Lunsford Winners: 2015-2019
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 Fall 2019
Winners: Melina Solis, Hannah Cussen
Melina Solis:"Denied at Birth: Children of Same-Sex Spouses and their Right to US Citizenship"
Course: Speaking out: Claiming Citizenship, Demanding Rights
Instructor: Chris Kamrath
Hannah Cussen: "This is What Evolution Wanted: Personification as a Tool for Science Education"
Course: Curated Reality: How Media Shape What We Know
Instructor: John Peterson
Lunsford Winners for Spring 2019
Winners: Jianna So, Trey Connelly
Jianna So: "Coding Gender: Female Stereotypes in Voice Assistants"
Course: PWR 2AB: Makers, Hackers, Crafters: The Rhetoric of DIY
Instructor: Angela Becerra Vidergar
Trey Connelly: "Sign and Design: Modes of Instruction in Digital Games"
Course: How We Got Schooled: Rhetoric of Literacy and Education
Instructor: John Peterson
Lunsford Winners for Winter 2019
Winners: Autumn Warren, Valexa Orelien
Autumn Warren: "You Don't Sound Black: The Connection between Language and Identity"
Course: Rhetoric of Language, Identity, and Power
Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
Valexa Orelien: "Exploring Linguistic Power Structures in Haiti"
Course: How We Got Schooled: Rhetoric of Literacy and Education
Instructor: John Peterson
Lunsford Winners for Fall 2018
Winners: Caelin Marum, Sofia Avila Jamesson
Caelin Marum “Searching for Olivia: Reframing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Research"
Course: Race, Gender, Power, and the Rhetoric of the Detective
Instructor: Irena Yamboliev
Sofia Avila Jamesson: “Murder, Music, and Machismo: Analyzing Gender-Based Violence in Mexico"
Course: The Art of Rhetorical Listening
Instructor: Cassie Wright
Lunsfords Winners for Spring 2018
Winners: Haley Hodge, Vrinda Vasavada
Haley Hodge: “EPA Government's Actions Speaking Louder than Their Words: The Neglect of the RV Community on Weeks Street "
Course: Comics for Social Justice
Instructor: Lisa Swan
Vrinda Vasavada: “Fighting Tech Addiction"
Course: Language Gone Viral: The Rhetoric of Social Media and Digital Communication
Instructor: Norah Fahim
Lunsfords Winners for Winter 2018
Winners: Isabelle Carpenter, Swetha Revanur
Isabelle Carpenter: “Gender and Language in a Multilingual Morocco"
Course: The Rhetoric of Language, Identity, and Power
Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
Swetha Revanur: “Combating Sex Slavery with AI"
Course: Ethics and AI
Instructor: Ruth Starkman
Lunsfords Winners for Fall 2017
Winners: Won Gi Jung, Michelle Chang
Won Gi Jung: “Tale of Two Cities: Portrayal of Reality in Colonial Detective Literature"
Course: Race, Power, Gender, and the Rhetoric of the Detective
Instructor: Irena Yamboliev
Michelle Chang: “Death Cafe Movement"
Course: Are We There Yet? The Rhetoric of Mobility
Instructor: Selby Schwartz
Lunsfords Winners for Spring 2017
Winners: Michael Bereket, Lauren Seabrooks
Michael Bereket: “The Exceptional Self: How the Holistic Admissions Process Rewrites Student Racial Identities"
Course: The Rhetoric of Language, Identity, and Power
Instructor: Jennifer Johnson
Lauren Seabrooks: “Breaking from the Cycle: Causes and Effects of Intergenerational Parental Incarceration"
Course: I ___ Therefore I Am: The Rhetoric of 21st Century Identity
Instructor: Donna Hunter
Lunsfords Winners for Winter 2017
Winners: Isabelle Morris, Sophia Sterling-Angus
Isabelle Morris: “The Real Experts: Creating an Autistic-Friendly Educational Environment"
Course: How We Got Schooled: The Rhetoric of Literacy and Education
Instructor: John Peterson
Sophia Sterling-Angus: “Female Trainwrecks"
Course: Seriously Funny: The Rhetoric of Humor
Instructor: Mary Stroud
Lunsfords Winners for Fall 2016
Winners: Sophia Pink, Juliana Chang
Nominees: Alli Keys, Alex Trivella, Jake Goldstein, Erika DePalatis, Cindy Nguyen, Gordon Blake, Joan Chen, Aidan Salamone, Ferderico Derby, Scarlett Guo, Nicolette Grabiec
Sophia Pink: “How the NRA Shot Down the Ivory Tower"
Course: Like this Class: The Rhetoric of Public Relations
Instructor: Erica Cirillo-McCarthy
Juliana Chang: “Heritage Language Loss in Second Gen East-Asian Americans"
Course: Don't Stand So Close to Me: Cross-cultural Communication
Instructor: Ann Watters
Lunsfords Winners for Spring 2016
Winners: David Slater, Nikhil Bhattasali
Nominees: Benjamin Williams, Katherine Liu, Ada Statler, Grace Bay Young, Pierce Freeman, Katie Nesser, Megha Srivastava, Andrew Summerville, Annabel Chen and Rifath Rashid
David Slater: “Cracking the Keyless Lock"
Course: A Rebel With A Cause: The Rhetoric of Giving a Damn
Instructor: Kathleen Tarr
Nikhil Bhattasali: “Evolution not Revolution: How Internet Political Humor Shapes Modern-Day China One Laugh at a Time"
Course: Rhetoric of Humor
Instructor: Mary Stroud
Lunsford Winners for Winter 2016
Winners: Liz Wallace, Devon Cash
Nominees: Stefan Swaans, Armando Rojas, Hava Schwartz, Hannah Thompson, Chiamaka Ogwuegbu, Trina Sarkar, Chaitanya Asawa, and Ufu Ovienmhada
Liz Wallace: “A Fading Fady: The Waning Clout of Culture in Lemur Conservation”
Course: Don't Stand so Close to Me: Cross Cultural Communication
Instructor: Ann Watters
Devon Cash: "Assumed But Not Proven: The Crash and Burn of e-Mentoring within the Phoenix Scholars"
Course: The Rhetoric of the Experiment
Instructor: Trisha Stan
Lunsfords Winners for Fall 2015
Winners: Louis Lafair, Savannah Pham
Louis Lafair: “Wait One Moment: Taking the Time to Reconsider How Stanford Students Spend Their Time”
Course: The Rhetoric of Success
Instructor: Jesse Davie-Kessler
Savannah Pham: "Covering Up a Massacre: U.S. Army Press Coverage of My Lai"
Course: Crime, Media & Law: Critical Approaches to Violence
Instructor: Clara Lewis
This presentation contains content that may be disturbing for some viewers.
Lunsfords Winners for Spring 2015
Winners: Sam Kurland, Gabbi Fisher
Nominees: Maggie Ann Ryan, Carla Lewis, Ramón E. Villaverde Castañeda, Ashwin Kumar, Sage Voorhees, Kevin Coelho, Emily Xie, Bryant Alan Chen
Sam Kurland: “Communicating the Dismal Science”
Course: Science, Democracy and Social Media
Instructor: Ruth Starkman
Gabbi Fisher: "Bedroom Radicals and the Internet Sisterhood"
Course: The Rhetoric of Technology and Social Change
Instructor: Emily Polk
Lunsfords Winners for Winter 2015
Winners: Katie Joseff, Jinhie Skarda
Nominees: Sam Williams, Jenna Shapiro, Will Fein, Megan McAndrews, Alec Pallin, Barak Oshri, David Mallick, Simon Kim, Jordan Hank
Katie Joseff: “Rationalizations for the Sex Trade in Thailand”
Course: Don't Stand so Close to Me: Cross-cultural Communication
Instructor: Ann Watters
This presentation contains content that may be disturbing for some viewers.
Jinhie Skarda: "The Star of Interstellar How Art Informs Science"
Course: The Rhetoric of Art & Commerce
Instructor: John Peterson