Abigail Dollries, Guarini ’26 (MALS, Cultural Studies), was awarded the 2026 Byam Shaw-Brownstone Thesis Excellence Award for her thesis, Aestheticizing and Engendering Disease: The Case of Tuberculosis, an interdisciplinary examination of tuberculosis patients in 19th century America through cultural studies …
Charles Butler, Guarini ’26 (MALS, General Liberal Studies), was awarded the 2026 Byam Shaw-Brownstone Thesis Excellence Award for his thesis, The Thinnest Veil, a narrative that uses one woman’s story to examine the transatlantic slave trade and the redemptive power …








