The Library is proud to announce the winners of the 2024/2025 Library Showcase!
Every year, we recognize Georgetown students, faculty, and staff for their creativity and research by featuring projects spanning digital humanities, filmmaking, oral history, and design.
Voters’ Choice Award: Seyoung Kim and Lauren Burns (Tie)
The top prize resulted in a tie between two graduate students!
Seyoung Kim (MA English ’26) won for “Seeing Stories, Sentiments, and Emotions – Sentiment Analysis in Narrative/Graphic Medicine,” a digital humanities project created for professor Phil Sandick’s course, “Digital Humanities and Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice”.
Using ISIDORE, the Library’s high-performance computer, and Atlas.ti software, Kim analyzed illness narratives to foster empathy between patients, caregivers and readers.
Lauren Burns (MAAS ’26) also received the Voters’ Choice Award for “Made in Morocco,” a short film documenting the role of traditional crafts in the city of Meknès.
Inspired by her experiences living in Morocco before the COVID-19 pandemic, Burns interviewed a young entrepreneur and woodworker to capture the significance and uncertain future of artisanal work. She produced the project for ARST 4452 with faculty advisor Joan Mandell using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects in the Library’s media editing spaces.
Staff Pick: Katherine Wijenaike-Bogle
The Library Staff Pick award went to Katherine Wijenaike-Bogle (CAS ’25) for “Imagined Rivers,” a quilt and wooden map inspired by Washington, D.C.’s “hidden rivers.”
Produced during her time as the Library’s first Maker-in-Residence, the quilt’s white applique section represents the Potomac River, the Anacostia River, and Rock Creek. In contrast, the hand-quilted stitches represent the ancient rivers that once provided ecosystem services for the human and non-human world. While the white fabric representing the major waterways may be more obvious to the human eye, it is the “hidden rivers” that actually hold the quilt together.
Both works are on display in Lauinger Library’s galleries.
Honorable Mentions
Two honorable mentions were also named:
- “Four Witnesses, Four Lies, One Life Sentence: The Story of Demonta Chappell,” an eight-minute documentary produced through the Making an Exoneree course by Emma Pilkington, (COL '25), Luca Orlando, (COL '25), and Rams-Lyne Thomas, (COL '25).
- “Mapping the Red-to-Dead Water Pipeline” by Jane Beeler (SFS ’25), an interactive StoryMap analyzing Middle East water politics.