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Confessions Of A Young Workaholic: A Letter To My Future Self, Haley C. Ochs

Honors Program: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

How a child is raised is often the main impact on their future endeavors and behaviors. In this short letter, I assess how my upbringing affected my current attitudes and how I wish to better myself for the future.

Frankenstein In The Twenty-First Century, Haley C. Ochs

Honors Program: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Analyzes the science and ethics of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It utilizes historical and literary analyses, as well as a close reading of the text, to demonstrate the impact of eighteenth century science and how it leads to Frankenstein's immorality.

A Letter To My Future Self: Culture Shock, Kayla L. Butler

Honors Program: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

This personal essay encourages personal reflection upon entering college and the challenges that arrive for a student of color, moving from a diverse hometown to a Predominantly White Institution. There are creative manipulations of language that speak to one of the changes found upon entering the new college campus culture.

The Unspoken Bond: The Complex Relationship Between Etruria And Greece, Christopher S. Saladin

Classics: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

The Greeks of the Archaic and Classical periods clearly knew about and interacted with the Etruscan people, who contemporaneously dominated the Italic peninsula. Yet, despite the evidence of heavy interaction between the two civilizations, there is little mention of the Etruscans in our Greek sources. In this essay, I examine surviving Greek sources to determine the extent of Greco-Etruscan relations and how the Greeks perceived identity. Through my research, I found that the Greek and Etruscan societies were quite interconnected and had a tremendous impact upon each other, yet their interaction with each other remains strangely undocumented and mysterious.

Wagner Contra Mundum: Wagner Versus The World, Caitlin A. Thom

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

An investigation of responses to Wagner in Nazi Germany and post-World War II Israel.

At Your Prettiest/Your Name Is, Jake Phillips

Eddie Mabry Diversity Award

This is a poem showing the progression of my feelings in relation to my gender throughout my life. I identify as both non-binary and as a genderfluid demi-boy, which means I feel my gender changes occasionally, but I usually feel male. I am a member of the trans community, specifically the non-binary portion within it, and I feel this poem accurately represents how that gender identification showed itself as I grew up, even before I realized I wasn't a girl.

Laferrière Et Heredia: Les Nomades De L’Académie Française, Lily Ramos

French: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Two French Academy immortals, Dany Laferriere and Jose-Maria de

Heredia, share parallel journeys beginning in their native Caribbean

nations and leading to their rise to international fame. Their common

experiences with cultural appropriation and nomadic identity are

explored in this study.

Heredia, Zayas Y La Traducción Del Parnasianismo, Lily Ramos

Spanish: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

The publication of Les Trophées by José Maria de Heredia in 1893 earned the author an immortal seat in the prestigious French Academy and translations of his work followed suit. In this project, I analyze the effect of Antonio de Zayas' translation of the sonnets into Spanish by exploring the literary qualities of the translation, as well as the impact it had on the Ibero-American context.

The Multiple Victims Of Rape, Maureen Azar

Audre Lorde Writing Prize

No abstract provided.

Five Faith Commitments, Four Years, One Future, Kerry Robbins

Five Faith Commitments

No abstract provided.

The End Of The Small-Town Golden Age: A Rural Newspaper’S Role In The Urban-Rural Clash Of Anti-Catholicism, Christopher S. Saladin

History: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Anti-Catholicism is an often forgotten feature of our country’s past that was extremely widespread, especially across rural America. In this essay, I focus on an anti-Catholic newspaper, titled The Menace, which was published out of the small Midwestern town of Aurora, Missouri and enjoyed national success. I argue that anti-Catholic sentiments were largely tied to rural values and fears of urbanization, which were being fueled by a massive influx of Irish and Italian Catholic immigrants into the United States. Rural communities cried out against this “Catholic invasion” because they truly believed that urban immigrant populations were taking away their …

Education, Crystal C. Gray

Eddie Mabry Diversity Award

Education is a spoken word poem that explores many aspects of the African American struggle within (self-knowledge). It starts with an African American college student who is disappointed with the lack of courses about her culture. Most curricula in the United States tend to be from a Eurocentric perspective, leaving out a multitude of information about people of color. All groups of people of color have unique experiences, however, African Americans have the most known (or perhaps I should say, unknown) history. The standard explanation of their existence is often limited to the start of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, when …

Balancing The Five Faith Commitments Of Augustana College, Amanda Hassler

Five Faith Commitments

No abstract provided.

Motherhood In The Feast Of St. Nicholas, Rukmini Girish

Audre Lorde Writing Prize

No abstract provided.

A Flight For Hope, Emma Levich

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

The purpose of this piece was to specifically commemorate the children that were victims of the Holocaust. The butterfly is the international symbol for hope, renewal of life, innocence, and beauty, and so I wanted to create something that captured the spirit and souls of all the children that never had a chance to spread their own beautiful wings and fly away from their terrible fate. The horrible crimes and the overall darkest period in history the children had to suffer through is represented by the big dark butterfly in the corner, dressed with gruesome images of what they were …

The Art Of Censorship, Mark Sieber

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

This work seeks to show a similarity between censorship of Art in Nazi Germany and the censorship of John Adam’s The Death of Klinghoffer. By analyzing historical facts surrounding Nazi policy and comparing them against criticisms of Klinghoffer, a connection is found. Censoring a work of art, regardless of its message, is detrimental not only to the art itself, but also to the culture, voice, and ideas it represents.

The Hidden "Homo" In "Rip Van Winkle:" A Queer Theory Reading, Rebecca Knapper

Audre Lorde Writing Prize

No abstract provided.

More Than Just An Image: Pop Culture Representations Of Latinxs And The Immigration Debate, Vanessa Reyes

Eddie Mabry Diversity Award

No abstract provided.

Continued Remembrance, Abbigail Mehnert

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

I always found great interest in learning about the Holocaust and how it has affected society even to this day. Through my winter LSFY course “Ashes to Immortality” I got the opportunity to discover a greater empathy for those who suffered, lost their lives, and survived this historic event. I wanted to insure that my piece represented the importance of passing on experiences and knowledge of the Holocaust in hopes that a similar event will never happen again. In my piece, I painted the entrance of Auschwitz converted in red splatters to represent the lives lost. The concentration camp is …

Surviving The Holocaust: Catharsis Through Music, Amanda Hassler

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

No abstract provided.

Visibility Feminism, Alyssa Froehling

Audre Lorde Writing Prize

An invented feminist theory based off of existing theories and personal experience.

The Rise And Fall Of Female Stereotypes In Looking For Alaska, Alina Zabolotico

Audre Lorde Writing Prize

No abstract provided.

Mayan Women’S Organized Weaving Projects In The Guatemalan Highlands: Narratives Of Struggle And Resistance, Maggie Richardson

Audre Lorde Writing Prize

No abstract provided.

También La Lluvia: Cómo Entendemos Nuestras Historias A Través Del Cine, Bonnie O. Thornton

Spanish: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

También la Lluvia es filme transnacional escrito por Paul Laverty y dirigida por Icíar Bollaín. La producción hace múltiples paralelos entre la historia Colonial de Latinoamérica y los efectos manifestados en la Guerra de Agua de 2000. El trama del filme, y del filme dentro del filme, llevan a preguntas importantes acerca de cómo entendemos la historia y sus circuitos culturales.

Body Image, Marissa Gasper

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

No abstract provided.

Solitude, Marissa Gasper

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

No abstract provided.

Swenson Center Report, Dr. Christopher Strunk

Swenson Center Faculty Research Stipend Reports

As a migration scholar, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to spend a week this summer conducting research in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center. During my three years at Augustana, my students and I have explored urban development and recent patterns of immigrant and refugee settlement in the Quad Cities. In places like the Floreciente neighborhood of Moline, located about a mile from Augustana’s campus on the west side of the city, the Mexican and Mexican American community is transforming a landscape that had already been influenced by a much earlier wave of migration from Sweden.

"Le Créole Est Chez Moi": Le Créole Haïtien Et Dany Laferrière, Jessica Gerdisch

French: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Être Noir, Et La Différence D’Identité Aux États Unis Et Haïti, Jennifer Vanderpool

French: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Frankenstein And The French Revolution, Francesca Scribano

Honors Program: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

No abstract provided.