Submissions from 2013
Student Literary Magazines Face and Embrace the Digital Reality, Katie Sauer
Save the Indian, Save the (Wo)man: The Boarding School Poetry of Elsie Fuller, Maude Cooke, and Agnes Hatch, Alicia Schubert
The Quiet Feminist: Feminist Themes in the Work of Erma Bombeck, Megan Stevens
Feminist Perspectives of the Eames Legacy, Katelyn Szmurlo
Campus Christians: A Candid Exposé, Lindsay Timmerman
His Skin was Pale and His Eye was Odd: The Dynamic Visual History of Sweeney Todd, Mary Elizabeth Winther
A New Form of Struggle: Betty Ford and Breast Cancer in the 1970s, Kevin Wonch
Submissions from 2012
Tulips as Cultural Emblems in 17th-Century Netherlands, Athina Alvarez
Virginia Woolf’s Exploration of Bipolar Disorder in To the Lighthouse, Elizabeth Badovinac
To Cure the Criminal: The Practice of Institutionalization in Asylum and Penitentiary History, Anthony Bednarz
Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Musical Renaissance: A London Symphony, “Who Wants the English Composer?”, and a New English Music, Katherine Callam
Twins and Eugenics in the Holocaust, Lauren Ezzo
Reading, Writing, and Living the Revolution: Intertextual Conversation in Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California”, Kayleigh Forlow
Still America’s Pastime: The Longevity of Baseball in U.S. Culture, George Getschman
Dancing for Democracy: How Dance Influenced the Cultural Conversation of the Cold War, Kaitlyn Holmwood
A Revolution in American English: The Transformation of American Spoken Language from the 1940s to the 1970s, Tessa Judge
History and Environmental Issues in the Lake Macatawa Watershed, Lauren Madison
From 'Savage' to 'Civilized' and Back Again: White-Cherokee-African Relations from 1790 until 1861, Madalyn Northuis
The Hybridization of Peacekeeping: The United Nations Mission to Liberia Revisited, Daniel Owens
Creativity in Community: Using the Inklings as a Model for Collaborative Groups Today, Amanda Palomino
When Images and Words Collide: The Artist Book and Where the Wild Things Are, Hailey Perecki
Believing Versus Being and Living: The Correspondence Between Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi, Taylor Rebhan
The Yorkshire Moors in the Romantic Tradition: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and J. M. W. Turner’s Frosty Morning, Kara Robart
Sunyata and Kenosis: Examining the Forms of Emptying in Buddhism and Christianity Through the State of Suffering, Chikara Saito
“Teasing with the Fumes”: Succèss de Scandale and the Reception of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton , Sara Sanchez
“Songs from the Dark”: The Origins of German Romantic Opera and Its Ties to English Gothicism, Kelli VanDyke
Returning to the Roots: Urban Farming and Environmentalism in Detroit, Kevin Wonch
Submissions from 2011
Mellon Scholars Program: Leonardo da Vinci, Francis I, and the Struggle for International Prestige in 16th-Century France, Athina Alvarez
Braceros and Their Wives: The Effects of Seasonal Labor Migration on Gender Roles in Mexico, Tessa Angell
Mellon Scholars Program: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Musical Renaissance: A London Symphony, “Who Wants the English Composer?”, and a New English Music, Katherine Callam
Mellon Scholars Program: Exploring Hope College’s Rare Book Room: A Treasure Trove of Resources for Students of Art History, Kristen J. Dunn
Americanization and the National Catholic War Council, Julie Oosterink
Mellon Scholars Program: Thabo Mbeki’s African Renaissance: A Transformative Vision for African Development?, Daniel Owens
Mellon Scholars Program: What About the Double Bass? An Exploration of Western Orchestration, Kelli VanDyke
The German Reformation: The Role of Local Governments in Evangelical Reform Movements, Brent Wilkinson
