (Panthera tigris)” — nominated by Professor David Haig
Malin, Jennifer for her submission titled “Grace Church” [a documentary film] — nominated by Professor Ross McElwee
Manning, Sara Aviva for her submission titled “The Great Wall of Bacteria: Discovery of Intrinsic Glycan Chain Length Biases in Penicillin-Binding Proteins” — nominated by Professor Daniel Kahne
McEachern, Firth MacKenzie for his submission titled “Dynamical Evolution of the Hungaria Asteroids” — nominated by Professor Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay and Professor Irwin Shapiro
Menand, Lev for his submission titled “Moving the World from a Point Within It: Reinterpreting the Origins of Rational Choice Theory in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought” — nominated by Professor Richard Tuck
Mendelsohn, Alana for her submission titled “Characterization of Premature Axon Branching in the Developing Mammalian Peripheral Nervous System” — nominated by Professor Jeff Lichtman
Mendy, Ana Ines for her submission titled “The Origins of Dominican Anti-Haitianismo: The Effects of the Haitian Revolution on Dominican National Identity (1791-1801)” — nominated by Professor Vincent Brown
Miller, Christopher for his submission titled “The Bank of England’s Response to Panic in the 19th Century” — nominated by Kathryn Boodry and Professor Charles Maier
Miller, James for his submission titled “Defining Herpes: Pharmaceuticals, Physicians, and Patients in the Post-Antiviral Era” — nominated by Professor Scott Podolsky
Muigai, Wangui for her submission titled “‘The New Emancipation’: Birth Control in the Black Community and the Story of the Harlem Branch Birth Control Clinic” — nominated by Dean Evelynn Hammonds
Nathan, Noah for his submission titled “Institutional Change, Ethnic Identity, and Conflict in Northern Ghana” — nominated by Professor Nahomi Ichino
Nauert, Paul for his submission titled “‘A Hard Glory’: Discovering the Contemporary Catholic Worker Movement’s Alternative Logic of Modernity” — nominated by Timothy McCarthy
Nikolova, Yuliya for her submission titled “The Effects of Naturalistic Stress and Serotonin Transporter (5-HTT) Genotype on Reward Responsiveness: Implications for Depression” — nominated by Professor Diego Pizzagalli and Professor Ryan Bogdan
Owens, Boyce Robert for his submission titled “The Structure of Social Reaction: Critical Response and the Creation of ‘Parsonianism’” — nominated by Professor Andrew Jewett
Ransohoff, Nan for her submission titled “The Religious Underpinnings of Vibrant Civil Societies” — nominated by Professor Robert Putnam
Rasmussen, Daniel for his submission titled “Violent Visions: Slaves, Sugar and the 1811 German Coast Uprising” — nominated by Professor Susan O’Donovan and Daniel Wewers
Redlick, Charles for his submission titled “Average Marginal Tax Rates in the United States: A New Empirical Study of their Predictability and Macroeconomic Effects, 1913 – 2006” — nominated by Professor Robert Barro
Renaud, Julia for her submission titled “Mining the Past: The Culture of History in Virginia City, Nevada” — nominated by Steven Biel
Rossi, Peter Justin for his submission titled “Piracy and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean, 1600-1620” — nominated by Alexander F.M. More
Schachter, Michael for his submission titled “‘The Ten Plagues’ — A Creative Composition for Small Jazz Ensemble” — nominated by Nicholas Vines
Schoefer, Benjamin for his submission titled “Regulation and Taxation: A Complementarity” — nominated by Professor Andrei Shleifer
Serrano, Wilmarie Cidre for her submission titled “From Nursing to Nursing Home: Catalonia’s Changing Language Ideologies” — nominated by Professor Michael Herzfeld
Shah, Shrenik for his submission titled “Framed Deformation and Modularity” — nominated by Professor Richard Taylor
Sheffield, John for his submission titled “The Anatomy of the Iron Fist: Police Violence in Democratic Latin America” — nominated by Professor Steven Levitsky
Singerman, Adam for his submission titled “The Influence of Spanish on the Numeral System of Tz’utujil Maya” — nominated by Professor Gary Urton
Snidow, John James for his submission titled “Rich Land, Rich Country, Poor People: The Effects of Coal Endowment on Income and Local Institutions in the United States” — nominated by Professor Nathan Nunn
Spellberg, Matthew for his submission titled “Art and Dream in Marcel Proust” — nominated by Professor Philip Fisher
Speri, Alice for her submission titled “From the Poet to the People: Resistance, Criticism and Palestinian Identity in the Writing of Mahmoud Darwish” — nominated by Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Srinivas, Megan for her submission titled “Evolution and Malaria: A Battle for Survival” — nominated by Professor Charles Nunn
Taubinsky, Dmitry for his submission titled “Self-Justification and Subjective Updating” — nominated by Professor David Laibson
Tischfield, David for his submission titled “A Role for Retinoid-related Orphan Receptor b (RORb) in Somatosensory Cortex Development” — nominated by Professor Jeffery Macklis
Tramer, Ava for her submission titled “How to Become a Television Writer: Building a Career in an Unstable Labor Market in Hollywood” — nominated by David Ager and Matthew Kalliner
Trowbridge, Sara for her submission titled “Silverb, a Gene Expressed in the Zebrafish Retinal Pigment Epithelium, Is Required for Normal Retinal Lamination and Differentiation” — nominated by Professor John Dowling
Weissbourd, Brandon for his submission titled “Neural Systems Targeted by Imprinted Genes in the Mammalian CNS” — nominated by Professor Catherine Dulac
Wernerfelt, Nils for his submission titled “The Evolution of Cooperation on Dynamic Graphs” — nominated by Corina Tarnita
Wheeler, Adam for his submission titled “The Mapping of an Ideological Demesne: Space, Place, and Text From More to Marvell” — nominated by Suparna Roychoudhury
Xu, Yunxue for her submission titled “The Guizhou, China Campaign to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: A Case Study of Social Mobilization in Public Health” — nominated by Professor Arthur Kleinman
Yang, Jimmy for his submission titled “Discovery, Synthesis, and Steps Towards Target Identification of the Novel 2-amino-3-hydroxyindole Anti-Malarial Drug Class” — nominated by Professor Jon Clardy
Yao, Norman for his submission titled “Nonlinear Mechanics of Biopolymer Network” — nominated by Professor David Weitz
Young, Charles for his submission titled “My Empty Top Hat: A Memoir” — nominated by Darcy Frey
Zafran, Jarret for his submission titled “Beyond the Breakthrough: Do Campaign Styles Shape How Black Mayors Govern?” — nominated by Daniel Hopkins
Zamore, Leah for her submission titled “We Can No Longer Wait: The UN Refugee Agency and Involuntary Repatriation Refugees” — nominated by Jacqueline Bhabha
Zhulina, Olga for her submission titled “Love Between Languages: Translation in Andreï Makine’s ‘Le testament français’” — nominated by Stephanie Lin