Congratulations to Our 2026 Senior Thesis Award Recipient

We are delighted to congratulate Zeynep Besen, recipient of the 2026 Senior Thesis Award, for her outstanding undergraduate thesis, "Mnemonic Architectures of the Underworld: Memory and Spatial Organization in Dante’s Inferno and Homer’s Odyssey."

The thesis was completed under the supervision of Dr. Jameson Kismet Bell.

We warmly congratulate Zeynep on this well-deserved achievement and thank Dr. Bell for his dedicated mentorship.