The Copley Library Undergraduate Library Research Awards were established to recognize students’ exceptional research papers using library resources and services.
Winning Papers from 2023
Maya Lin: Memorial as Politic, Holly Fisher
The Emasculation of Glory: Pestilence, Revolution, and Madness in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, Olivia Sutton
Winning Papers from 2022
Falling Through the Cracks: Black and South Asian Muslim Survival and Solidarity, Sarah Babar
The Peacock Dress: The Language of British Imperialism in India, 1899-1905, Rebecca Onken
Contexts and Implications of Charles Dickens's Depictions of Suicide in Bleak House, Olivia Sutton
Winning Papers from 2021
Exposing Nuclear Power Plants, Sophia Austin
Southern African Women’s Struggle to both Uphold Tradition and Promote Women’s Equality in the Family, Sophia Bierly
America's Finest Housing Crisis: Racialized Housing and Suburban Development, Vicenta Martinez Govea
Winning Papers from 2020
The Adaptive Functions of Morality, Michael R. Apostol
"Torture the Women": A Gaze at the Misogynistic Machinery of Scary Cinema, Sarah Hankins
Urban Contacts: Orientalist Urban Planning and Le Corbusier in French Colonial Algiers, Delaney Tax