Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards
Launched in 2008 and funded by the Friends of Fondren Library, the Fondren Library Research Awards program recognizes students who demonstrate extraordinary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship. Students submitted their research project and an essay outlining how they used specific library tools and resources to do their research. For more information about the awards, see here
Recent Submissions
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Josquin des Prez’s Motet Qui velatus facie and the Canonization of St. Bonaventure in 1482
(2018)On the basis of historical and stylistic evidence, I argue that Josquin des Prez’s motet Qui velatus facie was a response to St. Bonaventure’s canonization in 1482. In fact, my research supports the claims of Andrea Adami ... -
Seeing opposite: The Battle of Algiers and “colonial analogy” in the “Panther 21”
(2018)The People of the State of New York v. Lumumba Shakur et al (1970)—as of 1972, the longest and costliest Supreme Court case in New York State history—concerned the indictment of twenty-two members of the Black Panther ... -
Passing Prerogative: The Elizabethan Marriage Negotiations
(2018)Queen Elizabeth I is popularly remembered as one of the most powerful monarchs in English history, especially as the Virgin Queen. While she did have some control over her marital fate, Elizabeth’s decision to remain ... -
Harry Clay Hanszen
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Developing Messianism from the Old Testament, to Qumran, to Jesus
(2018)Studying messianism, one encounters a bottomless array of written work all of which are meant to clarify, elaborate, or identify the origins of Christian and Jewish beliefs in a Messiah. The abundance of work done in this ... -
Adaptation of the Samson Narrative in The Simpsons
(2018)Samson, the Nazarite Judge of the Judahites, is a character who has been widely discussed among biblical scholars. Scholars’ conclusions range from Samson as a hero, to Samson as a moral lesson, from Samson as a tragic ... -
John Saunders Chase: The Politics of a Black Architect in Postwar Houston
(2018)John Saunders Chase (1925-2012) was an African American architect in Houston, Texas. As a student and architect, he broke a color line, becoming the first black graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and later to ... -
Poe's Paradox of Unity
(2018)This essay is an analysis of some of Edgar Allan Poe’s artistic works through the lens of his empirical, but often very pedagogical works. In many ways, his later texts, namely “The Philosophy of Composition” and “Eureka” ... -
How to Build a Villain: Aurangzeb, Temple Destruction, and his Modern Reputation
(2018)This paper is a study of the spatial relationship between temples destroyed in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707) and other significant spatial characteristics of the Mughal Empire in his time, including ... -
Recovery of Post-Civil War Vicksburg, Mississippi
(2018)Two decisive battles came at the turning point of the American Civil War in July 1863: the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Vicksburg. While Gettysburg followed the traditional mode of a short engagement between the ... -
"I See How You Got In": African American Women on Rice University Women's Sports Teams
(2018)African American female athletes are a unique and often understudied group within the realm of intercollegiate athletics. Their race, gender, and athletic status interact to impact their academic and social experiences in ... -
Matthaus Schwarz's Costume Book and Gender Performativity
(2018)This paper seeks to explore the concept of gender in early modern Europe. A critical debate amongst gender theorists is whether gender is constructed or performed, and historians must carefully consider which lens to apply ... -
Clarifying competencies: A qualitative synthesis of cross-cultural training objectives
(2018)Today’s workplace is becoming more multinational and culturally diverse than ever, both in terms of U.S. organizational employment and the greater global economy. While interest in cross-cultural training has grown as a ... -
Is there “something to save”?: Death and Hope in Afro-Pessimism, Queer Negativity, and the late Baldwin
(2018)This paper explores the connections and dissensions between two fields of thought, which scholars rarely discuss alongside each other: Afro-Pessimism and Queer Negativity. Through interweaving Baldwin’s late nonfiction and ...
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