HURF Recipients

2024 HURF Recipients
Megan Brennan

Mentor: Carolyn Berquist

The Syntax of Time and Loss in a Strategic Sample of Joan Didion’s Work

Audrey Bunce

Mentor: Stephen Wooten

Politics of Food and Belonging in Alternative Food Movements in the United States and Italy

Will Cubias

Mentor: Annelise Heinz

Mapping Lesbian Community Networks

Gideon Dean

Mentor: Leah Middlebrook

Gender, Soccer, and Nation Building in Latin America

Ashley Fale-Olsen

Mentor: Ulrick Casimir

Investigating the Presence of L'Homme Fatal In the Noir Genre

Zoe Green

Mentor: Claire Herbert

Community Matters: An Exploration into Third Spaces, Youth, and Community Making 

Beatrice Kahn

Mentor: Helen Southworth

“I’ve Got Out At Last”: Narratives of Female Confinement in the Modernist Short Story

Gwendolyn Lyman

Mentor: Tobin Hansen

Cerrando la Brecha: Latinx Entrepreneurs Voices’ on Identity, Community, and Social Entrepreneurship in Chicago


Previous Awardees

Program Year

Name

mentor

2016

Amanda Perkins

Trond Jacobsen

2016

Augustine Beard

Mark Carey

2016

Brandi Wilkens

Akiko Walley

2016 

Colin Takeo

Loren Kajikawa

2016

Samuel Rodgers

Courtney Thorsson

2016 

Sarah Carey

Steven Brence

2017

Keegan Williams-Thomas

Mark Whalan

2017

Iago Bojczuk

HyeRyoung Ok

2017

Francesca Fontana

Brent Walth

2017

Eugenia Lollini

Carol Silverman

2017

Drew McLaughlin

Melissa Baese-Berk

2017

Bryce Sprauer

Dan Tichenor

2018

Sarah Hovet

Corbett Upton

2018 

Sam Beeker

Brendan O'Kelly

2018

Matthew Stephens

Steven Brence

2018

Meg Rodgers

Erin Hanna

2018

Jacqueline Huaman

Kaori Idemaru

2018

Becca Marshall

Kathryn Lynch

2019

Scott Zeigler

Gordon Sayre

2019

DeForest Wihtol

Kate Myers

2019

Kendra Siebert

Peter Laufer

2019

Ally Shaw

Kaori Idemaru

2019

Anika Nguyen

Mark Whalan

2019

Alice Harding

Lindsey Mazurek

2019

Violet Fox

Lamia Karim

2019

Cydnie Davenport

Melissa Baese-Berk

2020

Momo Wilms-Crowe

Dan Tichenor

2020

Tucker Engle

Forest Pyle

2020

Erin Sandvold

Heidi Kaufman

2020

Alex Har

Dean Mundy

2020

Ryan Cooper

Priscilla Ovalle

2020

Katelyn Jones

Nina Amstutz

2020

Gracia Dodds

Judith Raiskin

2020

Daisy Burge

Lindsay Mazurek

2021

Maya Ward

Krystale Littlejohn

2021

Jude Stone

Alison Gash

2021

Kira Seretan

Vsevolod Kapatsinski

2021

Sabrina Piccolo

Melissa Baese-Berk

2021

Abigail Kellems

Robert Kyr

2021

Bita Habashi

Kara Clevinger

2021

Cassie Cole

Donnalyn Pompper

2021

Starla Chambrose

Arafaat Valiani

2022

José Alfredo Ortiz-Angeles

Michael Stern

2022

Ava Minu-Sepehr

Melissa Graboyes

2022

Kelly Keith

José Cortez

2022

Alexis Han

Kristin Yarris

2022

Rowan Glass

Reuben Zahler

2022

Lisa Deluc

Andre Sirois

2022

Jonah Gomez

Julie Weise

2022 

Miles Berry

Gantt Gurley

2023

Eric Lane

Corbett Upton

2023

Casper Byrne

Quinn Miller

2023

Sadie Byler

Abigail Fine

2023

Micah Woods

Barbara Muraca

2023

Megan Carroll

Anne Laskaya

2023

Kennedy Parish

Tze-yin Teo

2023

Lauryn Cole

Anna Carroll