The Library Undergraduate Research Award (LURA) recognizes students who demonstrate exemplary research and scholarship, including remarkable skill and creativity in the use of library and information resources. Students submit a reflective essay on their research process which is then reviewed, alongside their finished or in-progress research project, by librarians and faculty. The 6th Annual LURA Ceremony was held on April 25, 2019, honoring the following winners:
Senior Award
Natalie McDonald, Pomona
Project title: “Engendering Empire: The British Women’s Military Services in India and the Middle East, 1939–1945”
Faculty sponsor: Helena Wall, Warren Finney Day Professor of History, Pomona College
Aleo Pugh, Pitzer
Project title: “’Leery of Being Consumed’: Working-Class Black Dissent and the Legacy of Brown”
Faculty sponsor: Maryan Soliman, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Scripps College
Junior Award
Ethan Hardacre, Pomona
Project title: “The Cost of Liquid Gold: The Consequences of Western Claims to African Land”
Faculty sponsor: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Associate Professor of Art; Chair of Art, Pomona College
Sophomore Award
Calder Hollond, Pomona
Project title: “Gender Performativity Through Traditional Dance Performance”
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Shay, Professor of Theatre and Dance, Pomona College
First-Year Award
Jessica Mei, Scripps
Project title: “Through the Looking Glass: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric, Heteronormativity, and Homosociality”
Faculty sponsor: Glenn Simshaw, Assistant Professor of Writing and Director of Writing Center, Scripps College
Group Award
Audrey Jang, Isaac Prestwich, Ximena Lane, Jessie McKenzie, and Julia Beckwith, Pomona and Scripps
Project title: “(Dis)orientation Tour: Land Use at the Claremont Colleges”
Faculty sponsor: Aimee Bahng, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Pomona College
Music Award
Funded from the library’s Seymour Music Endowment.
Melia Wong, Claremont McKenna
Project title: “Civil War Anthems and their Contrafacta”
Faculty sponsor: YouYoung Kang, Associate Professor of Music, Scripps College
For more information about the award, visit the LURA homepage.