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MARSHAL OF THE FACULTY PROCESSION* Francis W. Starr, Professor of Physics The audience is requested to rise as the graduates enter and to remain standing until the graduates are seated. ~ VICE MARSHALS OF THE FACULTY
Octavio Flores-Cuadra, Adjunct Professor of Spanish WELCOME AND PRESIDENT’S REMARKS MICHAEL S. ROTH ’78 ~ PRESIDENT Kate Mullen, Adjunct Professor of Physical Education
Suzanne B. OConnell, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences SENIOR CLASS WELCOME ASSISTANT FACULTY MARSHALS BRYAN LEONARD SIU YEUNG CHONG ’21 ~ FOR THE CLASS OF 2021
Stephen Angle, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
Richard S. Grossman, Professor of Economics RECOGNITION OF RETIRING FACULTY Scott G. Holmes, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Tushar Irani, Associate Professor of Letters and Philosophy CONFERRING OF MASTER OF ARTS AD EUNDEM GRADUM William D. Johnston, John E. Andrus Professor of History CONFERRING OF TEACHING PRIZES Shona Kerr, Adjunct Professor of Physical Education NICOLE STANTON ~ PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Amy MacQueen, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Sean McCann, Kenan Professor of the Humanities Ishita Mukerji, Fisk Professor of Natural Science CONFERRING OF HONORARY DOCTORATES Christopher Rasmussen, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Sarah Ryan, Associate Professor of the Practice in Oral Communication ADDRESS REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS Charles A. Sanislow, Professor of Psychology
Kari Weil, University Professor of Letters CONFERRING OF DEGREES MARSHALS OF THE SENIOR CLASS It is requested that there be no applause until all degrees have been conferred.
Fitzroy Christopher Wickham, President
Han Bin Kwon, Vice President Carolina A. Montano, Secretary WORD OF BLESSING † Paulina Anna Veliky, Treasurer RABBI DAVID LEIPZIGER TEVA ~ DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE
COLOR GUARD Darshana Banka ’22 SINGING OF THE “ALMA MATER” ‡ Anissa Findley ’22
Laurel Goulbourne ’24 ~
Anna Nguyen ’22 RECESSION The audience is asked to remain clear of the aisles until the end of the recession. ~
B.A. RECIPIENT NAMES READ BY Elise Springer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and by * An explanation of academic regalia and the procession is provided on page 16 of this program. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek † On a rotating schedule, the University’s Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, or Roman Catholic chaplain is selected to speak.
GRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENT NAMES READ BY ‡ The lyrics of the “Alma Mater” are on the inside of the back cover of this program. Mark Hovey, Professor of Mathematics and Associate Provost Degrees will be officially conferred by Wesleyan University’s Board of Trustees on May 28, 2021. PH.D. RECIPIENTS HOODED BY Due to printing deadlines, the lists of graduate names in each of the degree sections in this program are not official, and should not be used to Edward C. Moran, Professor of Astronomy and Director of Graduate Studies determine a student’s academic or degree status. Wesleyan’s Office of the Registrar maintains each student’s permanent academic record. RECOGNITION OF RETIRING FACULTY BINSWANGER PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
WILLIAM HERBST The Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching is made possible by gifts from JOHN MONROE VAN VLECK PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY (2000–2021) the family of the late Frank G. Binswanger Sr., Hon. ’85. Professor of Astronomy (1990–2021) Associate Professor of Astronomy (1984–1990) Assistant Professor of Astronomy (1978–1984) PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SONALI CHAKRAVARTI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT JOYCE JACOBSEN ANDREWS PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS (2003–2021) Sonali Chakravarti, associate professor of government, came to Wesleyan in 2009. Her work focuses on Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (2015–2019) questions of emotions, the law, and democratic institutions. Sonali is the author of two books—Radical Professor of Economics (2000–2021) Associate Professor of Economics (1996–2000) Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Sing the Rage: Assistant Professor of Economics (1993–1996) Listening to Anger After Mass Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2014)—as well as numerous peer- PH.D., STANFORD UNIVERSITY reviewed articles and chapters in publications including Political Theory and the Journal of Law, Culture, J. DONALD MOON and the Humanities. At Wesleyan, she teaches courses including What Is the Good Life?, The Moral Basis EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA PROFESSOR IN THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES (2008–2021) John E. Andrus Professor of Government (2003–2008) of Politics, Transitional Justice, and Acting and Citizenship, among others. She served on the Educational Professor of Government (1983–2021) Policy Committee in 2019–20, and on the faculty board of the Fries Center for Global Studies in 2018–19. Associate Professor of Government (1977–1983) Assistant Professor of Government (1972–1977) In 2014, she was awarded Wesleyan’s Baker Memorial Prize. Sonali has been the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Instructor in Government (1970–1972) Fellow at Trinity College and Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS Human Values at Princeton University. She earned a B.A. in political science from Swarthmore College, THOMAS J. MORGAN and an M.A., an M.Phil., and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. FOSS PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS (1996–2021) Academic Secretary (2003–2014) Professor of Physics (1986–2021) Associate Professor of Physics (1980–1986) DOUGLAS ARTHUR MARTIN Assistant Professor of Physics (1973–1980) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE IN CREATIVE WRITING PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Douglas Arthur Martin, assistant professor of the practice in creative writing, joined Wesleyan’s faculty ELLEN THOMAS HAROLD T. STEARNS PROFESSOR OF INTEGRATIVE SCIENCES (2017–2021) in 2008. Douglas is an author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose, whose books have been translated Smith Curator of Paleontology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History (2018–2021) into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The most recent book, Wolf, is “an anti–true crime novel University Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences (2015–2021) Research Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences (2004–2015) about abuse, patricide, and Southern working-class life.” Douglas’s first novel,Outline of My Lover, was an Research Associate Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences (1992–2004) International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement, and was adapted in part for the multimedia Visiting Scholar in Earth and Environmental Sciences (1985–1991) PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT ballet and live film Kammer/Kammer. It has now been reissued in a 20th-anniversary edition. Douglas’s work also has been recognized with a Lambda Award nomination in the Gay Memoir/Biography category KHACHIG TÖLÖLYAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND LETTERS (2006–2021) (Once You Go Back) and as a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award (Branwell). At Wesleyan, Douglas teaches Professor of English (1990–2006) creative writing courses in all genres and currently serves as assistant director of creative writing. Born Associate Professor of English (1981–1990) in Virginia and raised in Georgia, Douglas now divides time between Brooklyn, upstate New York, and Assistant Professor of English (1975–1981) Instructor in English (1974–1975) Connecticut. Douglas has a B.A. from the University of Georgia Athens, an M.F.A. from The New School, PH.D., BROWN UNIVERSITY and a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. JOHAN VAREKAMP HAROLD T. STEARNS PROFESSOR OF EARTH SCIENCE (2005–2021) Smith Curator of Mineralogy and Petrology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History (2018–2021) ANNA SHUSTERMAN George I. Seney Professor of Geology (2000–2005) Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (1996–2021) ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (1990–1996) Anna Shusterman, associate professor of psychology, joined Wesleyan’s Psychology Department in Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (1983–1990) PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT 2007. She is co-chair of the College of Education Studies, established in 2020. Anna directs research in the Wesleyan Cognitive Development Laboratories exploring how young children’s experiences CONFERRING OF MASTER OF ARTS AD EUNDEM GRADUM change their thinking and behavior. Her research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Developmental Science, Cognition, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. At The honorary degree of Master of Arts ad eundem gradum has been awarded by Wesleyan University since 1894 Wesleyan, she teaches courses in developmental psychology, education, early childhood, and cognitive to those members of the faculty who are not graduates of Wesleyan at the bachelor’s level and who have attained science. Her efforts to connect University-based research to real-world settings include Kindergarten the rank of full professor. The award makes each full professor an alumnus/a of the University. Kickstart, a summer bridge-to-kindergarten program in Middletown; two service-learning courses ERIKA FRANKLIN FOWLER connecting students to local preschools; and a large project to develop and test research-based math games PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT for early childhood settings. She has held many University service positions, including serving as chair of BARBARA JEAN JUHASZ the Education Policy Committee and as a McNair Research advisor. Anna earned an Sc.B. in neuroscience JEFFREY L. SHAMES PROFESSOR OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT from Brown University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University. Prior to teaching at Wesleyan, HARI KRISHNAN PROFESSOR OF DANCE she was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard and a science teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn. She PHILLIP G. RESOR has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and was a finalist for the Campus Compact PROFESSOR OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award.
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HONORARY DOCTOR OF LETTERS HONORARY DOCTOR OF SCIENCE REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS SCOTT GOTTLIEB ’94
Reginald Dwayne Betts is the award-winning author of four collections of poetry, a nonfiction memoir, and a Dr. Scott Gottlieb ’94 is a physician, public health and policy advisor and advocate, and a special partner with powerful body of essays and scholarship that has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates. He served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. The founder and director of the Million Book Project, his work has Drug Administration (FDA) from 2017 to 2019 and is currently a resident fellow at public policy think tank earned him a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowships, and a PEN New England the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Award for poetry, among many other recognitions. Dr. Gottlieb’s work spans a great many aspects of health care. At the FDA, he oversaw a record number In his National Magazine Award–winning essay “Getting Out,” published in The New York Times of generic drugs, novel medicines, and innovative medical devices in two consecutive years, helping to make Magazine in 2018, Betts explores the central themes of self-reflection and self-actualization, and the effects the regulatory process in those areas more efficient; advanced policies to address opioid addiction; reduced of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities. A gifted student in elementary and high school, death and disease from tobacco; and guided important progress on drug pricing, food safety, and vaccination. Betts was himself sentenced to nine years in maximum security prison at age 16. During that time, he At AEI, he has pursued public health improvements through entrepreneurship and continued to focus on studied literature and poetry and laid the foundation for a career that has since seen him earn a B.A. from medical innovation and expanding regulatory approaches aimed at patient and physician autonomy. the University of Maryland, an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Betts After graduating from Wesleyan with a B.A. in economics, Dr. Gottlieb went on to earn his M.D. from has engaged in wide-ranging speaking engagements and has years of experience in public defense, advocacy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and conducted his residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical and public service. He has received an appointment from Governor Ned Lamont to Connecticut’s Criminal Center. He serves on the boards of Pfizer, Illumina, Aetion, and Tempus, and was previously a senior policy Justice Commission, the state body that hires all state prosecutors. advisor to the administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and a clinical assistant professor Betts is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Law at Yale University and continues to lecture on his formative at New York University School of Medicine, in addition to a practicing physician and hospitalist. He is a experiences and the importance that grit, perseverance, and literature have played in his success, as well as frequent contributor to CNBC and CBS’s Face the Nation, and has also published commentary and articles the intersection between literature and advocacy. His most recent collection of poems, Felon: Poems (2019), in Health Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among many others. was a winner of the American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award, and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. He is also the author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison and the poetry collections Shahid Reads His Own Palm (2010) and Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015).
HONORARY DOCTOR OF SCIENCE CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS
Catherine Coleman Flowers is a renowned environmental health advocate whose work focuses on bringing attention to and developing solutions for failing water and waste sanitation infrastructure in rural areas, and increasing our understanding of how this infrastructure failure perpetuates health and socioeconomic disparities. For her work, Flowers was awarded a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a “Genius Grant,” which goes to citizens or residents of the United States who demonstrate “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” Originally from Lowndes County, Alabama, Flowers earned a B.A. from Cameron University in 1986 and an M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 2015, and worked as a high school teacher in Detroit, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., before returning to Lowndes to begin her advocacy work. She is the founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, an Alabama-based policy and advocacy organization devoted to addressing the root causes of poverty in the state and developing multidisciplinary, grassroots solutions and models that can be replicated in rural communities throughout the country. Part of the organization’s work included a house-to-house survey in Lowndes that confirmed more than half of county households were either piping raw sewage into the ground or had failing septic systems, which led to the first open discussion of flaws in onsite water treatment (which previously had been governed under threat of incarceration by the Alabama Public Health Department). She is currently collaborating with The Guardian on a national study to identify and quantify wastewater infrastructure problems throughout the United States. Flowers is the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret (2020), and has published articles in Anglican Theological Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, among other journals. She is also the rural development manager for the Equal Justice Initiative, a senior fellow for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, and a member of the board of directors of the Climate Reality Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Flowers was recently appointed to the Biden-Sanders Task Force on Climate Change, co-chaired by United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Secretary of State John Kerry, who is now a special envoy for climate.
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY MASTER OF ARTS
Daniel Christopher Alvey Vasileios Drogkaris Nadeepa I. Jayasundara J. Alex Mathews Guadalupe Jamileth Sanchez Nicholas Graeme Melby Wells B.S., The United States Military Academy, 2011 B.S., University of Athens, Greece, 2012 M.Sc., New Mexico State University, 2014 M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 2020 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 MATHEMATICS CHEMISTRY PHYSICS PERFORMANCE CURATION BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY DISSERTATION: Approximation on DISSERTATION: Exploring the Self-Assembly DISSERTATION: Non-Resonant Pump-Probe THESIS: Alone Differently: Contemporary Solo THESIS: Investigating the Context Dependent THESIS: Predicting Mutational Free Affine Subspaces of Conjugated Materials and the Multiphoton Ionization and Strong Quantum Performance in Dance Regulation of Rap1 and Its Downstream Energy Perturbations Using Molecular Utility of the thiol-Michael Reaction in Level Dependence of the Radiative Lifetime of Target Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dynamics Simulations Sodium Dimer Shelf States Using RNA-Sequencing Kayla E. Anatone Macromolecular Synthesis Emily Wolf McGhie B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 M.S., University of Rhode Island, 2013 Stuart Elias Wheeler BIOLOGY Briele René Scott BIOLOGY Charlotte Meredith Freeland Chia-Yu Joy Lu B.M., Brigham Young University, 2017 M.A., University of Sheffield, UK,2006 THESIS: Investigating the Generation of M.M., University of Delaware, 2016 DISSERTATION: Mad Hatters’ Legacy: Drivers B.S., University of Connecticut, 2013 MUSIC ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Apical Radial Actin Filaments in the MUSIC of Mercury Accumulation and Genetics THESIS: Making Music by Reading Outloud: BIOLOGY Drosophila Pupal Eye of Eastern Blacknose Dace (Rhinichthys DISSERTATION: Theater as a Feminine Space: THESIS: A Journey Towards Standardization: John Cage’s Empty Words and Some of the DISSERTATION: Cortical and Subcortical atratulus) in the Still River Drainage Music, Gender, and National Politics in Preserving the Art of Building and Tuning the Work of Jackson Mac Low Contributions to Risky Decision-Making Koa-á-hì (Taiwanese Opera) Mackenzie Augusta Mitchell Steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago under Conditions of Reward Uncertainty B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Miles William DeAngelis MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY Tyler John Wyatt B.S., State University of New York at Fredonia, 2015 André Pinto Oliveira Joshua Alexander Signore THESIS: A Grave Affair: Investigating the B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 BIOLOGY Bardia Hejazi B.A., Manhattan College, 2015 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2019 BIOLOGY B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2015 Unique Spore Lethality Phenotype of the DISSERTATION: An Investigation of Mask MATHEMATICS CHEMISTRY fpr3Δ zip3Δ Double Mutant THESIS: Gypsy Moth Population and Other loci Required to Choreograph PHYSICS DISSERTATION: Diophantine Approximation THESIS: A Collection of Microwave Studies: Outbreak and Low Host-Plant Quality Drosophila Pupal Eye Morphogenesis DISSERTATION: Particle-Turbulence Interactions with Restrictions Coming from Different Places From Large Amplitude Motions to Large Amplify a Trophic Cascade from Dmitry Pokushalov Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Tensors B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Birds to Forest Trees MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY Yu Kai Tan THESIS: Investigating the Modularity and B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Hannah Xu Evolution of Adjacent Gene Coregulation B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR MASTER OF ARTS THESIS: Out of Their Shells: An Orphaned Alma J. Quintana Lazcano Freshwater Mussel Collection Viewed in 3D THESIS: Developing a Translational Model B.A., Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y of Binge Eating under Principles of Contemporanea INBAL, Mexico, 2018 Illuminates Biogeography Uncertainty and Stress Constanza Armes-Cruz Megan Marie Delamer Jessica Garcia PERFORMANCE CURATION B.F.A., Cornell University, 2014 B.S., Queens University of Charlotte, 2017 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2019 THESIS: Anticolonial Choreopolitics: Claire Jing Jing Wang PERFORMANCE CURATION ASTRONOMY CHEMISTRY Feminist Performative Forces to Rewrite B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Qiyuan Zheng THESIS: Arts Workers in Precarity: THESIS: A High Resolution Study of Spectral THESIS: Synthesis and Characterization Archives and Histories CHEMISTRY B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Organized Responses to the Gig Economy of and Spatial Variations of Dust Properties in of Pyridine Derived Mn(II)-Based THESIS: The Optimization of Several MATHEMATICS Performing Arts Worlds the 49 Ceti Debris Disk MRI Contrast Agents Cleo Roberts One-Pot Syntheses of Shaped Palladium- THESIS: Central Limit Theorems: M.A., American University, 2013 Silver Nanoparticles and Preliminary Proofs and Extensions to Applications Haley Nicole Brumberger Erin Kate Donohue MATHEMATICS Catalytic Studies on Their Selective in Renewal Theory Garrett Brenton Groesbeck Hydrogenation of 1-Hexyne THESIS: A Survey of Thrackles B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 B.A./B.B.A., The University of Iowa, 2010 M.M., Nagoya College of Music, Japan, 2017 EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES PERFORMANCE CURATION MUSIC THESIS: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of THESIS: Quiet Protest: Minor Gestures in THESIS: Hōgaku Pedagogy: Traditional Paulina Lake (Newberry Volcano, OR) Contested Spaces Japanese Music in the Twenty-First Century Classroom Brenda Fabiola Castaneda James E. Farber B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2015 Devanney Turpin Haruta MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES PSYCHOLOGY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY A.B., Brown University, 2016 THESIS: Psychology’s Perspectives on the THESIS: Bioinformatic Identification MUSIC CSI Effect: A Content Analysis of Recent of Putative Enhancers in Mouse Anthony Ikenna Amolo Jessica Fowler Christopher Elliott Pratt THESIS: Publications on a Forensic Media Phenomenon Odorant Receptor Loci Splinters, Ashes, Dirt: Piano B.A., Kenyon College, 2017 B.A., Central Connecticut State University, 2007 B.A., Colby College, 2014 Destruction and Creative Opportunity Thomas Awad Anne Miriam Getz Riley Bohnenblust Smith Colleen Delaney Castro Gabriella Iliza Feder B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2016 B.A., Colgate University, 2020 B.S., Fairfield University,2017 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Jooyoung (Jaye) Jeong CHEMISTRY PSYCHOLOGY B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Patrick Joseph Clare Jr. Catherine Marie Lendler Caleb Treadwell NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR B.A., Wesleyan University, 2019 B.S., Southern Connecticut State University, 1999 B.A., State University of New York New Paltz, 2018 THESIS: Computationally and THESIS: Self and Schizophrenia: Do Experimentally Determining Inhibitors of Schizophrenia Patients Show the Incidental THESIS: Characterization of the Aliya Jamelle Cox E. Gaynell M. Meij Rebecca Karen Veninsky Heptosyltransferase I Self-Reference Effect in Memory? Neurogenic Niche in Organotypic B.S., University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2000 M.S., Washington State University, 1982 B.A., Ithaca College, 2017 Entorhinal-Hippocampal Slice Cultures Derived from Adult Mice Christina Noel Cauley Molly Feingold William Francis Dore III Ryan Patrick Mulhern David Walsh B.A., University of Hawaii at Hilo, 2015 B.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts, 2001 B.A., Franklin & Marshall College, 2003 B.A., Brown University, 1996 B.A., Providence College, 1985 EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES PERFORMANCE CURATION Simone Diana John-Vanderpool Giovanna Baldwin Fasanello Paul Derek Palmore Charles Joseph Williams THESIS: History of Hydrothermal Activity at THESIS: B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 The Fabulous Performativity of B.A., State University of New York at Geneseo, 2018 B.A., Boston University, 2006 B.A., Kenyon College, 2013 Paulina Lake, Newberry Volcano, Oregon US Objects: Cunning Enactments of Redress PSYCHOLOGY THESIS: Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Megan Elizabeth Flagg Whitney Parker Powel Elizabeth Jeanne Wulf Emma Clarke John Y. Freeman Jr. Self-Esteem in Black Women: Observing the B.A., Boston College, 1996 B.A., Denison University, 2015 B.A., Middlebury College, 2018 B.A., Bard College, 2013 M.F.A., Burren College of Art, 2013 Influence of the Racial Composition of Both PERFORMANCE CURATION PERFORMANCE CURATION Academic and Social Environments THESIS: Dance Retrospection and The Museum THESIS: Mourning Horizons: Archiving the Present and Envisioning Post-COVID-19 Charya Khun Futures Through Performance Sarah B. Conn B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 BACHELOR OF LIBERAL STUDIES B.A., University of Ottawa, 2008 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY PERFORMANCE CURATION Jamie M. Gahlon THESIS: Structural Elucidation of an Michael Braham Troy LaMonte Grant Miguel A. Sanchez THESIS: Layering Strategies: Interdisciplinary B.S., School of Foreign Service, HU-Junction Complex Georgetown University, 2007 Performance Creation as Curatorial Act John Darrick Bryant Sr. Joshua Mark Hinman Joseph Michael Saveriano PERFORMANCE CURATION Ari Yun Liu THESIS: Commons-Based Approaches in D. Dana Felt Clyde Fritzroy Meikle Miles Weston B.A., Wesleyan University, 2020 Webb Kay Crawford Contemporary Theatre and Performance: Andre M. Pierce B.A., Bennington College, 2014 Resisting Twenty-First Century Enclosure PHYSICS MUSIC at Double Edge Theatre, the Latinx Theatre THESIS: Structure and Dynamics of THESIS: Of Blacke Cholor, without Boyling Commons, and HowlRound Theatre Commons Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites
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Dylan Inish Abramson Connor Bradford Cady Rusheng Duan Bryan Guarin Kevin Koech Nafisa Binte Masud Nicole Esi Adabunu Tamar Cahana Ruby Paulina Duffy Xiangyi Guo Sophia Jo Korostoff-Larsson Madeleine Jane Matz Ethan Peter Addis Benjamin Xavier Cahill Francesco Maurizio Andrew Duffy-Boscagli Isaac James Guzman John Peter Kraus Theodore Korelitz Matza Stephanie Ades Ainsleigh Elizabeth Caldicott Angela Duong Julia Grace Gyourko Elia Thelonious Kruger Cordray Christina McCann Mitzi Rose Adler-Wachter Nicholas Gary Cantin Katherine Elizabeth Eaton Abrar Habib Connor J. Krusac Casey Elena McClellan Jordan Miles Agricula Kian Alexander Caplan Nia Chiane Eddy-Pina Sarina Rose Hahn Daniel P. Kulick Sara Lindsey McCrea Ahmed Sultan Aldarmaki Alyssa Lea Carlson Jacob Thomas Edlebeck Sophia Marianne Hamilton Tsun Lok Kwan Benjamin C McDonald Ana Victoria Alejo Salas Jay Anthony Carter Jr. Elizabeth Chatwin Edwards Cole Joseph Harris Han Beom Kwon Gem McHaffey Isabel Rose Algrant Stefano John Castro Ericka Adesuwa Oluwaseun Ekhator Nour Saida Harzallah Han Bin Kwon Justin Callel McIntosh Lena V. Allon Julia Claire Cella Abdelrahman Uosri Elsayed Faith M. Haverty Jenna Patricia Lacey Paul Clayton McLaren Mo’ath Mohamed Almahasneh Keane Kaiewa Chan Hodges Lucas Eras Paiva Maya Stefania Hayda Thea LaCrosse Jake Ryan McMahon Mohammed Salem Alneyadi Matthew Chase Alp Can Eren Sofia Yi-Ya Headley Luca Jagger LaFayette Samantha Ryan Meagher Thomas Alexander Alpert Alvaro Chavez Marlen Escobedo Meghan Ariel Heffernan Ivy Katherine Lagerberg Ronald Patrick Meehan Daniela Alvarez Di Chen Rose Bingham Esselstyn Jackson Elliot Heins Nyaiah Janice Lamb Joseph Robert Mescall Guillermo A. Alvarez Huaiyu Chen Leila Landsiedel Etemad Daniel Lawson Helfman Cole Land Evelyn Blythe Mesler Chase Sydney Ames Meiwen Chen Kennie Etienne Andrew Burke Hennessy Phoebe Jewett Landsman Jacob Nathanial Meyer Sophia Katherine Andreadis Silin Chen Rhys Philip Evans Tatsuya Hiki Dana Olivia Langer Elizabeth Miller Schai David Matthew Annex Tianxin Chen Julio Leonel Evans-Cevallos Drew Timberlake Hill Tallulah Rose Miriam Largent Payton Andrew Millet Jordan Nicole Ansell Kin Wai Cheung Francesca Mandy Fagnani-Coor Kimberly Ho Julie E. Lawrence Emma Elizabeth Minges Justin Antoine Jia Chi Zachary Aidan Farnsworth Leo Morton Holland Bofta Tiberh Leakemariam Erin Tyler Mitchell Nathanyah Antoine Ethan Mak Ching Aref Reyad Farraj III Daniel Gardner Holt Tyler Simon Lederer-Plaskett Charlotte Sheets Mittenthal Emily Santina Aoki Jungwoo Cho Natasha Wilhelmina Tate Feenstra Thomas Augustin Horikawa Joshua Timothy Ledford Rachel Alexandra Mondshine Sofie Yeshiemebet Araya Sean Sevin Choi Abigail Helena Feitler Yang Hu Jiwan Lee Brenna Nicole Monroe Cobey Arenal Bryan Leonard Siu Yeung Chong Talia Jamie Feldscher Jared Ryan Huennekens John Sang-Yup Lee Iniya Monroe Gianna Marie Argento Maximilien Ching-Sien Chong Lee Shin Nia Nyelle Felton Seth Spatz Hultgren Samuel Gaetano Lefante Dominique Robin Monserrat Aaron Rusell Arkin Camille Pierre Chossis Claudia Jo Ferrara Jaylah Symone Humphrey Emily Caldicott Leggat Ella Chapin Montague Jace Collin Arouet Serena Shin-Yun Chow Safa Serene Figal Marguerite Faye Humphrey Michelle Tiffany Lei Carolina A. Montano Elizaveta Lazykina Atalig Niko Maajid Christian Angie Fike Marion Newcomb Humphreys Jolie Nicole Leuchten Sulma Monterroso Julia Rose Atkinson Julia Chung Caroline Scheer Finkelstein Shuyuan Hung Jared Michael Levine Emily Flora Moon Bryden Tierney Auer Candice April Ragasa Cirilo Ana Finnerty-Haggerty Erika Taylin Hunter Ezra Moise Levy Ali Mooraj Dmytro Babachanakh California Starr Clark Keizo S. Fish Syed Irtiza Hussain John E. Lewis Jr. Douglas Jones Moore Katelyn Sally Babcock Erica Fiona Clark Gould Zachary Lee Fleischman Alma Hutter Wei Li Owen Patrick Moore Trent Jeffrey Babington Delando Almando Clarke Babila Njinuwoh Fomuteh Muhammad Aman Ibadullah Sara Libberton Ivanna Gabriella Morales Rodriguez Alexander Paul Bachelard-Bakal Ramon Martin Olivares Co Jason David Fong Madeline Ikeda Isaac Sanger Liebler Nicolas Moran Mauricio Baillères Hedo Juliette Rae Hart Cohen Michael Ty Force Eric Gray Ingall Frances Nai Fen Lin Kevin Garrett Moriarty Camille Auralia Balicki Sophia Hannah Cohen Silja Fia Forstein Claire Isenegger Noa Chang Lin Langston Ralls Morrison Gabriel Flores Ballard Elizabeth Mary Anna Colannino Lauren Rebecca Fosnocht Nina Miller Isenstein Yihan Lin Rosa Jean Munson-Blatt Daisy Ailyn Banda Caroline Rose Colbert Christopher Franklin Ian Max Jacobson Henry Hong-yi Lin-David Hayate Murayama Gabriela S. Banda Josef Edward Collins Emily Shijiao Frazer-Abel Ronan Christopher Jacoby Eric William Lindheim-Marx Sofia Marion Murtaugh Elizabeth O’Farrell Bannan Angela Sofia Colorado Robilee Frederick Isabella Jane Jaffe Sophie Olivia Linett Clara Grace Nachmanoff Jacob P. Barabas Eli Benjamin Conlin Michael Robert Freiburger Pauline Katherine Jaffe Hayley Beth Lipson Tara Chen Ning-Shi Nair Concepcion Barajas Tracy Elizabeth Cooper Matthew Aidan Frishkoff Kayla I. Jaikaran Nicholas Jerome Litt Alissa Kay Nakamoto David Baraka Johanna Purcell Copeland Margarita Fuentes Plearn Janvatanavit Bingchen Liu Megan Nally Nathan Samuel Baron Silvern Mackenzie Rose Corcoran George Louis Fuss Samuel Javal Jianbang Liu Kriti Nandini Narayanan Tyler Trippe Barr Dylan Phillip Courville Nacala Naomi Gadsden Sam Chase Javellana Hill Katherine Rebekah Lynn Livingston Nehamya Nascimento Lauren Maya Secundy Barragan Caitlin Emma Cowan Lauren Stephanie Gaffney-Gomez Sushraya Shuchie Jay Jamee Elizabeth Lockard Nola Nelson Daniel Jose Barrueco Imani J. Crews Shayne Patrick Gallagher Do Hyeok Jeon Sydney Nicole Lodge Emily Anne Newman Faren Michelle Bartholomew Olivia Herrin Crowell Harper Waits Gambill Shakeel Kadin Jessa Cristina Francesca LoGiudice Minxuan Ni Jack Fox Baum Caridad Cruz Nathan Gregory Gamble Brittany Jiang Zixi Long Sarah Winslow Bohlen Norden Austin Richard Beaudette Abigail Celia Crystal Terra Mae Ganey Jin Cheng Jiang Julien Lavalette Loo Andrew Ross Northrop Annemarie Mariya Bell Roselini Angelica Infante Cucueco Gita Devi Ganti Stella Chapin Jiler Grace Kelly Lopez Samuel Patrick Norton Annasophia Bellizzi Katarina R. Cucullo Haochen Gao Yihua Jin Kathryn Lopez Maria Christiana Moreira Noto Maxwell Heller Bennett Hanwen Cui Isabella Garcia Mary Charlotte Johnson Olivia Wetherill Lopez Kellen James O’Brien Irmina Salome Benson Yuxuan Cui Laura Lynn Garvey Jack Joseph Jontz Xavier Rene Lopez Kathryn Finn O’Connor Isis India Benson Alexis Christine Cummings Graciela Gautier-Jusino Ashna Abhijit Joshi Kimberly Lopez Vasquez Ciara Jeanne O’Flynn Hannah Rice Berman Skyler Cummings Amy Serena Geiger Brendan David Joyce Rebecca Nicole Lopez-Anido Margaret Elizabeth O’Hanlon Alexander Berry Charlotte Blythe Curnin Logan Colin Geller Jodie T. Kahan Jaclyn Nicole Lore-Edwards Zoe Oasis Sanya Bery Jackson D. Curran Giancarlo Michael Gentili Julia Elizabeth Kahn Katherine Anne Louderback Sarah Aduke Zainab Ohiomah Liana Lehman Biasucci Margaret Pearce Curran Sakavarin Gerjarusak Akanksha Bhat Kalasabail Brittany Lynn Love Corinne Nicole Olson Samuel Erik Bidwell Joseph W. Cutler Nima Ghasoor Benjamin Victor Kandel-Zasloff Angela Alessandra Loyola Vizcarra Tinatin Omoeva Grace Biggio Alexandra Czaran John Daniel Gilhuly Supavee Kanjanakuha Sarah Beth Lucente Simon T. Oppenheimer Amaya Mishindi Akosua Binns Juliet Paige Dale Stella Dorothy Ginsberg Harrison Adam Karp Kate Yuru Luo Katherine Orozco-Hernandez Matthew Keith Blackman Carol H. Dalgarno Claire Glickman Jeremy Albert Kattan Benjamin Warren Lyon Giovanni Ortiz Michael Evan Planells Bloom Nicholas Martin Daly Sarah R. Goldman Garrett John Kaufmann Esme Mayumi Lytle Evan Lute Osofsky David Tyler Boone Zoe Darmon Rafael Goldstein Brendan Thomas Keane William Matrone Mack Benjamin Crittenden Owen Michael Brandt Alyssa Marie DaSilva Natalia Maria Gomez Vazquez Rachel Julia Kerr Nathali Jubilee Madrid Lydia May Paddock Nicholas Brattoli Lauren Parker Davidson Tajah Tyler Gooden Kasim Ayub Khan Miguel Armando Madrid Guevara Nicole Olivia Pallat Alice Clare Brennan II Mae Bennett Davies Taylor Elaine Goodman-Leong Shiv Khanna Kai Basil Magee Ji Yoon Park William Hemphill Briskin Thomas Farley Davoren Sydnee Marie Goyer Dohyung Kim Carolina Cecilia Mahedy Dhruv Jatin Patel Tess Hildegard Brunner Spencer Russell Dean Danielle G. Gozzo Jung Woo Kim Aditi Netra Mahesh Natasha Jitesh Patel Clara Luisa Bryan Diva Morgan de Loayza Olivia Grace DiEnno Gracey Justin Yoon-Ho Kim William McCloskey Mahoney Maeve Margaret Pattie Parker Emily Bryan Kevin Anthony DeLoughry Iiyannaa Anisa Graham-Siphanoum Susanna Mina Kim Lola-Mbelu Makombo Cilicia Francisca Naomi Payne Adam Joseph Bryant Anjali Desai Patrick Dewey Grahling Gabriela Linda King Chloe Malushaga Anne Gotwals Peartree Evelyn Joy Burke Ariel Deutsch Harper Lee Graves Alla Kiperman Roby Gardner Mann Avery Rose Pedell Emily Elizabeth Burstein Lia Josee Di Bitonto Rose Putnam Griffin Yuke Fadhillah Kirana Lina Suzanne Marcinczyk Indigo Pellegrini de Paur Kai Jeanine Burton Sophia Simone Mnookin Dienstag Matthew Richard Grimaldi Polina Kiseleva Jesse Matteo Marley Sean Christopher Penney Isabelle Nolin Bush Alissa Nicole Dobrinsky Jaclyn Pamela Grimm Itai Eren Klaidman-Rinat Sophia Mitchell Marra Lauren Shea Peretz Benjamin Drury Bushnell Rebecca Julia Downer Joel T. Groves Zoe Belle Klass-Warch Andrew Keith Martin Miguel Perez-Glassner Justin Warren Cabral Samuel Marlowe Driver Jacob Louis Graver Grunebaum Noah Joseph Kline Benjamin Charles Martinez Neena Perez-Rojas
~ 8 ~ ~ 9 ~ BACHELOR OF ARTS PHI BETA KAPPA
The Wesleyan Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was organized in 1845 and is the ninth-oldest chapter in the country. Cameron Peritz Joseph Francis Scancarella Alexander Tripp Thomas Pfefer Maxwell Julius Scanlon Zachary Robert Turner Membership is conferred for high scholastic achievement. Fall election eligibility is based on a student’s grades Thai An Nguyen Pham Amy Leigh Schaap Oriana Ullman at the end of junior year; spring election is based on four-year achievement. Thao Phan Cameron Bayard Scharff Ivie Eleonora Uzamere Arianne Cassandre Philemy Reyna Alexandra Schedler Vishal J. Vaidya Samuel Michael Phipps Benjamin Schneier Ty Wightman Vaillant ELECTED FALL 2020 Joseph W. Cutler Andrew Ross Northrop Andrei Lyle Pinkus Virginia Violet Sciolino Maya Sonali Vaishnaw Carol H. Dalgarno Ciara Jeanne O’Flynn Andrew Christopher Pitcher Leah Brianna Seldin Simon Alexander Johannes van Baaren Ruby Paulina Duffy Margaret Elizabeth O’Hanlon Jacob P. Barabas Eldred Jackson Standing Plumlee Fatima Ariana Sepulveda Henry Chester Van Doren Katherine Elizabeth Eaton Alma Pres Kian Alexander Caplan Rachel Shira Pomeranz Samuel Allan Serxner Ricardo Vega Elizabeth Chatwin Edwards Katerina I. Ramos-Jordán Julia Grace Gyourko Alexander Jace Poppel Daniel Joseph Shaheen Paulina Anna Veliky Lucas Eras Paiva Lucia Thomas Robinson Do Hyeok Jeon Emma Simone Powell Benjamin Harris Shapiro Georgia Nicole Veru Talia Jamie Feldscher Eric Douglas Roe Harrison Adam Karp Max Foster Powers Emma Florence Shapiro Kyriaki Vetoulis-Acevedo Claudia Jo Ferrara Simon Sayer Rothman Jack Kwon Aditi Prasad Bailey Suzanna Share-Aizic Alejandra Jannet Villamares Graciela Gautier-Jusino Matthew Nam Rubenstein Jake Kwon Zoe Janet Pratt Sarah Shehreen Jolie Lisette Villegas Danielle G. Gozzo Rebecca Johnson Rubenstein Kate Yuru Luo Alma Pres Alexis Brittany Sher Ananya Vir Xiangyi Guo Cameron Bayard Scharff Rosa Jean Munson-Blatt Donald Lowell Price III Tamar Ayala D’vash Shine Vanshika Virmani Nour Saida Harzallah Gabriel Asher Siegel Sarah Winslow Bohlen Norden Sydney Prokupek Olivia Margaret Siegal David Vizgan Maya Stefania Hayda Jesse Storm Simmons Kellen James O’Brien Nathaniel John Lopez Pugh Gabriel Asher Siegel Niels Vizgan Marion Newcomb Humphreys Jonah Max Skolnik Eleanor R. Raab Jaivir Puri Simone Chanah Silvan Phoebe Tharaka Vlahoplus Mary Charlotte Johnson Felicia Rose Soderberg Olivia Margaret Siegal Kush Dhruv Puri Jesse Storm Simmons Charles DePeyster Vogel Jack Joseph Jontz Lisa Cheryl Stein Maya S. Vaishnaw Kairui Qian Fiona Bronwen Skerrett Costel-Tudor Voica Julia Elizabeth Kahn Claudia Mathilde Stenbaek Hongjia Zhang Quer Qin Jonah Max Skolnik Akaash Waghmode Noah Joseph Kline Emma Winston Stern Matthew Alexander Querdasi Dmitri Jaron Slory Henry Burton Pilar Walker-West Emily Caldicott Leggat Lauren Anne Stock Eleanor R. Raab Fiona Simone Slusarev Neve Wallace Wei Li Shirley Lynn Sullivan Aidarbek Raev Cameron Esley Smith Margaret E. Walters Sara Libberton Zuzu Taylor Tadeushuk ELECTED SPRING 2021 Vijay C. Ramkissoon Daniel Smith Chenjia Wang Frances Nai Fen Lin Harrison Tan Hadi Cristina Ramos Emily Frances Smith Christopher Lee Wang Sophie Olivia Linett Yaqian Tang Katerina I. Ramos-Jordán Glenn Smith III Fengbeiling Wang Jack Fox Baum Julien Lavalette Loo Tyla J. Taylor Anna-Allegra Ranelli SeArah Crystal Smith Heran Wang Hannah Rice Berman Sarah Beth Lucente Acadia May Thielking Chaltu Rashid Gabriel Barden Snashall Jingxu Wang Michael Evan Planells Bloom Benjamin Warren Lyon Khanh Dan Tran Charles Meachen Rau Dominik Roman Sobieszek Hyunwoo Alan Choi Ward Tess Hildegard Brunner William Matrone Mack Alexander Tripp David Joseph Redfield Veronica Socorro Imani-Ashleigh Monifa Watkis Benjamin Drury Bushnell William McCloskey Mahoney Niels Vizgan Joshua Taylor Reed Felicia Rose Soderberg Molly H. Watstein Kin Wai Cheung Andrew Keith Martin Phoebe Tharaka Vlahoplus Kaci Amanda Juana Reid Griselda Solis Andrew David Weiss Julia Chung Elizabeth Miller Schai Catherine Weng Xi Zoe Shu Reifel Rebekah B Song Dayna Rose Weissman Tracy Elizabeth Cooper Emily Flora Moon Donglai Yang Benjamin Shane Reilly Yuke Song Thomas Francis Whelan Charlotte Blythe Curnin Minxuan (Kathy) Ni Betsy Zaubler Cole Hansen Reistrup Shantel Sosa Lucas Charles White Mackenzie Wylder Renaud Angie Yosmely Soto Sanchez Rylee Aurele White Emily Elisa Ribatt Benjamin Jarah Spencer Isabella Anne Whiting Riley Kate Richards Frederick Spofford Fitzroy Christopher Wickham Gabriel Patrick Ridout Benjamin M. Stagoff-Belfort Marina Williams Khamil Olivia Riley Claudia Stagoff-Belfort Gavin Enver Willis THE HONORS PROGRAM Danielle Lynne Rinaldi Grace Leora Stanfield Patrick William Wolff Mia Walker Risher Lisa Cheryl Stein Christy Amber Wong Leon Ristov Claudia Mathilde Stenbaek Phillip Wong DEGREES WITH Skyler Cummings Nicholas Jerome Litt Tamara Margarita Rivera Emma Winston Stern Isobel Woodfin ANTHROPOLOGY THEATER Sadie Melissa Robb Theodore Beck Sternlieb William Wu UNIVERSITY HONORS Joseph W. Cutler Bingchen Liu Kyron Ammar Roberts Cole Stevenson Catherine Weng Xi COMPUTER SCIENCE PHYSICS Lucía Thomas Robinson Lauren Anne Stock Guangxuan Xu Zoe Shu Reifel Carol H. Dalgarno Katherine Rebekah Lynn Livingston Eli Kelly Roche Shirley Lynn Sullivan Yufan Xu Jonah Max Skolnik MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY ENGLISH Camila Rodlauer Shuangqi Sun Rujun Yan Alexander Tripp Sophia Simone Mnookin Dienstag Julien Lavalette Loo FILM STUDIES ECONOMICS Eric Douglas Roe Aparna Surya Edward Arthur Yanez Phoebe Tharaka Vlahoplus Nia Nyelle Felton Rebecca Nicole Lopez-Anido Malcolm Stewart Roesser Grayson Eli Sussman Squires Donglai Yang ART HISTORY Xinyue Zhang ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Andrew Timothy Rogers Alice Catherine Swan Gayon Yang Safa Serene Figal Madeleine Jane Matz Adrian Roji Padilla Dara Catherine Swan Alexander Yuan Yao SOCIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY Grace Eileen Rose John David Swansey Jr. Christian Francis Yau-Weeks DEGREES WITH HIGH Terra Mae Ganey Sara Lindsey McCrea HONORS EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Jordan A. Rose Marcus O’Bryan Sweeney Timothy Yen COLLEGE OF LETTERS Arielle Miryam Rosker Shannon Eileen O’Brien Sweeney Anna Maria Yeo Haochen Gao MATHEMATICS Payton Andrew Millet Julian Ross Artur Adam Szopa Caris Farrell Yeoman Dylan Inish Abramson MUSIC COMPUTER SCIENCE Simon Sayer Rothman Zuzu Taylor Tadeushuk Seth Matthew Louis Younger Stella Dorothy Ginsberg Gabriela S. Banda FILM STUDIES Ivanna Gabriella Morales Rodriguez Emma Madelaine Roush Sarah Keiko Hatsue Takahashi Denny Taylor Yu SOCIOLOGY ART STUDIO Danielle G. Gozzo Matthew Nam Rubenstein Sophia Lily Talcove-Berko Hang Yu Jacob P. Barabas PSYCHOLOGY Hayate Murayama Rebecca Johnson Rubenstein Dick Yee Tan Sherwin Yu COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN & EURASIAN STUDIES ECONOMICS Olivia Grace DiEnno Gracey Maia Simone Rubin Harrison James Kai Tan Ayan Zamil SOCIOLOGY Tara Chen Ning-Shi Nair Hannah Rice Berman COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Dalia Rubinstein Yaqian Tang Matthew Charles Zandi ENGLISH Sarina Rose Hahn ITALIAN STUDIES GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP Andrew Ross Northrop Deborah Nary Ruiz Avantika Tankala Brenda Zaragoza NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR Destiny Rosemary Ruiz Tyla J. Taylor Elizabeth Zaubler Sanya Bery Nour Saida Harzallah GOVERNMENT PHYSICS Ciara Jeanne O’Flynn Charity Russell Mason Van Tea Kayla Elizabeth Zentmaier ART STUDIO Samuel Erik Bidwell Maya Stefania Hayda Benjamin Edward Russman Acadia May Thielking Xiaohan Zhan MATHEMATICS ART HISTORY Avery Rose Pedell Sophia Mae Ryterband Tanara Denella Thomas Hongjia Zhang Clara Luisa Bryan Kimberly Ho FEMINIST, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES Matiza Florena Sacotingo Isaac Thorman Shuhan Zhang GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP ASTRONOMY Katerina I. Ramos-Jordán Caroline Anne Salim Nasly Tineo Xinyue Zhang Kian Alexander Caplan Jin Cheng Jiang DANCE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES ENGLISH Helena Sanchez Kathleen Ann Tizon Wangyiran Zhou NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR Zoe Shu Reifel Eliana Simone Sanders Raymond F. Toomer IV Alec M. Zhu Julia Claire Cella Harrison Adam Karp SOCIOLOGY ECONOMICS GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP Angel Rafael Santana Sophia Townsend Tessa Rose Zitter Kin Wai Cheung Jared Michael Levine Riley Kate Richards Kiyo Adelina Saso Ekram Mohammed Towsif Minyue Zuo ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY ART HISTORY Forrest Sassaman Khanh Dan Tran Maximilien Ching-Sien Chong Lee Shin Eric William Lindheim-Marx Gabriel Patrick Ridout Alessandro Giovanni Sassi Emma Winslow Trapani GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP FRENCH STUDIES ENGLISH
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DEGREES WITH HIGH Jia Chi Samantha Ryan Meagher GEORGE H. ACHESON AND BRUNER FRESHMAN FULBRIGHT ENGLISH TEACHING LEAVELL MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIOLOGY GRASS FOUNDATION PRIZE IN IMPROVEMENT PRIZE ASSISTANT AWARD PRIZE ~ MUSIC HONORS NEUROSCIENCE Greatest improvement from Teaching assistantship in World music Niko Maajid Christian Evelyn Blythe Mesler Neuroscience and behavior first semester classroom abroad Lisa Stein ’21 COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES GERMAN STUDIES Kian Caplan ’21 Kayla Jefferson ’23 Ji Yoon Park ’21 Alex Tripp ’21 Simon Sayer Rothman Emma Elizabeth Minges Ana Finnerty-Haggerty ’21 Lupita Sanchez ~ GRAD Candice April Ragasa Cirilo BUTLER PRIZE PHYSICS COLLEGE OF LETTERS LEBERGOTT-LOVELL PRIZE ART STUDIO Andrew Northrop ’21 Honors thesis in Third World history FULBRIGHT STUDY/ Best econometric paper Amy Leigh Schaap Fitzroy Wickham ’21 Ramon Martin Olivares Co Rachel Alexandra Mondshine Xinyue Zhang ’21 RESEARCH AWARD ART STUDIO Joshua Ng ’20 COLLEGE OF LETTERS ART STUDIO ALUMNI PRIZE IN THE One year of study at a BUTTERFIELD PRIZE Benjamin Stagoff-Belfort ’21 Virginia Violet Sciolino Dominique Robin Monserrat HISTORY OF ART foreign university Caroline Rose Colbert Elizabeth Vann ’20 RELIGION EDUCATION STUDIES Art history Character, leadership, intellect, Susannah Greenblatt ’16 FRENCH STUDIES and concern for Wesleyan GOVERNMENT Nia Felton ’21 Mira Guth ’18 Olivia Margaret Siegal Langston Ralls Morrison Alyssa Carlson ’21 LIMBACH PRIZE PSYCHOLOGY Tracy Elizabeth Cooper COLLEGE OF LETTERS Riley Richards ’21 David Vizgan ’21 Social service to Middletown Nour Saida Harzallah ’21 and/or Wesleyan Jonah Max Skolnik MUSIC Rosa Jean Munson-Blatt AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Tyla Taylor ’21 GAY, LESBIAN, AND SEXUALITY GOVERNMENT Jordan Agricula ’21 Caitlin Emma Cowan FEMINIST, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES ANALYTICAL AWARD STUDIES PRIZE MEDIEVAL STUDIES Emily McEvoy ’22 ENGLISH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Analytical chemistry CAMP PRIZE Best research and writing in gay, English lesbian, and sexuality studies Gabriel Barden Snashall Roselini Angelica Infante Cucueco Hayate Murayama Cole Harris ’21 LIPSKY PRIZE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FILM STUDIES COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Caridad Cruz ’21 Gabriel Ridout ’21 Choir AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Benjamin M. Stagoff-Belfort Gabriel Ridout ’21 David Baraka ’21 Alyssa Marie DaSilva Minxuan Ni CONNECTICUT VALLEY GIFFIN PRIZE ECONOMICS COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Zuzu Tadeushuk ’21 ART STUDIO SECTION AWARD Religion FRENCH STUDIES Chemistry LITTELL PRIZE Claudia Stagoff-Belfort Mae Bennett Davies CARDINAL CREST AWARD Virginia Sciolino ’21 Astronomy SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Kellen James O’Brien Emma Shapiro ’21 COLLEGE OF LETTERS Leadership in the WSA Benjamin Martinez ’21 PHYSICS AKIVA GOLDSMAN PRIZE Lauren Anne Stock Lia Josee Di Bitonto AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Anna Nguyen ’22 David Vizgan ’21 SOCIOLOGY Nicole Olivia Pallat IN SCREENWRITING ANTHROPOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD IN PHYSICS CHADBOURNE PRIZE Best full-length screenplay Grayson Eli Sussman Squires INORGANIC CHEMISTRY MANN PRIZE Rebecca Julia Downer Inorganic chemistry Outstanding character, conduct, and Michael Bloom ’21 Romance languages COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Natasha Jitesh Patel EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES scholarship in a first-year student COLLEGE OF LETTERS Abrar Habib ’21 Hannah Berman ’21 John David Swansey Jr. Rachel Wachman ’24 GRADUATE STUDENT OF Ruby Paulina Duffy Caridad Cruz ’21 ANTHROPOLOGY Indigo Pellegrini de Paur THE YEAR AWARD COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Active leadership in campus life GOVERNMENT UNDERGRADUATE AWARD IN CITATION OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE Casimir Fulleylove-Golob ’22 Zuzu Taylor Tadeushuk Francesco Maurizio Andrew Duffy-Boscagli ORGANIC CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Naomi Glascock ~ GRAD Eric Lindheim-Marx ’21 FEMINIST, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES Lauren Shea Peretz Organic chemistry AND COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLEGE OF LETTERS COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Tinatin Omoeva ’21 Contributions to Math or GRAHAM PRIZE Yaqian Tang GOVERNMENT Niels Vizgan ~ GRAD Computer Science departments Kiyo Saso ’21 MATHEMATICS Katherine Elizabeth Eaton Natural science ENGLISH Thai An Nguyen Pham AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Sam Bidwell ’21 Kian Caplan ’21 Tyla Taylor ’21 Mason Van Tea ART STUDIO Lucas Eras Paiva UNDERGRADUATE AWARD IN ASTRONOMY FEMINIST, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES CLARK FELLOWSHIP Jack Kwon ’21 MARTIUS YELLOW AWARD ANTHROPOLOGY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Graduate study in medicine Kate Luo ’21 Excellence in organic synthesis Isaac Thorman Eldred Jackson Standing Plumlee Physical chemistry GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP Alp Can Eren MUSIC Caitlin Grant ’22 Kate Luo ’21 Simon Rothman ’21 Sophie Wazlowski ’22 NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Quer Qin HALLOWELL PRIZE MEYER PRIZE Zachary Aidan Farnsworth AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF DR. NEIL CLENDENINN PRIZE Kathleen Ann Tizon COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES CHEMISTS AWARD Excellence in biology and/or Social science American history ENGLISH DANCE GOVERNMENT Chemistry molecular biology and biochemistry Jacob Barabas ’21 Benjamin Cahill ’21 Caroline Scheer Finkelstein by an African American student Alexander Tripp Eleanor R. Raab Gianna Argento ’21 Xinyue Zhang ’21 MUSIC GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT Babila Fomuteh ’21 JOAN W. MILLER PRIZE Best College of Social Studies thesis AMERICAN SOCIETY Yaje Nshanji ’22 HAWK PRIZE David Vizgan Harper Waits Gambill Cole Hansen Reistrup FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND SOCIOLOGY EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Biochemistry Jacob Barabas ’21 ASTRONOMY MOLECULAR BIOCHEMISTRY COLE PRIZE HONOR SOCIETY Alyssa Carlson ’21 Xinyue Zhang ’21 Phoebe Tharaka Vlahoplus Amy Serena Geiger Sadie Melissa Robb Best first-year student writing Molecular biology and biochemistry Carol Dalgarno ’21 HISTORY SOCIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY Rachel Wachman ’24 SAM MILLER PRIZE Nour Saida Harzallah ’21 Nour Saida Harzallah ’21 Institute for Curatorial Practice Nima Ghasoor Kyron Ammar Roberts Molly H. Watstein Jack Kwon ’21 in Performance award for COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES THE CONGRESS-BUNDESTAG Jack Kwon ’21 ASTRONOMY YOUTH EXCHANGE FOR YOUNG outstanding thesis ART STUDIO Shawn Lin ’22 Jake Kwon ’21 Thomas Francis Whelan Sydnee Marie Goyer PROFESSIONALS Jamie M. Gahlon ~ GRAD Alex Poppel ~ GRAD One-year fellowship in Germany Kate Luo ’21 PHYSICS ECONOMICS Lucía Thomas Robinson FILM STUDIES Maya Vaishnaw ’21 Patrick Wolff ’21 Clara Nachmanoff ’21 MONROE PRIZE Isabella Anne Whiting Xiangyi Guo Best sophomore or junior scholarly Eric Douglas Roe Maya Vaishnaw ’21 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PSYCHOLOGY AYRES PRIZE HERBERT LEE CONNELLY PRIZE essay in African American studies ART STUDIO Highest academic standing in Daniel Gardner Holt English literature and unusual HEALTH EDUCATION PRIZE Zubaida Bello ’22 Catherine Weng Xi the first semester ability in nonfiction writing COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES ANTHROPOLOGY Andrew Timothy Rogers Promotion of healthy lifestyles ARCHAEOLOGY Mikoto Nakamura ’24 Ali Banach ’22 and disease prevention DAVID MORGAN PRIZE Donglai Yang Shuyuan Hung Integrity and commitment to Emily Burstein ’21 Kate Luo ’21 EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Dalia Rubinstein BEINECKE SCHOLARSHIP community by a CSS or history major ECONOMICS COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES Graduate study in the arts, Elim Lee ’22 humanities, and social sciences HEIDEMAN AWARD Catherine Xi ’21 Elizabeth Zaubler Benjamin Edward Russman AMERICAN STUDIES Erika Taylin Hunter DAVENPORT PRIZE Service to the Wesleyan Edward Yanez ’21 MUSIC Zubaida Bello ’22 THEATER GOVERNMENT Government and politics community PETER MORGENSTERN-CLARREN Forrest Sassaman BERTMAN PRIZE Joel Groves ’21 Xinyue Zhang Sam Chase Javellana Hill Juliet Dale ’21 SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD FILM STUDIES Physics COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES ART STUDIO Eleanor Raab ’21 Abrar Habib ’21 Social justice HISTORY Cameron Bayard Scharff Nour Saida Harzallah ’21 Stella Chapin Jiler RACHEL HENDERSON Kevonte Payton ’22 SOCIOLOGY PHILOSOPHY Simon Rothman ’21 DORCHESTER PRIZE Best English thesis THEATER PRIZE Mario Torres Benjamin Schneier Theater Brendan Thomas Keane BEST HONORS THESIS IN Katerina Ramos-Jordán ’21 Astrid Vidal ENGLISH ART STUDIO SOCIOLOGY AWARD Isabel Algrant ’21 Gabriel Ridout ’21 MOSAIC AWARD DEGREES WITH HONORS Simone Chanah Silvan Outstanding sociology thesis Nathan Baron Silvern ’21 Dohyung Kim Kathleen Tizon ’21 Diversity awareness ART STUDIO ENGLISH Julia Cella ’21 Julia Chung ’21 Student-Athlete of Color Veronica Socorro Safa Figal ’21 W.E.B. DUBOIS PRIZE Gabriela Linda King Leadership Council Stephanie Ades ART STUDIO Olivia Gracey ’21 African American studies HOLZBERG FELLOWSHIP ENGLISH FILM STUDIES Psychology Emma Winston Stern Ivanna Morales ’21 Arianne Philemy ’21 GERALDINE J. MURPHY PRIZE Itai Eren Klaidman-Rinat Olivia Siegal ’21 Isabel Rose Algrant GOVERNMENT Lauren Stock ’21 Outstanding critical essay focusing THEATER FILM STUDIES DUTCHER PRIZE on short fiction or novels Lauren Anne Stock History HORGAN PRIZE Lena V. Allon Phoebe Jewett BLANKENAGEL PRIZE Violet Daar ’22 THEATER German studies Best short story AMERICAN STUDIES GOVERNMENT Julia Gyourko ’21 Mosab Hamid ’23 Jenna Lacey ’21 Phoebe Vlahoplus ’21 Caelan Campbell ’22 Noa Chang Lin Zuzu Taylor Tadeushuk Mo’ath Mohamed Almahasneh ENGLISH Caridad Cruz ’21 NEEDLER PRIZE ART STUDIO Julian White ’22 Xinyue Zhang ’21 ECONOMICS Excellence in Hebrew or Raymond F. Toomer IV Henry Lin-David ’21 BRADLEY PRIZE EXCEPTIONAL PROGRAM OF Jewish studies Guillermo A. Alvarez Yihan Lin PSYCHOLOGY Samuel Pollak ’22 GOVERNMENT ANTHROPOLOGY Chemistry THE YEAR AWARD Niels Vizgan ~ GRAD Ekram Mohammed Towsif Exceptional campus program Trent Jeffrey Babington Eric William Lindheim-Marx Sterre Hesseling ’22 INGRAHAM PRIZE PHYSICS Salvation Greek CAROL B. OHMANN ENGLISH COLLEGE OF LETTERS Emma Shapiro ’21 MEMORIAL PRIZE Ty Wightman Vaillant William Mahoney ’21 WILLIAM FIRSHEIN PRIZE Feminist, gender, and Tyler Trippe Barr Kathryn Lopez FILM STUDIES BRIDGE BUILDER AWARD Molecular biology and biochemistry sexuality studies ART STUDIO FILM STUDIES Service to Wesleyan and JESSUP PRIZE Henry Burton Pilar Walker-West Middletown Nacala Gadsden ’21 Sarah Beth Lucente Nour Saida Harzallah ’21 Architecture and design Sanya Bery PHILOSOPHY Avery Pedell ’21 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FILM STUDIES Ericka Ekhator ’21 Shantel Sosa ’21 Benjamin Lyon ’21 Felicia Soderberg ’21 Margaret E. Walters Middletown Mutual Eric Roe ’21 Michael Evan Planells Bloom Benjamin Warren Lyon FILM STUDIES FIRST-YEAR LEADERSHIP AWARD Zuzu Tadeushuk ’21 FILM STUDIES ART STUDIO Aid Collective Outstanding leadership JOHNSTON PRIZE Dayna Rose Weissman OLIN FELLOWSHIP Nicholas Brattoli Aditi Netra Mahesh ART STUDIO CHRISTOPHER Emma Bella Bass-Lawrence ’24 Physics COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES BRODIGAN FUND AWARD English COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES John Guillamon ’22 ITALIAN STUDIES Edward Arthur Yanez Public service or research SUSAN FRAZER PRIZE Ali Banach ’22 William McCloskey Mahoney COLLEGE OF SOCIAL STUDIES in Africa French language Ian Huang ’24 Benjamin Xavier Cahill CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION Joseph Cohen ’22 HISTORY ’24 Rijs Johansongordet ’24 HISTORY COLLEGE OF LETTERS Maximilien Chong Lee Shin ’21 Andres Angeles-Paredes Hunter Julo ’22 Ayan Zamil Serena Landers ’24 Kevin Koech ’21 Naya Jorgensen ’24 Elim Lee ’22 Nicholas Gary Cantin Benjamin Charles Martinez ECONOMICS ENGLISH ASTRONOMY ERNESS BRODY PRIZE BEULAH FRIEDMAN PRIZE NANCY KATHAN AWARD Jahnavi Mehta ’22 Tessa Rose Zitter African American studies Art history Film Jada Reid ’22 Tianxin Chen Gem McHaffey ARCHAEOLOGY COLLEGE OF LETTERS ENGLISH CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION Khamil Riley ’21 Maya Hayda ’21 Lu Robinson ’21 Isaac Slomski-Pritz ’22
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OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SOPHIE AND ANNE REED PRIZE SEHLINGER PRIZE VANGUARD PRIZE SERVICE AWARD Poetry Premedical study Academic excellence and Wesleyan has granted graduate degrees for more than 125 years. Aaron Treadwell, Service in theater community significant contribution to racial Sahara Sidi ’22 Kate Luo ’21 Class of 1888, received the first such degree, an M.S., at the graduation exercises Isabel Algrant ’21 diversity at Wesleyan Thea LaCrosse ’21 RHODES SCHOLARSHIP SENIOR LEGACY AWARD Irmina Benson ’21 of 1891. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and to serve as a Two years of study at Oxford Leadership in the CeCe Payne ’21 Betsy Zaubler ’21 Wesleyan community professor of biology and zoology at Vassar College from 1900 to 1937. Fitzroy Wickham ’21 OUTSTANDING Alice Swan ’21 WALKLEY PRIZE The granting of unearned master’s degrees to alumni was a common practice COLLABORATION AWARD RICE PRIZE Psychology Programming in the spirit of Mathematics FRANCES M. SHENG PRIZE Sara Libberton ’21 in American higher education through most of the 19th century. Three years after partnership and teamwork Excellence in Chinese or Japanese Haochen Gao ’21 Every Vote Counts Abdelrahman Elsayed ’21 WELLER PRIZE obtaining the B.A., a Wesleyan graduate who had “sustained a good moral char- Yaqian Tang ’21 Highest academic average for the Casey McClellan ’21 PARKER PRIZE sophomore year MICHAEL RICE PRIZE IN acter” could obtain the M.A. by payment of “the customary fee of five dollars.” ’22 Public speaking COMPUTER SCIENCE SHERMAN PRIZE ~ MATH Charlotte Babbin Sarah Backer ’22 Excellence in first-year mathematics Upon recommendation of the faculty in the late 1880s, the trustees terminated Excellence in computer science WESLEYAN BLACK ALUMNI Benjamin Dachman ’22 Joseph Cutler ’21 Rylie Harris ’24 COUNCIL MEMORIAL PRIZE this practice. The last such degrees were dispensed in 1891. Magda Kisielinska ’22 Vibhuv Reddy ’24 Summer independent study or RICH PRIZE community service related to The awarding of honorary master’s degrees at Wesleyan began with the first PEIRCE PRIZE Orations RAE SHORTT PRIZE concerns of Black people Commencement. In 1833, the Rev. John Foster, principal of Wesleyan Academy Excellence in biology, Bryan Chong ’21 Excellence in Arnaud Gerlus ’22 chemistry, or geology mathematics by a junior Jack Jontz ’21 Nina Kagan ’23 (now Wilbraham & Monson Academy), was so recognized by the University. Foster Sophia Marra ’21 Morgan Long ’22 Arianne Philemy ’21 Leevon Matthews ’23 Cheng Shi ’22 was a self-educated Methodist circuit rider who came to this country from England PETERSON FELLOWSHIP Kevonte Payton ’22 ROBERTSON PRIZE Biochemistry SAMUEL C. SILIPO PRIZE WESLEYAN GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP in 1823. One hundred and five years later, Wesleyan’s M.A. was the first honorary Mathematics Nick Wells ~ GRAD Most valuable player in the Independent exploration Jihong Gan ’23 Wesleyan orchestra outside the U.S. degree received by another largely self-educated man, Frank Lloyd Wright. PLUKAS PRIZE Henry Lin-David ’21 Economics ROBINS MEMORIAL PRIZE William Briskin ’21 In 1894, the M.A. ad eundem gradum was first granted to “permanent mem- History Matt Muldowney ’22 Grace Lopez ’21 Jacob Barabas ’21 Indigo Pellegrini de Paur ’21 bers of the faculty who are graduates of other colleges.” As the Latin phrase sug- Kin Wai Cheung ’21 Phoebe Vlahoplus ’21 SILVERMAN PRIZE Chemistry gests, this degree went to those who held a degree of at least the same grade from Harrison Karp ’21 STEVEN J. ROSS PRIZE WESLEYAN LIBRARY Oliver Cho ’22 Julien Loo ’21 Best undergraduate film UNDERGRADUATE another institution. Among the “permanent” or full professors thus brought into Annika Velez ’22 RESEARCH PRIZE Benjamin Stagoff-Belfort ’21 Kathryn Lopez ’21 Creative use of Wesleyan library resources the Wesleyan alumni ranks in 1894 was President Bradford P. Raymond, the first PLUKAS TEACHING SKIRM PRIZE JUAN ROURA-PARELLA PRIZE APPRENTICE AWARD Best junior research or writing Evelyn Burke ’21 president of the University to hold a Ph.D. Curiosity and general learning project in government Awarded for excellent Ori Cantwell ’22 performance as a teaching Katerina Ramos-Jordán ’21 Gabriel Snashall ’21 Lexa Krebs ’23 Commencement ceremonies from 1954 to 1976 included the awarding of apprentice or course assistant Xinyue Zhang ’21 SOCIAL ACTIVIST AWARD Master of Arts in Teaching degrees. In 1955, Wesleyan’s Master of Arts in Liberal Mo’ath Almahasneh ’21 WESLEYAN MEMORIAL PRIZE ROBERT SCHUMANN Social activism Justin Antoine ’21 DISTINGUISHED STUDENT AWARD Outstanding character, leadership, Studies Program, the earliest of its kind in American higher education, produced Emily McEvoy ’22 and scholarship in a junior Tyler Barr ’21 Academic accomplishment and Anna Nguyen ’22 its first eight graduates. Jack Baum ’21 environmental stewardship SPINNEY PRIZE Philippe Gene Bungabong ’22 Frances Lin ’21 Best original essay on Greek or WHITE FELLOWSHIP ~ Roman civilization Jiaxuan Chen ’23 Catherine Xi ’21 GOVERNMENT Tessa Zitter ’21 Excellence in government Johanna Copeland ’21 SCOTT BIOMEDICAL PRIZE Faren Bartholomew ’21 Norm Cotteleer ’22 Molecular biology and biochemistry SPURRIER AWARD Taylin Hunter ’21 Bryan Do ’24 Tyler Boone ’21 Ethics Syed Hussain ’21 Hudson Dore ’22 Mary Johnson ’21 Nathan Gamble ’21 Jack Jontz ’21 Laura Garvey ’21 THE MUSIC Isabella Jaffe ’21 STUDENT Angela Loyola ’21 Nikki Gerjarusak ’21 Evan Osofsky ’21 ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR Shea Peretz ’21 Debbra Goh ’24 Excellence in leadership Alex Poppel ~ GRAD and programming Andrei Pinkus ’21 Patrick Grahling ’21 Shantel Sosa ’21 Emma Roush ’21 Singing of the “Alma Mater” and Wesleyan “Fight Song” will be led by members Shuyuan Hung ’21 Ujamaa Ekram Towsif ’21 Alexis Sher ’21 Pauline Jaffe ’21 TAYLOR SCHOLARSHIP Jonah Skolnik ’21 of Wesleyan singing groups. Edrea Jiang ’23 SCOTT PRIZE ~ CHINESE History Felicia Soderberg ’21 ’22 Excellence in Chinese Keeli Johnson Zubaida Bello ’22 Emma Stern ’21 Jess Tran ’21 Ryan Jokelson ’24 Izzy Salazar ’22 Alice Swan ’21 Matthew Justh ’23 SCOTT PRIZE ~ FRENCH THORNDIKE PRIZE Sandy Kanjanakuha ’21 Excellence in French WHITE FELLOWSHIP ~ Psychology HISTORY Gaelin Kingston ’22 Kathy Ni ’21 Danielle Gozzo ’21 Excellence in history PROCESSIONAL MUSIC Perry Kleemann ’22 Matiza Sacotingo ’21 Zubaida Bello ’22 Hannah Landel ’22 TISHLER TEACHING AWARD SCOTT PRIZE ~ GERMAN STUDIES Best graduate teaching assistant Taiko Drumming Ensemble Wei Li ’21 WHITE PRIZE Excellence in German in chemistry Economics Cristina LoGiudice ’21 Evelyn Mesler ’21 Jeff Keyes ~ GRAD Ethan Lubin ’23 Jacob Barabas ’21 Jack Baum ’21 DIRECTED BY ENSEMBLE MEMBERS Griffin Maristany ’22 SCOTT PRIZE ~ HEBREW ELIZABETH VERVEER TISHLER PRIZE ~ ART Kin Wai Cheung ’21 Andrew Martin ’21 Excellence in Hebrew Outstanding senior art exhibit Harrison Karp ’21 Shannon McLoughlin ’23 Alma Pres ’21 Sarina Hahn ’21 Wei Li ’21 Fumi Tanakadate ’12, Shuyuan Hung ’21 Juan Medina ’22 Niels Vizgan ~ GRAD Ciara O’Flynn ’21 Julien Loo ’21 Rose Merjos ’23 Visiting Instructor in Music Daniel P. Kulick ’20 SCOTT PRIZE ~ ITALIAN William Mack ’21 Ananya Parthasarathy ’22 DAVID A. TITUS MEMORIAL PRIZE Excellence in Italian Wilson McCloy ’22 Midori Larsen Kevonte Payton ’22 Summer study for a junior majoring Ariel Deutsch ’21 in government, East Asian studies, Jess Tran ’21 Eric Rumsfeld ’23 Barbara Merjan Cristina LoGiudice ’21 the College of Social Studies Shiyu Zhu ’22 Emerson Sarni ’22 India Daniel ’22 Khanh Dan Tran ’21 SCOTT PRIZE ~ JAPANESE Ben Shapiro ’21 Maya Gomberg ’22 WILDE PRIZE Excellence in Japanese Excellence in economics Hang Yang ’22 Mackenzie Sheehan ’22 Natalie Selfe ’22 Haley Slosberg ’23 Ella Biehn ’23 Harrison Karp ’21 Zyaire Sterling ’22 SHU TOKITA PRIZE SCOTT PRIZE ~ KOREAN Student of color majoring in WINCHESTER ENGL Aparna Surya ’21 Excellence in Korean literature and area studies 201 ESSAY PRIZE Best essay written in a Christopher Textor ’22 Alexandra Czaran ’21 Jasmyn Choi ’22 section of ENGL201 Jess Tran ’21 SCOTT PRIZE ~ PORTUGUESE Jada Reid ’22 Alice Dauchez ’23 Ashley Tuen ’23 Excellence in Portuguese Flora Yao ’23 TOLOLYAN FUND FOR THE WINCHESTER FELLOWSHIP Asher Edelman ’23 STUDY OF DIASPORAS AND Postgraduate work in English Ayan Zamil ’21 TRANSNATIONALISM Alexa Zhang ’23 SCOTT PRIZE ~ RUSSIAN Summer research Nicole Adabunu ’21 Excellence in Russian Quentin Tan ’22 Isaac Guzman ’21 GWEN LIVINGSTON POKORA PRIZE Graciela Gautier ’21 Mina Khan ’20 Music composition Olivia Siegal ’21 TRENCH PRIZE Raphael Linden ’15 Religion Jace Arouet ’21 Katie Livingston ’21 Jack Kraus ’21 SCOTT PRIZE ~ SPANISH Lisa Stein ’21 Avigayl Sharp ’17 Payton Millet ’21 Excellence in Spanish KARL VAN DYKE PRIZE Rebecca Rubenstein ’21 WINCHESTER FIRST- PRENTICE PRIZE Physical science YEAR ESSAY PRIZE Alexis Sher ’21 German Bingchen Liu ’21 Best essay written by a first-year student in English Anna Tjeltveit ’23 MARY AND JOHN SEASE PRIZE Thomas McKenzie-Smith ’22 Environmental science Kellen O’Brien ’21 Anna Hauser ’23 THE WALLACE C. PRINGLE PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY Rebecca Downer ’21 Nikki Pallat ’21 WISE PRIZE Excellence in research Cole Reistrup ’21 Ben Reilly ’21 Best essay on moral science Sean McDarby ~ GRAD Andy Tan ’21 Cheng Shi ’22 Henry Walker-West ’21
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The Wesleyan University Commencement honors the successful begin with the Commencement season of 1903. Those festivities Words by F. L. Knowles, Class of 1894 completion by the graduates of the various prescribed courses of included celebration of the Wesley Bicentennial “with much dignity Music by W. B. Davis, Class of 1894 study. The Commencement is one of the few public events at which and impressiveness.” the University celebrates the academic purposes and accomplish- The trustees themselves completed this trend to academic attire ments of members of the Wesleyan family. In symbolic recognition in 1917. That Commencement in Memorial Chapel was the first held Come, raise the song for Wesleyana, of these achievements, the trustees, administrators, faculty, and on Wesleyan’s campus. The site for almost all prior Commencements Till Night and Echo send it back; recipients of degrees are attired in academic costume for this occa- had been the First Methodist Church in Middletown. Come, gather around the dear old banner, sion. In 1997, Wesleyan began the practice of inviting the parents The academic costumes of the degree recipients and the other of Wesleyan students who serve as educators, either teachers or participants represent an evolution of robes worn centuries ago. No Emblazoned with the Red and Black! administrators, to don academic regalia and march as a division in longer are gowns worn during instructional periods or for warmth. We’ll all be young again together; the procession. Now the regalia merely symbolize the academic degrees of the wear- Life’s short—then fill with joy its span! Please note: Due to safety protocols on campus during the ers and the universities and colleges awarding those degrees. COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Commencement procession has a Though the traditional headwear is the mortarboard, many The home of joy is Alma Mater, limited number of participants (other than graduates). In addition, schools now opt for the soft Tam o’ Shanter-style cap. The tassel is Then hail! All hail to Wesleyan! the recession will not be held. generally black, but holders of the doctoral degrees may wear gold Chorus: O ivied walls! O storied halls! Traditionally, the Wesleyan procession* is arranged by academic tassels. The custom of moving the tassel from right-front to left- degrees, lowest to highest. Within each group of degree recipients, front at the time a degree is awarded has practically vanished. O shrine of long ago! the graduates are ordered alphabetically. The faculty, administra- Black gowns are acceptable for all institutions, but some uni- The altar fires our fathers lit tors, trustees, and parent-educators are arranged by date of receipt versities have adopted optional colors for gowns. For example, Shall still more brightly glow. of the first, or bachelor’s, degree, youngest first. The platform party Yale gowns are Yale blue; Harvard, crimson; Columbia, light blue; is composed of those Wesleyan officers with Commencement duties: Princeton, black with orange trim. In recent decades, the B.A. recip- Come, throw away all thoughts of sorrow, the chair of the Board of Trustees, the president, the provost and ients at Wesleyan have worn cardinal red gowns. The velvet pan- And give the night to mirth and song! vice president for Academic Affairs, the director of Continuing els down the front and around the neck of doctors’ gowns may be If care must come, it comes tomorrow; Studies and Graduate Liberal Studies, and the vice president for colored, depending on the faculty awarding the degree: philosophy Student Affairs. The recession, including only those seated on for the Philosophia Doctor, dark blue; law for the Juris Doctor, pur- Today our hearts are bold and strong. Denison Terrace, is in reverse order. ple; medicine, green; education, light blue; science, golden yellow; Our song is for the dear old college! The procession is led by the marshal of the faculty, whose func- theology, scarlet; arts, letters, and humanities, white. The three bars Join hands and praise you while we can! tion derives from a keeper of the horses in the medieval royal house- on the sleeve of a gown signify a doctor’s degree; four, the president. hold. As a badge of office, the marshal carries a mace that has evolved A hood indicates the level of the degree, the faculty in which the Time ne’er shall shake our deep devotion, from the spiked staff used in battle in the Middle Ages. Wesleyan degree was awarded, and the university awarding the degree. The Our deathless love for Wesleyan! boasts a mace designed and constructed by the late Professor of length of the hood and the width of its velvet trim signify the level. Chorus Art John Risley to mark the University’s Sesquicentennial in 1981. Masters’ hoods are three-and-one-half feet long, with velvet trim Made of redwood, the mace depicts the Wesleyan seal surmounted by three inches wide; doctors’ hoods, four feet, with a five-inch width THE “ALMA MATER,” REVISED JUNE 1977 the cardinal. Incorporated in the design are paintings by Professor of velvet trim. The velvet trim on these hoods, like the optional Emeritus of English Joseph Reed of Willbur Fisk, Wesleyan’s first trim colors on the doctor’s gown, is colored according to the fac- president; Victor Butterfield, president from 1943 to 1967; the ulty awarding the degree: philosophy, dark blue; law, purple; etc. University seal; and South College, the oldest building on campus. Since 1895, the colors of the lining have indicated the institution The procession begins on the incline of Foss Hill with the for- awarding the degree: Harvard has adopted black lined with crim- mation of an aisle of honor by the faculty, the trustees, the platform son; Yale, Yale blue; Princeton, orange with a single black chevron; party, the honorary degree recipients, and the parent-educators. Williams, purple; Amherst, purple with a single white chevron. Through this aisle proceed the members of the graduating class to Wesleyan’s colors, displayed on hoods worn by recipients of the receive applause and congratulations from the other participants. Ph.D., M.A., M.Phil., and M.A.L.S. degrees, are cardinal red with a At the base of the hill, the procession moves to its seats on single black chevron. Denison Terrace and Andrus Field in the following order: faculty The South College Bells, traditionally played before and after marshal, color guard, senior class officers, seniors who received the Commencement ceremony, were installed in December 1918 University honors, the rest of the senior class, recipients of earned as the gift of the Class of 1863. Members of that class were “pos- graduate degrees, parent-educators, faculty and trustees, retiring sessed of unusual intellectual ability. . . . They were jolly good fel- faculty, recipients of the M.A. ad eundem gradum, award winners, lows. Everybody liked them, even the president and some of the honorary degree recipients, and the platform party. professors,” according to the December 1918 Wesleyan University Wesleyan seniors first presented themselves for graduation in Alumnus magazine. “They were a musical class,” fitting for the caps and gowns at the Commencement of 1892. This custom had donors. The original 11 copper-alloy bells were cast in 1916 by appeared at a few American colleges in the 1870s. It became a Mears and Stainbank, founders, of London, in business since 1570. regular practice on this campus in 1897. Faculty did not adopt this Special permission of the War Bureau was required to bring them practice until a few years later. A Methodist newspaper reported in into the country during the Great War. During restoration in 1966, 1902 that faculty assembled on the Commencement platform wore facilitated by an anonymous contribution (by President Butterfield, “all sorts of fashion in clothing, from the dignified and appropriate it turned out), five bells were added. In 2005, an additional eight Prince Albert coat, with its fitting accompaniments, down to a gray bells, donated by Wesleyan friends, alumni, and parents, were sack suit and red necktie.” The reporter thought even John Wesley installed. This new addition upgraded the South College Bells from would have disapproved of this disarray and urged faculty to join the status of a chime (10 to 22 bells) to that of a carillon (23 or the seniors in wearing academic garb. Acting upon a faculty recom- more). The bells are played by a direct action keyboard of wooden mendation made several months later, Wesleyan’s trustees decided peg-like keys, and, according to a 1974 Wesleyan Argus article, they that the practice of professors processing in academic regalia should are “hung on hickory beams to add to the mellowness of the tone.”
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