Research Roundtables: Saturday, October 29 1:30-3:30

American History -- Burton Morgan 317

  • LaTrese Adkins, Wellesley College
    Ante-Bellum Slave Funerals: Culture or Conspiracy?
  • Thabiti Asukile, Coe College
    Intellectual biography of Joel Augustus Rogers
  • Andrea Estepa, Juniata College
    Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and the Transformation of Women's Activist Identities in America, 1961-2000
  • Adrienne Petty, Swarthmore College
    Small Farm Owners in North Carolina's Tobacco Belt, 1925-1982

Literature -- Burton Morgan 216

  • Eva Copeland, Dickinson College
    The 19th-Century Peninsular realist novel and gender
  • Jonathan Kidd, Pomona College
    Shakespeare and Social Death
  • Timothy Robinson, Southwestern University
    History, Culture, and the Literary Imagination in African-American Fiction
  • Sonia Sabnis, Vassar College
    Apuleius' Metamorphoses
  • Leslie Wingard, Haverford College
    From Sacred to Secular and Back: Crossing the Line in 20th Century African-American Literature

Arts--Burton Morgan 218

  • Agnes Bertiz, Hamilton College
    The Image of Garden and Landscape in the Late 14th-Century Illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis Manuscripts
  • Carlos Carillo, DePauw University
  • Lei Ouyang Bryant, Macalester College
    Songs and Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Elizabeth Moran, DePauw University
    The Sacred as Everyday: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art

Social Sciences -- Burton Morgan 219

  • Ayani Good, University of the South
    Naughty or Nice?: Adolescent Girls of Color Examine Female Representation in Hip Hop Music
  • Sarita Gregory, Macalester College
    Improvising Politics: Jazz, Democracy, and Challenging the Politics of Mutual Respect
  • Carla Shedd, Bryn Mawr College
    Race, Perception of Social Injustice and Legitimacy of/Compliance with the Law: the Case of Chicago Public School Youth
  • Terah Venzant, Carleton College
    African-American High School Students' Experiences in High-and Low-Track Math and English Courses

Philosophy -- Burton Morgan 220

  • Emily Lee, Haverford College
    Meaning, Creativity, and the Visible Differences of the Body: A Phenomenological Reading of Race
  • Carlos Reyes, Saint Olaf College
    The Ethics and Aesthetics of Diaspora in Spinoza, Proust, and Joyce
  • Melvin Rogers, Carleton College
    The Undiscovered Dewey: Identity, Democracy, and the Meaningfulness of Experience

Cultural Studies -- Burton Morgan 402

  • Lisa Alexander, Willamette University
    Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality Up to Bat: Intersectionality, Power, and Major League Baseball
  • Monica Hulsbus, Grinnell College
    Virtual Bodies, Chaotic Practices: Complexity in the Popular Imaginary. The reception of computer technologies and their incorporation into everyday life
  • Antonio Tiongson, Jr., Mt. Holyoke College
    Filipino American youth cultural politics

International Topics -- Burton Morgan 405

  • Julio Javier Aguayo, Denison
    The Role of the Legislature in the Fall of the Fujimori Regime in Peru in 2000
  • Glenn Chambers, DePauw University
    Foreign Labor and the Struggle for an Afro-Honduran Identity: Race, Nation and Identity in a Banana Republic, 1876-1954
  • Ousman Kobo, Gettysburg College
    A Comparative Sociohistorical Study of Ahl-As-Sunna Islamist Movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1950-2000
  • Kathleen Lopez, Hamilton College
    Migrants Between Nations: The Chinese in Cuba, 1874-1959