At the 2026 Newcomb-Tulane College Senior Awards Ceremony, Tulane University recognized graduating seniors whose achievements reflect excellence across the university community. Read the highlights here of students from the School of Liberal Arts who were honored for their scholarship, leadership, creativity, service, and impact both inside and beyond the classroom.
Africana Studies Program
Felipe Smith, Jr. Award for Excellence in Africana Studies
Kosisochukwu Chisom Daniella Ifeji
Exemplifying the nexus of interdisciplinary academic excellence and profound commitment to advocacy and leadership on behalf of campus and community, Kosisochukwu Ifeji’s work — which they will continue as a graduate student at Columbia — brings together African, queer and migration studies with care-centered ethical practice. An Africana Studies Undergraduate Fellow and integral leader for Black Studies Book Club, Kosi is also a two-time winner of the undergraduate African Studies scholarship prize and a 2026 Tulane 34 Award recipient.
Senior Honors Scholar
Camille Sinclaire Lowery
A double major in Political Science and Africana Studies with a Certificate in Gender-Based Violence, Camille Lowery has consistently impressed our faculty with the dedication and critical insight she brings to working at the nexus of these fields. Her commendable honors thesis, “Mapping Memory: Birth, Death and Familial Separation as Spatial Archives in the WPA Narratives of the U.S. South,” exemplifies the outstanding record of academic achievement that has distinguished her undergraduate career.
Department of Anthropology
Arden R. King Award for Excellence in Sociocultural Anthropology
Brooke Catherine Cox
Brooke Cox is receiving the Arden King Award for Excellence in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her interdisciplinary passion bridges anthropology and art history with vibrant engagement in theater and dance. Brooke’s commitment to cultural storytelling across mediums and her devotion to community service, as evidenced through her tremendous volunteer work, reflect a future dedicated to public librarianship, where she will foster inclusive spaces for learning, creativity and the preservation of diverse human experiences.
Elizabeth S. Watts Award for Excellence in Biological Anthropology
Brooke Isabelle Mason
Brooke Mason discovered biological anthropology and primatology in her junior year and she was instantly hooked! After spending her summer assisting with capuchin vocalization analysis, she designed an honors thesis project that investigates whether naïve observers can distinguish alpha from subordinate male capuchins from facial photographs alone. This novel research has the potential to advance our understanding of primate dominance signal evolution and yield an important publication in the field. Robert Wauchope Award for Excellence in Anthropology Julia Elizabeth Miller The Robert Wauchope Award for Excellence in Anthropology goes to Julia Elizabeth Miller, in recognition of her great enthusiasm for anthropology, her leadership within the anthropology student community here at Tulane and in our department, her humanistic and anthropological approach to data science and geospatial data analysis and her depth and breadth of knowledge about relationships between people and the environment, in the past, present and future.
Victoria Reifler Bricker Award for Excellence in Linguistic Anthropology
Jason Matthew McKinley
Jason McKinley has dedicated his linguistic talents to working with Indigenous communities whose languages are endangered. In Louisiana he has taught Tunica and Biloxi languages to tribal youth, helping to produce didactic materials for future use. In Guatemala, he has worked with Kaqchikel scholars and community members in the process learning to weave and to prepare traditional dishes. Currently learning Choctaw, he has been accepted into the Tulane PhD program in Linguistics.
Senior Scholar Award
Catarina Adelaida Vazquez
Catarina “Cat” Vazquez is this year’s Anthropology Senior Scholar Award recipient. Cat has excelled in all her anthropology classes and her honors thesis explores intimate partner violence as gleaned from skeletal data. For this groundbreaking project, she examined a large, documented collection of women’s skeletons, correlating their bony injuries with clinical data on injuries among survivors of intimate partner violence. Next year Cat will pursue a PhD in anthropology at the University of Florida.
Senior Honors Scholar
Gabriel Batnij
Gabriel Batnij is the Department of Anthropology’s 2026 Senior Honor Scholar. Gabriel used his broad anthropological training and ethnographic fieldwork in Amman, Jordan, to construct a nuanced thesis on the sociality of boycott. He weaves together social theory and primary research to examine interactions of consumption, politics, social groups and globalization. By providing a new language to analyze an understudied social form, his work represents student research at its best.
Newcomb Department of Art
Alberta “Rusty” Collier Memorial Award in 2D Art
Taylor Sacco
Taylor Sacco has emerged as an exceptional lens-based artist whose work is already gaining professional recognition. As Taylor writes, their images “rest in that tension between imprint and disappearance, where queerness moves like water through soft ground, held for a moment before returning to the earth.” Their current project traces the intersections of bodies, land and memory in Coastal Louisiana; their deliberate, poetic approach to making embodies rigor, conceptual fluidity, rich creativity and extraordinary promise.
Alberta “Rusty” Collier Memorial Award in 3D Art
Robert Randolph Spencer
Bobby Spencer recently declared a BFA in glass. He has constantly shown his dedication to glass as an expressive medium, when faced with setbacks, has applied himself even harder. Bobby continues to push the boundaries with his use of glass, constantly challenging himself, learning new techniques and considering all aspects of his growth in making sculpture. He is a huge asset to the glass area, always willing to help others and contribute around the studio.
Henry Stern Prize Paper in Art History
Kelsey Leigh Condon
Kelsey Condon receives this prize for “Staging Womanhood: Temporalizing Women’s Labor from the White City to the Midway at the 1893 Columbian Exposition,” written for Prof. Adrian Anagnost’s seminar, World Expos and Biennials. Through visual analysis of Mary Cassatt’s mural Modern Woman, the Woman’s Building and the Irish Villages, Kelsey illuminates how class and race shaped the staging of femininity at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Outstanding Studio Art Major
Carmen Helen Alcocer
Carmen Alcocer is an exemplary student, artist and scholar that embodies the range of skill and thinking encouraged by the School of Liberal Arts. She is earning a BFA in Studio Art while also majoring in Art History and Latin American Studies. Her recently completed NTC Honors Thesis is entitled “Full and Fulfilled: Gas Stations as Cathedrals of Consumption,” accompanied by miniatures of the convenience stores that magnify the tensions of excess and desire.
Owen Boudreau Canter
Owen is an outstanding student and budding artist! His curiosity, experimentation and persistence across his studio practice demonstrates his seriousness as a practicing studio artist. Owen is helpful around the studio and is always eager to learn new skills, processes and techniques. He is very deserving of this accomplishment and demonstrates the core values of this award.
Sandy Chism Award in Painting
Evelyn Grace Roth
Evie Roth’s exceptional work ethic and meticulous planning transform snapshots of her daily commute into monumental, enigmatic paintings. Her process deconstructs the photo and the memory that it serves to locate the precise details that signal states of reverie. By visually analyzing how colors vibrate and connect, she dissects and memorializes the very origins of experience. Evie’s commitment to this enduring painterly project is both deeply personal and uniquely relevant.
Marilyn Brown Award for Outstanding Art History Major
Sophia Joycelyn Duhon
Sophia Duhon earns this award with a 4.0 major GPA and exceptional engagement across coursework. Faculty praise the sophistication of her analysis, the care of her written work and the sharp wit she brings to collective learning. Her passion for decorative arts and non-profit historic collections is matched by outstanding museum experience at the Beauregard-Keyes Historic House Museum, Capital Park Museum and the Louisiana Landmarks Society’s Pitot House.
Senior Honors Scholar
Beatrix Frances Brockman
Pursuing dual degrees in psychology and art history, with minors in economics and education, Beatrix brings rare interdisciplinary range to her honors thesis, “The Neuroaesthetic Gaze: Reframing Historical Art Movements Through Psychology.” Examining the interplay between art appreciation and psychological well-being in nineteenth-century European art, her work sits at the frontier of neuroaesthetics and positions her as a rising scholar whose research holds meaningful implications for neuroscience and public policy.
Asian Studies Program
Tulane Chinese Language Award
Juniper Jean Windham
Juniper has completed the full Chinese language sequence from ASTC 1010 to ASTC 4080 with outstanding academic performance. Passionate about language learning, she actively supported local public school students through our service-learning program and built a lasting friendship and mentorship with her Taiwan language partner. Her semester in Taiwan further deepened her linguistic and cultural competence. Intelligent, poised and open-minded, she exemplifies excellence and intercultural competence.
Tulane Japanese Language Award
Liam George Chestney
Liam Chestney completed five Japanese courses. Not only did he earn a minor, but he also deepened cultural understanding through study abroad in Kyoto. He is an amazing student and person. His tireless scholarly effort was demonstrated in his A-plus coursework backed by impressive time management skills. His plan to reside and work in Japan is admirable and I have no doubt he will make a positive impact there.
Arriana Madison Elliott
Arriana Elliot has consistently had major achievements academically, personally and in community outreach. She is accepted by the Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET), one of the most competitive and prestigious government-sponsored programs for working in Japan. Being chosen by JET is clear proof of Adriana’s excellence that I have witnessed since she joined the Japanese program.
Senior Honors Scholar
Advaith Subramanian
Advaith Subramanian is the winner of the Asian Studies Program’s 2026 Senior Honors Scholar Award. Advaith’s thesis represents a multidisciplinary and critical approach to the study of Asia. In the thesis, Advaith showcases his unique capacity to imagine across archives, multiple Asian languages and epistemologies in order to better describe, situate and understand contemporary forms of psychological life Asia.
Department of Classical Studies
George H. Terriberry Classical Prize
Mia Elizabeth Mackovich
Mack has been chosen for their perseverance and enthusiasm, a perfect match for the Terriberry! Judah Touro Medal Prize Riley Ann Hearon Riley is a wonderful student who has been integral part of our department. We are sorry to see her go but we look forward to hearing about her future successes!
Ernest Henry Riedel Classical Studies Prize
Bryce Cowan Oufnac
Bryce has been a good citizen of our department and a protagonist of our classes. He has taken a more leadership role this last year as a Classics Club president.
Department of Communications
Ashton Phelps, Sr. Memorial Award
Paige Halverstadt
Paige Halverstadt has distinguished herself for achieving excellence in Communication studies, receiving the highest cumulative GPA among graduating seniors with a perfect 4.0 score. Faculty members highlight her ability to develop complex and refined examinations of communication phenomena, always placing media and technology within broader social, economic, political and cultural contexts. We commend Paige for her academic achievements.
Glendy Burke Medal in Communication
Bethany Antoinette Vontrice Milner
Bethany Milner has distinguished herself by combining an outstanding academic performance with a strong service record to communities in the field of Communication. She is a dedicated scholar who has done exemplary work for our communities, serving as President of the Black Student Union, of the Intercultural Council and of the Nu Mu Citywide Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. We commend her for her academic and service achievements.
N. Frank Ukadike Award for Excellence in Media Studies
Rachel Eri Passer
Rachel Passer stood out amongst students due to her rigorous academic work, critical analytical skills and a passionate commitment to social justice and equity. She has been an inspiring leader on campus as President of the Feminist Alliance of Students at Tulane. She excelled in her coursework in Communication, developing and deploying new perspectives to imagine, hope and fight for a better world.
Department of Comparative Literature
Ann Royal Arthur Memorial Award
Zachary Philip Broadhurst
This award goes to the male or female students of German with superior records of academic achievement. It is our pleasure to present this award to Zachary who has excelled in our program. He will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Finance and a minor in German. We wish him all the best for the future.
Award for Excellence in Russian Studies
Sasha Benet Karasik
Sasha Karasik has demonstrated an active commitment to the study of Russian language and culture. She has also created a globally available WordPress site on Russian-Jewish culture under the guidance of Professor William Brumfield. We congratulate Sasha on her outstanding achievement in Russian Studies.
John T. Krumpelmann Award
Nicholas Ruben Minutti
This award honors a graduating German major at Tulane with an outstanding record of academic achievement. Nicolas has excelled in our program, while also majoring in Psychology. He will return to his home state of Texas where he will be teaching underprivileged children. He plans to apply to graduate school next year. We wish him all the best for his future endeavors.
Paige Katharina Deloy
This award honors a graduating German major at Tulane with an outstanding record of academic achievement. Paige certainly fits that profile. While double majoring in German and Psychology, she spent a very productive year in Berlin, where she took classes in Art History and German and perfected her German language skills. Our best wishes for her future career.
Sally Reed Atkins Fund for Students of German Literature Award
Caraline Hope Alston
This award supports female graduate and undergraduate students of German literature. Caraline took several German literature and culture courses with us, earning a minor in German. She was instrumental in revitalizing the Tulane German Club following the Covid-19 pandemic. We thank her for her hard work and wish her all the best for her future career.
Russian Book Prize for Achievement in the Russian Language
Zachary Adam Lebowitz
Zachary Lebowitz has demonstrated a strong commitment to the study of Russian language in its historical context. With his lively sense of humor, he always contributed to an engagement with a living Russian language. We congratulate Zachary on his achievements.
Department of Economics
J. Ernest Tanner Award for Excellence in Economics
Joao Pedro Ribeiro de Lacerda
Joao Pedro completed coursework at Tulane with perfect major GPA 4.0 and was voted by the faculty to win the prestigious The J. Ernest Tanner Award for Excellence in Economics.
Emily Grace Maran
Emily completed coursework at Tulane with perfect major GPA 4.0 and was voted by the faculty to win the prestigious The J. Ernest Tanner Award for Excellence in Economics.
Paul Tulane Rising Star Award
Emily Grace Maran Research Award in Economics
Scarlett Olivia Seyler Senior Honors Scholar
Lily Wood
Department of English
Quarante Prize
Eve Scott Kirven
Was I Just A Fool? A bracingly honest and often funny account of the aux cord, automobiles and self-delusion, with a dose of the complications of geographical and cultural differences in the Louisiana world of college. Especially dry eyed and droll on the subject of male vanity.
Department of English Prize for Citizenship
Carlotta Ione Harold
Carlotta has been a dedicated tutor at the writing center since January of 2025, serving students in in-person, Zoom and asynchronous formats and she will have completed over 300 tutoring sessions before she graduates. She has also made many class visits and served on new initiatives like drop-in tutoring. These experiences, along with her frequent attendance at professional development sessions, have led to her becoming a Level I tutor Certified by the College Reading and Literacy Association.
Pierce Butler Prize for Excellence in English
Carlotta Ione Harold
Carlotta is a delight to have as a student: she reliably elevates the standard of class discussion. She is prepared and conscientious in ways that her classmates clearly admire. Her most recent paper, “‘No Particular Reason”: Agency and Accountability in Cold War Narratives,” examines unlikely aesthetic connections across the feature film, Forrest Gump (1994), Viet Thanh Nguyen’s public critiques of US empire and Jeremy Tiang’s historical novel State of Emergency (2017). Her writing is mature, her readings are nuanced and her thinking is deft. The excellence of Carlotta’s writing was also evidenced in English 4012, a course on global theories of Asian racialization. Her final paper for this class made a sophisticated argument through lovely close readings about how Asians are racialized through language in Ling Ma’s novel Severance (2018).
Virginia Gleaves Lazarus Memorial Award
Grace Morgan Barral
“The Picture of Dorian Gray as a Religious Parable: Free Will, Self Actualization, Corruption and the Power of Influence,” Grace’s senior capstone seminar paper lucidly interprets Oscar Wilde’s infamous 1891 novel through an original critical, interpretive lens that is very different from the one we applied to the novel in seminar. In her paper, Grace reads the novel as a Christian parable. She focuses on the protagonist Dorian, on how he is positively and negatively influenced by specific people and ideas and how he responds morally to those influences. The paper sustains an admirable level of focus and a consistently clear vision of its topic over the course of 12+ pages. The thread that runs throughout the paper, tying together its various parts, is Dorian’s soul and the struggle for his soul. Grace clearly defines this struggle as being between insidious external influences and what she reveals as Dorian’s inner moral core and integrity, something few readers have recognized. I thought this was a great and (to my knowledge) new and unprecedented way to interpret Dorian’s struggle in the novel.
Henry Clay Stier Award in English
Erin Lynn Geary Dale Edmonds Prize
Indigo Ward
In Indigo Ward’s “Hide and Seek,” a character in search of a missing cousin finds themselves lost in a marsh inhabited by a kind and gentle kraken. The kraken has not seen the cousin but is happy to talk with the main character, perhaps because they have something in common: both are lost and lonely. A key difference between them is that the kraken has learned to accept and live with loss, while the frustrated human character is still learning. Indeed, the kraken may know what the character willfully refuses to accept: their cousin is not hiding; he is dead. This is a moving and surprising story. I applaud the imaginative risks that Ward takes, risks that allow us to understand personal grief through a lens of myth and metaphor. Those risks also yield the lyric pleasures in the writing: it will be a long time before I forget the sentence, “You unstring your violin body.” This is powerful and mature work and an extraordinary achievement for a young writer.
Donald Pizer Award in American Literature
Caroline McCandless Niver
Callie is a brilliant student with a unique intellect, an extraordinary memory and deep integrity. She excelled in the two contemporary US poetry courses she took with me, producing exceptional, elegant written work that consistently surprised me with its original insights about complex poems and its astute analysis of power. Callie is a triple major and currently has a 3.911 with anticipated degrees in English (where she has a 4.0), Art History and Political Science. She has taken this course of study joyfully, as a voracious reader and an insatiably curious scholar. She has also memorized every poem posted on my office door (in addition to a long list of others) and she recites them beautifully!
Award for Service to the Literary Community
Olivia Simone Segura
Senior Achievement Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing
Olivia Simone Segura
Olivia Segura, editor of The Tulane Review, is nominated for her astute and funny stories and essays, that often examine and illustrate the contradictions of ideals and one’s own emotional needs and wants.
Senior Honors Scholar
William Hartfield Hotaling
Will is a superb student in every respect. In my Chaucer class, he was one of a handful of students (three to be exact) who excelled both at the learning of Middle English and at the interpretation of Chaucer’s poetry. His avidity for Chaucer led him to seek me out as director of his Honor’s Thesis, a study of Chaucer’ s Physician in the context of late medieval attitudes toward the practice of medicine generally and the emergence of this practice as a well-defined “profession.” Will has done both traditional and innovative research on the Canterbury Tales in pursuing this project. For example, the bibliography for his project involves books published as recently as last year on medieval medicine. On an interdisciplinary level, he has brought to bear on the literary materials his training in Physics, in which he is a double major with English and in which he is also doing a second Honors Thesis. He has also applied to his understanding of Chaucer’s poetry his purposeful reflections on his plans to pursue a career in the Medical Humanities and in medical practice. I have had many double majors over the years in my medieval literature classes, but this is the first time I’ve encountered a student like Will, who on his own initiative has combined discipline and imagination in pursuit of such an original project.
Environmental Studies Program
Award for Community Engagement in Environmental Studies
Alexa Giselle Valenzuela
Alexa Valenzuela in addition to being on the Deans’ List for her scholarly achievements is actively engaged in the Tulane and New Orleans community. Alexa has started an environmental group on campus bringing together students interested in environmental careers and speakers in environmental professions. She also volunteers in the broader New Orleans community, most notably with the CRCL oyster shell restoration project.
Award for Excellence in Environmental Studies
Lucie Nola Jain
Lucie is an exceptional student who has demonstrated a sustained commitment to academic excellence and a passion for the environment. She exemplifies how to combine intellectual curiosity and a desire to make the world a better place.
Chloe Belle Callan
Chloe is a brilliant, dedicated, engaged scholar and Tulanian who exemplifies the best of the EVST Program. She is a beautiful writer (the pieces she submitted in my Environmental Journalism course were publication worthy), a deeply perceptive reader and a leader in class discussions. She is unafraid to express strong opinions and, equally impressive, to admit uncertainty or self-doubt. Her commitment to her studies is matched by her commitment to environmental causes. Major GPA: 4.0.
Larkin Victoria Petersen
This student is recognized for outstanding performance in Environmental Studies, particularly for their ability to approach the economic analysis of environmental policy with strong critical thinking skills. They consistently demonstrated a thoughtful and rigorous engagement with complex policy questions, carefully evaluating trade-offs, assumptions and empirical evidence. Their work reflects both analytical depth and intellectual curiosity, making them especially deserving of this award.
Department of French & Italian
Oscar Maas Prize Carey
Bryan Bass Carey
Bass is receiving the Oscar Maas prize for her essay answering the question: “Dans quelle mesure les idéaux fondamentaux de la démocratie (la liberté, l’égalité, le progrès, entre autres), tels qu’ils se sont développés dans l’histoire de France, ont-ils connu à la fois des réussites et des limites ? Comment ces idéaux devraient-ils être préservés, repensés ou transformés pour les 250 prochaines années face aux défis contemporains?” Alcée Fortier Memorial Prize Carey Bryan Bass Cary impresses her professors with her poise and diligence and one comments that she is “supremely organized and on top of everything.” In the Senior Seminar in French, she delivered a presentation that was “deeply researched and full of dates and facts using hardly any notes at all. She spoke with confidence and at a natural, engaging pace. She was fully in command of her French and never grasped for a word.”
Louis Bush Medal
Gaston Woolsey Finger
Gaston has distinguished himself as an exceedingly curious, engaged and committed student. His professors comment that he is brilliant and hardworking and that he takes intellectual inquiry seriously and engages deeply with course material. One commented that “there is something extraordinary about his ability to work at this high level across such different fields — pre-med Cell and Molecular Biology and French literature and history — and to do each so exceptionally well.”
Oscar Maas Prize
Gaston Woolsey Finger
Gaston Finger is a deserving recipient of the Oscar Maas prize for his essay exploring the complexities of the history of progress and Enlightenment: “Le progrès est-il linéaire ? Pourquoi ou pourquoi pas ? Illustrez votre réponse à l’aide d’exemples tirés de l’histoire de France.” Charlotte Marie Olson Charlotte Olson is a recipient of the Oscar Maas prize for her essay addressing the question: “Dans quelle mesure les idéaux fondamentaux de la démocratie (la liberté, l’égalité, le progrès, entre autres), tels qu’ils se sont développés dans l’histoire de France, ont-ils connu à la fois des réussites et des limites ? Comment ces idéaux devraient-ils être préservés, repensés ou transformés pour les 250 prochaines années face aux défis contemporains?” 39 Alexie Tifenn Smith Alexie Smith is receiving the Oscar Mass prize for her essay that answered the question: “Dans quelle mesure les idéaux fondamentaux de la démocratie (la liberté, l’égalité, le progrès, entre autres), tels qu’ils se sont développés dans l’histoire de France, ont-ils connu à la fois des réussites et des limites? Comment ces idéaux devraient-ils être préservés, repensés ou transformés pour les 250 prochaines années face aux défis contemporains?”
Nina Lara Zimmermann
Nina Zimmermann is receiving the Oscar Maas prize for her essay addressing the question “Dans quelle mesure les idéaux fondamentaux de la démocratie (la liberté, l’égalité, le progrès, entre autres), tels qu’ils se sont développés dans l’histoire de France, ont-ils connu à la fois des réussites et des limites ? Comment ces idéaux devraient-ils être préservés, repensés ou transformés pour les 250 prochaines années face aux défis contemporains?” Aviva Gayle Blumenthal Aviva Blumenthal is a deserving recipient of the Oscar Maas prize for her essay answering the question “Comment les idéaux fondamentaux de la démocratie (la liberté, l’égalité, le progrès, entre autres) devraient-ils être préservés, repensés ou transformés pour les 250 prochaines années face aux défis contemporains (tels que l’intelligence artificielle, la bio-ingénierie et l’autoritarisme)?”
Mary Evelyne White
Mary Evelyne White is receiving the Oscar Maas prize for her essay answering the question: “Comment les idéaux fondamentaux de la démocratie (la liberté, l’égalité, le progrès, entre autres) devraient-ils être préservés, repensés ou transformés pour les 250 prochaines années face aux défis contemporains (tels que l’intelligence artificielle, la bio-ingénierie et l’autoritarisme) ?” 40 Jonathan E. Lorino Memorial Award Mary Evelyne White Mary Evelyne White has demonstrated exceptional enthusiasm for and dedication to the study of French throughout her time at Tulane. She has embraced every opportunity to engage with and promote French, including study abroad in Montreal and Lyon and serving as president of the Tulane Undergraduate French Association. Beyond her intellectual qualities, Mary Evelyne is incredibly kind, principled and generous. She inspires the people around her and encourages them to follow her lead.
Senior Honors Scholar
Mary Evelyne White
Mary Evelyne White has performed outstandingly in her French courses throughout her years at Tulane and has been a leader among students in the French program. She also completed an excellent Honors Thesis exploring the feminization of agent nouns in Haitian Creole and what it tells us about the relationship between that language and French. For these reasons and more, Mary Evelyne richly deserves her designation as Senior Honors Scholar in French. Italian Government Prize Doruk Toydemir Doruk Toydemir’s senior honors thesis, “The Effects of Contradictory Expression of Diegesis in Italian Neorealist Cinema,” offers a rigorous analysis of music’s fundamental role in four carefully selected canonical Italian films. The work is distinguished by extensive research, original insight and compelling argumentation, reflecting Doruk’s command of music history and theory, Italian history and culture and related fields. It stands as a meaningful contribution to the scholarly literature on Italian cinema.
Senior Honor Scholar
Doruk Toydemir
Doruk Toydemir’s senior honors thesis, “The Effects of Contradictory Expression of Diegesis in Italian Neorealist Cinema,” offers a rigorous analysis of music’s fundamental role in four carefully selected canonical Italian films. The work is distinguished by extensive research, original insight and compelling argumentation, reflecting Doruk’s command of music history and theory, Italian history and culture and related fields. It stands as a meaningful contribution to the scholarly literature on Italian cinema.
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Program Award for Outstanding Service in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Joanna E. Fashjian
Multiple faculty nominated Jo, describing them as “one of the most involved, intellectually curious and passionate students” and asking: “What doesn’t Jo do on campus?!” Jo has been involved with TUPHEs, SVPR, college radio WTUL and more. Jo was a dedicated service-learner with New Orleans Advocates for LGBTQ Elders and carried this into their Tenenbaum Tutorial, developing volunteer training materials. Jo is often the first to volunteer for GESS events and consistently exhibits feminist praxis.
Outstanding Senior in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Carlotta Ione Harold
A faculty member described Carlotta as “among the most extraordinary students I’ve had the pleasure of teaching.” They noted she is “a top-notch thinker and writer” and had invited Carlotta as a co-panelist at the WGS South 2026 conference, to present a paper drawn from her honors thesis. The faculty member concluded: “I have no doubt that in a few years I will be calling her “colleague” instead of “student.””
Department of History
Aline Mackenzie Taylor Award in Intellectual History
Nathaniel Owen Morris
Faculty in multiple history classes have praised Nathaniel Owen Morris’ attentive reading, thoughtful participation in class discussion and consistent excellence in all written work. The essay on “The Moral Structure of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”” for which this prize is awarded stood out for its nimble integration of textual, religious and philosophical analysis, along with efficient explication of the context in which Dante wrote and Morris’ own contemplation of perennial moral themes.
Chi Omega Prize in History
Caroline Elizabeth Mehno
Caroline Mehno has excelled in every area of history she has explored in a stellar Tulane career, covering all parts of the world and diverse thematic areas, including public history, histories of music, gender, war and film. She has delved most deeply into U.S. social and cultural history, culminating with a Senior Honors Thesis that presented a nuanced intellectual and cultural study of the New Jersey histories of writers Amiri Baraka, Alan Ginsburg and Philip Roth.
Sidney Beyer Prize for Excellence in American History
Anna Caroline Gustafson
For a seminar in environmental history Anna Gustafson embraced the challenge of analyzing the complex failures of the New Orleans rebuilding process after the catastrophic flood control disaster of August 2005. In “Hurricane Katrina: Grassroots Responses and Racial Disparities” Gustafson presents a thoughtful case study of the rebuilding organization “Women of the Storm” and the way that its organizational history reflected much longer histories of racial and class inequities in Louisiana and US history.
Tulane Legal History Prize
Taylor Harris Friedman
The essay for which this prize is awarded explored the 1982 school censorship case “Island Trees School District v. Pico.” In a model of clear and nuanced historical writing, Taylor Friedman situated this case within the wider history of censorship in the United States and deftly navigated an impressive range of related legal cases, including one being considered at the US Supreme Court while this paper was being written late in the spring of 2025.
Tulane Public-Facing History Prize
Zoe Kish Seibert
The digital exhibition “Contested History: Sex Ed in New Orleans 1970- 2025” will be perpetually available online through the Tulane library system. Zoe Seibert immersed herself in archival research for a 40-year history of youth-focused sexual education and in the ethical and technical demands of curating narrative, images and analysis for online display. The exhibition also includes four videotaped oral histories, making this project one that richly encompasses multiple distinct elements of contemporary public history work.
Montgomery History Award
Arushi Patel Kher
A double major in History and Political Science, with a concentration in International Development, Arushi Kher had papers from both their junior and senior years recommended for essay prize competitions in the History Department. These included one essay focused on French film history and one on Palestinian women. Beyond high achievement on essays and exams, faculty note that Kher especially stood out during class discussions for combining patient, careful listening with regularly brilliant commentary.
Senior Honors Scholar
Ruby Leigh Renati Loeffler
Capping her years as an especially meticulous student of history at Tulane, Ruby Loeffler’s Senior Honors Thesis on Louisiana politician David Duke is grounded in archival research in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, as well as in newspapers and other published sources. Loeffler carefully explores the evolution of Duke’s racist and anti-Semitic ideology over time. In a scholarly and timely manner, she also analyzes how those beliefs connect to the development of wider conservative populist politics.
Department of Jewish Studies
Dr. Bernard Kaufman Essay Contest Award
Katherine Anne Hudson
The Jewish Studies Department selected Katherine Hudson for the Dr. Bernard Kaufman Essay Contest Award, recognizing her intellectual rigor, clarity and originality. Through her coursework and senior thesis, she demonstrates an exceptional ability to synthesize complex materials into compelling arguments, grounded in careful research and engagement with primary sources. She shows a genuine love for the Hebrew language, along with dedication, enthusiasm and a strong desire to continue developing her skills as an emerging scholar.
Dr. Lawrence J. Kanter and Julie Kanter Award
Dahlia Agnes Weinstein
Congratulations to Dahlia Weinstein, recipient of the Dr. Lawrence J. Kanter and Julie Kanter Award from the Department of Jewish Studies. This honor is awarded annually to the graduating senior with the highest GPA in Jewish Studies, recognizing exceptional academic achievement, intellectual rigor and sustained commitment to the field. Dahlia’s outstanding record reflects both scholarly excellence and deep engagement with Jewish history, texts and culture.
Ephraim Lisitzky Memorial Award
Nora Isabel Feinberg
Nora has demonstrated exceptional intellectual rigor while translating Jewish scholarship into meaningful campus community building. As the Lindsay Eliza Wiener Memorial Scholar, she organized an intercultural Shabbat dinner that brought together students across Tulane’s community. The evening centered on the meaning of Shabbat as “to cease,” fostering dialogue about rest, family and cultural practices across traditions. Her academic excellence, reflected in a 3.9 GPA and Dean’s Honor Scholar status, is matched by her hands-on leadership.
Senior Honors Scholar
Nathaniel Davidson Miller
The Jewish Studies Department recognizes Nathaniel Miller for his outstanding academic achievement, including an original and impressive thesis on Iranian proxies that reflects substantial learning and rigorous research. Through his work, he has demonstrated a strong ability to engage complex topics with clarity and insight. In the classroom, he consistently made thoughtful and valuable contributions. The department is pleased to acknowledge his accomplishments and the bright future he shows as an emerging scholar.
Linguistics Program
Excellence in Linguistics Award
Helene Emma Schulwolf
Helene Emma Schulwolf is a dedicated — indeed, almost fanatical — student of linguistics. She has honed her ability to apply theory learned in class to real-world examples, to critically examine discourse and to situate exchanges within extant and emerging power structures. She cares deeply about being the change she would like to see in the world.
Outstanding Scholar in Linguistics Award
Hayley Matthews
Hayley Matthews is a model linguistics student, beloved of all of her professors. One of them reports that “she gave the best paper presentation I’ve ever seen”, another that she is “great to have in class: an active participant and a positive influence on fellow students, while maintaining the highest grades”. Her strong work ethic and deep love of language is in the best tradition of previous recipients of this award.
Senior Honors Scholar
Mary Evelyne White Mary Evelyne White has been an exceptional student in the Linguistics Program at Tulane, where she also completed a second major in French and acquired proficiency in Haitian Creole. Her Honor’s Thesis exploring the feminization of agent nouns in Creole is a highly original, corpus-based study that provides new insight into the relationship between Creole and French. For these reasons, we are delighted to select Mary Evelyne as the Senior Honors Scholar in Linguistics.
Murphy Institute in Political Economy
Murphy Institute Public Service Award
Autumn Willow Sommers
Autumn is a Civic Engagement Coalition Fellow and has worked for The Innocence Project. She received a Tulane 34 Award. Her student leadership most importantly includes being Editor-in-Chief of the undergraduate Tulane Journal of Policy & Political Economy. In addition, she is deeply involved in Ethics Bowl, as both a site lead instructor and a member of Tulane’s intercollegiate Ethics Bowl team.
Georgia Anne May
Georgia is a Newcomb Scholar and an outstanding Peer Mentor. She was a contributing writer for the Civic Engagement Coalition newsletter and a volunteer for Operation Restoration and Habitat for Humanity. Rory Sean Finn Macdonald Rory served as a Tulane Community Tutor for four years. They work tirelessly to promote social justice on the Tulane campus and across the New Orleans area, from the 9th Ward to Uptown and from the river to the lake. Beatriz Dinorah de Castro Troncoso Beatriz is president of the Tulane Chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals. She is Team Captain of Ethics Bowl and a member of the School of Liberal Arts Dean’s Advisory Board.
Charles H. Murphy Prize in Political Economy
Noah Zelkin
Noah is a founding member and Chief Editor of the Tulane Undergraduate Law Review. He was a double major in Political Economy: Moral & Historical Perspectives and Philosophy: Law, Morality, & Society. He is graduating with a 3.99 overall GPA and a perfect 4.0 GPA in the major.
Serena Lum
Serena graduated in fall 2025 with a major in Political Economy: Law, Economics, & Policy and a minor in Philosophy. She achieved an overall GPA of 3.988.
Kate Keating Litton
Kate is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and a double major in Political Economy: Law, Economics, & Policy. She was an Ockert Scholar and visiting researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. She is graduating with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Porter Christian Hoel
Porter majored in Political Economy: Law, Economics, & Policy and completed a minor in Real Estate Development. He graduated in fall 2025 with an overall GPA over 3.97 and a perfect 4.0 GPA in the major.
Senior Honors Scholar
Scarlett Olivia Seyler
Scarlett is graduating magna cum laude in Political Economy — Economics & Public Policy. Her thesis examines the impact of public-private funding structures on urban parks, ultimately finding that the presence of private funding has no measurable impact on several key park outcomes. The measured park outcomes include general park accessibility, accessibility for marginalized populations and amenity quality.
Alec James Riley
Alec is an Altman Scholar and a dual degree double major in Legal Studies in Business and Political Economy — International Perspectives. His thesis shows how the Colombian coffee industry survived the economic and political turbulence of the late 1990s. Multiple factors illustrate the industry’s deeply embedded role within Colombian society and underscore the importance of understanding markets in context when forming crisis policy.
Newcomb Department of Music
Sarah I. Nadler Memorial Award
Nora Isabel Feinberg
Nora Feinberg graduates with dual degrees in Musical Theatre (BFA) and Jewish Studies (BA), with a SLAM minor. A Dean’s Honor Scholar, she has appeared in Tulane productions including La serva padrona, Spelling Bee, Le mariage aux lanternes and Little Women and soloed with the Tulane Orchestra as a Concerto/Aria Competition winner. Named the Lindsay Eliza Wiener Memorial Scholar, she will join the University of Central Florida Hillel as Israel Engagement/IACT Coordinator this fall 2026.
Pat Strangways
The Music Department congratulates Patrick Strangways on receiving the Nadler Award. Graduating with a dual degree in Music (composition pathway) and Neuroscience, he exemplifies both artistic excellence and intellectual rigor. A promising young composer with an extensive portfolio, including works for symphony orchestra, Patrick plans to pursue a career in neurosurgery. His exceptional creativity, intellectual curiosity and highly developed critical analytical skills position him for a successful career in a field he deeply cares about.
Native American & Indigenous Studies
John Barbry Prize in Native American Studies
Kaylee Ann Postoak
In memory of the first director of the Tunica-Biloxi Language and Culture Revitalization Project, Native American and Indigenous Studies awards the first annual John Barbry Prize to Kaylee Postoak. In addition to formally studying her heritage language, Choctaw, she has written, directed and premiered an original film in Choctaw, a vibrant testimony to modern Indigenous artistry and renaissance.
Department of Philosophy
Ann Butler Hess Award
Kylie Donohoe
Kylie Donohoe displayed philosophic excellence through exceptional technical acumen and analytic rigor in an advanced seminar on Games and Decisions. Her work combined formal precision with clear philosophical judgment, using careful reasoning to illuminate complex questions about rational choice, strategic interaction and practical deliberation. Across fields including metaphysics, philosophy of law and the history of philosophy, she consistently produced sophisticated analysis, engaged texts with seriousness and advanced arguments with clarity, depth and attention to detail.
Autumn Willow Sommers
Autumn Sommers displayed philosophic excellence through her exceptional work in advanced seminars on moral, social and political philosophy. Her papers and presentations engage complex issues with unusual depth and precision and she consistently reconstructs the strongest version of a position before offering careful criticism. Across topics and texts, she combines analytical rigor with intellectual humility, elevating the level of discussion while modeling respectful, serious inquiry.
Department of Political Science
S. Walter Stern 1905 Memorial Medal
Jason A. Strauss
Jason was nominated by two of his professors. One said that “Jason is an outstanding student, whose intellectual drive, scholarship and analytic writing skills place him at the very top of all undergraduates I have ever taught in my career.” The other professor was even more effusive.
Charles E. Dunbar, Jr. Fellowship in Political Science
Syna Pal
According to the professor who nominated her, Syna “exemplifies the Tulane motto of ‘Not for oneself, but for one’s own,’ and is one of the most accomplished undergrads I have come across at the institution.”
Class of 1935 - Ned Putzell Memorial Prize
Dhehir Bainika Bint Kelly
Since her sophomore year at Tulane, Dhehir has built an impressive record of civic engagement through direct service, advocacy, outreach and policy work. Her commitment reflects both generosity with her time and a serious dedication to improving the lives of others.
Eamon Kelly Prize
Lucie Nola Jain
Lucie has demonstrated true excellence in international development, environmental studies and SLAM with outstanding research, original analysis, exceptional vision and superior writing. Her work on Madagascar’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty amidst political instability, low economic growth and high vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change exacerbated by widespread deforestation, was particularly impressive. She is now on her way to pursue her passion as an environmental lawyer or advocate, or both!
International Development Prize
Chloe Belle Callan
Chloe has demonstrated remarkable academic rigor and excellent writing throughout her coursework in international development, including an exceptional analysis of the handling of Ethiopia’s complex humanitarian crisis during the Tigray War (2020-22).
Mary B. Scott Memorial Prize
Laura Joan Brawley
Laura was nominated for this award by two of her professors. One noted that he had actually changed his course — and made it more challenging — based on her feedback. The other said that she “demonstrated considerable maturity in navigating the tense politics of researching and studying the politics of the Middle East in the aftermath of October 7 and its reverberations in the United States.”
Pi Sigma Alpha Award
Luke Thomas Broussard
Luke was nominated by two of his professors, both of whom noted his outstanding contribution to their classes. According to one, he “is a campus leader whose inclusiveness and candor helped to ease tense discussions, as well as a deep thinker and excellent writer.”
Samarasinghe Prize in International Development
Arushi Patel Kher
Two professors thought highly enough of Arushi to nominate her for this award. One noted that he was “impressed in particular with her critical perspective – when I asked the class to take apart an argument or critique it, she was always ready.”
Shirley Weil Greengus Memorial Award for Achievement in Political Science
Arica Isabella Haywood
Arica maintained an amazing 4.0 average throughout her four years at Tulane. Caroline Elizabeth Mehno Caroline maintained an amazing 4.0 average throughout her time at Tulane.
Sloan Prize in International Development
Ainsley Gordy
Ainsley’s work on Bhutan’s labor emigration showed great insight into how this lower-middle income nation is attempting to retain its population, attract returnees back home and foster development via the expansion of the village of Gelephu into a modern economic hub funded by private investment in hydropower production.
William Bertrand Prize
Emily Grace Maran
Emily was nominated by two of her professors. One noted that she is “one of the strongest students I have taught at Tulane,” and that she “has demonstrated curiosity, compassion and grit which will serve her well in future work in international development.” Senior Honors Scholar Ella Hannah Jeffries Ella has written an original Honors Thesis examining the role of loyalty to the president in electoral success. She examines this relationship quantitatively and qualitatively and finds a correlation between loyalty and winning elections. Ella did a tremendous amount of primary research collecting evidence beyond simply whether one won or lost their election. A truly outstanding work.
Department of Sociology
Robert K. Merton Outstanding Student Award
Ella Aviv Taub
She was selected by faculty vote as the most outstanding student graduating this year.
Methodological Expertise Award
Morgan Evans O’Neil
Morgan has shown methodological sophistication in several sociology classes.
Phi Mu Award in Sociology
Chloe Belle Callan
This award is given to a major in sociology who identifies as a woman and who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship and research in the field of Sociology. Callan was one of our top students.
Public-Facing Sociology Award
Julia Madeline Rose
This award recognizes Julia’s considerable off campus public engagements.
Sociological Imagination Award
Dhehir Bainika Bint Kelly
Dhehir has shown the determination and creativity to excel in her sociology major. Theoretical Innovation Award Catherine Elizabeth Cobb Catherine not only did well in Development of Sociological Theory course, she showed the ability to use theory in novel ways in her course work.
Senior Honors Scholar
Avery Christine Edwards
Avery Edwards has earned the department’s Senior Honor’s Thesis Award for her excellent qualitative analysis of interviews of Haitian sex workers in the Dominican Republic. Impressively, she did this in a second language (Spanish) and undertook a field visit in the Dominican Republic to provide her with the contextual knowledge to interpret her data. She is now revising the thesis to submit to a peer-review publication.
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Luso-Brazilian Studies Prize
Malí Weitzman
Malí has been an enthusiastic participant in the Portuguese for Spanish Speakers course. She is a stalwart participant in the PORTulane weekly conversation hour (TUdo bem!). She is really a student ambassador for Portuguese through the Language Learning Center and a peer mentor at the Office of Study Abroad. Malí has plans to teach English to Brazilian immigrants in her hometown of Boston before working toward a position with the U.S. State Department.
Latin American Studies Prize
Alicia Denisse Lyon
Alicia Lyon has been an outstanding student, distinguished by her sustained engagement with issues affecting Indigenous communities. She brings an avid intellectual curiosity to questions of community and demonstrates a profound respect for cultural diversity. Her insightful contributions to class discussions consistently extend beyond course material, prompting peers to reflect on fundamental human concerns with nuance and critical depth.
Tia Tewari
Tia Tewari has excelled as a student, classmate and scholar of the Spanish-speaking world in her time at Tulane. Her professors all emphasized her positive contributions to class, as well as her intellectual and cultural curiosity and the sophistication of her critical and analytical skills. She has a deep sensitivity to issues of race and gender, which she uses equally in reading Latin American poetry and working with Spanish-speaking communities as an emergency first responder.
Iberian Studies Prize
Lauren Yubin Lee
Yubin Lee was consistently an exceptional student in undergraduate and graduate-level courses. She prepared and delivered oral presentations and written assignments that demonstrated so much intellectual curiosity, commitment and engagement, her contributions merit the adjective “epic.” Simultaneously, she was a constant source of inspiration to her classmates and professors. We applaud her as she takes her strong work ethic, high level of Spanish proficiency and infectious good humor into the medical professions.
Olivia Bryn Kaliner
Olivia “Liv” Kaliner have excelled in all areas of her Iberian studies. Liv’s mastery of Spanish literature, cinema and visual arts is truly exceptional and richly deserving of this recognition. After years of diligent Spanish study, she has attained native-level fluency in the language. Upon graduation, Liv will pursue a career in medicine, for which she aims to combine her achievements in biology and languages to serve patients of varied cultural backgrounds.
Maureen E. Shea Prize
Alejandra Maria Barreto
Alejandra Barreto was an exceptional student who consistently produced outstanding work marked by intellectual rigor and a sustained commitment to Spanish and Latinx issues. Beyond the classroom, she contributed actively to Puentes, supporting community engagement initiatives and demonstrated strong leadership within a student organization for Latina students at Tulane, fostering mentorship, advocacy and a sense of collective belonging.
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Award for Outstanding Service in Latin American Studies
Madeleine S. Williams
While at Tulane, Maddy Williams has persistently sought opportunities to apply her knowledge of public health to serve both local and global communities. She has worked with organizations including the Trinity Health Center in New Orleans and the Ministry of Health of the City of Buenos Aires and Casa Heredia in Argentina. Her dedication, curious spirit and cultural humility foster impactful and reciprocal collaborations in pursuit of social justice.
Research Award in Latin American Studies
Samuel Dye
Sam Dye has consistently produced excellent work in Latin American Studies. The number of courses he has taken in English, Spanish and Portuguese demonstrates his committed interest in the region and attests to his ability to approach the topic from various perspectives using diverse resources. Topics such as Ecuador’s Indigenous movements, Texas border-politics and Mexico’s climate friendly petrostate proves Sam’s mastery of the research process and capacity to analyze and synthesize material clearly and concisely.
Award for Excellence in Latin American Studies
Malí Weitzman
Malí Weitzman exemplifies the breadth of knowledge and depth of experience of a Latin American Studies major at Tulane. She successfully completed three majors and studied abroad in Brazil, Spain and Guatemala. Malí has received funding to present at international conferences, completed independent research in Ecuador, created initiatives for the local ELL community and promotes study abroad as a peer advisor for the Office of Study Abroad. Without a doubt, she deserves this award.
Newcomb Department of Theater & Dance
Elizabeth “Lib” Delery Prize for Outstanding Dance Student
Claudia Louise Derryberry
The Elizabeth ‘Lib’ Delery Prize for Outstanding Dance Student goes to Claudia Derryberry for her contributions to the Newcomb Dance Program. Claudia is a thoughtful and kind presence whose bold ideas and creative curiosity elevate the work around her. Her openness, generosity and willingness to take risks make her both a compelling artist and a valued community member. We look forward to her continued impact beyond Tulane.
Janice Torre Perky Memorial Award for Excellence in Dramatic Literature
Preesha Ohri
The winner of the Janice Torre Perky Memorial Award for Excellence in Original or Creative Writing goes to Preesha Ohri. Preesha has been a constant and creative force in the Theatre Department. Always inquisitive and exceedingly gifted, Preesha has brought a wealth of talents to the department, throughout her years at Tulane. Whether onstage or in the classroom Preesha’s hard work and ingenuity will be treasured. We wish her all the best!
Jill Karp Prize for Outstanding Dance Performance
Selah Rose Orlic Phillips
Selah Phillips has earned the Jill Karp Prize for Outstanding Dance Performance for her work with the Newcomb Dance Company throughout her time at Tulane. Selah’s growth as a performer culminated by performing in three separate works in Evening of Dance 2026, where she displayed soulful presence and nuanced performance choices.
Sydney Katherine Long
Sydney Long has earned the Jill Karp Prize for Outstanding Dance Performance for her powerful stage presence, creative input as a performer and her overall dance ability and artistry. Sydney’s undeniable stage charisma, her ability to take direction and her capacity to make intelligent performance choices culminated in very memorable dancing and performing both at Tulane and regionally. Sydney will be dancing her way to a medical degree. Hopefully she continues to perform on stage.
Milton Latter Award for Best All-Around Contribution
Nya Maria Phillips
Milton Latter Award for Best All-Around Contribution to the Department is proudly awarded to Nya Phillips. A deeply valued member of the Theatre Department, Nya is known for her exceptional talent, sharp intellect and unwavering kindness. She has consistently stood out — onstage, in the classroom and as a standard-bearer for what it means to be an outstanding Tulane student. This honor recognizes not just what she has already accomplished, but the extraordinary path that lies ahead.
Minnette L. Starts Award for Excellence in Dance
Abigail Ellen Stobin
Abigail Stobin has earned the Minnette L. Starts Award for Excellence in Dance for her exemplary work across all areas of the dance curriculum. With a quiet, egoless demeanor, clear focus and outstanding work ethic, Abigail excelled both artistically and scholarly. She is a versatile dancer who brings fierceness to tap and beautiful grace to ballet and contemporary. Following graduate school, Abigail is sure to transform lives as a dance therapist.
Monroe Lippman Founds Award for Best Performance by an Actor
Sydney Lee Schneider
The winner of the Monroe Lippman Founders Award for Best Performance by an Actor goes to Sydney Schneider. Sydney’s work in Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson knew no limits. Bold, commanding and full of fun, Sydney kept the audience on their toes. As an actor Sydney is fearless. She is every director’s dream. Always ready leap into the unknown, she has become a deeply cherished member of the Theatre Department. Her presence will be deeply missed.
