{"id":3759,"date":"2026-04-29T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:23:17","slug":"senior-risha-roy-wins-engaged-scholarship-award-for-msh-honors-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/2026\/04\/29\/senior-risha-roy-wins-engaged-scholarship-award-for-msh-honors-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Risha Roy Wins Engaged Scholarship Award for MSH Honors Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Graduating Senior Risha Roy, Medicine, Society, and the Humanities Major, won the 2025-2026 Engaged Scholarship Award for her Honors Thesis entitled, &#8220;&#8221;Anyone Can Get AIDS&#8221;: The Dynamics Between Public Health Media, Visual Culture, and Queer Women With AIDS, 1980s-1990s.&#8221; The honors thesis was judged to champion social justice due to Roy&#8217;s careful use of queer and archival methodologies, which together shine a light on the historical and (nearly absent medical) portrayal of queer women with AIDS, long neglected due to misconceptions, bias, and outright misogyny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UWP Senior Lecturer Laura Hartmann-Villalta advised Roy&#8217;s award-winning honors thesis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduating Senior Risha Roy, Medicine, Society, and the Humanities Major, won the 2025-2026 Engaged Scholarship Award for her Honors Thesis entitled, &#8220;&#8221;Anyone Can Get AIDS&#8221;: The Dynamics Between Public Health Media, Visual Culture, and Queer Women With AIDS, 1980s-1990s.&#8221; The honors thesis was judged to champion social justice due to Roy&#8217;s careful use of queer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"featured_media":3760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}