The Lunsford Award Presentations Archive
Lunsford Winners and Finalists, Fall 2021 - present
Watch video recordings of Lunsford Award winners, finalists, and other honorees in the Presentation Archive. Presentation Videos are archived by year, as follows:
Lunsford Winners for Winter 2025
We're pleased to announce the following winners and finalists for the Lunsford Award in Winter 2025. Presentation videos will be available soon.
Winners: Sienna River Hofstetter, “Origin and Identity: the Implications of the Rez Accent” for Jennifer Johnson’s course, Language, Identity and Power and Aniyah Shen, “Behind Our Masks: The Impact of Intersectional Identity on Neurodivergent Masking” for Lindsey Felt’s course, The Rhetoric of Nonverbal Communication
Finalists: Josh Buenviaje, Hanna Carlsson, Sarah LeBaron, Victoria Lin, Vladimir Mamchik, Javier Nieto
Lunsford Winners for Fall 2024
Winners: Breanna Burke, Arya Shadan
Finalists: Jad Aoun, James Han, Selena Niemi
Breanna Burke: Decolonizing AI: Reclaiming Marginalized Narratives Through AI and Art
Course: The Rhetoric of Generative AI
Instructor: Mutallip Anwar
Lunsford Winners for Spring 2024
Winners: Haya Bakdounes, Alex Ross
Finalists: Max Newsom, Valentina Chirinos Pena, Mikhail (Mikey) Roshan Hernandez Tupaz
Haya Bakdounes: Humanizing Homelessness: Restoring Empathy, Dignity, & Health Equity to the Bay Area Unhoused
Course: Hope, Health, & Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine
Instructor: Sarah Pittock
Lunsford Winners for Winter 2024
Winners: Annabelle Davis, Krystal Li
Finalists: Ava Acevedo, Lesly Castillo, Nicole Dye, Claudia Lewis
Annabelle Davis: "Outside the World: Community, Culture and Utopian Ideals in Antarctic Stations"
Course: Our Future is Each Other: Collaborative Rhetorics
Instructor: Gabrielle Moyer
Lunsford Winners for Fall 2023
Winners: Adri Arquin, Araha Uday
Finalists: Claire Beamer, Jason Hu
Adri Arquin: "Mining for Truth: Citizen Science, Environmental Justice, and Lithium Mining"
Course: In Science We Trust
Instructor: Jennifer Stonaker
Lunsford Winners for Spring 2023
Winners: Aya Hilal, Ursula Neuner
Finalists: Nicholas Macedo, Liam Rose, Lila Shroff, Jay Yu
Aya Hilal: Rejections of Defect Narratives: Stuttering Artists and a Radical Search for Joy
Course: The Rhetoric of Nonverbal Communication
Instructor: Lindsey Felt
Lunsford Winners for Winter 2023
Winners: Lauren Reyes, Anna Zheng
Finalists: Christopher Badillo, Maria Correa, Auddithio Nag
Lauren Reyes: "Where have our mothers gone? Remedying the Native American Infant & Maternal Health Disparity Crisis with Traditional Birthing Practices"
Course: Hope Health & Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine
Instructor: Sarah Pittock
Lunsford Winners for Fall 2022
Winners: Chaelyn Rigmaiden-Anderson, Maya Xu
Finalists: Langston Buddenhagen, Kyle Haslett, Sydney Kaminski, Lee Rosenthal
Chaelyn Rigmaiden-Anderson: "Professionalism of Black Hair: Workplace Standards or a Continuation of Bondage?"
Course: Rhetorics of Professionalism
Instructor: Brittany Hull
Lunsford Winners for Spring 2022
Winners: Max Jardetzky, Kaelyn Ong
Finalists: Brett Chy, Lorenzo Del Rosario, Sherwin Lai, Tejas Narayanan
Max Jardetzky: "«Trop clean pour toi » : Investigating the Diverse Dynamics of English Language Borrowing in French Rap Music"
Course: Language in Context: (Re)appropriation and reclamation
Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
Lunsford Winners for Winter 2022
Winners: Amantina Rossi, Haley Stafford
Finalists: Aden Beyene, Max Du, Nikita Salunke
Course: "You're supposed to set an example!": Rhetorics of Professionalism
Instructor: Brittany Hull
Lunsfords Winners for Fall 2021
Winners: Ijeoma Alozie, Liv Jenks
Finalists: Ashlee Kupor, Caroline Schurz, Usman Tariq
Course: A Rebel with a Cause: The Rhetoric of Giving a Damn
Instructor: Kathleen Tarr
Lunsford Honorees for Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021
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. Delivering and recording an oral presentation in an online environment provides both new challenges but also new possibilities, and we saw a range of creative and powerful responses to oral presentation research during our six quarters online. We've created a gallery of Spring/Summer 2020 honorees, Fall 2020 honorees, Winter 2021 honorees, and Spring/Summer 2021 honorees, featuring the exemplary work that students produced in their fully online environments.
Lunsford Honorees prior to 2020
View additional presentations from Lunsford winners and finalists from 2009 - 2014 and 2015 - 2019.