Modern Languages

In its Honors Program, the Modern Language Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

Modern Languages include: Arabic Studies, Chinese Studies, French & Francophone Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies, and Russian Language & Literature

2024-2025

Maeve Ann Donahue, (Highest Honors)
Michael Leruth + Deborah Lee-Ferrand, Farid Hafez
Niko Gabriel Gamboni, (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate + LuAnn Homza, Álvaro Garrote Pascual, Rebeca Pineda Burgos
Liang Geng, (High Honors)
Michael Hill + Jennifer Gully, Brianna Nofil
Aidan Jacob McCullough, , (High Honors)
Michael Leruth + Brett Brehm, Tuska Benes

2023-2024

Isabella Milliman, (Highest Honors)
Brett Brehm + Charles Palermo, Deborah Lee-Ferrand
Pendaar Pooyan, (High Honors)
Rebeca Pineda Burgos + Francie Cate, Fernando Galeano Rodríquez, Sowmya Ramanathan, Carlos Rivera Santana

2022-2023

Alexandra Munro Byrne, "" (Highest Honors)
Michael Leruth + Magali Compan, Kelebogile Zvobgo
Alex Cole Earls, "" (Highest Honors)
Michael Leruth + Magali Compan, Kelebogile Zvobgo

2021-2022

Sophia Alden, "" (High Honors)
Brett Brehm + Magali Compan, Gerad Chouin

2020-2021

Emma Burleigh, "" (Honors)
Michael Hill + Eric Han, Paul Vierthaler
Daisy Garner, "" (Highest Honors)
Robin Ellis + Robert Leventhal, Jaclyn Moloney
Justin Kaley, "" (High Honors)
Brett Brehm, Ronald Schechter
Sally Mullis, "" (Highest Honors)
Giulia Pacini + Kate Conley, Dan Cristol
Barham Nardo, "" (High Honors)
Carla O. Buck + Francie Cate-Arries, Clay Clemens
Nori Thurman, "" (High Honors)
Michael Leruth + Magali Compan, Katherine Barko-Alva

2019-2020

Manasi Deorah, "" (High Honors)
Jennifer Gully + Anne Rasmussen, Veronika Burney
Julianna Luecke, "" (Highest Honors)
Michael Leruth + Magali Compan, Jessica Johnson
Kristen Popham, "" (Highest Honors)
Magali Compan-Barnard + Michael Leruth, Simon Stow
Theodore Wansink, "" (Highest Honors)
Brett Brehm + Vanessa Brutsche, Liz Losh

2018-2019

Sarah Lettau, ""
Michael Leruth + Deborah Lee-Ferrand, Jonathan Glasser
Leah Roemer, (Honors)
Magali Compan + Giulia Pacini, Elya Bakhatiari, Kathleen Jenkins
Jordan Wyner, (Highest Honors)
Robert Leventhal + Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Michael Cronin

2017-2018

Travis Haycraft, "" (Highest Honors)
Stephen Sheehi + Oludamini Ogunnaike, Andrea Wright
Jesse Tanson, "" (Highest Honors)
Michael Leruth + Nathan Rabalais, Anne Rasmussen
Alexandra Wingate, "" (Highest Honors)
Jorge Terukina + Noel Blanco-Mourelle, Francie Cate-Arries, Lu Ann Homza

2016-2017

Zarine Kharazian, "" (Highest Honors)
Maryse Fauvel + Michael Leruth, Jaime Settle
Paul Naanou, "" (Highest Honors)
Magali Compan + Nathan Rabalais, Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Shihao Du, "" (High Honors)
Veronika Jeltsch + Bruce Campbell, Ronald Schechter
Gabrielle Hibbert, "" (High Honors)
Bruce Campbell + Sasha Prokhorov, Paula Pickering, Jennifer Taylor
Catherine Freund, "" (High Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Teresa Longo, Christina Baker, Berhanu Abegaz
Morgan Sehdev, "" (Highest Honors)
Jonathan Arries + David Aday, Francie Cate-Arries, Monica Griffin

2015-2016

Kristin Ritchey, "" (Highest Honors)
Magali Compan + Maryse Fauvel, Lynn Weiss
Chantal Houghlan, "" (Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Richard Stamelman, Ann Marie Stock

2014-2015

Elisabeth Bloxam, "Of Myth and Memory: Collective Memory in the French World War II Museum" (Highest Honors)
Michael Leruth + Loic Bourdeau and Ron Schechter
William Brent, "Cooperative Comrades: Contract Marriages and the Chinese LGBT Movement" (Honors)
Calvin Hui + Jennifer Lee and Sophia Hart
Ethan Pearlstein, "" (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Jonathan Arries and David Aday

2013-2014

Crosby Enright, (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + George Greenia, Lu Ann Homza, Robert Sanchez
Emily Eyestone, (Highest Honors)
Robert St. Clair + Sergio Ferrarese, Brian Hulse, Charles Palermo
Rachel Faith, (Honors) Alexander Prokhorov + Frederick Corney, Elena Prokhorova
Maria Santini, (Highest Honors)
Robert St. Clair + Magali Compan, James Armstrong
Emily Eyestone, " Blurred Lines: Exploring Poetic and Musical Subjectivity in Verlaine and Debussy's Romances sans paroles" (Highest Honors) Robert St. Clair + Sergio Ferrarese, Brian Hulse, Charles Palermo
Maria Santini, "The Allure and Scandal of Otherness in the Operas of Georges Bizet and their Source Texts" (Highest Honors) Robert St. Clair + Magali Compan, James I. Armstrong
Crosby Enright, "" (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Geroge Greenia, Lu Ann Homza, Robert Sanchez

2012-2013

Daniel Hodges, (High Honors)
Michael Leruth + Nicolas Medevielle, John Froitzheim
Thomas Bettge, (Highest Honors)
Robert Leventhal + Jennifer Taylor, Timothy Costelloe, Michael Green
Judson Peverall, (Highest Honors)
Robert Leventhal + Bruce Campbell, Tuska Benes
Katherine Brown, (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Jorge Terukina, Lu Ann Homza, Robert Sanchez

2011-2012

Stephen Hurley, "" (High Honors)
Yanfang Tang + Craig Canning, Eric Han
Austin Strange, "" (High Honors)
Yanfang Tang + Tun-Jen Cheng, Emily Wilcox
Bridget Carr, "" (Highest Honors)
Nicolas Médevielle + Michael Leruth, Dennis Smith
Stephanie Kumah, "" (High Honors)
Magali Compan + Jonathan Glasser, Robert St. Clair
Eleonora Figliuoli, "" (High Honors)
Regina Root + Carla Buck, Maria Costa, Jorge Terukina

2010-2011

Eve Grice, (Highest Honors)
Maryse Fauvel + Nicolas Médevielle, Suzanne Raitt
Philippe Halbert, (High Honors)
Giulia Pacini + Nicolas Medevielle, Gail Bossenga
Michael Smith, (Highest Honors)
Giulia Pacini + Michael Leruth, Suzanne Raitt
Casey Lesser, (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Carla Buck, Susan Webster

2009-2010

Kathryn Hansen, (Honors)
Giulia Pacini + Margaret McColley, Ronald Schechter
Elizabeth Wheless, (High Honors)
Nathan Hoback, (Highest Honors)
Francie Cate-Arries + Carla Buck, Timothy Barnard

2008-2009

No Honors students this year

2007-2008

Kelsey Green, "Women Defining Politics: Women and Government in Revolutionary France" (High Honors)
Giulia Pacini + Michael Leruth, Leisa Meyer
Olga Grosh, "Discursive Opposition to Symbolic Violence in the Nobel Lectures of Latin American Laureates" (High Honors)
Teresa Longo + Ann Marie Stock, Betsy Konefal

2006-2007

Kristina Walton, "Privatized Public Space and the Construction of Bourgeois Identity in the Nineteenth-Century French Shopping Arcade" (High Honors)
Michael Leruth + Margaret McColley, Ronald Schechter

2005-2006

Alex Gochenour, "From Stone Gate to New Heaven and Earth: Imagining Modernity in Twenty-First Century Shanghai" (Honors)
Xiaobin Jian + Rachel DiNitto, Craig Canning
Mary Cashell, "Cross-Currents of Culture: Exoticism and Identity in an Occidental Setting" (Honors)
Ron St. Onge + Margaret McColley, Tim Barnard
Shannon Daily, "'We are all Americans': French Perceptions of the United States in the Post 9/11 Era" (Honors)
Michael Leruth + Ron St. Onge, Ron Schechter
Katherine Spatz, "Logique et Crise Identitaires: Alterite et Identite Dans La Litterature Francophone" (Highest Honors)
Magali Compan + Michael Leruth, Ron Schechter
Carrie Fox, "Weaving Memory and Identity in Santiago del Estero, Argentina: Restructuring Centers and Peripheries, Representing a Hybrid Culture" (Honors)
Regina Root + Teresa Longo, Bill Fisher
Adriana Harvey, "Telando identidades multiples: Re-fabricating identity through artisan production and translation in the contemporary global market" (Highest Honors)
Teresa Longo + Janice Jaffe, Jennifer Bickham-Mendez

2004-2005

Elena Tsiaperas
Bruce Campbell + Beatrice Guenther, Tuska Benes
Sara Gilmer
Regina Root + Teresa Longo, Kris Lane
Sara Norman
Carla Buck + Teresa Longo, Colleen Kennedy
Sarah Smith
Regina Root + Teresa Longo, Carla Buck, Kris Lane

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