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 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
First-Year Papers Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
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
First-Year Papers Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
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
Maintaining the Upper Hand, Antonia Lluberes
The Last Biblical Hero, Tom O'Leary
Nietzsche’s “Man of Action”, Michaela Powers
Papers from 2011
First-Year Papers Cover Art and Editorial Board, 2011-2012
A Brother Among Heroes, Natalie Chaves
Venice and Its Location, Hyungsun Chloe Cho
The Last Boil, Zach Conte
The Duomo: The Touchstone of Florence, Jordan Hillier
Pervert #2 and American Photographer, Declan Kennedy
Bocaj’s Bummer Lisa, Jacob Rivers
Class Warfare: Thersites in the Iliad, William Schreiber-Stainthorp
Eminent Domain: A Process Contrary to Classical Liberal Thought, Sullivan Washburn and Trey Zenker
Resolution, Sarah Watson
Papers from 2010
First-Year Papers Cover Art and Editorial Board, 2010-2011
The Ascent to Man, Lauren Browne
Waiting for Judgment, Melanie Foster
Freedom at the Price of Happiness, Sam D. Livingston
The Knight’s True Tale, Travis J. Merrill
The Origins of Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village at the University of Virginia, Francesca Miller
Danish Cartoon Controversy, Anfal Y. Nyhan
The Greatest Story Never Told, Alexander Plochocki
I Believe in Those Who Lean, Victoria C. Trentacoste
Brooklyn, Juan Vasquez
Papers from 2009
First-Year Papers Editorial Board and Cover Art, 2009-2010
