Fondren Library’s annual Research Award program is funded by the Friends of  Fondren Library and recognizes students who demonstrate extraordinary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship. Winning papers are deposited in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive.

Winners of the 2020 awards were recently announced:

Graduate

First Place: Sophia Martinez-Abbud, “Re-membering Veracruz: A Decolonial Reading of Regional Colonial Cartography”

Undergraduate

First Place: Jolen Martinez, “Materials of Movement: Homeless bodies and mobile technologies in a feminist new materialist lens”

Second Place: Molly Wancewicz, “Organized Labor and Faction in the United States, 1930s and 1940s”

Honorable Mention: Jennifer Wang, “Literary Landscapes: A Future for Post-Frontier Regionalism in Literature of the American West”