AMCS Spring Research Colloquium

Please join us for our annual AMCS Research Colloquium! We are excited to present AMCS Majors who will share their culminating research with the community. AMCS Majors complete their capstone projects under the direction of a project advisor or in the context of an approved, upper-level seminar. .

In addition to presentations we will announce the winner of the AMCS Lynne Cooper Harvey Undergraduate Writing Prize, which recognizes outstanding work on a topic in American culture studies.

Morning Session

10:00-10:10 am

Opening Remarks from AMCS Director Lerone Martin & Announcement of Harvey Writing Prize Winners

10:10-10:30

Jessica Salzman - "Showbiz Masculinity: An Examination of Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan Charismatic Performance Styles"

10:30-10:50

Carmen Lawrence -  "Gone, But Not Forgotten, the Village Called Porvenir: Formation of the Inclusive Border Imaginary"

10:50-11:10

Jessie Millman -  "The Scoop About American Diet Culture in the 21st Century: How Diet Ice Cream Advertisements Use Morality Messaging to Capitalize on Women’s Guilt and Shame About their Bodies”

11:10-11:30

Mark Nicholson - "To Paint the Lily May Not Be Wasteful and Ridiculous Excess; Northern Bourgeoisie Class Insecurity, Institution Building and Aristocratic Style as Foundations for Modern American Cultures of Wealth, 1861-1917."

11:30-11:50

Harper Lane - "Tools for Political Change: An Assessment of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Through Principal-Agent Theory"

15 Minute Break

12:05-12:25 pm

Sophie Scott - "Collaboratives in Crisis: How Organizational Structures Affect Collaborative Pace and Approach”

12:25-12:45

Maya Schaer - "“You’re a Prophet, Someone’s Gonna Profit:” King Princess and Queerness in the Mainstream Music Industry"

12:45-1:05

Benjamin Simon - "Cracked Courts: The Story of Black Tennis in North St. Louis"

Afternoon Session

2:10-2:30

Toni Aguilar Rosenthal - "The Devil Wears Dior: Racial Plagiarism in High Fashion and the Violent Colonial Creation of “Indian-ness”"

2:30-2:50

Carrie Phillips - Senior Seminar Project for “The End of all Things: Technology and the Narratives of Imagined Future” 

2:50-3:10

Will Hartman - "What’s Cooking, St. Louis?: A Study of the Gateway City’s Cultural Foodways"

3:10-3:30

Jessica Zepeda - "“I Think I’m Going to Be President”: The 2016 Presidential Election, Saturday Night Live, and the Politics of Gender Performance”

35 Minute Break

4:05-4:25

Jack Lamarre - "Thinking Small: How Nazism, Fordism, and Madison Avenue Came Together to Create an American Icon—The Volkswagen Beetle”

4:25-4:45

Eliza Caperton - Senior Seminar Project for “Modernist Revolution in the Arts” 

4:45-5:05

Eudora Anyagafu  - Senior Seminar Project for “The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics"

5:05-5:25

Nirakar Pandey - "Footwear Fever: Sneaker Culture in the Modern Age"

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