Past HSS Expo Winners

2025 Winners

Outstanding Academic Presentation

Modern Languages & Literatures

Kellyse Chen Zheng—“Protest by The Mothers of the Plaza in Argentina”

English

Dylan Villaverde-Martinez—“Rebels with (and without) a cause”

Classics

Julia Fernandez—“Triskeles: A Sicilian Symbol on Roman Coins”

Africana Studies

Harmonie Heath—“Black migrants and communities in 20th Century France—Interrogating Racism, Exclusion and Marginalization”

Maciel Rosario—“Disruption and Displacement in Sanchez Ramirez —Mining in the Dominican Republic”

Philosophy

Carmine Tepedino—Philosophy: “The Ethics of Moral Enhancement”

History

Sydney Gdański—“The Russo-Ukrainian War and Implications for the Western Balkans”

Julio Vasquez Jimenez—“How Does the Distinction between High and Low Literature Affect How Society Functions?”

Antar Das—“Overconfidence and Optimism in Institutional Investment: Psychological Drivers Behind Housing Market Speculation Leading to the 2008 Financial Crisis”

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Research Program

Ahnaya Charleus—“Interrogations of Afro-Pessimism Through Black Art and the Radical Black Future”

Saisha Wesley—“Anti-Blackness in Artificial Intelligence (AB in AI)”

Communication

Clare Lambe—”Going Underground: Communication Challenges in Subway Emergencies”

Political Science

Meity Hoffman—“The Problem of Hasidic Education: Insularity, Politics, Power, and Corruption”

Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies

Manuel Martinez Valdez—”The Moon Within” by Aida Salazar

Outstanding Performance Presentations-

English

Damien Niesewand—“America, As Always”

Duly Rosenberg—“Back to Ashes”

Outstanding Academic Posters

History

Poster titled “The Journey Starts Here” by Diana Chen Feng, Lucianna Sidel

Sociology

Aniyah Danforth—“Examining the Racial Disparities in New York City Using 311 Data”

Charlie Muller—“Mobilization and Movement Building: A Comparative Analysis of Student Movements in Brazil and Quebec”

Anthro/Museum Studies

Poster titled “A Counter Map of Brooklyn College…in Food” by Nico Berrocal, Ellery Casper, Kayla Moore, Stchaelle Nicholas, Alyssa Puglisi

Poster titled “Counter Map – Indigenous Brooklyn College by Ezra Arregui, Bielka Nina , Nicole Rodriguez, Mahmuda Sultana

2024 Winners

Africana Studies

  • Katryna Alexis—“West Indian Gospel Music as Resistance”
  • Aaliyah Hinckson—“Black Women in Dancehall: Bodies and Power”
  • Dejahre Lettman—“A New Genre of Family and the Caribbean Writer in the Diaspora”

Classics

  • Kely Christmas and Victoria Ritchie—“Rare, but Not Unknown! Filling in the Blanks in “Coinage of the Roman Republican Online”

Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders

  • Jaritza Curet and Ayah Hassan—“Cracking Cognition! How Dynamic Engagement of Cognitive Control Affects Language Processing”
  • Aaliyah Sealey—“Addressing DEI in Graduate Programs in Speech-Language Pathology”

English

  • Kely Christmas—“Le Lai de l’Ombre: To See, to Dream, to Touch”

History

  • Bianca Alvarez, Ahami Chaney-Smith, Yahia Elhag, Lina Mazioui, and Bianca Alexis Rolston—“Oral History Ethics: Problems, Solutions, and Practice”
  • Rivkah Bryski—“A Jewish Homeland, With Socialism Too: Birobidzhan in the Jewish Communist Imagination
  • Gurveen Dhallu—“The Paradox of Tragic Art”
  • Joseph Edelheit—“The Astronaut, Man of Today’s Tomorrow: The American Dream in Space”

Philosophy

  • Sarah Dagmy—“Plato’s Allegory of the Cave”

Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies

  • Miguel Figueroa—“The Rebels of Wallmapu: Environmentalism, Land, and Legitimacy”

Urban Sustainability

  • Sofia Mariyamis—“Adapting to Rising Tides: Understanding the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Crab Meadow and Coastal Wetlands in the Long Island Sound Estuary”

2023 Winners

Africana Studies

  • Kimberly Felix—“El Amor Porhibido: The Lives of Black Lesbian Women in the Dominican Republic”
  • Iemoni Moses—“Mirror of the Great Migration”

American Studies

  • Rhema Mills and Xiaoen Liang—“Asian American Student Activism History at Hunter College”

Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders

  • Katelyn Baudille and Daniel Grace—“A Preliminary Investigation of a Method for Classifying Conversational Breakdowns in Language Samples From Preschool Children”
  • Isabella Crawford—“Ethical Obligations in Anonymous Communication across Social Networking Services”
  • Rawan Hanini, Pheobe Law, Lynn Stetson, and EngieToson—“Models and Expectations for Clinical Supervision in Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Programs: A Systematic Review”
  • Leann Senat and Madeleine Campbell—“Audiology: A Rewarding Healthcare Field”

English

  • Athena Fernandez—“Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 and the Transgender Body”
  • Yitzchak Friedman—“Herge and I”
  • Finley Miller—“How Writing Composition Theory Informed My Visual Arts Practice”
  • Stephanie Soltanova—“The Informal Lens: How Creative Writing Has Strengthened My Approach to Academic Writing”

History

  • Rivkah Bryski—“Jewish Graffiti: A Broad History”
  • Rachel Khmeknitsky—“Spoken and Silent Veteran Homecomings: The Differences and Similarities Between Understandings of Twentieth-Century Men Veterans and Contemporary Women Veterans”
  • Micah Sander—“They’re Americans and They Like Me, Rufo!: U.S. Imagination of Fidel Castro During His 1959 and 1960 U.S. Trips”

History and Classics

  • Fatima Arif, Lisa Fils, Vera Madey, Micah Sander, and Rivkah Bryski—“Magisterial Feminae: How Women Who Studied the Ancient World Innovated Brooklyn College, the Latin Greek Institute, and Beyond”

Philosophy

  • Andre Howell—“Responding to Povinelli and Vonk: A Theory of Mind in Chimpanzees?”
  • Chaim Janani—“Standing In the Light of Death: Terminal Illness, Hope, and the Clinical Encounter”
  • Rayan Mamoon—“Analyzing the limitations of Karl Popper’s Answer to the Demarcation Problem”

Political Science

  • Melanie Baum—“Riding the Waves: How American Politicians Propagate Anti-Migrant Feelings”

Urban Sustainability

  • Christopher Arias—“Resilience or Resistance: Post-Disaster Recovery in the Rockaways”
  • Jamelle Tucker—“Green Energy: Can Offshore Wind Become an Environmental Powerhouse?”

2022 Winners

  • Aida Atherley
  • Emily Beregovich
  • Jean Chen
  • Maya Darwish
  • Caroline Dougherty
  • Maria Farag
  • Rawan Hanini
  • Annie Ho
  • Niara Johnson
  • Pheobe Law
  • Joshua Leonard
  • Wendy Martinez
  • Deborah Oratokhai
  • Nicholas Philpott
  • Alexander Radu
  • Mariyah Juzer Rajshahiwala
  • Jason Richter
  • Bridget Robshaw
  • Levi Satter
  • Bridget Squitire
  • Kinga Szalchcic
  • Cindy Zhang

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