Saturday, May 18 | 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Main Hall
Celebrate and recognize over 30 outstanding student research projects.
Student presenters have been nominated by faculty sponsors and are being recognized for outstanding work in humanities or social science disciplines. Each year, one project receives the Richard A. Harrison Award.
Schedule of Events
- 8-9 a.m. | Welcome Reception | Steitz Atrium
- 8:30 a.m. | Remarks by Provost Blitstein | Steitz Atrium
- 9-10:30 a.m. | Session 1
- 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Session 2
- 12:15 p.m. | Lunch | Andrew Commons
Guests and participants who wish to eat in the Commons will receive a voucher to cover the cost of their meal.
Session 1 | 9-10:30 a.m.
Room 104 | Moderator: Sara Ceballos (Musicology)
- Dana Abbo: “Reading with the Ear: A Sonic and Musical Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
- Evan Ney: “Poetic Soundscapes: Linking Sound and Meaning in Dickinson’s Civil War Poetry”
- Charlotte Trumble: “Freistadt: Soundscapes and Poetry”
Room 201 | Moderator: Gustavo Fares (Spanish)
- Linnea Morris: “Mujeres en mariachi: La presencia permanente de mariacheras en el scenario del mariachi”
- Riley Winebrenner: “El uso de bananas en el arte brasileño: de antropofagia a tropicalismo”
- Elena Yank: “Todo sobre la apariencia: La mirada masculina, la autenticidad de género y el monólogo de Agrado en Todo sobre mi madre de Pedro Almodóvar”
Room 211 | Moderator: Garth Bond (English)
- Owen Davies: “Technology and the Body in the Films of David Cronenberg”
- Patience Garcia: “’The Skeleton Behind the Man’: Skeletal Metaphors in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles”
- Katarina Stanley: “What is AI anyhow? What am I? and What are You?: A Response to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass from a Contemporary Perspective”
Room 216 | Moderator: Linnea Ng (Psychology)
- Grace Fox: “Can Caregivers Accurately Report on their Child’s Rumination?”
- Finneas Frawley: “From Identity to Intimacy: Exploring Transgender People’s Dating Attitudes towards Gender Experience”
- Nell Rudoff: “The Observer Perspective in Music Performance Anxiety among College Students”
- Caleb Yuan: “Leaning Strategies: Motivation and COVID Stress”
Room 401 | Moderator: Jason Brozek (Government)
- Rain Orsi: “Democracy’s Downfall?: Investigating a Second Wave of Electorate Shift in South America”
- Noah Stevenson: “A Light in the Darkness?: The Role of Italy in a Worsening Crisis of Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean Sea”
- Gabrielle Wood: “Untangling the Afghani Puzzle: Pashtun Culture, Taliban Totalitarianism, and Women’s Rights”
Room 404 | Moderator: Brigid Vance (History)
- Madeleine Tevonian: “Synethetic Symbolism: Community Engagement with the Sacred at Buddhist Stupas” (winner of the 2023 Richard A. Harrison Award for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences”
Session 2 | 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Room 104 | Moderator: Mark Jenike (Anthropology)
- William Brenneman, Katie Costanzo, and Megan Graffagna: “Evaluating the Food to Grow Initiative: Exploring Children’s Food and Nutrition Knowledge and Educational Programming at the Building for Kids”
Room 201 | Moderator: Madera Allan (Spanish)
- Grace Hanson: “El sonido y la definición de comunidad en Carmen y Lola de Arantxa Echevarría”
- Reese Pike: “Carne asada y casas de muerte: El narcocorrido en Dreamland”
Room 211 | Moderator: Victoria Kononova (Russian)
- Lorcan Baxter: “You Can’t Go Home Again: Nostalgia and Modernity in Rachmaninoff’s Trois Chansons Russes”
- Lydia LeMoine: “An Analysis of the Historical and Political Influences on Gender Based Violence in Kyrgyzstan”
- Noah Stevenson: “Love as Faith: Finding Inspiration and Beauty in Soloviev’s ‘The Meaning of Love’”
Room 216 | Moderator: Claire Kervin (English)
- Dana Abbo: “Perfect Sum of Perfect Parts: Disability and Deformity as the Foundation of Utopia in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall”
- Lauren Dahl: “The Pen as Power: Evelina’s Epistolary Form and Narrative Control”
- Lainie Yank: “‘I Still Need Her With Me’: Motherhood, Loss, and Lack in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights”
Room 401 | Moderator: Sigma Colón (Environmental Studies & Ethnic Studies)
- Hannah Amell: “The Wellbeing of Trans Youth through the Lens of Policy: A Review of American Literature”
- Anders Hanhan: “A Bird’s Eye View of Food Insecurity: Using Mapping Methodology to Assess Risks and Resiliency Connected to Urban Food Access”
- Ashley Tang: “Boulder’s Housing Affordability Crisis: An Analysis of the Convergence of Airbnb-Driven Gentrification, Urban Growth Regulations, and Tourism Development in Boulder, Colorado”
Room 404 | Moderator: Jake Frederick (History)
- Nora Briddell: “Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014): Remembering a Revolutionary Communist”
- Chris Dakich: “The Alchemy of Coffee: Penetrating Insights into the Relation between Coffee, Libido, and the Rise of Modernity in Late Seventeenth Century England”
- Samuel Schuler: “Brutality at Waxhaws and Exhaustion at Cowpens: How Banastre Tarleton Lost the Battle of Cowpens”