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Lunsford Honorees: Winter 2021

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About the Winter 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 Winter 2021, and we honor all of these students for their excellent research and delivery.

Watch highlights from the Winter honoree presentations -- with an introduction by former PWR Faculty Director, Andrea Lunsford -- and then scroll down for access to their full presentations.

Ria Calcagno: “Change Through Community: A Case Study of Disability Policy and Community at Stanford University"

Course: The Rhetoric of Activism
Instructor: Shannon Hervey

Alex Hughes: "'Fiddler on the Roof''s Subversive Reflection of the Jewish Experience"

Course: All that Jazz: The Rhetoric of American Musical Theater
Instructor: Wendy Goldberg

Aiyanna Johns: “Imagineer for a Day: Stepping into the Shoes of Disney’s Master Storytellers to Understand the Interdisciplinarity of their Design Process"

Course: Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Problem-Solving
Instructor: Mutallip Anwar

Jasmine Nguyen: “Disaggregating the Data"

Course: Ethics and AI
Instructor: Ruth Starkman

Ana Ximena Sosa: “Human-Place Interface in Heritage Festivals"

Course: Whose Home? Rhetorics of Place and Belonging
Instructor: Holly Fulton

Darryl Frimpong Asmah Thompson: “God Speaks: The How and the Verification Process"

Course: Communicating Your Research: Meaningful Academic Writing and Speaking
Instructor: Helen Lie