Student Spotlight: Noah Mapes Receives Trewartha Grant

Undergraduate Noah Mapes recently received a Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant from the L&S Honors Program. This grant supports Letters & Science honors students as they undertake senior thesis research projects. Noah is currently working under the guidance of Professor Anna Andrzejewski to complete his senior honors thesis “Turtle Island Pop: Reclamation and Revitalization Through Native American Pop Art.” This project seeks to understand how Indigenous artists utilized the style of Pop as a means of asserting visual and cultural sovereignty during the 1960s and 1970s.