2026 Boe and Britt Award Winners
(Winners listed by their order of appearance in the picture).
2026 Boe Award winners in the Under-60 credit hours category:
“The Continuity of Control: The Shifting Faces of Patriarchal Control over Women from Witchcraft in the 1600s to Hysterics in the 1800s”, Aaliyah Linton: Lone Star College-Kingwood
“Crossing Boundaries: What Jewish & Dutch Epigenetics Reveal about Stress Markers in the Chickasaw Nation”, Abiela Swan: Lone Star College-Montgomery
“From Crisis to Monument: Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple and Ashoka’s Pillars as Strategic Branding Campaigns”, Emanuelly Carmo;Lone Star College-Montgomery
2026 Boe Award winners for the 60 and over credit hour category:
“Rope Sponge Diversity and Health Status in Roatán, Honduras”, Yuto Goto: McLennan Community College
“Mother Death: A Symbol of Agency in the Context of Twentieth-Century German Feminism”, Isabella McCord: The University of North Texas
“For the Sake of Tradition: Federico García Lorca’s Critique of Francisco Franco’s Spanish Fascist Party in La Casa de Bernarda Alba”, Sasha Joy: Emporia State University
2026 Britt Poster Awards
Humanities
Over 60: Elayne Grogan, University of Texas at Tyler The Soil Beneath Secession: Environmental Roots of Southern Disunion
Under 60: Emma Mendoza, Northeast Texas Community College Coin or Planchet? The Mysterious Case of Jovita Idar
Professional Studies
Over 60: Brandie Jackson, University of Texas at Tyler Perception and Knowledge of Chiropractic Care Among University Undergraduate Students: Correcting Misconceptions
STEM
Under 60:
Jeffthan Glaster, University of Missouri Kansas City. Effects and Influences of Physical Activity: From Ages of Fifty to Ninety
Over 60:
Zara Farooq and Matthew Hilbers, Midwestern State University. Developing a Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Assay to Study the Disaggregation Activity of a Membrane Protein Chaperone
Social Science
Over 60: Ingrid Monciavaez, Texas A&M University-San Antonio Urban Design and Human Flourishing