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2025-2026 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Student: Ava Bresca
\nMax Halper (Instructor)
\nResearch: Trillium Magazine Editing
\nSemester: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026<\/p>\n

Student: Olivia Ha
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch: Investigating AI
\nSemester: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026<\/p>\n

Student: Chris Flugg & Isabella Villatora
\nStephen Rice (Faculty)
\nResearch: Visualizing American County, Parish, and Borough Seals
\nSemester: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026<\/p>\n

Students: Alexander Vigorito & Rebecca Rodriguez
\nJeremy Teigen (Faculty)
\nResearch: Presidential Data Redistricting
\nSemester: Fall 2025<\/p>\n

2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Student: Jessica Hammer
\nMax Halper (Instructor)
\nResearch: Trillium Magazine Editing
\nSemester: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025<\/p>\n

Student: Michelle Kukan
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch: Investigating AI
\nSemester: Fall 2024<\/p>\n

Student: Simon Diaz
\nSarah Koenig (Faculty)
\nResearch: Mapping the Ramapo Valley Nation
\nSemester: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025<\/p>\n

Students: Alexander Vigorito & Rebecca Rodriguez
\nJeremy Teigen (Faculty)
\nResearch: 2024 Congressional Candidates’ Bios
\nSemester: Fall 2024<\/p>\n

Scholars’ Day<\/span><\/h4>\n

Student: Miranda Trautmann
\nSteve Rice (Faculty)
\nTopic: \u201cJenny on the Job\u201d: Women\u2019s Motivations and Struggles in Industrial Work During World War II”<\/p>\n

Student: Erin Pryor
\nTae Kwak (Faculty)
\nTopic: The Ideological Reconstruction of American Democracy<\/p>\n

Student: Elizabeth Marroquin
\nNatalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
\nTopic: Bridging Worlds: The Impact of Child Language Brokering<\/p>\n

Student: Marina Gannon
\nHugh Sheehy (Faculty)
\nTopic: Touch Me<\/p>\n

Student: Elly Raisch
\nErick Castellanos (Faculty)
\nTopic: Banana: the Creation of an American Cultural Object<\/p>\n

Student: Stefanie Viera
\nErick Castellanos (Faculty)
\nTopic: The Climate Displacement of Afro-Colombians: An Analysis of the Causes, Effects, and Policy<\/p>\n

Student: Antonio Russo
\nYvette Kisor (Faculty)
\nTopic: Trouble in Paradise: The \u201cTrad Life\u201d of Adam and Eve in Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost<\/p>\n

Student: Rachel Chandler
\nTodd Barnes (Faculty)
\nTopic: Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Lesbian Cinema, Desire, and Language<\/p>\n

Student: Michelle Kukan
\nCathy Hajo (Director)
\nTopic: Jane Addams Papers Project and Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n

Student: Amanda Drexler
\nEdward Shannon (Faculty)
\nTopic: Oreo\u2019s Invisibility and Resurgence<\/p>\n

Student: Sarah Glisson
\nJeremy Teigen (Faculty)
\nTopic: Beating the Boomers: The Effects of College Voters in US Elections<\/p>\n

Student: Luke DiMascio
\nJeremy Teigen (Faculty)
\nTopic: Drifting the Right Way: Population Changes and the Rightward Shift in the Rust Belt<\/p>\n

Student: Maddisyn Vaccaro
\nSarah Koenig (Faculty)
\nTopic: Hunt-Showdown \u2013 Western or Not?<\/p>\n

Student: Maddisyn Vaccaro
\nSarah Koenig (Faculty)
\nTopic: Hunt-Showdown \u2013 Western or Not?<\/p>\n

Student: Sophia Kopreski
\nJeremy Teigen (Faculty)
\nTopic: Okay (I\u2019m a) Boomer: Examining How Parents\u2019 Political Ideology Affects Their Children\u2019s Political Views<\/p>\n

Student: Lena Mardini
\nTodd Barnes (Faculty)
\nTopic: \u201cBeing Dickie Greenleaf.\u201d Alienation and Commodification in The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/p>\n

Student: Alan Rosenberg
\nStephen Rice (Faculty)
\nTopic: King Philip\u2019s War and the Creation of an \u201cIndian\u201d Race<\/p>\n

2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Student: Dominique Walton
\nEd Shannon (Faculty)
\nResearch: History of AFT at Ramapo College
\nSemester: Fall 2023<\/p>\n

Student: Michelle Kukan
\nStephen Rice (Faculty)
\nResearch: American Textbook Project
\nSemester: Fall 2023<\/p>\n

Student: Olivia Luisi
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch:\u00a0Jane Addams Papers Project
\nSemester: Fall 2023 & Spring 2024<\/p>\n

Student: Christina Feinroth
\nTodd Barnes (Faculty)
\nResearch: Woke Shakespeare Manuscript
\nSemester: Spring 2024<\/p>\n

Scholars’ Day<\/span><\/h4>\n

Student: Allison Contreas-Ortiz
\nNatalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
\nTopic: The Impact of Using the First Language in Therapeutic Treatment for Spanish-English Bilingual Clients in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Student: Madeline Zech
\nTae Kwak (Faculty)
\nTopic: Representation of Children in Holocaust Work<\/p>\n

Student: Elly Raisch
\nVittoria Rubino (Faculty)
\nTopic: A Year in the Life of a CRW Consultant<\/p>\n

Student: Giavanna Barras
\nJacob Labendz (Staff)
\nTopic: Sexual Violence During the 1994 Genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda<\/p>\n

Student: Dominique Walton
\nEd Shannon (Faculty)
\nTopic: College Student’s Diverse Culture & Political Action<\/p>\n

Student: Christina Feinroth
\nEric Daffron (Faculty)
\nTopic: I am Going to Destroy My Dead Mother<\/p>\n

Student: Arianna Castillo
\nNatalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
\nTopic: The Long-term Effects of Childhood Trauma: A Historical & Psychological Perspective<\/p>\n

2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Students: Gabe Luyun & Natalie Mahoney
\nNeriko Doerr (Faculty)
\nResearch: CAR Research
\nSemester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023<\/p>\n

Student: James LaForge
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch:\u00a0Jane Addams Papers Project
\nSemester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023<\/p>\n

Student: Emily Heim
\nStephen Rice (Faculty)
\nResearch: American Textbook Project
\nSemester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023<\/p>\n

Student: Lindsay Rulli
\nSarah Koenig (Faculty)
\nResearch: Ramapough Project
\nSemester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023<\/p>\n

Student: Kiely Paris-Rodriguez
\nJeremy Teigen (Faculty)
\nResearch: Congressional Candidates Research
\nSemester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023<\/p>\n

Student: Genesis Siverio
\nTodd Barnes (Faculty)
\nResearch: John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi
\nSemester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023<\/p>\n

Scholars’ Day<\/span><\/h4>\n

Student: Genesis Siverio
\nVal Flenga (Faculty)
\nTopic: Queer as Vampire<\/p>\n

Student: Lena Mardini
\nLisa Cassidy (Faculty)
\nTopic: The Iranian Kidney Market, An Ethical Nightmare<\/p>\n

2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Students: Anna Kovan
\nNatalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
\nResearch: Textbook Online Project
\nSemester: Fall 2021<\/p>\n

Students: James LaForge
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch:\u00a0Jane Addams Papers Project
\nSemester: Fall 2021 & Spring 2022<\/p>\n

Student: Gloria Panis-Parado
\nNeriko Doerr (Instructor)
\nResearch:\u00a0Journal Article
\nSemester: Fall 2021<\/p>\n

Students: Kelia Fane & Lindsay Rulli
\nSarah Koenig (Faculty)
\nResearch: Ramapough Project
\nSemester: Spring 2022<\/p>\n

Students: Lena Leroy & Evelyn Zizelman
\nVictoria Sciancalepore (Staff)
\nResearch: Penny Colman Project
\nSemester: Spring 2022<\/p>\n

Scholars’ Day<\/span><\/h4>\n

El objecto femenino en Veinte poemas de amor y una canci\u00f3n desesperada
\n(The Female Object in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)
\nStudent Presenter:\u00a0Emily Brackenbury
\nFaculty Mentor:\u00a0Paula Straile-Costa<\/p>\n

Eating Easy: How Convenience Food Became a Part of the American Identity
\nStudent Presenter:\u00a0Elly Raisch
\nFaculty Mentor:\u00a0Susan Hangen<\/p>\n

Mahwah Museum Veterans Project
\nStudent Presenter:\u00a0Michelle Kukan
\nFaculty Mentor:\u00a0Stephen Rice<\/p>\n

2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Students: Robert Ciarletta
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch:\u00a0Mahwah Museum Project
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Students: Egor Isaksaon, Pravita Parajuli, Zachary Pearlman, & Tara Reiley
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch:\u00a0Jane Addams Papers Project
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Student: Gloria Panis-Parado
\nNeriko Doerr (Faculty)
\nResearch:\u00a0Journal Article
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Student: Katie Barrales Cortes
\nSarah Koenig (Faculty)
\nResearch: Book Index Project
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Student: Katie Barrales Cortes
\nSteve Rice (Faculty)
\nResearch: American History Textbook Project
\n<\/span>Semester: Spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR<\/h3>\n

Student\/Faculty Research<\/span><\/h4>\n

Students: Danielle Deangelis, Caecilia Altenberg, & Katherine Gavin
\nSteve Rice (Faculty)
\nResearch:\u00a0AHTP
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2019 & Spring 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Students: Gennaro Giordano & Katherine Mc Nellis
\nCathy Hajo (Staff)
\nResearch:\u00a0Jane Addams Papers Project
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2019 & Spring 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Student: Kevin Wrobel
\nAmanda Roberti (Faculty)
\nResearch:\u00a0Coding Regulatory Abortion Bills
\n<\/span>Semester: Fall 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Student: Kate Cortes
\nStacie Taranto (Faculty)
\nResearch: Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920
\n<\/span>Semester: Spring 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Student: Elizabeth Johnsen
\nIraida Lopez (Faculty)
\nResearch: Interview Translations
\n<\/span>Semester: Spring 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

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