UROPsmCongratulations to the 2014 winners of the Humanities Core/UROP Research Award for excellent capstone papers! Read more about award-winning student work here.

Arina Adourian, “Tolkien and the Great Wars: the First World War and the War of the Ring”

Claire Bantilan, “A Reflection on ‘Miss Saigon: The War on Representation'”

Nicole Block, “Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War: The Humanist’s Dilemma in Artistic Representation of Violence”

Alan Chan, “A Close Reading and Analysis of the News Coverage of the 2009 Gaza War and Its Motivations and Implications”

Jasmine Diaz, “Bridging the Gaps: The Function of Persepolis in the Iranian Diaspora”

Sarah O’Connor, “Japanese American Internment: Comparing the Voices of Differing Relocation Representations”

William Tan, “Portraits of the Forgotten”

Matthew Tsai, “Slave Spiritual Lyrics: A Glimpse of the Subjectivities within 19th Century Slave Culture”

Alice Yang, “Picasso’s Guernica: An Achievement of Realism Through Abstraction”

[One prizewinner’s information withheld for privacy reasons]

Award Winners Announced