Seelye 102
Emily Ruppel ’18
The Class Meanings of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Cultural Practices; presentation deriving from thesis with Rick Fantasia, B. Richmond 1940 Professor of Sociology and Nancy Whittier, Sophia Smith Professor and Chair of Sociology
Sarah Evans ’18
Physician Bias in Treating Commercial Sex Workers; presentation deriving from thesis work with Carrie Baker, associate professor and Director of study of women and gender and Alice Hearst, professor of government
Agnes Hu ’19
Newspapers and Frames in the Asian Exclusion Acts; presentation deriving from special studies with Leslie King, associate professor of sociology
Samantha Stolar ’18
Metaphors of Disability: Disposability, Land, and Literature; presentation deriving from thesis with Jennifer DeClue, assistant professor of study of women and gender and Anna Botta, professor of comparative literature and Italian studies
Dayln Gillentine ’21, Julie Graves ’21 and Sarah Feldman ’18
Class Matters: Organizing for Economic Justice Timeline; presentation deriving from classwork with Kelly Anderson, lecturer in study of women and gender, Kathleen Nutter, manuscripts processor and Miriam Neptune, digital scholarship librarian
Seelye 105
Taking the Archives Public
This session of presentations, derived from concentration projects with Kelly Anderson, lecturer of study of women and gender.
Emily Bellanca ’18
Fallen Women Saved?: The Intersection of Domestic Labor and Social Control in 19th and 20th Century Reformatories and Prisons
Courtney Bloniasz ’18
A Monument to Human Misery: Memorializing the Northampton State Hospital
Emily Carlson ’18
Acting Up: Women, Activism, and the AIDS Crisis
Millie Cook ’18
Voices from the Front: The Smith College Relief Unit
Beth Derr ’18
Crushes and Crossdressing: Queering Early Smith Traditions
Temar France AC’18
Analog Erotic
Elise Newcomer MHC’18
The Evolution of Mount Holyoke’s Dining Halls: SuperBlanch, How Did We Get Here?
Stella Plenk ’19J
Resistance and Resilience in Music: Protest Songs in American History
Henry Waletzko ’18
At Home in the Body: An Exploration of Queer Embodiment and Trans Archival Practices
Seelye 106
This session of presentations derived from Kahn Institute Fellowship with Alexandra Keller, professor and director of film and media studies, Cornelia Pearsall, professor of English language and literature, Andrew Guswa, professor and director of engineering, Mlada Bukovansky, professor of government and Ann Leone, professor of French studies and director of landscape studies
Miche Hu ’18
The Impossibility of the Present: Short Stories on Love and War
Yi (Sunnie) Ning ’18
The Legend of Lianda, China’s Last Liberal Academic Institution
Temar France ’18
God Work: Black Women’s Insurgent Practices
Becca Tibbitts ’19
American Fascism: White Supremacy, Respectability, and Historical Memory in the United States
Seelye 109
This session of presentation derives from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program with Dawn Fulton, professor of French studies
Undoing Academia: Mellon Mays Roundtable Discussion
Alina Wang ’18 , Hee Young Kim ’18, Precious Musa ’18, Suroor Gandhi ’18, Tiara Austin ’18, Cai Sherley ’19, Kendra Bonde ’19, Nikki Metzger ’19 and Marisa Pinero ’19
Seelye 202
Latifa Al-Mohdar ’18
Oman vs. Saudi Arabia: The More Attractive Destination for Foreign Capital; presentation deriving from concentration project with Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of Jill Ker Conway Innovation Center
Ningyuan Gloria Cheng ’18
BRIC Stock Market Correlations: A Sectoral Approach; presentation deriving from classwork with Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics
Zana Shaw ’18 and Sophia Meacham ’18
Monsters or Men?: Understanding the Construction of Criminal Deviance in the United States; presentation deriving from special studies with Gary Lehring, associate professor of government
Juliana Bauerle ’19
Examining the Legal Permissibility of The Alt-Right’s Online Presence: The First Amendment and Radical Political Internet Subcultures; presentation deriving from special studies with Marc Lendler, professor of government
Seelye 110
Julia Alfiere ’21
Economic Geography of Latin America; presentation deriving from classwork with Jamie Worms, lecturer in Latin American Studies
Liliana Martinez ’18, Karen Banda ’18, Danielle Osborne ’18 and Sophia Foster ’20
Latinx and Migrant Communities in the United States; presentation deriving from special studies with Velma García, professor of government
Seelye 201
Lucia Simova ’18
The Other of Al-Qazwini; presentation deriving from special studies with Brigitte Buettner, Louise I. Doyle 1934 Professor of Art
Ruoqi Zhang ’20
ED Admission and Financial Aid Policy at Smith College; presentation deriving from classwork with Roger Kaufman, professor of economics
Nina Xue ’18
Dream of the Red Chamber: Timeline – The Rise and Decline of Jia Bao Yu; presentation deriving from special studies with Sujane Wu, associate professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Literature
Boyuan Chen ’18
Determinants of Portfolio Inflow to Asian Equity Markets; presentation deriving from classwork with Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of Jill Ker Conway Innovation Center
Seelye 206
Sarah Leandro ’20, Nancy Canevari ’20, Jordan Towsley ’19 and Rosalie Thomas HC
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion Within High School Humanities Curriculums; presentation deriving from classwork with Carol Berner, lecturer in education and child study
Kaitlyn Coyne ’19
The Impact of the Fan Cost Index on MLB Revenues and Attendance; presentation deriving from classwork with Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A Woods Professor and Chair of Economics
Seelye 208
Emily Chang GS’18, Xuxi Ding GS’18, Qiaomei Li ’18 and Chujun He ’20
Network Optimization; presentation deriving from special studies with Tamar Friedmann, visiting assistant professor in mathematics and statistics and Julianna Tymoczko, associate professor and chair of mathematics and statistics
Angelica Estrada GS’18, Zixian Li ’19, Sifan Jiang ’18 and Lily Qian ’19J
The Modifiable Area Unit Problem Using Flint Water Crisis Data; presentation deriving from advanced topics with Amelia McNamara, visiting assistant professor MassMutual Fellow of statistical and data sciences
Rachel O’Connor ’18
Worlds Beyond: Follow-up Observations and Confirmation of K2 Exoplanet Candidates; presentation deriving from thesis with James Lowenthal, professor and chair of astronomy and Suzan Edwards, L. Clark Seelye Professor of Astronomy
Theo Dean-Slobod ’21, Garcia Sun ’20, Talia Goldwasser ’21 and Charlotte Crandall ’21
Bouncing and Crawling: Geometric Inquiry; presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Jim Henle, Myra Sampson Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Seelye 211
Sid Joyce-Farley ’20
Rhetorics of Responsibility and Failure: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in the Lancet HIV; presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Rory Crath, assistant professor in School for Social Work
Carolyn Polis ’18
Nonsensical Language and Life Without Meaning: Absurdism in Children’s Literature; presentation deriving from thesis with Anna Botta, professor of comparative literature and Italian studies
Savannah N. Tilley ’20
Homosexual Doubling in Sylvia Plath; presentation deriving from special studies with Cornelia Pearsall, professor of English language and literature
Kristina Chang ’18
The Good, the Bad, and the Lack of Either: Examining Tolkein’s Sauron and Lewis’ Aslan; presentation deriving from classwork with Craig Davis, professor of English language and literature
Seelye 212
Erin Walsh ’21
Let’s Go to the Movies: Iris Barry and the Foundations of American Film Culture; presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Joel Westerdale, associate professor of German studies
Clara Rosenberg ’20
Illustrated Sheet Music and American Visual Culture c. 1890-1920; presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Laura Kalba, associate professor of art
Katie O’Hara ’18, Katie Krygowski ’18 and Elizabeth Peay ’18
Power, Religion, and Identity in the Ancient World; presentation deriving from thesis with Joshua C. Birk, professor of history, and Richard Lim, professor and chair of history
Xueying Zeng ’20
A Forgotten History: history of Smith College and its Little Sister Ginling College in China from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War; presentation deriving from classwork with Darcy Buerkle, associate professor of history
Alessandra Pagani ’20
Gloria Steinem’s Journey Towards Activism: Identity Development in Childhood, Adolescence & Emerging Adulthood; presentation deriving from work study research with Lauren Duncan, professor of psychology
Campus Center Carroll Room
Julia Antinozzi ’18
Embodied Movement and the Senses; performance derived from thesis with Rodger Blum, professor of dance
Aubrey Johnson ’18
A Treatment for Huntington’s Disease: Dance Movement Therapy Through the Lens of Predictive Processing; performance deriving from thesis with Chris Aiken, associate professor of dance, Beth Powell, senior lecturer in psychology and Angie Hauser, associate professor and chair of dance
Amy Iwanowicz ’18
New Dance Group’s Egalitarian – Communist Rhetoric Through “Folksay”; presentation deriving from classwork with Lester Tomé, assistant professor of dance
Claire Lane ’20
The New Dance Group and Left-Wing Social Activism: Case Study of Jane Dudley, 1932–1942; presentation deriving from classwork with Lester Tomé, assistant professor of dance