The Trinity Papers is an annual journal that showcases outstanding undergraduate scholarship in a liberal arts education. Founded thirty years ago by the President’s Fellows, The Trinity Papers has become a part of Trinity’s rich history, and we are proud to contribute to it.
Acting on behalf of their individual departments, the President’s Fellows design and edit each year’s Trinity Papers. We judge each submission anonymously and work collaboratively to choose the best submissions for each year’s edition of The Trinity Papers.
2016 cover photo by Abbey Schlangen ’16
Submissions from 2023
The Women of Okupa Cuba Casa Refugio, Teodora Brnovic
Forever Chemicals and Politics in Westfield, Massachusetts, Aiden Chisholm
Red Handed, Cat Crocker
False and Unequal Promises: The Causes of the Haitian Revolution, Sarah Culling
Oklahoma v. Castro Huerta: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Majority Opinion, Erin DeMarco
The Weight of Tipping The Scales, Erica Desmond
Technological Humanity, Sarah Durkee
Riding on Giants: Elephant Tourism in Chitwan National Park, Joshua Jacoves
Eyeglasses as a Social Status Symbol, Jacob Kaplan
Food Politics and Women in Fascist Italy, Ben Lee
Understanding Revolutions: The Necessity of Both Rational Choice and Sociological Approaches, Jake Loor
The Peril of China’s Zero-Covid Policy, Jacob Marselli
We Are Who We Say We Are: Categorical Destabilization in a Transnational World, Matthew Parrella
The American Middle Class is Shrinking, Where People Grow Up May Explain Why, Connor Recck
The Underlying “I” in the Multiplicitous Self, Simi Schreiber
Connecting the Unfamiliar with Familiar, Vengour Than
Trinity papers 2023 Cover Sheet, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Trinity papers 2023 Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Exclusionary Zoning: A trojan horse for the maintenance of redlining and housing segregation, Thursday Williams
Submissions from 2022
Anselm Kiefer’s Portrayal of Women during the Holocaust, Sammi Bray
Religion, Art, and Sexuality: W.H. Auden’s Revision of Shakespeare, Alexandra Golz
William Butler Yeats: Classic Ireland Poeticized, Patrick Grimes
Materially Coming of Age in Modern Orthodox Judaism, Joshua Jacoves
Pardon Me: Sovereignty as a Pretext, Sara Johnson
How to Play Hockey: for Girls, Bailey McKeon
A Memoir of Motherhood and Marriage, Cassidy McNeeley
Indians, Wolves, and Colonists: How Colonial Power Left an Incomplete Framework for Wolf Narratives in the Native Northeast, Kayleigh Moses
Three Sonnets, Paige Phillips
The Duality of Empathy and Human Rights, Panop Phongpetra
On Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome, Tenzin Sharlung
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Unsustainable Authoritarian Theater: Performative Governance and Media in China, Olivia Zeiner Morrish
Submissions from 2021
Some of the Ribbons, Georgia Beckmann
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Three Kinds of History: Confronting the Confederate Past, Jenny Conant
Pre-Existing Conditions as a Disability Rights Issue, Annika Davies
Prevention is the New Policy: Addressing Sexual Assault at Trinity College, Skye Embray
Seamus Heaney and Sinéad Morrissey: Why History?, Peter Finucane
An Analysis of Racialized Housing Segregation in America, Devin Iorio
Imperative Role of Anthropological Scholarship in Conversations about America’s Contemporary Racial Climate, Kayleigh Moses
The Possibility of Transnational Anti-Capitalism/Imperialism, Ananya Usharani Ravishankar
A Heat Wave in Athens, Lillie Schmidt
Suffering From Infertility in the Hebrew Bible, Emma Sternberg
Too Little, Too Late: On the Relationship Between the Disparate Impact of COVID-19, Government Action, and Income Inequality, in the United States, Zoë Sylvester-Chin
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Submissions from 2020
Fruit Salad, Georgia Beckmann
Christianity and Uncertainty in Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Brendan Clark
Castanea as a Multiplex Resource, Brendan Coffey
Reclaiming Individuality from the Homogenous Mass, Patrick Kennedy
Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis and Proposed Solutions, Nanci Lopez
Silencing, a Tool of Suppression and Survival, Marlén Miranda
Linguistic Imperialism: Colonial Violence through Language, Ananya Ravishankar
From Sisters to Saviors, Zoë Sylvester-Chin
The Racialization of Muslim-Americans Post 9/11: Causes, Themes, and Effects, Hamna Tariq
The Trinity Papers 2020 Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Submissions from 2019
The Trinity Papers 2019 Editorial Board, 2018-19
The Elusive Origins of Consciousness: A Philosophical Argument for Panpsychism over Competing Metaphysical Theories of Mind, Tommy Tobias Aahlberg
America’s Maternal Mortality Crisis: Policy Proposal, Kira Eidson
Analyzing the Combahee River Collective as a Social Movement, Alexander Gnassi
The Thirty-Year Foundation of the United States Healthcare System: Fee-For-Service in Perspective, Ethan Hunter
Hartford, Herbert, and Charles J. Wells: An Edition of The Temple from the Watkinson Library, Louisa Mahoney
Generation Jobless: Youth Unemployment and the Disparate cases of Germany and Spain, Elena Pellegrini
A Call to Action: Policy Proposals to Ameliorate Gun Violence in the US, Adrian Rivera
Reboot, Catherine Sushon
Submissions from 2018
The Body and the Relationship of Sexuality and Gender in Middle Eastern History: An External Critical Review of Recent Scholarship, Natalie Charette
Evaluating the Use of the Novel Genre in Unca Eliza Winkfield’s The Female American to Undo Transgressions of Gender Boundaries and Christian Imperialism, Bhumika Choudhary
Sexual Misconduct Law: The History of Prioritizing Purity Over Protection, Kira Eidson
Sallust, Empire, and Excess, Dylan Ingram
Ritual and Violence in the Rhetoric of Ulster Orangeism, Ian King
Daffy Duck and Allegorical Violets: Inane Voices Asking Philosophical Questions in the Poetry of Louise Glück and John Ashbery, Louisa Mahoney
Theory and Politics of African Decolonization, William Winter
Submissions from 2017
“Freakshow”: The Treatment of Ainu at Japanese World’s Fair Exhibits of 1893 and 1904, Chris Bulfinch
Nature Photography - Conserving the Wilds for the Future, Noelle Casey
Vulnerability of Humanity: A Comparison of Anti-war Films in China and Japan, Yingfang Chen
By Nature, Mollie Hantman-Weill
The Art of Gifting, Martha Kelly
Men, Look to the Oikos: Women as Invaders of Public Space in Aristophanes, Joy Kim
Binder, Sarah Kryspin
Befriending Asia: The International Implications and a Policy Recommendation for the Trump Administration, Caroline Lee
M RBI _I EO OGY__EY S_SEWN_ HUT, Benjamin Liske
What Kind of Black are You?, Denzel Munroe
Undocumented: The Health Effects of Latino Youth in the United States, Elizabeth Patino
How Evolution was used to Support Scientific Racism, Lindsay Pressman
The Seafaring Narrator: Romanticism’s Storyteller, Emily Turner
Becoming a Shanghailander: A Foreign City on Chinese Soil, Bingjie Xie
Submissions from 2016
The Trinity Papers 2016 Editorial Board, 2015-16
The Comparative Decline and Revitalization Processes of Hartford and Detroit, Jane Bisson
The Minotaur in Phaedo’s Labyrinth: Philosophy’s Necessary Myth, Gregory Convertito
Pepón Osorio: Promoting Growth and Addressing Identity in Hartford, Michaella Kendrick
The Jedi of Japan, David Linden
When Elephants Fight, the Grass Gets Trampled, Paroma Soni
Why Can’t Anna Wear Lilac? : Leo Tolstoy’s Use of Lilac in Anna Karenina, Emily Turner
Federal Solutions to American Gun Violence: A Regulatory Framework in Three Parts, Brooke Williams
Submissions from 2015
Trinity Papers 2015 Editorial Board, 2014-15
"Harley Davidson", Michael Cyr
“Close Distance”, Denicia Peterson
Metacognition: Transparent Claims and Opaque Reality, William Theodore Schreiber-Stainthorp
War on Whom?: Medical, Racial and Fiscal Critiques on the Criminality of Marijuana, Evan Turiano
Blood Brothers: The Evolution of Brotherhood in Crime from Deewaar to Satya, Tianyi Yao
Submissions from 2014
Trinity Papers 2014 Editorial Board, 2013-14
