Scripps College Spring Awards Convocation 2023

GARRISON THEATER 2:00 P.M., SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023

GUEST SPEAKER MICHELLE DECKER Associate Professor of English

SCRIPPS COLLEGE

SENIOR AWARDS CONVOCATION 2023

PROGRAM Welcome Amy Marcus-Newhall, President Introduction of the Speaker Tsion Mamo, 2022-23 President Scripps Associated Students “POETRY IN THE WORLD” Michelle Decker “Poetry in the World” Associate Professor of English Presentation of the Senior Class Gift Tsion Mamo President Scripps Associated Students Recognition of Students and Presentation of Awards Amy Marcus-Newhall, President Jennifer Armstrong, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty

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.

Chanah Haigh English Teaching Assistantship in the Czech Republic Ruby Hoffman English Teaching Assistantship in Germany Clare Martin English Teaching Assistantship in Spain Katalina Peterson English Teaching Assistantship in Spain

Projects for Peace Award The 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 implement during the summer of 2022 and 2023. The objective is to encourage and support today's motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.

Kerry Wong “Cultivating Community Science and Clean Water in Bangkok, Thailand”

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program Kesi Jackson Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program in Portuguese

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Award Tsion Mamo “Political Media: The Role of Fictional Policing on Real Policing Incidents”

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.

Sable Fest Scripps Napier Fellow last year with Pilgrim Place Kerry Wong Scripps Napier Fellow this year with Pilgrim Place

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.

Mouminatou Thiaw “Visual Love Languages: Exploring Creative Contemporary African Arts” Margaret Kraus Multispecies Kinship through the Lens of Urban Animals”

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.

Mariam Abu-Adas Mary Iris Allison Naomi Berkowitz Natalie Chartove Mena Dolinh Isabel Evans Claire Foster Hannah Fowler Amelia Huchley Genevieve Hume Drishya Iyer Anna Jones Katherine Kaidantzis

Miriam Klahr Margaret Kraus Amelie Lee Clare Martin Chigozie Obiegbu Katalina Peterson Juliette Rault-Wang Anna Reitman Gabriella Seifert Anna Theil Lizbeth Valdivia-Jauregui Joni Walsh

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

Mica Barrett Katherine Hansen Maya Pal

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.

Samantha Kinder Hannah Lak Rhea Malhotra Alejandra Mateos Castanon Sara Michael Jenna Nelson

Simran Sachdeva Rebecca Schuyler Kayla Solomon Joni Walsh Katherine Whipple

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.

Anya Blumenfeld Larissa Marie Cursaro Jessica Lyn Fantz-Sands Annika Cheryl Johnson Hannah Lak Elizabeth Matos Hannah Michele Tiedemann

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.

Katherine Hansen Carson McVay

Juliette Rault-Wang Anna Reitman

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.

Mischa Brown Julia Cox Ishi Gupta Gabriella Seifert

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.

Caroline DelVecchio

The Athlete of the Year Award Caroline DelVecchio

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.

Emily Radner “Reframing Type One Diabetes Care: Everyday Rituals at Bearskin Meadow Camp”

The Ament Scholars Award The Ament Scholars Award was established by alumnae of the classes of 1931 through 1947 in memory of Professor of English William Sheffield Ament, a member of the original faculty of Scripps College. The award is given each year to a junior who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship in the Humanities.

Maya Lozinsky “Baba Yaga: an Ecofeminist Analysis of the Witch of the Woods”

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.

Jeannette Hunker "Jeannette Hunker's Senior Recital in Voice Performance"

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.

Caroline DelVecchio

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.

Grace Lyde “The Talk”

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.

Jenna Wu-Cardona

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.

Isabel Evans “Witness For Her”: The Vanderbilt Variant Of “Further in Summer Than the Birds” And The Stakes Of Transcribing Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts For Publication” Anna Jones “Picture Me Like This”

The Frederick Hard Award This award, named in honor of the distinguished Shakespearean scholar who served as president of the College from 1944 through 1964, is presented to a Scripps student for outstanding contributions to our knowledge and appreciation of the Elizabethan Age. Emma Sar “Geoffrey Chaucer: Neither Proto- Nor Anti- Feminist”

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.

Vicky Hsing “Militarism and Colonial Sexology: Comfort Station’s Public Hygiene Management as Remembered by Sanzao Island Residents” .

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.

Sophia Frye “Women’s Work with Wool in Fairy Tales: from Baroque Text to Textile Craft”

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.

Sergio Quechol, PZ ‘23 "On Salva*guardar Embodiment: Transitioning Towards The Grammars of Hearing (& Feeling) The Everyday Pleasures, Joys, and Cares of Trans Salvadoran Women"

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.

Mariam Abu-Adas “Partially Filled Latin Squares”

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.

Gabriella Seifert “Optical Tweezers: Exerting Force with Light”

Agnes Moreland Jackson Outstanding Senior Thesis and Project Awards This award is presented by Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies faculty for the best senior thesis in Africana Studies.

Mouminatou Thiaw “The Children’s Alphabet of African and AfroDiasporan Women: Visual Art and Creative Writing as Symbolic and Rhythmic Language for loving Africanity”

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.

Mary Iris Allison “A Wrath that Remembers: A Feminist Companion to Aeschylus’ Agamemnon” Gladys Pattison Award in Music Established in 1973 in memory of the widow of Lee Pattison, Professor of Music at Scripps from 1941 to 1962, this award is given to the most deserving student in the field of music for the purpose of enriching the recipient’s music library.

Amelia Huchley Jeannette Hunker

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.

Emma Duggleby “How to Build a World: Stereoscopes, Tourism, and Land in Zion National Park” Mena Dolinh “I’ll Find You in the Future”

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.

Andrea Parry, PZ 23 “Quasi-Rentierism and Regime Durability: Strategies of the Jordanian Elite Post-Arab Spring”

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.

Esi Igyan “Le Nomadisme Économique : L’échec Et La Réussite Du Voyage Nomade Dans Deux Films Francophones Noirs” Hannah Lebow “Berthe Morisot Et La Domesticite Revistee” Marina Riad “Desalination And Development: Locating The Missing Masses In Dakar’s Water Network”

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.

Rosie Corr, PO ‘23

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.

Natalie Chartove “Segregating Cities, Separating Environments: A Look at The Relationship Between Redlining And Polluting Facilities In Philadelphia”

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.

Cora Payne, HMC ‘23 "Integration of a Hydrogen Fuel Cell into an Uninterruptible Power Supply"

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.

Jocelyn Chang “Effects of Child Sleep, Maternal Sleep, and COVID-19 Related Stressors on Maternal Stress” Hannah Lak “When Women Lead with Magic: The Impact of Gender on Perceptions of Charismatic Leadership”

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.

Hannah Lak “When Women Lead with Magic: The Impact of Gender on Perceptions of Charismatic Leadership” Jenna Nelson “Kids in Court: Race, Emotion, and Child Witness Testimonies” Lizbeth Valdivia-Jauregui “La Sagrada Medicina de la Madre Tierra: Traditional Ancestral Preservation in Pomona, CA Community Gardens” Joan Robinson Prize in Economics The Joan Robinson Prize in Economics was established in memory of a highly accomplished female economist. The prize is given by the economics faculty for superior accomplishment in senior thesis, judged on analytical and creative merit.

Claudia Chin “Heaven? Is It Worth It? The Effect of Belief on Religious Participation and Signaling” Elaine Yang “A Study on Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank and the Ready-Made Garment Industry: The Effects of Rising Industrialization on the Reliance of Microfinance”

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.

Isabel Evans “I Contain Multitudes: The Joys of a Vast and Varied Collection of Mostly Secondhand Books”

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.

Guadalupe de Jesús López “Contra los feminicidios en Mexico: Un estudio de las producciones culturales mexicanas que luchan contra la violencia de género” [“Against Feminicides in Mexico: An Analysis of Mexican Cultural Productions that Fight Gender Violence”]

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

Ingrid Bergill “The Colchian Witch: Ovid’s Medea of the Metamorphoses in Translation”

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.

Olivia Wiebe “Rabbit Hole”

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.

Kayla Solomon Anna Theil

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.

Elizabeth Matos “Making Place, Taking Space: (Counter)Narrative Constructions of Land, Labor, and Liberation in Long Beach Cultural Memory” Sarah Weaver “Topographies and Counter Topographies of Social Reproduction at People’s Park”

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.

Marina Rosen-Cappellazzo "Masculine Women: Jael and Deborah in Judges 4 and 5”

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.

Amelie Lee “How To Rebuild Home: Lessons from Loss”

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. Juliette Rault-Wang “Progressive Overload Training Does Not Affect Behavioral Performance or Muscle Stiffness in Mice with a Large Deletion to the PEVK Region in Titin”