Morris, Abby2024-05-082024-05-082023-05-07http://hdl.handle.net/11603/33671Julia Rogers Research Prize: Junior/Senior Winner, 2024Nicknaming, a practice by which a person’s name is shortened, warped, or replaced entirely, can be just as complicated. Much like a given name, nicknames can serve several different social purposes dependent upon the culture, purpose behind the nickname, the person named, and the person doing the naming. As a practice, nicknames perform a startlingly diverse range of functions, and are worth examining in all these capacities. Beyond the practicality of simplifying a name, nicknames can serve to show affection to the named, to demean them, to anonymize them, or to shape their behaviors. Just as a person’s given name is part of their identity, the nicknames that they accrue can bend that identity situationally, making them a subtle tool for constructing power.9 pagesen-USCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.Text