2012 Trinity Papers

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

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Submissions from 2023

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The Women of Okupa Cuba Casa Refugio, Teodora Brnovic

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Forever Chemicals and Politics in Westfield, Massachusetts, Aiden Chisholm

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Red Handed, Cat Crocker

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False and Unequal Promises: The Causes of the Haitian Revolution, Sarah Culling

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Oklahoma v. Castro Huerta: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Majority Opinion, Erin DeMarco

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Technological Humanity, Sarah Durkee

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Riding on Giants: Elephant Tourism in Chitwan National Park, Joshua Jacoves

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Eyeglasses as a Social Status Symbol, Jacob Kaplan

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Food Politics and Women in Fascist Italy, Ben Lee

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Understanding Revolutions: The Necessity of Both Rational Choice and Sociological Approaches, Jake Loor

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The Peril of China’s Zero-Covid Policy, Jacob Marselli

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We Are Who We Say We Are: Categorical Destabilization in a Transnational World, Matthew Parrella

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The American Middle Class is Shrinking, Where People Grow Up May Explain Why, Connor Recck

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The Underlying “I” in the Multiplicitous Self, Simi Schreiber

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Connecting the Unfamiliar with Familiar, Vengour Than

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Trinity papers 2023 Cover Sheet, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

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Exclusionary Zoning: A trojan horse for the maintenance of redlining and housing segregation, Thursday Williams

Submissions from 2022

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Anselm Kiefer’s Portrayal of Women during the Holocaust, Sammi Bray

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Postmodernism and the City: The Changing Realities of Cities, Nayantara Ghosh

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Religion, Art, and Sexuality: W.H. Auden’s Revision of Shakespeare, Alexandra Golz

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William Butler Yeats: Classic Ireland Poeticized, Patrick Grimes

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Materially Coming of Age in Modern Orthodox Judaism, Joshua Jacoves

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Pardon Me: Sovereignty as a Pretext, Sara Johnson

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How to Play Hockey: for Girls, Bailey McKeon

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A Memoir of Motherhood and Marriage, Cassidy McNeeley

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Indians, Wolves, and Colonists: How Colonial Power Left an Incomplete Framework for Wolf Narratives in the Native Northeast, Kayleigh Moses

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Three Sonnets, Paige Phillips

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The Duality of Empathy and Human Rights, Panop Phongpetra

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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

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Some of the Ribbons, Georgia Beckmann

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Three Kinds of History: Confronting the Confederate Past, Jenny Conant

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Pre-Existing Conditions as a Disability Rights Issue, Annika Davies

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Prevention is the New Policy: Addressing Sexual Assault at Trinity College, Skye Embray

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Seamus Heaney and Sinéad Morrissey: Why History?, Peter Finucane

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An Analysis of Racialized Housing Segregation in America, Devin Iorio

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Imperative Role of Anthropological Scholarship in Conversations about America’s Contemporary Racial Climate, Kayleigh Moses

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The Possibility of Transnational Anti-Capitalism/Imperialism, Ananya Usharani Ravishankar

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A Heat Wave in Athens, Lillie Schmidt

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Suffering From Infertility in the Hebrew Bible, Emma Sternberg

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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

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Fruit Salad, Georgia Beckmann

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Christianity and Uncertainty in Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Brendan Clark

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Castanea as a Multiplex Resource, Brendan Coffey

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Reclaiming Individuality from the Homogenous Mass, Patrick Kennedy

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Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis and Proposed Solutions, Nanci Lopez

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Silencing, a Tool of Suppression and Survival, Marlén Miranda

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Linguistic Imperialism: Colonial Violence through Language, Ananya Ravishankar

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From Sisters to Saviors, Zoë Sylvester-Chin

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The Racialization of Muslim-Americans Post 9/11: Causes, Themes, and Effects, Hamna Tariq

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Submissions from 2019

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The Trinity Papers 2019 Editorial Board, 2018-19

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The Elusive Origins of Consciousness: A Philosophical Argument for Panpsychism over Competing Metaphysical Theories of Mind, Tommy Tobias Aahlberg

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America’s Maternal Mortality Crisis: Policy Proposal, Kira Eidson

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(Post) Modern Architecture and the Commemoration of Mass Murder by the 9/11 Memorial in New York and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Erin Gannon

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Analyzing the Combahee River Collective as a Social Movement, Alexander Gnassi

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The Thirty-Year Foundation of the United States Healthcare System: Fee-For-Service in Perspective, Ethan Hunter

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Hartford, Herbert, and Charles J. Wells: An Edition of The Temple from the Watkinson Library, Louisa Mahoney

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Generation Jobless: Youth Unemployment and the Disparate cases of Germany and Spain, Elena Pellegrini

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A Call to Action: Policy Proposals to Ameliorate Gun Violence in the US, Adrian Rivera

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Reboot, Catherine Sushon

Submissions from 2018

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The Body and the Relationship of Sexuality and Gender in Middle Eastern History: An External Critical Review of Recent Scholarship, Natalie Charette

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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

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Sexual Misconduct Law: The History of Prioritizing Purity Over Protection, Kira Eidson

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Sallust, Empire, and Excess, Dylan Ingram

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Ritual and Violence in the Rhetoric of Ulster Orangeism, Ian King

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Daffy Duck and Allegorical Violets: Inane Voices Asking Philosophical Questions in the Poetry of Louise Glück and John Ashbery, Louisa Mahoney

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Boko Haram’s Dual Narrative, William Rubin

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Theory and Politics of African Decolonization, William Winter

Submissions from 2017

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“Freakshow”: The Treatment of Ainu at Japanese World’s Fair Exhibits of 1893 and 1904, Chris Bulfinch

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Nature Photography - Conserving the Wilds for the Future, Noelle Casey

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Vulnerability of Humanity: A Comparison of Anti-war Films in China and Japan, Yingfang Chen

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By Nature, Mollie Hantman-Weill

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The Art of Gifting, Martha Kelly

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Men, Look to the Oikos: Women as Invaders of Public Space in Aristophanes, Joy Kim

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Binder, Sarah Kryspin

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Befriending Asia: The International Implications and a Policy Recommendation for the Trump Administration, Caroline Lee

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M RBI _I EO OGY__EY S_SEWN_ HUT, Benjamin Liske

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What Kind of Black are You?, Denzel Munroe

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Undocumented: The Health Effects of Latino Youth in the United States, Elizabeth Patino

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How Evolution was used to Support Scientific Racism, Lindsay Pressman

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The Seafaring Narrator: Romanticism’s Storyteller, Emily Turner

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Becoming a Shanghailander: A Foreign City on Chinese Soil, Bingjie Xie

Submissions from 2016

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The Trinity Papers 2016 Editorial Board, 2015-16

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The Comparative Decline and Revitalization Processes of Hartford and Detroit, Jane Bisson

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The Minotaur in Phaedo’s Labyrinth: Philosophy’s Necessary Myth, Gregory Convertito

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Pepón Osorio: Promoting Growth and Addressing Identity in Hartford, Michaella Kendrick

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The Jedi of Japan, David Linden

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When Elephants Fight, the Grass Gets Trampled, Paroma Soni

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Why Can’t Anna Wear Lilac? : Leo Tolstoy’s Use of Lilac in Anna Karenina, Emily Turner

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Federal Solutions to American Gun Violence: A Regulatory Framework in Three Parts, Brooke Williams

Submissions from 2015

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Trinity Papers 2015 Editorial Board, 2014-15

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"Harley Davidson", Michael Cyr

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“Close Distance”, Denicia Peterson

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Metacognition: Transparent Claims and Opaque Reality, William Theodore Schreiber-Stainthorp

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War on Whom?: Medical, Racial and Fiscal Critiques on the Criminality of Marijuana, Evan Turiano

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Blood Brothers: The Evolution of Brotherhood in Crime from Deewaar to Satya, Tianyi Yao