Dance and Emergent Dynamics :: Carroll Room, Campus Center Beginning @ 11 am
Alison Marsh ’17
Emergent Dynamics: A Performance/Presentation on Hypermobility
Performance deriving from thesis research with Chris Aiken, assistant professor of dance, and Katie Martin, lecturer in dance
The following session of dance presentations derives from classwork with Lester Tomé, assistant professor of dance and Rodger Blum, professor of dance.
Amy Iwanowicz ’18
Exposing New Dance Group’s Egalitarian – Communist Rhetoric Through Sophie Maslow’s “Folksay”
Sarah Lass GS
“Letting Go” of the Traditional Dance Classroom: Klein Technique as Feminist Dance Pedagogy
Noli Rosen ’19
Correspondence and Collaboration: A Study of the Combined Artistic Effort that was Appalachian Spring
Shayla-Vie Jenkins ’18
The Strange Black Dancing Body: A Look at the Choreography of Andre M Zachery.
Taking the Archives Public: Presentations from the Archives Capstone Seminar :: Seelye 101
This session of presentation derives from archives concentration research under the supervision of Kelly Anderson, oral historian in libraries and special collections.
Becca Damante ’17
The Equal Rights Amendment: But For Which Women?
Maggie Keane ’17
The Future is Female: An Analysis of the Feminist Utopia
Jenna McCampbell ’18
Viewing Northampton from the Ivory Tower: Early Smith College Students’ Relationships with the Town
Jenny Park ’18
Examining the Tactics of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Early 20th Century
Hanna Pennington ’17
Dykes to Remember: The Archival Project of Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For
Sara Ramasastry ’17
Ann M. Martin and the Legacy of The Baby-Sitters Club
Olivia Sayah ’17
Activism for Economic Justice from the ’60s–Today
Global Flex Environmental Challenges in Israel :: Seelye 105
Colgan Powell ’17, Rachel Moskowitz ’18, Asia Littell ’19 and Hunter Myers ’19J
This session of presentations derives from research conducted as part of Global Flex with Justin Cammy, associate professor of Jewish studies and comparative literature.
Environmental and Biological Sciences :: Seelye 107
Tess Abbot ’20, Naomi Forman-Katz ’20 and Sophia Stouse ’20
Arts Afield at MacLeish Field Station
Presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Reid Bertone-Johnson, MacLeish Field Station manager and lecturer in landscape studies and Paul Wetzel, Environmental Research Coordinator for the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability
Subashini Sridhar ’18J and Erina Fukuda ’18
Retrospective on a Decade of Research in IEEE Visualization for Cyber Security
Presentation deriving from in the Human Computation and Visualization Laboratory with R. Jordan Crowser, visiting assistant professor and Mass Mutual Fellow in Statistical and Data Science
Isabella Casini ’17
Modeling Elemental Composition of Torrefied Biomass Product Using Proximate Analysis
Presentation deriving from thesis research with Denise McKahn, associate professor of engineering
Ellie Mainou ’17
Incorporating Antibiotic Resistance in the Modeling of Tuberculosis in the United States
Presentation deriving from thesis work with Gwen Spencer, assistant professor of mathematics & statistics, and Robert Dorit, professor of biological sciences
Literature and Women’s Lives :: Seelye 109
Pamela Larkin ’19
From Ohio to India: The Political Psychology of Gloria Steinem’s Young Adulthood
Presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Lauren Duncan, professor of psychology
Emily Ruppel ’18
Disciplinary Currents in Women’s and Gender Studies, 1980–2010
Presentation deriving from special studies with Rick Fantasia, B. Richmond 1940 Professor of Sociology
Raven Fowlkes-Witten ’17
Fowlkes: A Case Study in Poetry and Prose
Presentation deriving from special studies with Cornelia Pearsall, professor of English language and literature
Emma Cairns Watson ’17
Aesthetic Men, and Women: Gender Relations in the Work of Oscar Wilde
Presentation deriving from thesis with Cornelia Pearsall, professor of English language and literature
Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Student Fellows: Modes and Models of Making :: Seelye 110
This session of presentations derives from research conducted as part of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute project “Modes and Models of Making” with Dana Leibsohn, PP Van der Poel Professor of Art and Alexandra Keller, professor of film studies.
Susannah Davis ’18
When Whorls Collide: Hand Craft Influence on Textile Technology
Suroor Gandhi ’18
Poetry, Printmaking and the Universe
Laura Krok-Horton ’17
Making Public Space: Designing Parklets for Northampton, MA
History and Memory in the WPA “Ex-Slave” Interviews :: Seelye 202
This session of presentations derives from research conducted in HST 371, an advanced history seminar/workshop on slavery with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, assistant professor of history.
Emily Hamilton ’18
“Dey Never Tole Us Nothin’ About Jesus”: Enslaver Christianity after the Nat Turner Rebellion
Courtney Bloniasz ’18
The Metalanguage of Disability
Erica Linderman AC
Bringing Their Stories to Light: Enslaved Men as Victims of Sexual Violence in the Antebellum South
Isabel Benincasa Reade ’17
Reproductive Violence as a Means of Race and Gender Identity Formation in the Plantation Household
French Studies and Influences :: Seelye 206
Stefania Gheorghiu ’17 and Anna Weston ’17
From Past to Present: The Evolution of the Brand “Y’a Bon Banania”
Presentation deriving from classwork with Dawn Fulton, professor of French studies
Isabelle Eyman ’17
Life Isn’t Paris: How Nostalgia Informed Americans’ Conception of French Food
Presentation deriving from thesis with Martine Gantrel-Ford, professor of French studies
Monica Swartz ‘17, Nikki Metzger ‘19, Meaghan Haff ‘19, Rachel Van Huizen ‘19 and Julia Smith ‘19
Le Rap Français: Collaborations, Controversies, and Reflections on Hip-Hop from Across the Atlantic
Panel presentation deriving from research conducted through President Kathleen McCartney’s Mellon Grant for Student Faculty Collaboration with Mehammed Mack, assistant professor of French studies.
Government :: Seelye 208
Maya McCann ’17
Guerreras de la Cancha, Leveling the Playing Field: Exploring the Role of Government in Facilitating Equal Access to Soccer for Girls
Presentation deriving from thesis with Alice Hearst, professor of government
Alejandra Ruiz ‘17
Virtual Borders: Assessment of Technology Use in U.S.-Mexico Border Security presentation deriving from special studies with Velma García, professor of government
Mara Wolkoff ‘17
Litigation as Resistance: US Immigration Case Law and its Capacity for Social Change Velma García, professor of government
Veronica Torruco ‘17
Reason to Flee: Investigation and Analysis of Current Migration Crisis Out of Central America Velma García, professor of government
Economics, History and Community :: Seelye 211
Kelly Yoonji Choi ’17
Youth Education and Family Structure in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Presentation deriving from classwork with Simon Halliday, assistant professor of economics
Evelyn Mandel ’17
An Analysis of Economic Metaphors in Literature and in Science
Presentation deriving from thesis research with Anna Botta, professor of Italian studies and comparative literature, and Simon Halliday, assistant professor of economics.
Beverly Lipsey ’18J and Veronica Oberholzer ’17
Supporting Community-Led Food Equity Initiatives in Holyoke
Presentation deriving from special studies with Philip Peake, professor of psychology in the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration.
Translating Across Borders :: Seelye 301
This session of presentations derives from concentration projects with Janie Vanpée, professor of French studies, Reyes Lázaro, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Sujane Wu, associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures, Silvia Berger, senior lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese and Estela Harretche, professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
Angela Acosta ’17
Remembering the Fall: A Translation of Vicente Aleixandre’s “Sombra del Paraíso”
Kayla Gaskin ’17
Buzzfeed[ing] Lang Ying Tai’s 1984 Feminist Theory
Célia Perez Lucet AMS ’17
Preserving the Meaning of the Text in Literary Translation: A Translator’s Duty
Sawnie Smith ’17
Something in the Air: Explore the Translatability of Buenos Aires’s Linguistic Soundscape
Lyn Watts ’17
Inside a Dictator’s Prison: The Experience of One Man through Translation
Tiffany Wilt ’17
Pants to the Moon? The Progression of “Pantalones a la Luna” from Translation to Subtitling
Psychology and Religion :: Seelye 302
Mark Britton ’17
The Interactive Effects of Adult Age and Executive Functions on Positive Emotion Reactivity and Recovery Following a Stressor
Presentation deriving from thesis research with Beth Powell, senior lecturer in psychology, and Rebecca Ready, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, University of Massachusetts
Srabasti Sarker ’17
Relating the Series of Blogger Killings in Bangladesh to the War of 1971
Presentation deriving from research in the South Asia Concentration with Andrew Rotman, professor of religion
The Atlas of Girl’s Fiction: Exploring the Landscape of Adventure Fiction :: Seelye 306
Haley Peterson ’19, Lucy Hall ’19, Sarah Vespa ’20 and Jemma Stephenson ’20
This session of presentations derives from STRIDE research with Margaret Bruzelius, Dean of the Senior Class and Associate Dean of the College
Ethnographic Design Lab :: Seelye 308
This session of presentations derives from classwork with Caroline Melly, associate professor of anthropology, and Suzanne Gottschang, associate professor of anthropology.
Yoon Roh ’17
Reflection on the Process and Envisioning of the Future App and the Website
Geena Choo ’17
Values of Ethnographic Methods
Danyi Zeng ’17
How to Develop a Technology for Future Smith Students
Community-Based Research :: Seelye 311
Emily Bellanca ’18 and Jillian Fanion AC
Presentation deriving from classwork with Ginetta Candelario, associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies