Scripps College Spring Awards Convocation 2022

GARRISON THEATER 2:00 P.M., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2022

GUEST SPEAKER MARK GOLUB Associate Professor of Politics

SCRIPPS COLLEGE

SENIOR AWARDS CONVOCATION 2022

PROGRAM Welcome Amy Marcus-Newhall, Interim President Introduction of the Speaker Maya Lynch, 2021-22 President Scripps Associated Students “PANDEMIC, STOLEN LIFE, AND A POLITICS OF CARE” Mark Golub “Pandemic, Stolen Life, and a Politics of Care” Professor of Politics Presentation of the Senior Class Gift Elizabeth Howell-Egan and Uma Nagarajan-Swenson Members, Senior Class Gift Committee Recognition of Students and Presentation of Awards Amy Marcus-Newhall, Interim President Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert, Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Kendra Pineda, Director, Alumnae Engagement Marina Muncan, Head Cross Country Coach Charlie Griffiths, Head Swimming Coach

Awards & Recipients Fulbright Scholar Awards The Fulbright Program was established by Congress in 1961 to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” Although the majority of grants are for graduate students, a small number of awards are reserved for graduating seniors who wish to further their studies or teach English abroad.

Anna Burns Study/Research in Germany, “Strategies for Peatland Rewetting: Linking Greenhouse Gases, Soil Microbiome, and Plants” Nikita Chinamanthur English Teaching Assistantship in North Macedonia (May '22)

Davis Projects for Peace Award The Davis Projects for Peace program supports undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to propose grassroots projects that they will implemented during the summer of 2020 and 2021. The objective is to encourage and support today's motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.

Sarah Meadows “Creating Greater Opportunities for Accessibility, Teamwork, and Sustainability (GOATS) in a Rural Northern California Community” Elena Lev “EstudiAmigos/Study Buddies: Building Community and Resilience with Low-Income Students in Northern California”

Critical Language Scholarship Program Award Petie Schill

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Award Nyarai Khepra

Napier Fellow Award Each of the Claremont Colleges may nominate annually up to three seniors to be Napier Fellows. These are students who have the proven ability to provide leadership for social change and are proposing a project they would like to carry out after graduation. All those nominated are encouraged to work with a mentor at Pilgrim Place, a service-oriented retirement community in Claremont, California.

Anna Burns “Strategies for Peatland Rewetting: Linking Greenhouse Gases, Soil Microbiome, and Plants,” research conducted in Germany Abigail Power “Nepal Community-based Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change”

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a one-year grant for purposeful, independent study outside the United States, awarded to graduating seniors nominated by one of 40 partner colleges.

Sylvie Alexander “Seaweed, Society, and Climate Solutions” in Norway, France, Chile, Tanzania, and Japan

We Act Grants from the Laspa Center for Leadership Clare Boldt Conducted research in partnership with the Claremont Autism Center and CGU, "Using Behaviorally Based Intervention to Promote Positive Sibling Interactions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder".

Aya Burton Led a team of students to produce a summer version of the Weekly Writing Workshop (“3W”) summer session, in partnership with Uncommon Good, a community-based organization that supports the Pomona Valley area.

Sabrina Lieu In partnership with Parktree Community Health Center (PCHC) and Claremont Students for Public Health, led a team of students to create “Health4All”, addressing health disparity in the Pomona community by equipping residents with fundamental medical skills.

Phi Beta Kappa The Theta of California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Scripps College in 1962. Seniors are elected to membership on the basis of their academic standing and the regulations for eligibility established by the chapter and the national society.

Lee Beckwith Alejandra Blackmore Lauren Braswell Anna Burns Hanna Cho Grace Corrigan Julia Didziulis Maya Edstrom Aditi Indu Garg Alice Giuffredi Clara Grim Hannah Grunow Siena Hinshelwood Megan Itagak Lilin Keicho Molly Lazarus Wendy Li Sophia Liles

Kendall Lowery Emily Lu Eden Mahdavi Sophia Maisterra Navratil Sasha Marlan-Librett

Catherine Mayer Olivia McGrath Ella Murdock Gardner Hayley Pierpont Emma Reder Sarah Safford Sophia Schwartsman Kathryn Sensenig Anaga Srinivas Candace Tsai Abigail Tulenko Camille Ylagan

Phi Alpha Theta Phi Alpha Theta is a national honor society in history. Students who meet the criteria are invited to join.

Helen Anderson Marcella Cannatti Siena Hinshelwood Margaret Kraus Molly Lazarus Kathleen McHale Juliana Messina Sarah Seaver Aileen Villa

Psi Chi Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to undergraduate and graduate students who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications.

Lauren Braswell Grace Corrigan Valerie Jackman

Sophia Liles Jessica Salaz Sophie Wilks

Sigma Delta Pi The National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi is a national honorary Spanish society. Juniors and seniors are elected to membership on the basis of academic standing.

Siena Hinshelwood Estrella González Saldana Olivia Klein Elena Lev Petie Schill

Sigma Xi The Claremont Colleges Club of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, elects seniors to associate membership in the national society on the basis of outstanding aptitude for scientific research and achievement in science.

Clare Boldt Elisabeth Lawton Eden Mahdavi

Rebecca Mamlet Camille Ylagan Wenxuan Zhang

Annual Alumnae Award Each year the Scripps College Alumnae Association presents this award to one or more seniors in recognition of outstanding contributions to the life of the College.

Maddie Moore Binita Pandya

Alumnae Athletic Award This award is funded in part by the parents of Mollie Clyde Wilson ’32, and is given for excellence in athletics by the Scripps College Alumnae Association.

Ava Sealander

Anthropology Senior Thesis Award This award recognizes the senior thesis in anthropology that best engages all aspects of the ethnographic process, from conception to fieldwork to analysis and final written presentation.

Yufei Guo A Doujin Dream of Freedom and Love: An Analysis of Young Chinese Women's Online Fanfiction Culture

The Paul R. Bishop Memorial Award The Paul R. Bishop Memorial Award in Choral and Vocal Music will go to a student who exhibits exemplary work in the choral and vocal areas of the Scripps College Music Department and the Joint Music Program.

Mairead Brownell Thomas Fleming Tom Fu Thuy-Linh Le

Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award The Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award was established in 2006 by Thierry Boucquey, a current Professor of French at the College, in honor of his daughters. The scholarship annually recognizes a senior student athlete who was distinguished during four years of athletic eligibility by an outstanding performance or other extraordinary achievement or distinction in one of CMS’ competitive sports, while concurrently earning a minimum cumulative GPA of A-. The student is selected by the Joint Athletics (CMS) coaching staff.

Riley Harmon

Crombie Allen Award This award, presented for the best creative written work: essay, short story, poetry, or play, was established in 1927 by Mr. Crombie Allen, a former editor of the Ontario Daily Report.

Ella Murdock Gardner Virginia Woolf and the Consolations of Abstraction

Loralyn Ledwell Cropper ’84 Dance Award Established by the Class of 1984 in memory of their classmate Loralyn Ledwell Cropper, this award is given to an outstanding Scripps College senior whose persistence, creative spirit, and passion for dance reflects the high standards of its namesake.

Sasha Marlan-Librett THE DANCER’S STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN PERFORMANCE: A DISTINCT WAY OF EXPERIENCING NON-REIFIED AND REIFIED, REFLECTIVE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS: Phenomenological Descriptions and Performance Research

English Senior Thesis Award This award recognizes the English senior thesis that best meets the criteria of an important, well-sustained, and cogently developed argument; of thoughtful, discriminating use of secondary sources; of thoroughness of research; and of excellence in writing.

Aya Burton Other Meadows: Poems Ella Murdock Gardner Virginia Woolf and the Consolations of Abstraction

The Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department Award This award recognizes the accomplishments of a graduating senior majoring in FGSS who has significantly contributed to the department through the quality of academic work, the collegiality of interactions, and commitment to the advancement of feminist ideals.

Anwen Jones Chronic.

The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Scholarship The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Scholarship is funded by the Jungels-Winkler Charitable Foundation in London to support a Scripps student who is admitted to the MA program in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The scholarship covers tuition, fees, and a year's living stipend.

Hayley Pierpont Mothers Behind Cameras: Mother-Artist, Mother-Child Dyads in Sally Mann's Immediate Family and Elinor Carucci's Mother

The History Senior Thesis Award This award is presented by the History Department faculty for the best senior thesis in history and its related disciplines.

Siena Hinshelwood The Struggle For Land In Nineteenth-Century Bolivia: Triangulating Indigenous Demands Between the Republican and Colonial States Kate McHale Domestic Arts, Dates, Drugs, And Dress Codes: Scripps College’s Early Attitudes Towards Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Education.

Sarah Ladwig Prize in Italian Studies This award was established to honor the memory of Sara Ladwig, who taught Italian for many years at Mt. San Antonio College. It is awarded to a student who is studying or has studied Italian (at the upper division level) and who, through a student’s course work, demonstrates an in-depth interest in a particular aspect of Italian culture, literature, history, or politics. The prize is used to support travel to/from Italy during the summer, or provide additional support for study abroad programs.

Petie Schill Pensarse en la cocina: un análisis gastrónomico de la "europeidad" en la literatura española e italiana de los migrantes

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Senior Thesis Award This award is presented by the Latin American Studies faculty for the best senior thesis in Latin American and Caribbean studies.

Sarah Safford Empire of Peace: Constructing Benevolence and Violence in the Peace Corps in Latin America,” Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Legal Studies Senior Thesis Award This award is presented for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in legal studies.

Nathalie Marx What We Are Owed: The Possibilities of a Civil Law Response to Sexual Injuries

The Lind Family Prize in Mathematics in Honor of Mary Barron and Professor Louis Barron This award is designated in loving memory by their nephew, Matthew M. Lind, parent of Katy Lind ’06. The prize is awarded to an outstanding senior who is a math major.

Rebecca Mamlet Interpolation in the p-adics

Barbara McClintock Science Award The Barbara McClintock Science Award, named for America’s first woman Nobel Laureate, was established in 1991 in honor of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The prize is awarded for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in the sciences.

Eden Mahdavi Investigating Reproductive Protein Evolution in Native Monkeyflowers

Robert B. Palmer Classics Award This award, established in memory of the late Robert B. Palmer, Trustee Professor of Classical Studies at Scripps from 1949 to 1977, is awarded to students who have displayed distinguished scholarship and promise in their studies of the classics.

Blaike Cheramie ΕΠΟΣ: A Musical Concept Album of Homer’s Iliad

Payton Watkins ’09 Media Studies Award The Watkins Award recognizes the accomplishments of a Scripps graduating senior majoring in media studies who has significantly contributed to the Intercollegiate Media Studies program through the quality of academic work, committed exploration of creative possibilities, and the mastery of chosen media as a means for issuing social thought.

Alejandra Blackmore Seaglass: An Animated Rejection of Narrative Permanence

Middle East and North Africa Studies Senior Thesis Award This award recognizes a senior thesis in Middle East and North Africa Studies that demonstrates the best of interdisciplinary studies by drawing on multiple modes of analysis to illuminate a research problem related to the region in a sophisticated and thorough manner.

Julia Brock No Laughing Matter: Political Humor and Media in Egypt’s January 25th Revolution

The Padelford French Award Established in memory of Louise Restieaux Hawkes Padelford, Assistant Professor of French from 1929 to 1931 and trustee emerita.

The book award is given to an outstanding Scripps College senior who is distinguished in French Studies. The student is selected by the French faculty.

Hannah Grunow

La totalité et l’universalité : Une musique surréaliste et l’histoire de l’esthétique

Marguerite Pearson Drama Award Mrs. Lillian Grey established this award in 1974 to commemorate the life-long interest in drama of her sister, Marguerite Pearson.

Students are selected on the basis of their contributions in one or more fields of dramatic art.

Roei Cohen PO ‘22 Owen Halstad PO ‘22

The Politics and International Relations Senior Thesis Award The award is presented for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in politics and international relations.

Emilie Hu The Struggle to Attain Justice for Former “Comfort Women” in Taiwan: Conflicting Agendas and a Lack of Historical Consensus

Edith Potter German Award The Edith Potter German Award is given to one or more students majoring in German or German Studies. This award honors Edith Potter, the late professor of German, who retired in 1990 after 23 years of teaching at Scripps College.

Anna Burns Examining Soil Microbial Biodiversity in Transition Zones between Corn Fields and Restored Prairie in the Upper Midwest Moriah Irving Theory of Mind in the Interactive Tiger Task Daniel Molina PZ ‘22 Man Enough? An Analysis of Cisgender and Transgender Men’s Responses to Masculinity Threat The Lois Langland Psychology Award This award, named in honor of Lois Langland, Professor Emerita of Psychology who retired from Scripps after 20 years of teaching, is given annually to one or more students majoring in psychology who wish to study the attributes and functioning of women in their various capacities as individuals and as members of society.

Grace Corrigan Pitch perfect: Impression formation and impression management in women’s pitch modulation Sophie Liles Lady lions, lady tigers, and lady bears, oh my! Naming female athletic teams with ‘Lady’

The Margaret Siler Faust Psychology Senior Thesis Award This award, named in honor of Margaret Siler Faust, Professor Emerita of Psychology, who retired from Scripps College after more than 30 years of teaching and research in psychological science, is given to the senior whose thesis best exemplifies the use of careful, empirical research to address important psychological questions about human behavior and experience.

Molly Lazarus What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? Stress inoculation and allostatic load Slocum Award The Slocum Award was established in 1936 by Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Slocum, whose two daughters attended Scripps. This award is presented annually to the senior who has formed the best personal library during four years of college.

Kristina Torres No Soy de Aquí Ni Soy de Allà: A Nuyorican Awakening

The Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures Senior Thesis Award This award is presented by the Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures faculty for the best senior thesis in Spanish and its related disciplines.

Estrella González Saldana Navegando Phoenix en la Comunidad Hispanohablante: El uso de los señalamientos de tráfico como una herramienta del racismo lingüístico y como la comunidad hispanohablante lo combate

Sybil Smith Memorial Prize in Latin This award is given annually to outstanding classics majors who are preparing for professional careers in the classics.

James Kleerup All that Remains of Husband

Lucia Suffel Crafts Award Established in 1973 in memory of Lucia Suffel of the class of 1960, this award is given annually to an outstanding student in the field of art.

Sophia Doane CMC ’22 Interfaces - an experimental video installation exploring the new cyborg human condition.

Margaret Kraus Face to Face – a photographic exploration of the Other(s) within herself.

Sallie Suzanne Tiernan Memorial Award Sallie Tiernan Reynolds attended Scripps College before graduating from Stanford University in 1945 with a degree in chemical engineering. She was one of four women to graduate from the first law school class of UCLA in 1953 and served on the Scripps Board of Trustees for over four decades. The award is given to a student who will be attending law school.

Elizabeth Howell-Egan

Edward A. White Award in American Studies This award was established in 1976 as an appropriate honor to Edward A. White, the late Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor Emeritus of History and Biography at Scripps College, and is given to a senior who has done outstanding work in the study of the United States and its history, culture, or politics.

Catherine Mayer Learning Towards Liberation: A Comparative Analysis of Grassroots and Non-profit Education Programs in the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Eras Katy Thomason Who Do You Serve? How Philanthropic Power and Transnational Solidarity Shape the Institutional Battle Over Jewish American Identity

Kathleen Wicker Religious Studies Senior Thesis Award This award was established in 2003 by Professor Kathleen O’Brien Wicker and Religious Studies students to recognize the senior thesis that best deals critically and insightfully with a topic in the area of religion.

Sarah Seaver Between the Borderlands of Sainthood: Embracing Queer Gendered Liminality in the Vitae of Early Female Christian Saints.

Writing Program Thesis Award This award is presented by the Writing Program faculty for the best senior thesis produced by a self-designed writing major.

Anwen Jones Chronic.

Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award The Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award, named for the 1977 Nobel Laureate, was established in 1991 in honor of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The prize goes to a graduating Scripps science major with the highest GPA. Sabrina Lieu The Effects of Psychological Stress on Gut Microbial Populations in Immigrants: How U.S. Policy & Structure Manifest in Immigrant Health