Previous Award Winners

• 1st Place: Valentina Horn “Growing Up O-Town Style“
• 2nd Place: Ryley Macdonald “Idahomies: Skateboarding Subculture Analyzed Within the Community of Boise“

• 1st Place — Jailynn Flaack-Sanchez “Everybody Loves Integration”
• 2nd Place — Sarah Doyon “The Connection between Appropriation and Affinity Spaces”
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention — Ellie Wells “Gun Violence Personified: The History of Claire Wilson”

• 1st Place — Luise Wislow “Analysis of the State of the Water”
• 2nd Place — Rebecca Bettencourt “The Science Behind Sleep Paralysis”

• 1st Place — Stephanie Hamilton-Rubio “Si Se Puede, Si Lo Haremos: Yes We Can, Yes We Will”
• 2nd Place — Kim Dueno “What the Phage?”

• 1st Place — Kerri Hart “Growing Stuff in My Basement”
• 2nd Place — Brittany Picker “Euphemisms and Public Behavior”

• 1st Place — Birgit Phelps “Documentary Photography and Dignity”
• 2nd Place — Karyn Levin “Bringing High School Back to Life”

• 1st Place — Cora Barnes “Nonverbal Behavior and Communication in Autistic Individuals”
• 2nd Place — Jordan Osborne “Fear and Loathing on Our Minds”

• 1st Place — Diana Arbiser “From Hoarding to Landfills: Managing Waste”
• 2nd Place — Hailey Vik “Party Yourself into Shape”

• 1st Place — Madison Hansen “Awakened by ‘The Awakening’: A History of Kate Chopin’s Novel and Its Personal Influence”
• 2nd Place — Chuck Clapsaddle “Homeless Veterans”

• 1st Place — Jamie Lundergreen “Starbucks: The Ultimate Gentle Giant”
• 2nd Place — Emery Ross “To the Stars”

• 1st Place: Eric Ramirez “Student Governance: An Ethnographic Study“
• 2nd Place: Nabil Rahman “Stress: The Harsh Reality of International Students“

• 1^st Place — Nitya Bhargavi Nukala “Living Inside My Mother’s Dreams”
• 2^nd Place — Emma Cummins “Gain Knowledge of Refugees, Be Proactive”
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention — Jason Hathhorn “Truth as Supreme Ethic”

• 1st Place — Mone’t Alberts “What is your race? Check ONE.”
• 2nd Place — Cade Yates “Black Tar? More Like Blacks-Tarnished”

1st Place — Tiffani Goodell “Value-Based Ethics: Why I Voted Independent in the 2016 Presidential Election”

2nd Place — Jordan Hartmann “Advocating for Adolescence”

• 1st Place — Samantha Headley “Every Sixth of a Sixth”
• 2nd Place — Jason Kyle “The Day I Decided Killing a Helpless Man Was the Right Thing to Do”

• 1st Place — Andrew Ridgeway “The Fair Labor Association: Fair for Who?”
• 2nd Place — Jessica Miceli-Dodd “Into Focus”

• 1st Place: Georgia Zacest “Between the World and Me: A Searing Account of American Reproductions of Racism“
• 2nd Place: Benjamin Sargis “When Victimhood Doesn’t Go the Distance: Narrative Criticism Meets the Pacific Coast Trail“

• 1^st Place — Aly Sebright “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing: An Exploration of Performed Identity”
• 2^nd Place — Kate Carter-Cram “Writing Centers: Silencing the Student Through Language”
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention— Jeffrey Cates “Poverty Delivered: How Rent-To-Own Businesses Make the Poor Poorer”

• 1st Place — Evan Fishburn “Finding the Perfect Souvenir: Where Commodities and Orientalism Meet”
• 2nd Place — Logan Potter “The Best of Both Worlds”

• 1st Place — Lex Nelson “Shakespeare’s Yosemite: The Forest of Arden in As You Like It”
• 2nd Place — Kirby Carlson “The Professional Veneer Versus Revelation”

• 1st Place — Andrew Ridgeway “Tunnel of Privilege: Interpassivity as a Political Performance”
• 2nd Place — Connor Liess “A Born Suicide: Analyzing the Death of Vladimir Mayakovsky and His Poetry”

• 1st Place — Andrew Ridgeway “When Species Meet: Human Exceptionalism in James Cameron’s Avatar”
• 2nd Place — Heath Kemper “‘If You Fight Against God’s Enemy:’ Representations of Good and Evil in Richard III and Henry V”

• 1st Place — Jennifer Brooks “The Repression of Dream Work”
• 1st Place — Taylor Kerns “Fathoms Deep: On Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea as a Map to Gender Identity Struggle”

• 1st Place — Madison Uhlenhof “Entertainment or Authenticity: The Other as Represented for Youth”
• 2nd Place — Cheryl McKell “Negotiating Melville’s Cretan Labyrinth”

• 1st Place — Lyn Uratani “Evolving from Traditional to ‘Reversed’ Otherness: Agnes; Postcolonial Transformations in Louise Erdrich’s. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse”
• 2nd Place — Jacob Westerfield “Myth and McCarthyism: The Role of American National Identity in Film”

• 1st Place — Tess Grover “Shylock and Javert: The Conflict between Moral Exactitude and Mercy in Law”
• 2nd Place — Jesse Rosenthal “Everyone’s Extraordinary Evil”

• 1st Place: Kimber Wymore “High Rent, Low Pay, and Nowhere to Go: The Affordable Housing Crisis“
• 2nd Place: Sara Rostron: “Repressive Coping and Irritability Incidence in Bipolar Disorder“

• 1^st Place — Colin Branham “The Saints Were Sinners: The Mormon Question and the Survival of Idaho”
• 2^nd Place — Kate Benfield “Volumetric Wear Analysis of Meniscus Degeneration”
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention— Heather Kimbrell “Haole Morsel to Hawaiian Mainstay: How Hawaiian Macadamia Nuts Became Iconic through 19th Century Plantation Economy”

• 1st Place — Amanda Pham Haines “Demystifying the Model Minority Mythology”
• 2nd Place — Lacy Harness “The Process of Inventing Fictional Languages”

• 1st Place — Alex Knudson “The Father of the String Quartet”
• 2nd Place — Jenna Farmer “Effects of Nutrient Availability on Growth Rate and Carrying Capacity of Lemna Minor”

• 1st Place — Andrew Ridgeway “The True Price of Bronco Pride: Confronting the Sweatshop System”
• 2nd place — Brenda Forrey “Responding to an Active Shooter on Campus: A Critical Need to Prepare Students, Faculty, and Staff at Boise State University”

• 1st Place — Alaggio Laurino “The Grieving Woman”
• 2nd place — Ryan Wright “A Delayed Sensation”

• 1st Place — Brian M. Lawless “Study, Analysis and Interpretation of Stream Data, Geologic, and Geomorphic Features of Selected Streams in the Boise Foothills”
• 2nd Place — Rebecca Carter “Ann Landers’s Advice and the Sexual Revolution”

• 1st Place — Joshua Casaos  “The Role of BTLA and LIGHT in a Mouse Model of Pulmonary Fibrosis”
• 2nd Place — Melissa Whiteley “In or Out of the Comfort Zone: Gender Preference in the Writing Center”

• 1st Place — Jenna Nash “Sprawl”
• 2nd Place — Jessica Ewing “Oratory in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”

• 1st Place — Levin Welch “Ethnographic Introduction of Coping in a Timber-Dependent Community”
• 2nd Place — Evan Sesek “Palestine: Racism and Apartheid in the 21st Century”

• 1st Place: John Barrie “The Unseen”
• 2nd Place: Jessica Kendall “Limbo“

• 1^st Place — Pania Tkachenko “The Other Woman”
• 2^nd Place —  Rebekah Gunderson “Ammophila” 
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention — Kathleen Williams “Landfill”

• 1st Place — Emily Lanagan “In Memory of White Rain Soap”
• 2nd Place — August McKernan “Jelly Donuts”

• 1st Place — John Barrie “Richard Spencer is a Friend of Mine”
• 2nd Place — Sheri Grow “On Being Schooled”

• 1st Place — Joseph Wayment “Addictive Memories”
• 2nd Place — Lex Nelson “The Promise of Tastykakes”

• 1st Place — Mindy Hubbard “Valley Fever”
• 2nd Place — Lantz Brown “A Walk Around the Block”

• 1st Place — Pamela Craig “Mining for Monahan in Idaho: The Truth/Untruth about Josephine/Johanna/Joe/Jo”
• Second Place — Mitchell Lewis “Playing without Fear”

• 1st Place — Kristine Dukes “Batman’s a Liar”
• 2nd Place — Cindy Sikkema “The Truth About Lies”

• 1st Place — Kristine Dukes “Breaking up with God”
• 2nd Place — Pamela Craig “Conserving the Desert of the American West”

1st Place: Cichaya Gidley “Lavender Haze”

2nd Place: Lyd Havens “A Song of Many Sounds“

• 1^st Place — Andi Rados “For You”
• 2^nd Place — John Barrie “Rebel”
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention — Allie Chambers “Tinker”

• 1st Place — Pania Seeley “The Lines Between”
• 2nd Place — Cat Bullock “The Sea Maid and the Starfish”

• 1st Place — Dillon Haws “They Shall Inherit the Earth”
• 2nd Place — Pania Seeley “Night Blindness”

• 1st Place — John Barrie “Comitatus”
• 2nd Place — Morgan Ackley “Organic Therapy”

• 1st Place — Daniel Calderon “Paper Mâche”
• 2nd Place — Tim Atwell “Nightcall”

• 1st Place — Lacey Rowland “All We Need”
• 2nd Place — Andrew Murphey “Bear”

• 1st Place — Marri Champié “Cat’s Garden”
• 2nd Place — Margaret Koger “Handy Girl”

• 1st Place: Alfredo Ocaranza Gonzalez “Exodus”
• 2nd Place; Lyd Havens “Eurydice & all my worst fears“

• 1^st Place — Priscilla Reyna “Cry Baby” 
• 2^nd Place — Lyd Havens “Pulped”
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention — Lianne Collins “At the Library, a Woman Studies”

• Michael Hassoldt “The Way Home”

• 1st Place — Dillon Haws “Pentad”
• 2nd Place — Lex Nelson “Breakfast for Two”

• 1st Place — Gage Tellaria “Jump Start”
• 2nd Place — Jordan Osbourne [Canine Calaveras]

• 1st Place — Emily Paige Erickson Untitled [What Games these gulls]
• 2nd Place — Darby Ebeling Untitled [peace v]

• 1st Place — Jerri Benson “Luminous”
• 2nd Place — Trevor Thomas “Orange Groves”

• 1st Place — Noel Cower “Yggdrasil”
• 2nd Place — Marri Champié “Fishing Indian Creek”

• 1st Place: Eric Ramirez “Transgenerational Oppression against Transgender People“
• 2nd Place: Bibiana Ortiz: “Cultural and Societal Reflections“

• 1^st Place — Ali Mustafa “The Change of Heat” 
• 2^nd Place — Jesús Rivera Orozco “Autobiography of a Language Ideology” 
• 3^rd Place, honorable mention — Bibiana Ortiz “W.E.B Du Bois Theoretical Profile”

• 1st Place — Josef Firmage “Spartan Decisions”
• 2nd Place — Deena Trouten “My Grandmother’s Name was Marvel”

• 1st Place — Mike Nielsen “Reducing Energy Loss in Water Heating Systems: An Economic Perspective”
• 2nd Place — Brian Wright “Modified Traffic Impact Study for the Proposed Why-Not Manufacturing Facility”

• 1st Place — Jacob Cragin “Biological Soil Crust as an Inhibiting Factor to the Entry of Bromus tectorum into habitats in Southwest Idaho”
• 2nd Place — Heidi Ware “Predator Regulation of Bark Beetle Populations: Can Woodpeckers Effectively Control Beetle Outbreaks?”

• Joe Ma “An Analysis of ‘Miyazaki Hayao and the Aesthetic of Imagination” 

• 1st Place — Eva Kanneberger “Motherhood”
• 2nd Place — Nitya Bhargavi Nukala “How Stereotypes Helped Me to Understand Myself”

• 1st Place — Yewen Wu “As the Constellations”
• 2nd — Rabab Alahmed “Social Predicaments Caused by Stereotypes”

• 1st Place — Oanh Tran “Selfplace”
• 2nd Place — Abdulatif Aldihani “The Fact of Belonging”

• 1st Place — Keshia Mejorado-Mendez “Escribiendo Para Todos”
• 2nd Place — Anas Abdullah Alshaaer “Children’s Rights in Saudi Arabia”

• 1st Place — Gilbert Mbonyintwari “My ‘Guilde’ to Learning Languages”
• 2nd Place — Ahmed Al Rashed “The World in One House”

• 1st Place — Farzan Faramarzi “My Farwell Moments”
• 2nd Place — Xiaohai Wang “Happy English”

• 1st Place — Oanh Tran “Selfplace”
• 2nd Place — Abdulatif Aldihani “The Fact of Belonging”