The First-Year Papers were established in 1996-1997 to recognize the excellent written work of the first-year students at Trinity College. Each year, submissions are drawn from First-Year Seminars and from courses associated with the Cities, Guided Studies, InterArts, and Interdisciplinary Science Programs. Since 2014, the editorial board is drawn from members of the Dean’s Scholars, the top-25 members of the first-year class. Visit the First-Year Seminar Program Website.
Papers from 2022
Women’s Election in Genesis, Iqra Ahar
Campus Prohibitions and Student “Manners” (Informal Social Control), Simar Bhogal
Across the Fence: Analyzing the Trinity College HMCTA Partnership, Somen Chakrabortti
Engagement with Hartford at the Koeppel Community Sports Center: A Misguided Endeavor, Caitlin Doherty
Stop the Raids, Emily Fox
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Alexandra Gall
Ocean Vuong: “The truth is I’m worried they will get us before they get us.”, Neo Khambule
Orwell and the Quest for Happiness, Hayden Martz
Dear Mom, I love you, Lillian McDonald
How the 1776 Project Continues an Epistemology of Ignorance, Rose Molloy
The Freedom and Felicity of Rivers, Sadie Zeiner Morrish
Ten Thousand Miles, Janaki Nair
Urban Segregation, Vy Sa Nguyen
First-Year Papers Cover Sheet 2022-23, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
First Year Papers Editorial Board 2023, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Papers from 2021
Battery Park City: Desire for Isolation and Normalcy amid Tragedy; Impacts of 9/11 on a Planned Community, Hannah Cuff
Celebrated Ignorance, Sarah Culling
The Paradox of Incarceration, Brody Faliero
Respond, Revise, Reimagine: Examining Trinfo Café’s Legacy of Community Engagement in an Evolving Hartford, Anna Grant-Botlon
Frankenstein: A Critique on Masculinity, Melina Pelli Korfonta
The History of American Cryptology Prior to World War II, Robert Sawyers
The Great Auk: Impact and Legacy, Charlie Taing
First-Year paper Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Table of contents, 2021, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Papers from 2020
Mexican Muralism: An Expression of Identity and History, Andrew Briden
Hexing the Patriarchy: Witchcraft and Feminism as a Rebuttal to Capitalism, Ella Campopiano
Reconsidering Orwell’s Depiction of the Working Class in The Road to Wigan Pier, Jack Carroll
Modern Segregation in Detroit, Michigan, Ashley Fitzgerald
The Validity of Originalism in 2021, Garrett Kirk
Hartford Briefly Seen, Cecelia Lagomarsino
The Key Distribution Problem: Prior Advances and Future Challenges, Benjamin Lee
Youth Involvement in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama, Lily McMahon
Evidence for Flossing: Solid or Suspect?, Giulietta Nitido
COVID-19 Pandemic: Major Disparities in Connecticut Public Education, Oonah Maggie O'Neil
White Supremacy Pipeline, Tenzin Sharlung
The Legacy of Levittown: What the Post-WWII Suburbanization of Long Island Reveals about the Racial Wealth Gap Today, Molly Simons
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Papers from 2019
The Misconstruction of The Book of Exodus as a Pure Liberation Narrative by Black Theology During the Civil Rights Movement, Alexander Bernhard
Would Karl Marx Support the Existence of Bitcoin?, Henry Corderman
Modernity, Kendra Keelan
Excess Land Concentration in the Hands of the Wealthy: A Violation of Locke’s Law of Nature, Isabelle Mueller
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An Analysis of Human Social Structure in Relation to Evolutionary Psychology, Zoe Tucker
Papers from 2018
First-Year Papers Editorial Board, 2018-2019
Thanksgiving in Quarantine, Robin Bartlett
The Middle Ages as a Conducive Period to the Witch Craze, Elizabeth Foster-Feigenbaum
Postmodernism and the City: The Changing Realities of Cities, Nayantara Ghosh
The Dichotomy of Election, Amelia Huba
Illness, Guilt, Conscience, and Responsibility in The Brothers Karamazov, Sara Lambert
The Impact of Executive Order 9417 on New York City’s Jewish Communities Following the Second World War, Shawn Olstein
Salt of the Earth, Dana Parker
England in Wonderland, Valerie Zis
Papers from 2017
“...and Peggy!”, Macie Bridge
Jeff Sessions Brings Back the War On Drugs, Jiuyuan Chi
1984 as a Religious Critique, Lindsay Dowty
Manufacturing Disaster: The Privately-Owned Causes of Katrina’s Devastation, Kyle Fields
The True Impact of Black Lives Matter, Devin Iorio
Orwell the Underdog, Thomas Kolle
On Ai Weiwei’s “Remembrance”, Xinbei Lin
The Odds, Kyle Long
Empowering the Untouchables on the Eve of Indian Independence, Sawyer Peck
Tale of a Mad Man, Kexin(Sabrina) Shu
Papers from 2016
First-Year Papers Editorial Board, 2016-2017
Group Egotism in the Pergamon Altar: Debunking the idea of individualism in Hellenistic Art, Alison Leigh Cofrancesco
The American Founding: Still Burning, Kira Eidson
Eager to be Accepted, Kalimah Muhammad
The Shift in Women’s Rights During the Augustan Age, Mary Tursi
Human Trafficking in South East Asia and Economic Empowerment, Ethan Yang
Papers from 2015
First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2015-2016
Le Corbusier’s Fatal Flaws – A Critique of Modernism, Alessandro Hseuh-Bruni
Nootropics for Healthy Individuals, Jin Pyo Jeon
Pepón Osorio: Promoting Growth and Addressing Identity in Hartford, Michaella Kendrick
Debate on Educating the Youth in the Athenian Assembly, Krikor Norsigian
A New Perspective Through Islamophobia: The True Oppressors of Veiled Muslim Women, Elizabeth Patino
Medium and Meaning in Nick Cave’s Soundsuit, Brooke Williams
Salute to the Kitchen Ritual: A history of the transformation of Chinese food in America, Shuxin Zhang
Papers from 2014
First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2014-15
Taking on Hartford: Perspectives from the Seat of a Bike and a Chair in Class, Steven Craney
A Conditional Cycle, James Wylie Deitch
Nature in its Simplicity, Noor Malik
Tracing Thoughts: Nietzsche to Sartre, John Martone
Preservation or Conservation: Landscape Photography’s Role in Idealizing and Destroying the American Wilderness, Sarah Messenger
Propaganda Art in Nazi Germany: The Revival of Classicism, Mathilde Sauquet
Destructive Technological Departure from Tradition in The Invention of Morel, Molly Schineller
The Bacteriophage “fabiolayun”, Fabiola Yun
Papers from 2013
First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2013-14
Race and Social Class Relations at Trinity and Beyond, Isabelle Boundy
The Post-World War II Suburb in the United States, Seth Browner
Art for the Disappeared, Cassandra Cronin
Forgiveness Is All I Have To Offer, Edward Culhane
The Isolation and Morphology of Imp48, Maura Griffith
Anxious, but Getting Help, Amanda Lundergan
Integration of Evolution and Christianity, Campbell North
Papers from 2012
First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2012-13
Sucette: The Discovery and Classification of a Bacteriophage, James Cescon
Andromache: Denial and Despair, Gaia Cloutier
The Effect of Social Media in the 2012 Presidential Election, Maggie Dalton-Hoffman
The Origins of a Name, Chris D'Amico
Controversy in Virology: Bacteriophage Therapy versus Antibiotics, Frankie Jeney
