HAA 2025 Senior Thesis Prize Winners

Congratulations to this year’s HAA prize winners (from left to right):

From left to right: Alejandra Riambau, Hanna Carney, Bristol Fales-Hill

Abramson Prize: Alejandra Riambau, for her senior thesis Tidal Shifts: Water as Metaphor in Cuban Contemporary Art

  • The Matthew Abramson '96 Prize is awarded by faculty vote to the one student of this department whose thesis has been determined as "Best Senior Thesis."

Ackerman Prize: Hanna Carney, for her senior thesis Particular and Universal: The Prospekt Kosmonavtov Metro Station in Tashkent.

  • The James Sloss Ackerman Senior Thesis Prize in Architecture is awarded, by faculty vote, to a senior thesis of the highest merit on a topic in the history, theory, and/or design of architecture.

Fairman Prize: Bristol Fales-Hill, for her senior thesis Children in Focus: Gordon Parks and the Politics of Black Childhood in American Photography.

  • The Claire Fairman Prize is awarded to that thesis which is found, by faculty vote, to be most worthy, and of a topic focusing on modern art.