On May 175, 20212022, the Maxwell School celebrated the achievements of undergraduate scholarship in the Social Sciences in the seventh annual Maxwell Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship. Our celebration consisted of individual events hosted by each department as well as a multi-disciplinary poster session featuring research undertaken by undergraduate students during the current academic year.
The following awards were presented during the celebration:
MAX 123/132 Exemplary Student Paper Award, selected by MAX course faculty
MAX 123 – Mia Stagner for her paper titled "Deliberative Essay" De'Lisia Adorno(co-winner)
MAX 123 – Claire Aronson for her paper titled "Economic Inequality" Michael Ostrowski (co-winner)
MAX 132 – Kimberly Mitchell (co-winner)
MAX 132 – Anna Terzaghi for her paper titled "Culture, Conflict and Cooperation"– Gryfuth Davis (co-winner)
Outstanding Student Research Paper, selected by a Maxwell faculty committee:
Danielle LlewellynHailey Womer for her paper titled "Inside Out and Outside In: Race, Exclusion, and Belonging in Asian Transracial AdopteesWhen Church Meets State: A Content Analysis of Partisan News Coverage During the Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett"
Honorable Mention Research Paper, selected by a Maxwell faculty committee:
Alexander Huynh for Devon Drabick for his paper titled "The Effect of Natural Disasters on Lobbying and Government ContractingSpanish Conquest of the Americas was not Inevitable: Marronage as Resistance in Hispaniola "
Best Poster Award, selected by a committee of Maxwell graduate students:
Vivian Kellar for Ava Breitbeck for her poster "Growing Up in Gotham: A Comparative Bioarchaeology of Childhoods in the Early Republic (1776-1848)Give Me Science or Give Me Death: How Expressed Distrust in Scientists Impacts Individual Behavior"
Research Poster Honorable Mention, selected by a committee of Maxwell graduate students:
Andres Trejo for his poster "Promoting Democracy: Bombs, Bucks, or Business?Hailey Womer for her poster "When Church Meets State: A Content Analysis of Partisan News Coverage During the Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett"
Viewer's Choice Poster Awards, selected by viewer voting during the poster session:
Kenza Bouanane for Lauren Pichiarella for her poster "United Nations Human Rights Instruments & Democratization: A Case Study Investigating the Propensity of International Organizations to cause involved Member States to become more DemocraticReducing Inequality in Access to Higher Education with a Mobile App"
Faculty Advisor of the Year:Simon Weschle, assistant professor of political science
Mark Brockway, Faculty Fellow, Political Science
Congratulations to all the students who participated. Thank you to Ben and Marcia Baldanza for endowing these awards, and thank you to all the faculty and staff who supported the students.