AMCS Spring 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.
Schedule for AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
9:00 Opening remarks from AMCS Director Paige McGinley
9:15 Becca Dayan Embodied Dress: Being the Change You Want to See
9:35 Caleb Rose The Comedy of Failure: How Comedy in The Office (US) Works to Reframe Masculinity
9:55 - Gavin Wagner How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Mob: “Exceptional Criminalism” in Political and Media Narratives of the McClellan Committee
10:15 - Sarai Steinberg On Venmo, Money Talks: How a Social Network Redefined Interpersonal Debt
10:35 BREAK
10:50 - Grace Archer Acting Up, Fighting Back, and Fighting AIDS at St. Vincent’s Hospital: A Socioecological Approach to Understanding the Importance of Hospital-Community Interconnection
11:10 - Gillian Strauss Neighborhood Exploitation: The Racialized Politics of Urban Development in Forest Park Southeast
11:30 - Nathan Kornberg Gossip Girl: The Financial Crisis and The Rise of the Influencer Economy
11:50 Siobhan Davenport Outside the Scope: Tracing the Impacts of Intersectionality’s Movement from the Academic to the Public
12:10 BREAK for lunch
1:10 - Kelly Rojo Reyes Shutting the Door on Asylum: The Effects of Migrant Protection Protocols on Asylum Seekers Under the Trump Administration
1:30 - Lia Greenfeld-Gordon “Where You Lead, I Will Follow”: Maternal Surveillance and Romantic Relationships in Gilmore Girls
1:50 - Alice Gottesman Liberty is a White Lady: White Women’s Weaponization of America’s Pure and Innocent Visual Representation
2:10 - Aidan Birenbaum Fashioning Hoops and Hip-Hop: How NBA and Rap Stars Revolutionized Black Male Style
2:30 - Catherine Timon “Trade for Value, Ruthlessly:”How the Story of Moneyball Sold a Nation and its Pastime on a Quantitative Revolution
2:50 - Hannah Jon Politicizing Korean American Youth: Configuring the Korean American identity with Asian America