Hollins University’s Wyndham Robertson Library has announced the winners and finalists of this year’s Undergraduate Research Awards.
The library established the awards in 2011 to recognize exemplary undergraduate student research projects completed in Hollins courses. Two $300 prizes are awarded to the winning entries, and $100 each to finalists.
Autumn Wille ’25 won the top prize in the First-Year/Sophomore category for “Artlessness: A Disturbing Ideal in Fanny Burney’s Evelina” (nominated by Associate Professor of English Michelle DeGroot).
In the Junior/Senior category, Natté Fortier ’24 won for “Framing Femininity: Opportunities for Gender Non-Conformity at U.S. Women’s Colleges at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (nominated by Ruth Alden Doan Assistant Professor of History Christopher Florio).
The Undergraduate Research Awards also recognized three finalists:
- Sophia Ciatti ’24 for “‘Nothing in America Would Outrival Such a Spectacle’: The Contested Histories of Mount Rushmore, Western Tourism, and American Nationalism” (nominated by Ruth Alden Doan Assistant Professor of History Christopher Florio).
- Phuong-Anh Ha ’26 for “A Competition between the Economy and the Environment: An Analysis on the Impacts of the Olympic Games for Host Countries” (nominated by Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Felicitas Adu-Acheampong).
- Eleanor Robb ’24 for “Krautrock, Kraftwerk, and Techno: The Transnational and Interracial Circulations of Electronic Music Genres Between Europe and America” (nominated by Ruth Alden Doan Assistant Professor of History Christopher Florio).
Read more about this year’s winners and finalists, including interviews about their experiences with the research process, at https://libguides.hollins.edu/award/2024results.
