The Student Library Research Award Evaluation Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Student Library Research Awards, sponsored by the Friends of the Wellesley College Library (more about the awards).
Award recipients demonstrated a thoughtful, methodical, and scholarly approach to research and made creative use of diverse library resources, which contributed to their ability to produce an outstanding research project.
In spite of the challenges of the past year, we received a record number of submissions (75), and the Committee was impressed by the range and quality of students’ work and their insightful reflections on the research process. Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Wellesley College Library, we were able to award two prizes in each category, as well as one Honorable Mention.
First Year Award
Fatima Djalalova ‘24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 112/ECON 104 paper, “Increasing the Representation of Low-income High-Achievers at Elite Colleges.” Supporting faculty: Casey Rothschild
Adeline Van Buskirk ‘24 has won a First Year Award for her WRIT 144 paper, “‘Virtually Nobody’: Protecting Older Adults in the COVID Era.” Supporting faculty: Jeannine Johnson
100/200-level Award
Ky Fuller ‘21 has won a 100/200-level Award for her ENG/AMST 248 paper, “‘Let’s exchange the experience’: Kate Bush’s Bodily Metamorphoses in Lyric and Voice.” Supporting faculty: Kathleen Brogan
Kayla Kane ‘22 has won a 100/200-level Award for her ARTH 259 paper, Tadmor in Ruins: How Ruins of Palmyra Defaced a Living City.” Supporting faculty: Liza Oliver
300-level Award
Kelsey Dunn ‘21 has won a 300-level Award for her ES/POL2 312 paper, “Seeing Green: An Analysis of Influences on Green Space in U.S. Cities.” Supporting faculty: Elizabeth DeSombre
Caylee Pallatto ‘21 has won a 300-level Award for her ARTH 345 paper, “Through the Eyes of the Federal Writers’ Project: Alabama’s African American Domestic Architecture and the ‘Old-Time Negro.’” Supporting faculty: Martha McNamara
Independent Study Award
Charlotte Diamant ‘22 has won an Independent Study Award for her ES 350 project, “The Environmental History of the South Natick Dam.” Supporting faculty: Jay Turner
Ella Matticks ‘21 has won an Independent Study Award for her WGST 313 paper, “Consumerism in the Cult of Domesticity: An Analysis of The House Beautiful Publication Following the First World War.” Supporting faculty: Rosanna Hertz
Honorable Mention
Abby Ow ‘21 has won an Honorable Mention for her REL 350 paper, “Intimacy and Masculinity: The Body in Song of Songs 5:10–16.” Supporting faculty: Eric Jarrard
The winning entries will be available soon in the Wellesley College Digital Repository.
More info: Karen Storz, kstorz@wellesley.edu
