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December 12, 2008
The American Studies Senior Thesis Presentations
Co-taught by Professors Daniel Contreras (English) and Ivette Rivera-Giusti (History), this year's Senior Seminar Theme was "TransAmerican Movement." The thesis presentations will thus be grouped into three panels: "Moving Through Race," "Moving Through the Arts," and "Moving Through Religion. This is the big event of the year for American Studies students and faculty--please plan to attend at least some of the presentations that day.
Panel 1: Moving through Race, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
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Jennifer Certa: Freedom Schools and Citizenship Education for a Democratic Future. |
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George LoBiondo: The Myth of Immigration Reform: Bracerismo , Simpson-Mazzoli, and Beyond. |
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Alice Stryker: Ragamuffins: The Children's Aid Society's Use of Bodily Comportment in the Assimilation of Immigrant Children. |
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Michael Devon Powell: Heartbreak in the Hollows: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and the People of Appalachia. |
Panel 2:Moving Through Religion, 2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
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Mary Gibbons: Rage Against the Machines: The American Catholic Feminist Movement. |
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Jordan Figueroa: The Tattoo Culture: The Art Question According to Tattooed Individuals and Tattoo Artists. |
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Megan Carroll: Playing God: Government Protection of Interest in Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. |
Panel 3: Moving Through the Arts, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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Jennifer Boyle: Basquiat: Primitive Art and Race Relations in 1980's America. |
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Malissa Osei: The Narratives of Kara Walker: Sexual and Racial Representation, and the Effect of Post-memory in Art. |
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Constance Croghan: The Americans of Robert Frank: How Frank's Photos of the ‘totally unimportant, unglamorous, (and) unnoticed’ Affected the 1950s American Population. |
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