The Humanities Council celebrates seniors in the Class of 2025! 66 students earned minors, 10 earned certificates, and six earned independent majors across the five Council undergraduate programs – European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, Journalism, Linguistics, and Medieval Studies.
Congratulations to all our students and thank you to our faculty!
Program in European Cultural Studies
Certificate in European Cultural Studies: Misha Bilokur, Dana Corbo, Amaya Dressler, Fiona Galvis, Pia Sarah Haykel, Kyung Eun Lee, Alex MacArthur, Nelson Rogers, Josie Smart, and Andrew Zucker
Minor in European Studies: Nolan Musslewhite
Minor in Humanistic Studies: Alba Bajri, Avi Chesler, Caroline Coen, Alex Conboy, Amaya Dressler, Rosie Eden, Vincent Gerardi, Pia Sarah Haykel, Katarina Ivkovic, Alejna Kolenovic, Clara McWeeny, Nolan Musslewhite, William Nash, Emily Nguyen, Abigail Rabieh, Adam Sanders, Danielle Shapiro, Anna Simon, John Slaughter, Libo Tan, Theo Wells-Spackman, Kate Weseley-Jones, and Andrew Zucker.
Minor in Journalism: Isabella Checa, Julianna Lee, Natalia Maidique, Ashley Olenkiewicz, Lia Opperman, Charlie Roth, Anna Salvatore, Adam Sanders, Annie Rupertus, Sophie Steidle, Davina Thompson, Joshua Yang, and Isabel Yip.
Independent Major in Linguistics: Henry Cammerzell, Fruma Avigayil Krakowski, Martin Lee, Jenia Marquez, Gillian Rosenberg, and Allison Brooke Thomas.
Minor in Linguistics: Sydney Cha, Aimee Jungfer, Hailey Lambert, Kerrie Liang, Michelle Liu, Evelyn McGonigle, Lauren Owens, Vanessa Rivkin, Aaron Serianni, Devansh Sharma, Isha Sinha, Natalia Tam, Alyssa Traylor, Sreeniketh Vogoti, Oliver Weizel, Audrey Yang, and James Zhang.
Minor in Medieval Studies: Ignacio Arias Philippi, Helena Drake, Clay Glovier, Xander Jenkin, Izabela Konopka, Brennan McClelland, Abigail Rabieh, Elitsa Sklar, John Slaughter, Matias Vincent, Daniel Viorica, and Andrew Zucker.
Senior Prize Winners
Asher Hinds Prize for Excellence in the Program in European Cultural Studies
Nelson L. Rogers, English
Steinbeck’s Vagabonds in Wartime and Post-Colonial Francophone Literature
Thesis Advisor: Lee C. Mitchell (English)
Joseph R. Strayer Prize in Medieval Studies
Matias Vincent, History
Administering the Birth of a Nation: The Reconquista process and military pressures in the construction of a Portuguese political identity
Thesis Advisor: Helmut Reimitz (History)
Richard D. Challener ’44 Senior Thesis Prize in Canadian Studies
Sidney L. Singer, French and Italian
Bonjour, Hi, ᐧᑫᐃᐦ: Law, Identity, and Indigenous Language Recognition in Québec
Thesis Advisors: Julien R. Stout and Thomas A. Trezise (French and Italian)
Senior Thesis Prize in Linguistics
Jenia Marquez, Independent Major
The More the Merrier: A Distributed Morphological Analysis of Occitan Verbal Morphology and Extreme Polymorphy in the Context of Language Attrition
Thesis Adviser: Nicholas R. Rolle
Excellence in American Sign Language and Deaf Studies Award
Paige E. Landry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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