Program in Writing and Rhetoric

The Lunsford Award Presentations Archive

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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 Spring 2024

Videos for the Spring 2024 winners and finalists will be posted as soon as they are available.

Winners:

  • Haya Bakdounes, “Humanizing Homelessness: Restoring Empathy, Dignity, and Health Equity to the Bay Area Unhoused” for Sarah Pittock’s course, Hope, Health & Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine
  • Alex Ross, "Fighting Valley Fever" also for Sarah Pittock’s course, Hope, Health & Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine

Finalists:

  • Max Newsom, “Roads Not Taken: Highway Memorials and the Fight for the American West” for Valerie Kinsey's The Rhetoric of Public Monuments and Memorials
  • Valentina Chirinos Pena, “Haunted Scientists: The Negative Impact of Animal Experimentation” for Julia Schulte’s course, Haunted: Rhetoric of Ghosts
  • Mikhail (Mikey) Roshan Hernandez Tupaz, “Pagmamahal sa Sariling Wika: Language Perception, Music Preference, and Filipino Identity” for Jennifer Johnson’s course, Language, Identity and Power

Lunsford Winners for Winter 2024

Winners: Annabelle Davis, Krystal Li 
Finalists: Ava Acevedo, Lesly Castillo, Nicole Dye, Claudia Lewis

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

Araha Uday: "Colonialism & the Sari"

Course: The Rhetoric of Bodies

Instructor: Shannon Hervey-Lentz

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

Ursula Neuner: "Body Worn Cameras: Are You Sure of What You See"

Course: Psychology and Persuasion

Instructor: Ann Watters

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

Anna Zheng: "How to Not Forget: Collective Memory on Social Media?"

Course: Language Gone Viral: Investigating the Rhetoric of Social Media and Digital Communication

Instructor: Norah Fahim

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

Maya Xu: "WWF's Flagship Species: Successful or Superficial?"

Course: In Science We Trust

Instructor: Jennifer Stonaker

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

Kaelyn Ong: "Where Disability and Design Meet: Solving Mismatches, Not "Disabled" Bodies

Course: Are We There Yet? The Rhetoric of Mobility

Instructor: Selby Wynn Schwartz

Lunsford Winners for Winter 2022

Winners: Amantina Rossi, Haley Stafford
Finalists: Aden Beyene, Max Du, Nikita Salunke

Amantina Rossi: "Pelo Malo: An Exploration of the Dominican Mother- Daughter Dynamics"

Course: "You're supposed to set an example!": Rhetorics of Professionalism

Instructor: Brittany Hull

Haley Stafford: "Environmental Equity at Bay: Climate-Driven Evictions in Jakarta, Indonesia"

Course:  Writing about Cities

Instructor: Lisa Swan

Lunsfords Winners for Fall 2021

Winners: Ijeoma Alozie, Liv Jenks
Finalists: Ashlee Kupor, Caroline Schurz, Usman Tariq

Ijeoma Alozie: "What Heartbeats are Worth Listening to? Misogynoir in Medical Institutions"

Course: A Rebel with a Cause: The Rhetoric of Giving a Damn

Instructor: Kathleen Tarr

Liv Jenks: "Charting a Car-Free Route Forward: Addressing Resident Opposition to Green Urbanism"

Course:  Writing about Cities

Instructor: Lisa Swan

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.