Lunsford Honorees: Spring and Summer 2021
About the Spring/Summer 2021 Lunsford Honorees
From Spring 2020 through Summer 2021, all PWR 2 courses were taught online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Typically, Lunsford award honorees would present in front of a live audience and two winners would be selected. Giving and recording an oral presentation in an online environment provided both new challenges but also new possibilities and we saw a range of creative and powerful responses to oral presentation research. This gallery represents exemplary work from students produced in their fully online environments during Spring quarter 2021 and Summer quarter 2021, and we honor all of these students for their excellent research and delivery.
Namitha Alexander: "You're the Help till Help Arrives: Empowering Bystanders to Save Lives"
Course: Hope, Health, and Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine
Instructor: Sarah Pittock
Hannah Ashai: "'You Can't Write This!' A Post-Colonial Approach to Ship-Wars and Bullying in Modern Fandom"
Course: All the Feels: The Rhetoric of Emotion
Instructor: Tesla Schaeffer
Laura Bauman: "Too ... Wildishly Woman: Reinterpreting Disney's Little Mermaid through a Mythic Lens"
Course: Myth and the Contemporary: Talking across Two Worlds
Instructor: Kevin DiPirro
Ellington Crevier: "Reforming the High School Math Curriculum for a New Generation of Problem Solvers"
Course: What is your major? The Rhetoric of Interdisciplinarity
Instructor: Mutallip Anwar
Nadine Iman Fattah: "From Saddam to the Satirical Present: Exploring Iraq-Centered Satire by Iraqis and the Western World"
Course: Speaking Ironic Truth to Power: The Rhetoric of Satirical Protest
Instructor: Harriett Jernigan
Eric Hatch: "Mislabeled Migrants: The Rhetoric of Overseas Filipino Workers as Heroes"
Course: Think Global: The Rhetoric of Global Citizenship Instructor: Hayden Kantor
Christina Henzinger: "Building a New Austrian Identity with the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial"
Course: The Rhetoric of Public Monuments and Memorials
Instructor: Valerie Kinsey
Elena Kamas: "The Future of Crafting"
Course: Makers, Crafters, Hackers: The Rhetoric of DIY
Instructor: Angela Becerra Vidergar
Theo Kanell: "Leader in AI: Leader in the World"
Course: Ethics and AI
Instructor: Ruth Starkman
Charlie Kogen: "'Hello Darkness, My Old Friend': The Popular Music Soundtrack of 'The Graduate.'"
Course: The Rhetoric of Film Criticism
Instructor: Alexander Greenhough
Manasa Kumarappan: "'California Dreamin' of Housing"
Course: Action Research: Making Time for Social Justice
Instructor: Donna Hunter
Michelle Li: "Media's Implications in Anti-Asian Hate"
Course: Propaganda and Rhetoric
Instructor: Kevin Moore
Enya Lu: "Why TikTok Musicals are Here to Stay"
Course: All that Jazz: The Rhetoric of Musical Theater
Instructor: Wendy Goldberg
Sarah Pincus: "Implicit Bias in the Ivory Tower: A Policy Proposal for Combating Unconscious Gender Bias among Stanford's Professoriate"
Course: Rebel with a Cause: The Rhetoric of Giving a Damn
Instructor: Kathleen Tarr
Phoenix Reivers: "Remembering Our Worth: A Venture into Contemporary R&B"
Course: Hip Hop, Orality, and Dialect Diversity
Instructor: Tessa Brown
Kayla Ryan, "'Queens' of Sport: An Analysis of Olympic Equestrian Coverage"
Course: Think Global: The Rhetoric of Global Citizenship
Instructor: Hayden Kantor
Andrew Shin: "Perpetual Foreigner to Model Minority: Asian American Violence in the United States"
Course: Are We There Yet? The Rhetoric of Mobility
Instructor: Selby Schwartz
Lindsey Ann Williams: "Language Games: How Competitive Debate Got Fast, Got Weird, and Invented a Language"
Course: The Rhetoric of Language, Identity, and PWR
Instructor: Jennifer Johnson