Friends and Family, Peers and Faculty Celebrate the 6th Annual Comm Student Showcase
In April, the Comm department honored the winners of this year’s Comm Student Showcase and Awards in the ILC Hub. Students were encouraged to submit their work across the categories of writing, civic engagement/community-based work, audio-visual, research, and rhetoric, speech, and performance. Panels of peers, professors, and alumni chose a handful of works out of the many submissions to be awarded.
In addition to the wide range of mediums represented at the showcase, an impressive diversity in topics was present, including personal narrative, political campaigns, national identity, beauty standards, perceptions of normalcy, conversation and everyday tak, and the UMass Campus.
Each student had a chance to talk briefly about their work and creative process. Nearly every student noted a Comm class or professor who had inspired and encouraged them in their work, many of whom were present.
Below is a list of all the awardees in their respective categories.
Below is a list of all the awardees in their respective categories. All of the works submitted to the showcase, including those not awarded, can be found online at https://commshowcase17.wordpress.com.
Congratulations to all!
Writing
1st Place: Katie Dube Chronicles of Ruby: Excerpts of Radiant Dysfunctionality and Vulnerability
2nd Place: Stephanie George Forgetting Philoxenia: National Identity in the U.S. Hellenic Diaspora
3rd Place: Nicole Welliver Representation Bi Any Means Necessary
3rd Place: Katy Rieber 21 years: Pain x Passion
Civic Engagement/Community-Based Work
1st Place: Emma Tavolieri Comm Student Spotlight
2nd Place: Erika Civitarese “Fight for $15” Campaign
Audio-Visual
1st Place: Lizzy Keery Endings/Beginnings
2nd Place: Corey Stein Durfee Conservatory
3rd Place: Cassidy Kotyla You Are Beautiful
Research
1st Place: Laura Jarvis The Use of Like in Everyday Talk
2nd Place: Julia Jagannath Constructed Dialogue in Conversational Narratives
3rd Place: Michael Hagerty Podcasting and Youth: Resource Guide on Youth Radio
Rhetoric, Speech, and Performance
1st Place: Emily Adelsberger Citizenship and Belonging
2nd Place: Joseph Kerlin-Smith A Day in the Life of Joseph Kerlin-Smith
3rd Place: Miranda Woods That’s Not Normal
3rd Place: Zachary Martin Conversation Opera
-- Stephanie George ’17