The SoAn Senior Research Symposium was held on 4/29/21. Students briefly presented their thesis projects live to an audience of peers and faculty, and their projects were also summarized on thesis research web pages. Those students who elected to keep their thesis webpage available after the symposium are linked below.
SoAn 490 & 491 (Senior Thesis & Senior Research Seminar)
Chloe Bouchy
Where Does Fresh Food Come From? Theorizing an Ethic of Convenience
Nicole Cariño
The Role of Administration in the Institutional Sustainability of Higher Education
Karina Cherniske
Imagining New Worlds: Reclaiming Native Hawaiian Narratives on TikTok
Bailey Gamel
Tik Toking About a Revolution: Social Media in Social Movements
Jameson Gann
Nested Conspiracies, A Contemporary Study
Esperanza Lizarraga
COVID-19's Strains on the Immigrant Detention System
David Wetzel
We're Queer But Are We Here? Interrogating Digital "Place" Via Online Club Environments
SoAn 492 (Senior Thesis)
Alexis Choy
Asian-Americans in Western Culture: A Critique of the Model Minority Myth
Alexis Foldvary
Bridging the Divide: Patient-Interpreter-Practitioner Interactions with Non-English Speaking Immigrants
Lilah Hilliard
Language as Method of Decolonization: The Use of English as a Primary Language in Post-Colonial Namibia
Oscar Hughes
Houselessness in the United States: Root Causes, Neoliberal Public Policy, and Continued Inequalities
Kamrey Humann
A New Age in Discipline: Implementation of Restorative Justice Practices in Schools and the Benefits and Limitations
Mu Knowles
Seeding Resistance: Distinguishing U.S. Marronage and Locating Modern Day Maroon Existence
Aimee Roseberry
Animating BIPOC Bodies: The potential of animation to perpetuate racial stereotypes
Claire Stephens
Urban Utopia or Manifested Inequality?: Perceptions versus Realities of Public Parks
Ellinor Tibbs
Death as an Oppportunity for Change: Death Rituals and Environmental Movements
SoAn 490 (Senior Thesis) & Independent Study
Sofia Anna Gatmon-Sandrock
Climate Change in the U.S.: An Analysis of Food Systems, the Livestock Industry, and Sustainable Food Movements
Deryn Gersoff
Identity, Gender, Tradition and Clothing: Carrying Tradition on Your Back
Maya Gilliam
Forging Foodways: The Role of Food and Food Activism in Communities in Pierce County, WA and Beyond