Senior Symposium
The culmination of the American Studies Program is the completion and presentation of the students' Senior project at the end of their Senior year. Each May the Program hosts a Senior Symposium where each senior presents their research. Each senior presents their research to an audience of faculty, cohort classmates, friends and even families fly in to celebrate their student's hard work! This event is a highlight of the Program and a tremendous accomplishment for each student. This year the event was held on May 11th.
2023 Senior Symposium
Maddie Brown
Advisor: Julia Stern
How the Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers Made Abortion Gothic
Dori-Taylor Carter
Advisor: Michael Rodirguez-Muniz
Numbers, Power and Panethnicity: How Filipinx American and Asian American Community Organizers Mobilize the 2020 Census
Alex Chun
Advisor: Raymond San-Diego and Steven Thrasher
Interactive Intimacy: Tracing how Queer Asian/American OnlyFans Performers Negotiate their Manufactured Identities
Sunnie Eraso
Advisor: Cristal Chanelle Truscott
STAR a Thesis on Ornamentalism as Theory and Performance Practice Around Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Girls
Eva Herscowitz
Advisor: Michael Allen
"I'm a junkie:" Countercultural Writing, Protest Culture and the Development of a Dissident Identity at the Lexington Narcotic Farm