AWARDS - Spring 2009
PRIX MICHÉLE LAPAUTRE – Chad Cordova
awarded to the most promising sophomore or junior majoring in French.
PRIX PARIS – Lauren Birnie
awarded to the student who, in addition to academic excellence, has made a significant contribution to the NYU-in-Paris program.
PRIX FRANCE-AMÉRIQUE – Tim Janas
awarded to the student who displays a particular commitment to furthering and elucidating Franco-American relations.
PRIX GERMAINE BRÉE - Maggie Kuch
awarded to the student who made a significant contribution to French cultural life at NYU.
PRIX BERNARD GARNIEZ – Elinor Zhou
awarded for excellence in the study of French literature or culture.
PRIX D’EXCELLENCE – Lisa Kitagawa
awarded to the student with the highest level of achievement in French literature or culture.
JINDRICH ZEZULA PRIZE – Kristin Bochicchio
awarded to the best honors thesis in French.
SPRING 2009 HONORS THESES
Program Director : Claudie Bernard
Allison Ahlgrim: “Traduire Candide en anglais: La culture, la méthodologie, et la structure grammaticale des trois traductions anglaises”.
Director: Lucien Nouis
2nd reader: Michel Beaujour
Grade: High Honors (magna cum laude)
Selma Amrane: “Aspects de profils d’émeutiers (France, novembre 2005).”
Director: Herrick Chapman
2nd reader: Frédéric Vigiuer
Grade: High Honors (magna cum laude)
Lauren Birnie: “La langue de la banlieue comme expression d’identité.”
Director: John Moran
2nd reader: Olivier Berthe
Grade: Highest Honors (summa cum laude)
Kristin Bochicchio: “Toute-puissante et inexistante: le rôle de la mère dans le roman et le film beurs.”
Director: Emmanuelle Ertel
2nd reader: Anne Deneys-Tunney
Grade: Highest Honors (summa cum laude)
Mina Djuric: “La Balançoire franco-yougoslave (l’assassinat du roi Alexandre Ier de Yougoslavie à Marseille en 1934).”
Director: Larry Wolff
2nd reader: Richard Sieburth
Grade: High Honors (magna cum laude)
Lisa Kitagawa: “Comment saisir le génocide rwandais.”
Director: Judith Miller
2nd reader: David Stasavage
Grade: Highest Honors (summa cum laude)
Crystal Law: “En creusant la mie: Analyse des valeurs sociales et symboliques du pain en France.”
Director: Damien Babet
2nd reader: Emily Apter
Grade: Highest Honors (summa cum laude)
Dorna Moini: “L’Education bilingue en Mauritanie: Une résistance non-violente dans un pays ethniquement divisé.”
Director: Nils Froment
2nd reader: Michael Dash
Grade: Highest Honors (summa cum laude)
Elizabeth Mullen: “Représentations des voix perdues: Femmes Activistes dans la guerre d’Algérie.”
Director: Henriette Goldwyn
2nd reader: Mona Mikhail
Grade: Honors (cum laude)
Beatrice Thornton: “Orientation et disorientation (la peinture orientaliste de Delacroix et d’Ingres).”
Director: Eugène Nicole
2nd reader: Benoît Bolduc
Grade: Honors (cum laude)
Elinor Zhou: “Une langue de France dans une France multilingue: le cas du nissart et de son enseignement.”
Director: Mary Haslam
2nd reader: Timmie Vitz
Grade: Highest Honors (summa cum laude)