Undergraduate Projects
EBBA supports undergraduate research through research assistantships, which allow students to participate in our ongoing ballad digitization process.
In connection with UCSB's Faculty Research Assistance Program (FRAP), EBBA has received sponsorship for a number of our undergraduate researchers, whose capstone projects are to design posters describing their involvement with us.
We are proud to showcase recent posters below (click on the thumbnails below to view the full-sized posters; a downward arrow indicates that the thumbnail only represents a portion of the full poster).
Winter 2020
Please note that, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden turn to remote research, our FRAP students were given the option to either complete the poster project as a poster or as a slightly longer essay. All are represented here. Additionally, due to the pandemic, the FRAP program was temporarily suspended for Spring 2020, and therefore no posters were made.
Mina Nur Basmaci, "Christian Understandings of Fulfillment"
Emma Johnson,
"The Bagford Belle"
"The Bagford Belle"
Hannah Lahey, "Tales of a Hanged Man: Intersections of Religion and Capital Punishment"
Grecia Marquez, "The Representation of Love and Cupid in Broadside Ballads"
Kate Mason, "A Ghost Story: Roles of the Apparition"
Jenessa Sanchez, "Female Moralistic Propaganda in English Broadside Ballads"
Genesis Taber,
"Wandering in Anachronistic Woods"
"Wandering in Anachronistic Woods"
Mariana Trujillo Marquez, "Digitized Era: Magnifying Texts and Themes"
Conner Wagner, "Gender and Sexuality in the ABC Ballads"
Aurelio Zarate, "The Destruction of Pridefulness"
Fall 2019
Caprice Bursiaga, "Signs of the Times: Women in Woodcuts"
Aiko Delos Reyes, "Like a Virgin, or, The Idealization of Virgins in Ballads"
Aimee Edington, "Making History: How Presentation and Remediation Influence Perception"
Erika Fandel, "Gendered Empathy and the Consolation of Male Pain"
Kim Le, "EBBA 2017 vs. 2019: Comparing the Remediation Process"
Hong Li, "The True Lover's Paradise: The Praise of Cupid in the Roxburghe Collection"
Christian Mendez, "Taking a Look at the Representation of the Devil"
Russell Swartz, "Whose Mans is This? An Examination of an Engraving"
Conner Wagner, "The Role of Men and Women in Society"
Spring 2019
Bella Bautista, "Release the Classified Ballads!"
Lindsay Bracken, "She's a Catch, or, Why Country Lasses are More Desirable"
Ariana Celis, "The Trials of Romance in 17th Century English Love Ballads"
Mia del Rio, "Understanding the Power of Nature in Maritime Ballads"
Erika Fandel, "Boy, Bye: The Disposability of Husbands in the 17th Century"
Samuel Fox, "Chaste Expectations: Romantic Travails of the Sailor's Wife"
Amy Gudino, "A Thank-You Note to Papermakers"
Natalie Mifflin, "Winners Write History: Questioning the Historial Accuracy of Ballads"
Nina Mokhber Shahin, "The Informer: The Veracity of a Curious Postscript"
Tal Richter, "Marital Complaints: Comical Cautions"
Carl Stearne, "The Analysis of a Metaphor"
Mariana Trujillo Marquez, "Charles I and II and Religion in a Short Story Melody"
Winter 2019
Bella Bautista, "Early Modern Broadside Ballads but Make it Digital"
Ariana Celis, "Lessons Learned from Unrequited Love in Broadside Ballads"
Mia Del Rio, "An Analysis of Alchoholism and Responsibility in 17th Century Ballads"
Amy Gudino, "A Love Letter to the Art of Wood-Cutting"
Natalie Mifflin, "The Lamentation of Life Lost: Children in Ballads"
Matilda Ning, "Romantic Love in Broadside Ballads"
Tal Richter, "Picture This: A 17th-Century Multimedia Experience"
Carl Stearne, "The Virtue of Patience: The Pilgrim's Journey to 'Save' Souls"
Mariana Trujillo Marquez, "Constricted Women: The Limited Possibilities in Manner of Living"
Carmen Zafra, "The Prevalence of Liquor in 17th-Century Life"
Fall 2018
Noa Torres-Baker, "How Wealth Determines Seventeenth-Century Sea Voyages"
Lindsay Bracken, "Why Murderous Men are Allowed Sympathy in 17th-Century Ballads"
Amy Gudino, "The Humor of Love: Comedy in Ballads"
Natascha King, "Deciphering the PUZZLE in the Process"
Lauren Jensen, "Thou art Not HUMAN or, The Appearance of Animal Motifs"
Nina Mokhber Shahin, "The Impact of Female-Driven Sexuality on Pepys' Catalog Categories"
Michelle Phan, "Women's Agency in Courtship: Counternarratives"
Tal Richter, "A Message of Classical Sanctity"
Stanley Wu, "Acts, Monuments, and Ballads"
Spring 2018
Emmanuel Alcantar, "The Interactions between Humans and Animals in Broadside Ballads"
Hannah Carlson, "YASSS QUEEN"
Carmen Guzman, "Humean Causation in the 18th Century"
Krista Kenny, "Love, Actually? An Analysis of Consent in Broadside Ballads"
Megan Laccone, "She Toot It and Boot It, Made Him Feel Stupid"
Emily Puls, "The Expression of Grammar and Capitalization in Broadside Ballads"
Esther York, "WOODCUTS OR, A picture of the Early Modern World"
Winter 2018
Kiersten Bernal, "Evolution of the English Language"
Noah Feiwell, "Commercial Consummation"
Carmen Guzman, "Haste or Hast? Preserving the Early Modern Rhyme Aesthetic"
Matthew Hernandez, "A Lively Denunciation of Popish Politics"
Lauren Jensen, "Post SCRIPTUM: OR; The Means to an End"
Isaac Mikulski, "The Pudding-Pye Woman and Pickled Taylors"
Eleanor Oda, "'George the Tapster...you ARE the father!' OR An Exploration of Female Co-Conspiracy"
Carl Stearne, "What is the Significance of the Law and Lawyers?"
Esther York, "The Bawdy and the Absurd in Broadside Ballads"
Fall 2017
Kiersten Bernal, "The Boy Who Cried"
Noah Feiwell, "The Calamitous CATHOLIC, England’s King?"
Lauren Jensen, "Dead Men tell us Tales: OR, The Practice of Profiting off of the Imprisoned"
Claire McMahon, "Religion as the Ultimate Justice"
Eleanor Oda, "Victim-Sourced Propaganda as a Component of the Seventeenth-Century Culture Industry"
Carl Stearne, "The Death of King Charles: Is the King of England A Criminal or a Martyr?"
Spring 2017
Brandi Bushman, "Cupid's Piercing Arrow, OR, The Lack of Female Consent and Voice"
Bailey Clark, "Wood Cut Illustrations in the 16th Century"
Allison Green, "Gendered Insults of the 17th Century"
Amy Gudino, "Learning History Through Humanity"
Kim Le, "Crossdressing Women in Broadside Ballads: A Different Sort of Lady"
Claire McMahon, "What Makes Us Human"
Noa Torres-Baker, ""
Jessica White, "The Printing Press and Broadside Ballads"
Winter 2017
Bailey Clark, "Paper Making With a Comparison"
Monica Collins, "The Narrative Evolution of the English Ballad"
Allison Green, "Scottish Ballads within English Broadside Ballads and Derogatory Implications"
Doug Serrano, "Divine Forgiveness; or, How the Wife of Bath Argued Her Way Into Heaven"
Jessica White, "Themes and Relevancy of Broadside Ballads"
Fall 2016
Kristie Chairil, "Shame in Sexuality; OR, The Lack Thereof in Seventeenth-Century English Ballads"
Aria Kenney, "Modernizing Broadside Ballads: A Digitization of Cultural History"
Mirabella McDowell, "A Symphony of Moralizing Music"
Ricardo Moreno, "Broadside Ballads as Medium for High Moral Continuity"
Doug Serrano, "Visual Storytelling In Broadside Ballads OR, How Everyone Dies in a Single Woodcut"
Ann Tardiff, "Transcribing the Everyday Language of the People"
Spring 2016
Jake Castillo, "Preserving the Past: Transcribing Early English Ballads for Today"
Marla Cole, "It's a Little Thing Called Romance"
Noah Feiwell, "The End is Always Nigh: London and the Perpetually Impending Apocalypse"
Jessica Sparks, "Let's Get Digital: Making Broadside Ballads User Friendly"
Katie Weinstein, "Murthering Wives and Dearest Husbands"
Winter 2016
Sam Arrow, "The 17th Century Meets the Modern Age"
Alfonso Delgado, "Robin Hood and the Creation of a New Chivalric Archetype"
Tessa Fieri, "True Lovers (Don't Exist)"
Franny Pezzulo, "The Representation of the Female Subject within Ballads"
Jayne Ward, "Speaking through Folktales"
Fall 2015
Ben Fan, "Love in Times Past: Insights on Relationships of Old"
Michael Loose, "Ye Olde Photoshoppe: Revitalizing Old English Ballads For a New Audience"
Andrea Maasz, "Drinking and Despair"
Spring 2015
Marla Cole, "From Yesterday to Today: Modernizing Early English Broadside Ballads"
Jessica Sparks, "Reading Between the Lines: Broadside Ballads & Tune Notations"
Adrianna Villasenor, "Morals and Lessons in Ballads, OR, Analyzing the Social Message"
Winter 2015
Tenaya Courtney, "The Ale-Wives' Snare': Transcribing Husbands' Laments"
Lizbet Flores, "Preserving Courtly Love OR, Reviving Chivalry"
Megan Perry, "Rejuvenating Yesterday: Modern Transcriptions of Broadside Ballads"
Fall 2014
Antigone Bowden, "Transcribing Mother-Daughter Rivalry"
Lucas Gigena, "Facsimile Transcription, English Broadside Ballad Archive"
Spring 2014
Sarah Rice, "Facsimile Transcription: English Broadside Ballad Archive"
Fall 2013
Priscilla Leung, "From Old to New: Or, Modernizing the Crawford Collection"