Interested in writing a senior thesis, library archives, or humanities research? Attend the 2026 Libraries’ Senior Thesis Symposium on Friday, May 1st in Room 523 of Butler from 3:00-4:30pm. A lively reception will follow!
This event will feature presentations from six humanities majors who have recently completed senior theses, including our own linguistics major Sarah Bryden (history and linguistics, CC ‘26). This is an excellent opportunity for rising seniors to learn more about the research process, and for all students to celebrate their peers’ hard work. Find the full program below:
- Sabaa Ahmed (Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies). “Arguing the Muslim Women’s Question: Historicizing Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain in the Public Sphere.”
- Sarah Bryden (History and Linguistics). “Friars at the Linguistic Frontier: Shift-Induced Interference and the Pastoral Varieties of Maya and Quechua.”
- Josiah Dali Keys (African American and African Diaspora Studies). “Mourning in Their Own Tense, Living in Their Own Time: Black Gay Poetics of Desire, Mortality, and Temporality during the HIV/AIDS Crisis, 1980–1992.”
- Sara Medwin (English and Comparative Literature). “Through the Threshold of the Prison: The Commonplace Book of Sir John Gibson.”
- Shea Rathburn (History). “Perception is ‘Reality’: Black Female Impersonators, Visual Archives, and Perceptions of Identity in the Early 20th Century.”
- Ari Yao (Classics and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society). “Queer Asian Futures in Ong Keng Sen’s Trojan Women: Re-Vocalizing Helen.”
