2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR

Student/Faculty Research

Student: Jessica Hammer
Max Halper (Instructor)
Research: Trillium Magazine Editing
Semester: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

Student: Michelle Kukan
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Investigating AI
Semester: Fall 2024

Student: Simon Diaz
Sarah Koenig (Faculty)
Research: Mapping the Ramapo Valley Nation
Semester: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

Students: Alexander Vigorito & Rebecca Rodriguez
Jeremy Teigen (Faculty)
Research: 2024 Congressional Candidates’ Bios
Semester: Fall 2024

Scholars’ Day

Student: Miranda Trautmann
Steve Rice (Faculty)
Topic: “Jenny on the Job”: Women’s Motivations and Struggles in Industrial Work During World War II”

Student: Erin Pryor
Tae Kwak (Faculty)
Topic: The Ideological Reconstruction of American Democracy

Student: Elizabeth Marroquin
Natalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
Topic: Bridging Worlds: The Impact of Child Language Brokering

Student: Marina Gannon
Hugh Sheehy (Faculty)
Topic: Touch Me

Student: Elly Raisch
Erick Castellanos (Faculty)
Topic: Banana: the Creation of an American Cultural Object

Student: Stefanie Viera
Erick Castellanos (Faculty)
Topic: The Climate Displacement of Afro-Colombians: An Analysis of the Causes, Effects, and Policy

Student: Antonio Russo
Yvette Kisor (Faculty)
Topic: Trouble in Paradise: The “Trad Life” of Adam and Eve in Milton’s Paradise Lost

Student: Rachel Chandler
Todd Barnes (Faculty)
Topic: Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Lesbian Cinema, Desire, and Language

Student: Michelle Kukan
Cathy Hajo (Director)
Topic: Jane Addams Papers Project and Artificial Intelligence

Student: Amanda Drexler
Edward Shannon (Faculty)
Topic: Oreo’s Invisibility and Resurgence

Student: Sarah Glisson
Jeremy Teigen (Faculty)
Topic: Beating the Boomers: The Effects of College Voters in US Elections

Student: Luke DiMascio
Jeremy Teigen (Faculty)
Topic: Drifting the Right Way: Population Changes and the Rightward Shift in the Rust Belt

Student: Maddisyn Vaccaro
Sarah Koenig (Faculty)
Topic: Hunt-Showdown – Western or Not?

Student: Maddisyn Vaccaro
Sarah Koenig (Faculty)
Topic: Hunt-Showdown – Western or Not?

Student: Sophia Kopreski
Jeremy Teigen (Faculty)
Topic: Okay (I’m a) Boomer: Examining How Parents’ Political Ideology Affects Their Children’s Political Views

Student: Lena Mardini
Todd Barnes (Faculty)
Topic: “Being Dickie Greenleaf.” Alienation and Commodification in The Talented Mr. Ripley

Student: Alan Rosenberg
Stephen Rice (Faculty)
Topic: King Philip’s War and the Creation of an “Indian” Race

2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

Student/Faculty Research

Student: Dominique Walton
Ed Shannon (Faculty)
Research: History of AFT at Ramapo College
Semester: Fall 2023

Student: Michelle Kukan
Stephen Rice (Faculty)
Research: American Textbook Project
Semester: Fall 2023

Student: Olivia Luisi
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Jane Addams Papers Project
Semester: Fall 2023 & Spring 2024

Student: Christina Feinroth
Todd Barnes (Faculty)
Research: Woke Shakespeare Manuscript
Semester: Spring 2024

Scholars’ Day

Student: Allison Contreas-Ortiz
Natalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
Topic: The Impact of Using the First Language in Therapeutic Treatment for Spanish-English Bilingual Clients in the U.S.

Student: Madeline Zech
Tae Kwak (Faculty)
Topic: Representation of Children in Holocaust Work

Student: Elly Raisch
Vittoria Rubino (Faculty)
Topic: A Year in the Life of a CRW Consultant

Student: Giavanna Barras
Jacob Labendz (Staff)
Topic: Sexual Violence During the 1994 Genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda

Student: Dominique Walton
Ed Shannon (Faculty)
Topic: College Student’s Diverse Culture & Political Action

Student: Christina Feinroth
Eric Daffron (Faculty)
Topic: I am Going to Destroy My Dead Mother

Student: Arianna Castillo
Natalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
Topic: The Long-term Effects of Childhood Trauma: A Historical & Psychological Perspective

2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR

Student/Faculty Research

Students: Gabe Luyun & Natalie Mahoney
Neriko Doerr (Faculty)
Research: CAR Research
Semester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Student: James LaForge
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Jane Addams Papers Project
Semester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Student: Emily Heim
Stephen Rice (Faculty)
Research: American Textbook Project
Semester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Student: Lindsay Rulli
Sarah Koenig (Faculty)
Research: Ramapough Project
Semester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Student: Kiely Paris-Rodriguez
Jeremy Teigen (Faculty)
Research: Congressional Candidates Research
Semester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Student: Genesis Siverio
Todd Barnes (Faculty)
Research: John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi
Semester: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Scholars’ Day

Student: Genesis Siverio
Val Flenga (Faculty)
Topic: Queer as Vampire

Student: Lena Mardini
Lisa Cassidy (Faculty)
Topic: The Iranian Kidney Market, An Ethical Nightmare

2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR

Student/Faculty Research

Students: Anna Kovan
Natalia Santamaria-Laorden (Faculty)
Research: Textbook Online Project
Semester: Fall 2021

Students: James LaForge
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Jane Addams Papers Project
Semester: Fall 2021 & Spring 2022

Student: Gloria Panis-Parado
Neriko Doerr (Instructor)
Research: Journal Article
Semester: Fall 2021

Students: Kelia Fane & Lindsay Rulli
Sarah Koenig (Faculty)
Research: Ramapough Project
Semester: Spring 2022

Students: Lena Leroy & Evelyn Zizelman
Victoria Sciancalepore (Staff)
Research: Penny Colman Project
Semester: Spring 2022

Scholars’ Day

El objecto femenino en Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
(The Female Object in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)
Student Presenter: Emily Brackenbury
Faculty Mentor: Paula Straile-Costa

Eating Easy: How Convenience Food Became a Part of the American Identity
Student Presenter: Elly Raisch
Faculty Mentor: Susan Hangen

Mahwah Museum Veterans Project
Student Presenter: Michelle Kukan
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Rice

2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

Student/Faculty Research

Students: Robert Ciarletta
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Mahwah Museum Project
Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021

Students: Egor Isaksaon, Pravita Parajuli, Zachary Pearlman, & Tara Reiley
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Jane Addams Papers Project
Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021

Student: Gloria Panis-Parado
Neriko Doerr (Faculty)
Research: Journal Article
Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021

Student: Katie Barrales Cortes
Sarah Koenig (Faculty)
Research: Book Index Project
Semester: Fall 2020 & Spring 2021

Student: Katie Barrales Cortes
Steve Rice (Faculty)
Research: American History Textbook Project
Semester: Spring 2021

2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR

Student/Faculty Research

Students: Danielle Deangelis, Caecilia Altenberg, & Katherine Gavin
Steve Rice (Faculty)
Research: AHTP
Semester: Fall 2019 & Spring 2020

Students: Gennaro Giordano & Katherine Mc Nellis
Cathy Hajo (Staff)
Research: Jane Addams Papers Project
Semester: Fall 2019 & Spring 2020

Student: Kevin Wrobel
Amanda Roberti (Faculty)
Research: Coding Regulatory Abortion Bills
Semester: Fall 2019

Student: Kate Cortes
Stacie Taranto (Faculty)
Research: Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920
Semester: Spring 2020

Student: Elizabeth Johnsen
Iraida Lopez (Faculty)
Research: Interview Translations
Semester: Spring 2020